Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Richard Powers
Charting May 6, 2018 → Oct 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bewilderment | #7 | 3 | 15.5 | ||
| Playground | #5 | 1 | 8.3 | ||
| The Overstory | #12 | 2 | 6.3 |
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:
- 1Matt Haig314
- 2John Grisham279
- 3Laura Dave230
- 4V. E. Schwab216
- 5Kristin Hannah214
- 6Brit Bennett207
- 7James Patterson201
- 8Nicholas Sparks184
- 9Danielle Steel133
- 10Taylor Jenkins Reid123
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.