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Richard Osman portraitRichard Osman

Charting Oct 17, 2021Oct 19, 2025 · 7 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.55%
week of Oct 13, 2024
Career Power
55
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
17
October 2021 – October 2022
Peak Five Years
55
November 2020 – October 2025
Top-five weeks
4
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
7
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.85%
week of Oct 6, 2024
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 · 55 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
We Solve Murders#2215.6
The Last Devil to Die#3213.8
The Bullet That Missed#3111.0
The Impossible Fortune#519.0
The Man Who Died Twice#815.5

At their peak

2021 in books

Richard Osman's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 2021 to October 2022. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1John Grisham313
  2. 2Matt Haig299
  3. 3Amor Towles224
  4. 4David Baldacci219
  5. 5James Patterson204
  6. 6Laura Dave199
  7. 7Nicholas Sparks158
  8. 8Lucy Foley142
  9. 9Mitch Albom136
  10. 10Elin Hilderbrand127

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.