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Charting Feb 11, 2024Feb 11, 2024 · 1 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.41%
week of Feb 11, 2024
Career Power
4
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
4
February 2023 – February 2024
Peak Five Years
4
February 2019 – February 2024
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
1
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.80%
week of Feb 11, 2024
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

1 book · 4 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
Martyr!#1113.8

At their peak

2023 in books

Kaveh Akbar's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 2023 to February 2024. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Rebecca Yarros598
  2. 2Bonnie Garmus535
  3. 3Barbara Kingsolver278
  4. 4Emily Henry200
  5. 5Abraham Verghese199
  6. 6Gabrielle Zevin195
  7. 7Ann Patchett167
  8. 8James McBride167
  9. 9John Grisham167
  10. 10Stephen King165

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.