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Lucy Foley portraitLucy Foley

Charting Jun 21, 2020Jul 28, 2024 · 50 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    2 crowns

    20202024

    Longest reign 2 weeks (Mar 2022) · First crown Mar 2022

Peak Power
6.47%
week of May 22, 2022
Career Power
286
share-weeks
Crowns
2
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
142
August 2021 – August 2022
Peak Five Years
286
July 2019 – July 2024
Top-five weeks
13
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
50
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Mar 13, 2022
Comebacks
1
Mar 2022

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 · 286 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 Paris Apartment#121141.8
The Guest List#325125.6
The Midnight Feast#6418.7

At their peak

2021 in books

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

  1. 1Matt Haig326
  2. 2John Grisham295
  3. 3Laura Dave251
  4. 4Amor Towles224
  5. 5James Patterson216
  6. 6David Baldacci152
  7. 7Nicholas Sparks144
  8. 8Stephen King142
  9. 9Lucy Foley142
  10. 10Mitch Albom136

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.