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Kevin Kwan portraitKevin Kwan

Charting Jun 11, 2017Jun 9, 2024 · 7 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.39%
week of Aug 9, 2020
Career Power
35
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
29
August 2019 – August 2020
Peak Five Years
32
August 2015 – August 2020
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
7
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of Jul 19, 2020
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

3 books · 35 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
Sex and Vanity#4528.9
Rich People Problems#1213.2
Lies and Weddings#1312.8

At their peak

2019 in books

Kevin Kwan's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 2019 to August 2020. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Delia Owens677
  2. 2John Grisham310
  3. 3Stephen King261
  4. 4Jeanine Cummins224
  5. 5David Baldacci201
  6. 6James Patterson199
  7. 7Alex Michaelides164
  8. 8Ann Patchett156
  9. 9Jojo Moyes113
  10. 10Brit Bennett107

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.