Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Martha Wells
Charting May 16, 2021 → May 24, 2026 · 3 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.61%
- week of May 24, 2026
- Career Power
- 11
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 6
- June 2025 – May 2026
- Peak Five Years
- 9
- June 2021 – May 2026
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 3
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 5.59%
- week of May 24, 2026
- 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 · 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Platform Decay | #8 | 1 | 5.6 | ||
| System Collapse | #12 | 1 | 3.3 | ||
| Fugitive Telemetry | #14 | 1 | 2.4 |
At their peak
2025 in books →Martha Wells's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 2025 to May 2026. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Virginia Evans307
- 2Dan Brown225
- 3John Grisham210
- 4SenLinYu210
- 5Taylor Jenkins Reid177
- 6Matt Dinniman174
- 7Rebecca Yarros171
- 8James Patterson155
- 9Callie Hart148
- 10Fredrik Backman112
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 2020s.