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N.K. Jemisin portraitN.K. Jemisin

Charting Apr 12, 2020Apr 12, 2020 · 1 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.52%
week of Apr 12, 2020
Career Power
5
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
5
April 2019 – April 2020
Peak Five Years
5
March 2015 – April 2020
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
1
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.79%
week of Apr 12, 2020
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 · 5 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 City We Became#914.8

At their peak

2019 in books

N.K. Jemisin's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 2019 to April 2020. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Delia Owens691
  2. 2James Patterson237
  3. 3David Baldacci223
  4. 4Alex Michaelides186
  5. 5John Grisham173
  6. 6Stephen King151
  7. 7Ann Patchett141
  8. 8Danielle Steel125
  9. 9Jeanine Cummins120
  10. 10Elin Hilderbrand91

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.