Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Margaret Atwood
Charting Mar 2, 1986 → Jan 19, 2020 · 69 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.41%
- week of Apr 23, 1989
- Career Power
- 346
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 1
- weeks as the top author
- 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
- March 1989, February 1997, October 2000, September 2019
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After absence | Aug 31, 1986 | Mar 5, 1989 | 131 | 129 | 3.96% | 2.03% |
| After absence | Aug 13, 1989 | Feb 9, 1997 | 391 | 224 | 4.41% | 1.73% |
| After absence | Mar 23, 1997 | Oct 8, 2000 | 185 | 183 | 4.41% | 1.85% |
| After absence | Dec 31, 2000 | Sep 29, 2019 | 973 | 330 | 4.41% | 1.58% |
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions (config version 4, Sep 22, 2026). 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 | #1 | 14 | 90.6 | ||
| Cat's Eye | #5 | 15 | 80.4 | ||
| The Handmaid's Tale | #5 | 15 | 79.0 | ||
| The Blind Assassin | #6 | 7 | 36.0 | ||
| Alias Grace | #7 | 5 | 21.3 | ||
| The Robber Bride | #12 | 7 | 19.0 | ||
| The Year of the Flood | #8 | 2 | 7.6 | ||
| Maddaddam | #8 | 2 | 7.6 | ||
| Oryx and Crake | #13 | 1 | 2.8 | ||
| The Heart Goes Last | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |