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Meg Wolitzer portraitMeg Wolitzer

Charting Apr 20, 2008May 20, 2018 · 10 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Female Persuasion#2536.7
The Interestings#11413.2
The Ten-Year Nap#1512.1

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:

  1. 1John Grisham361
  2. 2Dan Brown240
  3. 3James Patterson210
  4. 4Celeste Ng201
  5. 5Danielle Steel175
  6. 6A.J. Finn163
  7. 7Paula Hawkins147
  8. 8David Baldacci144
  9. 9Lisa Wingate142
  10. 10Lee Child138

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.