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Rainbow Rowell portraitRainbow Rowell

Charting Jul 27, 2014May 3, 2026 · 3 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.46%
week of Jul 27, 2014
Career Power
9
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
4
August 2013 – July 2014
Peak Five Years
5
May 2021 – May 2026
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
3
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.17%
week of Jul 27, 2014
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

3 books · 9 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
Landline#1014.2
Slow Dance#1312.9
Cherry Baby#1512.1

At their peak

2013 in books

Rainbow Rowell's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 2013 to July 2014. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Donna Tartt398
  2. 2James Patterson225
  3. 3Stephen King224
  4. 4John Grisham218
  5. 5Sue Monk Kidd181
  6. 6Robert Galbraith171
  7. 7Dan Brown137
  8. 8Mitch Albom130
  9. 9David Baldacci120
  10. 10Nicholas Sparks119

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.