Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Kathryn Stockett
Charting Mar 29, 2009 → Sep 20, 2026 · 126 weeks with chart power
Honours
- Author of the Year
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
10 crowns
20092026Longest reign 7 weeks (Jan–Mar 2010) · First crown Jan 2010
- Peak Power
- 12.41%
- week of May 9, 2010
- Career Power
- 1,047
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 10
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 547
- September 2009 – September 2010
- Peak Five Years
- 842
- October 2006 – September 2011
- Top-five weeks
- 78
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 126
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 15.97%
- week of Aug 30, 2026
- Comebacks
- 1
- Jul 2026, after 15 quiet years
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
2 books · 1,047 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Help | #1 | 108 | 842.1 | ||
| The Calamity Club | #1 | 18 | 205.0 |
At their peak
2009 in books →Kathryn Stockett's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 2009 to September 2010. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Kathryn Stockett547
- 2Dan Brown318
- 3James Patterson247
- 4Stieg Larsson237
- 5Nicholas Sparks139
- 6Charlaine Harris137
- 7Stephen King94
- 8David Baldacci90
- 9Jodi Picoult81
- 10John Grisham70
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.