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Percival Everett portraitPercival Everett

Charting Apr 7, 2024Sep 14, 2025 · 52 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    3 crowns

    20242025

    Longest reign 3 weeks (Dec 2024 – Jan 2025) · First crown Dec 2024

Peak Power
9.75%
week of Mar 9, 2025
Career Power
339
share-weeks
Crowns
3
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
283
June 2024 – June 2025
Peak Five Years
339
September 2020 – September 2025
Top-five weeks
21
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
52
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.86%
week of Jan 19, 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 · 339 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
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At their peak

2024 in books

Percival Everett's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 2024 to June 2025. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Rebecca Yarros714
  2. 2Kristin Hannah515
  3. 3Percival Everett283
  4. 4Liz Moore223
  5. 5Alison Espach152
  6. 6Nicholas Sparks145
  7. 7James Patterson144
  8. 8Emily Henry125
  9. 9Sally Rooney99
  10. 10Chris Whitaker94

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.