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Charting May 17, 2020May 17, 2020 · 1 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.46%
week of May 17, 2020
Career Power
4
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
4
May 2019 – May 2020
Peak Five Years
4
May 2015 – May 2020
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
1
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.17%
week of May 17, 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

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
The End of October#1014.2

At their peak

2019 in books

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

  1. 1Delia Owens686
  2. 2David Baldacci230
  3. 3James Patterson219
  4. 4Alex Michaelides192
  5. 5John Grisham185
  6. 6Stephen King178
  7. 7Jeanine Cummins169
  8. 8Ann Patchett156
  9. 9Danielle Steel128
  10. 10Jojo Moyes102

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.