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Rebecca Yarros portraitRebecca Yarros

Charting May 21, 2023Feb 15, 2026 · 133 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Decade
Author of the Year

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    56 crowns

    20232026

    Longest reign 24 weeks (Nov 2023 – May 2024) · First crown Jul 2023

Peak Power
21.82%
week of Apr 13, 2025
Career Power
1,769
share-weeks
Crowns
56
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
868
July 2023 – July 2024
Peak Five Years
1,769
February 2021 – February 2026
Top-five weeks
93
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
133
weeks with chart power
Dominance
30.78%
week of Feb 9, 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

5 books · 1,769 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
Fourth Wing#199865.8
Iron Flame#182558.8
Onyx Storm#140321.6
The Things We Leave Unfinished#5211.5
The Last Letter#3111.2

At their peak

2023 in books

Rebecca Yarros's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 2023 to July 2024. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Rebecca Yarros868
  2. 2Bonnie Garmus316
  3. 3Kristin Hannah279
  4. 4James McBride257
  5. 5Stephen King195
  6. 6John Grisham186
  7. 7Emily Henry171
  8. 8Barbara Kingsolver171
  9. 9Ann Patchett170
  10. 10Abraham Verghese150

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.