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Louise Penny

Charting Sep 18, 2011 → May 31, 2026 · 59 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
12 crowns
20112026
Longest reign 2 weeks (Nov 2024) · First crown Sep 2013

Peak Power: 3.21%; week of Nov 14, 2021
Career Power: 393; share-weeks
Crowns: 12; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 62; January 2021 – January 2022
Peak Five Years: 193; January 2018 – January 2023
Top-five weeks: 22; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 59; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 15.16%; week of Nov 24, 2024
Comebacks: 1; Nov 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

16 books · 393 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.

Title	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Book Power
A World of Curiosities	#1December 2022	6	December 2022 – January 2023	41.7	41.7
The Madness of Crowds	#1September 2021	5	September 2021 – October 2021	37.2	37.1
The Grey Wolf	#1November 2024	4	November 2024 – December 2024	36.0	35.3
A Better Man	#1September 2019	5	September 2019 – October 2019	33.9	33.9
A Great Reckoning	#1September 2016	5	September 2016 – October 2016	32.7	32.7
All the Devils Are Here	#1September 2020	4	September 2020 – October 2020	31.4	31.4
Glass Houses	#1September 2017	3	September 2017 – October 2017	26.0	26.0
State of Terrorwith Hillary Rodham Clinton	#1October 2021	9	October 2021 – January 2022	24.7	49.4
Kingdom of the Blind	#1December 2018	4	December 2018 – January 2019	24.5	24.5
How the Light Gets In	#1September 2013	3	September 2013 – September 2013	21.7	21.7
The Long Way Home	#1September 2014	2	September 2014 – September 2014	21.0	20.9
The Black Wolf	#1November 2025	2	November 2025 – November 2025	18.2	18.2
The Beautiful Mystery	#2September 2012	2	September 2012 – September 2012	16.8	16.8
The Nature of the Beast	#3September 2015	2	September 2015 – September 2015	13.4	13.4
A Trick of the Light	#4September 2011	2	September 2011 – September 2011	11.7	11.7
The Last Mandarinwith Mellissa Fung	#9May 2026	1	May 2026	2.5	4.8

At their peak

2021 in books →

Louise Penny's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 2021 to January 2022. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.