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Marlon James portraitMarlon James

Charting Feb 24, 2019Sep 20, 2026 · 8 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.99%
week of Mar 17, 2019
Career Power
51
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
38
April 2018 – March 2019
Peak Five Years
42
March 2017 – March 2022
Top-five weeks
4
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
8
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of Mar 3, 2019
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

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
Black Leopard, Red Wolf#2638.2
The Disappearers#518.6
Moon Witch, Spider King#1014.2

At their peak

2018 in books

Marlon James's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 2018 to March 2019. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Patterson307
  2. 2Delia Owens243
  3. 3Stephen King243
  4. 4John Grisham208
  5. 5Danielle Steel174
  6. 6David Baldacci161
  7. 7Nicholas Sparks138
  8. 8George R. R. Martin134
  9. 9Lisa Wingate130
  10. 10Bill Clinton102

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.