Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Paula McLain
Charting Mar 13, 2011 → May 2, 2021 · 39 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.03%
- week of Sep 13, 2015
- Career Power
- 137
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 91
- March 2011 – February 2012
- Peak Five Years
- 131
- October 2010 – October 2015
- Top-five weeks
- 4
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 39
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Aug 16, 2015
- Comebacks
- 1
- Aug 2015
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 · 137 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Paris Wife | #7 | 31 | 93.2 | ||
| Circling the Sun | #4 | 6 | 38.2 | ||
| When the Stars Go Dark | #12 | 1 | 3.2 | ||
| Love and Ruin | #14 | 1 | 2.4 |
At their peak
2011 in books →Paula McLain's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 2011 to February 2012. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Patterson273
- 2Stieg Larsson207
- 3George R. R. Martin180
- 4David Baldacci173
- 5Stephen King157
- 6John Grisham146
- 7Janet Evanovich129
- 8Nicholas Sparks122
- 9Charlaine Harris107
- 10Jean M. Auel103
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.