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Paula Hawkins

Charting Feb 1, 2015Nov 24, 2024 · 102 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    25 crowns

    20152024

    Longest reign 13 weeks (Feb–May 2015) · First crown Feb 2015

Peak Power
13.15%
week of Jul 26, 2015
Career Power
982
share-weeks
Crowns
25
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
568
February 2015 – January 2016
Peak Five Years
935
September 2012 – September 2017
Top-five weeks
69
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
102
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.69%
week of Feb 15, 2015
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

4 books · 982 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 Girl on the Train#177775.8
Into the Water#117159.5
A Slow Fire Burning#1638.6
The Blue Hour#828.4

At their peak

2015 in books

Paula Hawkins's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 2015 to January 2016. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Paula Hawkins568
  2. 2Anthony Doerr533
  3. 3Kristin Hannah231
  4. 4John Grisham212
  5. 5James Patterson210
  6. 6Harper Lee196
  7. 7Stephen King173
  8. 8David Baldacci164
  9. 9Nicholas Sparks133
  10. 10Anne Tyler87

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.