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John Scalzi portraitJohn Scalzi

Charting Jun 24, 2012Oct 8, 2023 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.26%
week of Oct 8, 2023
Career Power
4
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
2
October 2022 – October 2023
Peak Five Years
2
October 2018 – October 2023
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.40%
week of Oct 8, 2023
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

2 books · 4 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
Starter Villain#1412.4
Redshirts#1512.1

At their peak

2022 in books

John Scalzi's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 2022 to October 2023. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Bonnie Garmus539
  2. 2Barbara Kingsolver315
  3. 3Gabrielle Zevin251
  4. 4Stephen King246
  5. 5Rebecca Yarros237
  6. 6Emily Henry200
  7. 7John Grisham192
  8. 8James Patterson155
  9. 9Abraham Verghese154
  10. 10Ann Napolitano125

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.