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John Darnielle portraitJohn Darnielle

Charting Oct 5, 2014Feb 20, 2022 · 5 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.88%
week of Feb 20, 2022
Career Power
20
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
9
February 2021 – February 2022
Peak Five Years
13
February 2017 – February 2022
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
5
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.32%
week of Feb 13, 2022
Comebacks
0
none detected

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction

3 books · 20 share-weeks of Career Power

Power contributed is what each book earned this author: their weekly Power Share, split across their books (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Book Power is the book's own figure, the same for every author on it. Bar length compares books within this list.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Devil House#728.7
Wolf in White Van#926.6
Universal Harvester#1014.2

At their peak

2021 in books

John Darnielle's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 2021 to February 2022. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Matt Haig370
  2. 2Laura Dave304
  3. 3John Grisham289
  4. 4Kristin Hannah200
  5. 5Amanda Gorman176
  6. 6Amor Towles166
  7. 7James Patterson164
  8. 8Nicholas Sparks152
  9. 9Stephen King141
  10. 10V. E. Schwab126

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.