Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Patrick Ryan
Charting Sep 21, 2025 → Dec 28, 2025 · 5 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.26%
- week of Oct 12, 2025
- Career Power
- 28
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 28
- January 2025 – December 2025
- Peak Five Years
- 28
- January 2021 – December 2025
- Top-five weeks
- 1
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 5
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Sep 21, 2025
- 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 · 28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buckeye | #4 | 5 | 27.8 |
At their peak
2025 in books →Patrick Ryan's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 2025 to December 2025. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Rebecca Yarros586
- 2Percival Everett199
- 3Kristin Hannah178
- 4Taylor Jenkins Reid171
- 5Dan Brown158
- 6Alison Espach149
- 7Emily Henry140
- 8Clare Leslie Hall137
- 9Fredrik Backman123
- 10James Patterson123
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 2020s.