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Kathryn Stockett portraitKathryn Stockett

Charting Mar 29, 2009Sep 20, 2026 · 126 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Year

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    10 crowns

    20092026

    Longest 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 →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Help#1108842.1
The Calamity Club#118205.0

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:

  1. 1Kathryn Stockett547
  2. 2Dan Brown318
  3. 3James Patterson247
  4. 4Stieg Larsson237
  5. 5Nicholas Sparks139
  6. 6Charlaine Harris137
  7. 7Stephen King94
  8. 8David Baldacci90
  9. 9Jodi Picoult81
  10. 10John Grisham70

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.