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Ruth Reichl portraitRuth Reichl

Charting May 25, 2014May 12, 2024 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.47%
week of May 12, 2024
Career Power
8
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
4
May 2023 – May 2024
Peak Five Years
4
May 2019 – May 2024
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.28%
week of May 12, 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

2 books · 8 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
The Paris Novel#1014.3
Delicious!#1113.6

At their peak

2023 in books

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

  1. 1Rebecca Yarros839
  2. 2Bonnie Garmus400
  3. 3James McBride254
  4. 4Barbara Kingsolver220
  5. 5Abraham Verghese216
  6. 6Emily Henry200
  7. 7Kristin Hannah179
  8. 8Ann Patchett170
  9. 9Stephen King143
  10. 10John Grisham141

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.