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Katherine Center

Charting Jun 3, 2018Jun 7, 2026 · 7 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.69%
week of Jun 8, 2025
Career Power
25
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
11
June 2024 – June 2025
Peak Five Years
21
June 2021 – June 2026
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
7
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.32%
week of Jun 8, 2025
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

7 books · 25 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 Love Haters#716.3
The Shippers#1014.6
The Rom-Commers#1014.3
The Bodyguard#1113.6
How to Walk Away#1412.4
Things You Save in a Fire#1512.1
Hello Stranger#1512.1

At their peak

2024 in books

Katherine Center's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 2024 to June 2025. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Rebecca Yarros722
  2. 2Kristin Hannah527
  3. 3Percival Everett279
  4. 4Liz Moore223
  5. 5Alison Espach149
  6. 6James Patterson146
  7. 7Nicholas Sparks145
  8. 8Emily Henry125
  9. 9Sally Rooney99
  10. 10Chris Whitaker94

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.