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Maggie O'Farrell portraitMaggie O'Farrell

Charting Dec 27, 2020Jul 19, 2026 · 11 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.31%
week of Jul 19, 2026
Career Power
51
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
28
July 2025 – July 2026
Peak Five Years
46
August 2021 – July 2026
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
11
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.24%
week of Jun 21, 2026
Comebacks
1
Jun 2026

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 · 51 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
Land#3528.1
The Marriage Portrait#5417.7
Hamnet#1225.6

At their peak

2025 in books

Maggie O'Farrell's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 2025 to July 2026. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Virginia Evans374
  2. 2Matt Dinniman278
  3. 3Dan Brown225
  4. 4John Grisham210
  5. 5SenLinYu210
  6. 6Caro Claire Burke179
  7. 7James Patterson152
  8. 8Callie Hart148
  9. 9Rebecca Yarros133
  10. 10Taylor Jenkins Reid108

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.