Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Melanie Benjamin
Charting Feb 24, 2013 → Mar 20, 2016 · 6 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.34%
- week of Mar 20, 2016
- Career Power
- 18
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 16
- March 2015 – March 2016
- Peak Five Years
- 18
- March 2011 – March 2016
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 6
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.79%
- week of Feb 14, 2016
- 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
2 books · 18 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 Swans of Fifth Avenue | #9 | 5 | 16.0 | ||
| The Aviator's Wife | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
2015 in books →Melanie Benjamin's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 2015 to March 2016. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Paula Hawkins538
- 2Anthony Doerr520
- 3Kristin Hannah248
- 4Harper Lee212
- 5James Patterson205
- 6John Grisham196
- 7Stephen King170
- 8Nicholas Sparks145
- 9David Baldacci143
- 10Danielle Steel82
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 2010s.