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Marilynne Robinson portraitMarilynne Robinson

Charting Feb 6, 2005Oct 18, 2020 · 15 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.66%
week of Nov 30, 2014
Career Power
59
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
36
December 2013 – December 2014
Peak Five Years
36
December 2009 – December 2014
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
15
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of Oct 26, 2014
Comebacks
0
none detected

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

4 books · 59 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
Lila#4736.4
Gilead#11513.5
Home#1325.5
Jack#1014.2

At their peak

2013 in books

Marilynne Robinson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 2013 to December 2014. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Donna Tartt432
  2. 2John Grisham218
  3. 3James Patterson210
  4. 4Sue Monk Kidd186
  5. 5Stephen King169
  6. 6Anthony Doerr141
  7. 7Liane Moriarty123
  8. 8David Baldacci122
  9. 9Janet Evanovich108
  10. 10Mitch Albom106

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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