Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Karin Slaughter
Charting Sep 3, 2006 → Aug 30, 2026 · 30 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.05%
- week of Sep 23, 2018
- Career Power
- 165
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- weeks as the top author
- 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
- October 2016, September 2022, August 2025
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After decline | Oct 28, 2012 | Oct 16, 2016 | 205 | 64 | 1.38% | 1.07% |
| After decline | Dec 16, 2018 | Sep 11, 2022 | 193 | 56 | 2.05% | 1.38% |
| After decline | Dec 4, 2022 | Aug 31, 2025 | 143 | 51 | 2.05% | 1.38% |
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions (config version 4, Sep 22, 2026). 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pieces of Her | #3 | 3 | 21.9 | ||
| Girl, Forgotten | #2 | 2 | 16.3 | ||
| Criminal | #4 | 3 | 15.0 | ||
| We Are All Guilty Here | #2 | 1 | 12.7 | ||
| The Good Daughter | #7 | 3 | 11.9 | ||
| The Kept Woman | #7 | 2 | 10.5 | ||
| Beyond Reach | #6 | 2 | 9.7 | ||
| The Secrets We Hide | #5 | 1 | 9.2 | ||
| After That Night | #6 | 1 | 7.3 | ||
| The Last Widow | #7 | 1 | 6.3 | ||
| This Is Why We Lied | #8 | 1 | 5.7 | ||
| False Witness | #8 | 1 | 5.5 | ||
| Triptych | #9 | 1 | 4.8 | ||
| Fallen | #9 | 1 | 4.8 | ||
| Cop Town | #9 | 1 | 4.8 | ||
| Unseen | #10 | 1 | 4.2 | ||
| The Silent Wife | #10 | 1 | 4.2 | ||
| Pretty Girls | #12 | 1 | 3.2 | ||
| Undone | #14 | 1 | 2.4 | ||
| Broken | #14 | 1 | 2.4 | ||
| Fractured | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |