Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Meg Wolitzer
Charting Apr 20, 2008 → May 20, 2018 · 10 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.10%
- week of May 13, 2018
- Career Power
- 52
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 37
- May 2017 – May 2018
- Peak Five Years
- 40
- May 2013 – May 2018
- Top-five weeks
- 2
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 10
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Apr 22, 2018
- Comebacks
- 1
- Apr 2018, after 5 quiet years
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 · 52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Female Persuasion | #2 | 5 | 36.7 | ||
| The Interestings | #11 | 4 | 13.2 | ||
| The Ten-Year Nap | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
2017 in books →Meg Wolitzer's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 2017 to May 2018. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1John Grisham361
- 2Dan Brown240
- 3James Patterson210
- 4Celeste Ng201
- 5Danielle Steel175
- 6A.J. Finn163
- 7Paula Hawkins147
- 8David Baldacci144
- 9Lisa Wingate142
- 10Lee Child138
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.