Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Samantha Shannon
Charting Sep 8, 2013 → Oct 5, 2025 · 9 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Day of Fallen Night | #3 | 3 | 18.3 | ||
| The Bone Season | #7 | 3 | 13.3 | ||
| Among the Burning Flowers | #4 | 1 | 9.8 | ||
| The Mime Order | #11 | 1 | 3.7 | ||
| The Priory of the Orange Tree | #11 | 1 | 3.6 |
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:
- 1Bonnie Garmus334
- 2John Grisham311
- 3Stephen King246
- 4David Baldacci234
- 5James Patterson220
- 6Gabrielle Zevin189
- 7Matt Haig171
- 8Barbara Kingsolver158
- 9Elin Hilderbrand133
- 10Nicholas Sparks128
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.