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Mellissa Fung

Charting May 31, 2026May 31, 2026 · 1 weeks with chart power

Compare with other authors
Peak Power
0.27%
week of May 31, 2026
Career Power
3
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
3
June 2025 – May 2026
Peak Five Years
3
June 2021 – May 2026
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
1
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.51%
week of May 31, 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 · 3 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 Last Mandarinwith Louise Penny#912.5

At their peak

2025 in books

Mellissa Fung's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 2025 to May 2026. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Virginia Evans315
  2. 2Dan Brown225
  3. 3John Grisham210
  4. 4SenLinYu210
  5. 5Matt Dinniman189
  6. 6Taylor Jenkins Reid177
  7. 7Rebecca Yarros166
  8. 8James Patterson160
  9. 9Callie Hart148
  10. 10Fredrik Backman105

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.