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Rachel Gillig portraitRachel Gillig

Charting Jun 8, 2025Sep 20, 2026 · 10 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    2 crowns

    20252026

    reigning now, 1st week in a row · First crown Jun 2025

Peak Power
3.02%
week of Jun 22, 2025
Career Power
74
share-weeks
Crowns
2
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
59
October 2024 – October 2025
Peak Five Years
74
October 2021 – September 2026
Top-five weeks
4
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
10
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.96%
week of Sep 20, 2026
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 · 74 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 Knight and the Moth#1845.8
The Knave and the Moon#1115.0
One Dark Window#518.6
Two Twisted Crowns#614.9

At their peak

2024 in books

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

  1. 1Rebecca Yarros624
  2. 2Kristin Hannah296
  3. 3Percival Everett268
  4. 4Taylor Jenkins Reid174
  5. 5Alison Espach152
  6. 6Emily Henry149
  7. 7Liz Moore144
  8. 8Clare Leslie Hall137
  9. 9Nicholas Sparks131
  10. 10James Patterson130

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.