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Sheila Masterson

Charting Sep 6, 2026Sep 20, 2026 · 3 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    1 crown

    20262026

    First crown Sep 2026

Peak Power
2.23%
week of Sep 20, 2026
Career Power
24
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
24
September 2025 – September 2026
Peak Five Years
24
October 2021 – September 2026
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
3
weeks with chart power
Dominance
15.78%
week of Sep 6, 2026
Comebacks
0
none detected

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

1 book · 24 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 Poison Daughter#1324.3

At their peak

2025 in books

Sheila Masterson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 2025 to September 2026. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Virginia Evans431
  2. 2Matt Dinniman373
  3. 3Caro Claire Burke293
  4. 4Dan Brown225
  5. 5John Grisham210
  6. 6SenLinYu210
  7. 7Kathryn Stockett205
  8. 8Ann Patchett163
  9. 9James Patterson161
  10. 10Callie Hart119

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.