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Margaret Atwood

Charting Mar 2, 1986 → Jan 19, 2020 · 69 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
1 crown
19862020
First crown Sep 2019

Peak Power: 4.41%; week of Apr 23, 1989
Career Power: 346; share-weeks
Crowns: 1; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 91; January 2019 – January 2020
Peak Five Years: 159; June 1984 – May 1989
Top-five weeks: 8; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 69; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Sep 29, 2019
Comebacks: 4; Mar 1989 · Feb 1997, after 8 quiet years · Oct 2000 · Sep 2019, after 19 quiet years

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

10 books · 346 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
The Testaments	#1September 2019	14	September 2019 – January 2020	90.6	90.6
Cat's Eye	#5March 1989	15	February 1989 – May 1989	80.4	80.4
The Handmaid's Tale	#5March 1986	15	March 1986 – June 1986	79.0	79.0
The Blind Assassin	#6September 2000	7	September 2000 – November 2000	36.0	36.0
Alias Grace	#7January 1997	5	January 1997 – February 1997	21.3	21.3
The Robber Bride	#12December 1993	7	November 1993 – February 1994	19.0	18.1
The Year of the Flood	#8October 2009	2	October 2009 – October 2009	7.6	7.6
Maddaddam	#8September 2013	2	September 2013 – September 2013	7.6	7.6
Oryx and Crake	#13May 2003	1	May 2003	2.8	2.8
The Heart Goes Last	#15October 2015	1	October 2015	2.1	2.1

At their peak

2019 in books →

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

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.