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Richard Powers portraitRichard Powers

Charting May 6, 2018Oct 13, 2024 · 6 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.49%
week of Oct 24, 2021
Career Power
30
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
15
November 2020 – October 2021
Peak Five Years
24
October 2019 – October 2024
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
6
weeks with chart power
Dominance
8.34%
week of Oct 13, 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

3 books · 30 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
Bewilderment#7315.5
Playground#518.3
The Overstory#1226.3

At their peak

2020 in books

Richard Powers's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 2020 to October 2021. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Matt Haig314
  2. 2John Grisham279
  3. 3Laura Dave230
  4. 4V. E. Schwab216
  5. 5Kristin Hannah214
  6. 6Brit Bennett207
  7. 7James Patterson201
  8. 8Nicholas Sparks184
  9. 9Danielle Steel133
  10. 10Taylor Jenkins Reid123

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.