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Louise Penny

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

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Peak Power
3.21%
week of Nov 14, 2021
Career Power
393
share-weeks
Weeks at #1
12
weeks as the top author
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
November 2024
Comebacks (thresholds from config/scoring.json)
KindTrough beganReturnedTrough weeksLongest absencePrior peakReturn share
After declineApr 16, 2023Nov 17, 202483833.21%1.58%

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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
A World of Curiosities#1641.7
The Madness of Crowds#1537.2
The Grey Wolf#1436.0
A Better Man#1533.9
A Great Reckoning#1532.7
All the Devils Are Here#1431.4
Glass Houses#1326.0
State of Terrorwith Hillary Rodham Clinton#1924.7
Kingdom of the Blind#1424.5
How the Light Gets In#1321.7
The Long Way Home#1221.0
The Black Wolf#1218.2
The Beautiful Mystery#2216.8
The Nature of the Beast#3213.4
A Trick of the Light#4211.7
The Last Mandarinwith Mellissa Fung#912.5