Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Melissa de la Cruz
Charting Jan 25, 2026 → Jan 25, 2026 · 1 weeks with chart power
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- Peak Power
- 0.69%
- week of Jan 25, 2026
- Career Power
- 6
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 6
- February 2025 – January 2026
- Peak Five Years
- 6
- February 2021 – January 2026
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 1
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Jan 25, 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
1 book · 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rings of Fate | #7 | 1 | 6.3 |
At their peak
2025 in books →Melissa de la Cruz's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 2025 to January 2026. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Rebecca Yarros534
- 2Dan Brown203
- 3Taylor Jenkins Reid177
- 4John Grisham154
- 5SenLinYu151
- 6Percival Everett142
- 7Emily Henry140
- 8Clare Leslie Hall137
- 9Callie Hart137
- 10Kristin Hannah130
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 2020s.