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Samantha Shannon portraitSamantha Shannon

Charting Sep 8, 2013Oct 5, 2025 · 9 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.70%
week of Apr 2, 2023
Career Power
49
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
18
April 2022 – April 2023
Peak Five Years
28
October 2020 – October 2025
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
9
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Mar 19, 2023
Comebacks
2
Mar 2023, after 9 quiet years · Oct 2025

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

5 books · 49 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
A Day of Fallen Night#3318.3
The Bone Season#7313.3
Among the Burning Flowers#419.8
The Mime Order#1113.7
The Priory of the Orange Tree#1113.6

At their peak

2022 in books

Samantha Shannon's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 2022 to April 2023. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Bonnie Garmus334
  2. 2John Grisham311
  3. 3Stephen King246
  4. 4David Baldacci234
  5. 5James Patterson220
  6. 6Gabrielle Zevin189
  7. 7Matt Haig171
  8. 8Barbara Kingsolver158
  9. 9Elin Hilderbrand133
  10. 10Nicholas Sparks128

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.