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Kate Morton portraitKate Morton

Charting Nov 4, 2012May 7, 2023 · 12 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.88%
week of Nov 18, 2018
Career Power
60
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
21
November 2017 – November 2018
Peak Five Years
41
May 2018 – May 2023
Top-five weeks
3
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
12
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of Apr 23, 2023
Comebacks
2
Oct 2018, after 6 quiet years · Apr 2023

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

4 books · 60 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
The Clockmaker's Daughter#3421.5
Homecoming#2320.0
The Secret Keeper#8411.5
The Lake House#617.3

At their peak

2017 in books

Kate Morton's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 2017 to November 2018. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Patterson305
  2. 2Celeste Ng221
  3. 3Stephen King212
  4. 4A.J. Finn201
  5. 5Lisa Wingate194
  6. 6John Grisham184
  7. 7Dan Brown173
  8. 8David Baldacci165
  9. 9Danielle Steel157
  10. 10Kristin Hannah145

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.