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Meg Gardiner portraitMeg Gardiner

Charting Aug 28, 2022Sep 4, 2022 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.84%
week of Sep 4, 2022
Career Power
8
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
8
September 2021 – September 2022
Peak Five Years
8
September 2017 – September 2022
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
7.26%
week of Aug 28, 2022
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

1 book · 8 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.

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Heat 2with Michael Mann#128.5

At their peak

2021 in books

Meg Gardiner's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 2021 to September 2022. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Matt Haig314
  2. 2John Grisham311
  3. 3Laura Dave228
  4. 4Amor Towles224
  5. 5James Patterson213
  6. 6David Baldacci189
  7. 7Nicholas Sparks144
  8. 8Lucy Foley142
  9. 9Mitch Albom136
  10. 10Elin Hilderbrand116

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.