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Kristin Hannah

Charting Apr 15, 2001May 25, 2025 · 214 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    20 crowns

    20012025

    Longest reign 5 weeks (Aug–Sep 2024) · First crown Feb 2012

Peak Power
13.65%
week of Sep 15, 2024
Career Power
1,657
share-weeks
Crowns
20
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
659
February 2024 – February 2025
Peak Five Years
975
June 2020 – May 2025
Top-five weeks
102
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
214
weeks with chart power
Dominance
19.93%
week of Mar 9, 2025
Comebacks
4
Feb 2015 · Mar 2018 · Feb 2021 · Mar 2024

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

11 books · 1,657 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 Women#166729.4
The Nightingale#285443.2
The Four Winds#127214.3
The Great Alone#121147.6
Winter Garden#4536.1
Home Front#1531.3
True Colors#5319.8
Fly Away#3318.6
Night Road#5212.0
Firefly Lane#1312.8
Summer Island#1611.8

At their peak

2024 in books

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

  1. 1Rebecca Yarros683
  2. 2Kristin Hannah659
  3. 3Percival Everett230
  4. 4Liz Moore174
  5. 5James Patterson150
  6. 6Nicholas Sparks145
  7. 7Emily Henry125
  8. 8Sally Rooney99
  9. 9Chris Whitaker94
  10. 10Elin Hilderbrand93

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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