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Kate Atkinson portraitKate Atkinson

Charting Apr 21, 2013Oct 16, 2022 · 14 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.89%
week of May 19, 2013
Career Power
90
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
55
June 2012 – June 2013
Peak Five Years
69
June 2010 – May 2015
Top-five weeks
5
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
14
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Apr 21, 2013
Comebacks
1
May 2015

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

5 books · 90 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
Life After Life#3854.9
A God in Ruins#6213.6
Transcription#4213.3
Big Sky#815.5
Shrines of Gaiety#1312.8

At their peak

2012 in books

Kate Atkinson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 2012 to June 2013. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Gillian Flynn550
  2. 2James Patterson242
  3. 3John Grisham216
  4. 4David Baldacci154
  5. 5J. K. Rowling133
  6. 6George R. R. Martin130
  7. 7Janet Evanovich121
  8. 8Ken Follett87
  9. 9Mitch Albom86
  10. 10Danielle Steel86

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.