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Sally Rooney portraitSally Rooney

Charting May 5, 2019Feb 16, 2025 · 32 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    1 crown

    20192025

    First crown Sep 2021

Peak Power
4.22%
week of Nov 10, 2024
Career Power
183
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
99
February 2024 – February 2025
Peak Five Years
141
March 2020 – February 2025
Top-five weeks
9
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
32
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Sep 26, 2021
Comebacks
2
Sep 2021 · Oct 2024

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 · 183 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
Intermezzo#21799.2
Normal People#3842.5
Beautiful World, Where Are You#1741.5

At their peak

2024 in books

Sally Rooney's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 2024 to February 2025. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Rebecca Yarros683
  2. 2Kristin Hannah659
  3. 3Percival Everett230
  4. 4Liz Moore174
  5. 5James Patterson150
  6. 6Nicholas Sparks145
  7. 7Emily Henry125
  8. 8Sally Rooney99
  9. 9Chris Whitaker94
  10. 10Elin Hilderbrand93

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.