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Ruth Ware portraitRuth Ware

Charting Aug 30, 2015Aug 10, 2025 · 58 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
6.34%
week of Oct 16, 2016
Career Power
390
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
129
January 2016 – January 2017
Peak Five Years
283
October 2015 – October 2020
Top-five weeks
25
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
58
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of Jul 31, 2022
Comebacks
1
Aug 2022

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

10 books · 390 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 Woman in Cabin 10#419128.7
The It Girl#2753.7
The Lying Game#3647.9
The Death of Mrs. Westaway#4646.4
The Turn of the Key#3535.2
One by One#3525.2
Zero Days#4318.7
The Woman in Suite 11#4316.2
One Perfect Couple#6314.9
In a Dark, Dark Wood#1113.6

At their peak

2016 in books

Ruth Ware's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 2016 to January 2017. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Anthony Doerr259
  2. 2Paula Hawkins231
  3. 3James Patterson225
  4. 4Kristin Hannah196
  5. 5John Grisham187
  6. 6Nicholas Sparks186
  7. 7Danielle Steel178
  8. 8Colson Whitehead176
  9. 9David Baldacci161
  10. 10Ruth Ware129

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.