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Karin Slaughter portraitKarin Slaughter

Charting Sep 3, 2006Aug 30, 2026 · 30 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.05%
week of Sep 23, 2018
Career Power
165
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
22
September 2016 – September 2017
Peak Five Years
61
September 2018 – September 2023
Top-five weeks
7
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
30
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of Sep 11, 2022
Comebacks
3
Oct 2016 · Sep 2022 · Aug 2025

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

21 books · 165 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
Pieces of Her#3321.9
Girl, Forgotten#2216.3
Criminal#4315.0
We Are All Guilty Here#2112.7
The Good Daughter#7311.9
The Kept Woman#7210.5
Beyond Reach#629.7
The Secrets We Hide#519.2
After That Night#617.3
The Last Widow#716.3
This Is Why We Lied#815.7
False Witness#815.5
Triptych#914.8
Fallen#914.8
Cop Town#914.8
Unseen#1014.2
The Silent Wife#1014.2
Pretty Girls#1213.2
Undone#1412.4
Broken#1412.4
Fractured#1512.1

At their peak

2016 in books

Karin Slaughter's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 2016 to September 2017. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1John Grisham379
  2. 2James Patterson264
  3. 3Colson Whitehead216
  4. 4Nicholas Sparks215
  5. 5Danielle Steel196
  6. 6Amor Towles164
  7. 7David Baldacci157
  8. 8Paula Hawkins157
  9. 9Jodi Picoult138
  10. 10Michael Connelly132

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.