Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
R.F. Kuang
Charting Sep 11, 2022 → Jan 18, 2026 · 21 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
3 crowns
20222026Longest reign 2 weeks (Sep 2025) · First crown Sep 2022
- Peak Power
- 4.65%
- week of Oct 5, 2025
- Career Power
- 135
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 3
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 75
- August 2022 – July 2023
- Peak Five Years
- 135
- January 2021 – January 2026
- Top-five weeks
- 7
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 21
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Sep 11, 2022
- Comebacks
- 1
- Sep 2025
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
4 books · 135 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Katabasis | #1 | 6 | 55.5 | ||
| Babel | #1 | 7 | 44.9 | ||
| Yellowface | #5 | 7 | 30.5 | ||
| The Dragon Republic | #10 | 1 | 4.2 |
At their peak
2022 in books →R.F. Kuang's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 2022 to July 2023. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Bonnie Garmus486
- 2Gabrielle Zevin258
- 3Stephen King246
- 4Barbara Kingsolver246
- 5John Grisham225
- 6David Baldacci197
- 7James Patterson165
- 8Emily Henry160
- 9Nicholas Sparks128
- 10Elin Hilderbrand125
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 2020s.