Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Ruth Ware
Charting Aug 30, 2015 → Aug 10, 2025 · 58 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 6.34%
- week of Oct 16, 2016
- Career Power
- 390
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- weeks as the top author
- 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
- August 2022
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After decline | Nov 10, 2019 | Aug 14, 2022 | 143 | 91 | 6.34% | 2.95% |
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions (config version 4, Sep 22, 2026). 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Woman in Cabin 10 | #4 | 19 | 128.7 | ||
| The It Girl | #2 | 7 | 53.7 | ||
| The Lying Game | #3 | 6 | 47.9 | ||
| The Death of Mrs. Westaway | #4 | 6 | 46.4 | ||
| The Turn of the Key | #3 | 5 | 35.2 | ||
| One by One | #3 | 5 | 25.2 | ||
| Zero Days | #4 | 3 | 18.7 | ||
| The Woman in Suite 11 | #4 | 3 | 16.2 | ||
| One Perfect Couple | #6 | 3 | 14.9 | ||
| In a Dark, Dark Wood | #11 | 1 | 3.6 |