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Matt Dinniman portraitMatt Dinniman

Charting Mar 30, 2025 → Sep 20, 2026 · 49 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    6 crowns

    20252026

    Longest reign 2 weeks (May–Jun 2026) · First crown Mar 2026

Peak Power
11.59%
week of Sep 6, 2026
Career Power
399
share-weeks
Crowns
6
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
373
September 2025 – September 2026
Peak Five Years
399
October 2021 – September 2026
Top-five weeks
21
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
49
weeks with chart power
Dominance
19.84%
week of Apr 12, 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

9 books · 399 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
Carl's Doomsday Scenario#432140.0
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook#62783.8
Dungeon Crawler Carl#52467.1
A Parade of Horribles#1838.5
The Gate of the Feral Gods#81825.2
Operation Bounce House#2220.4
The Butcher's Masquerade#7912.0
This Inevitable Ruin#716.5
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride#1045.2

At their peak

2025 in books →

Matt Dinniman's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 2025 to September 2026. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Virginia Evans431
  2. 2Matt Dinniman373
  3. 3Caro Claire Burke293
  4. 4Dan Brown225
  5. 5John Grisham210
  6. 6SenLinYu210
  7. 7Kathryn Stockett205
  8. 8Ann Patchett163
  9. 9James Patterson161
  10. 10Callie Hart119

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.