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Shelby Van Pelt portraitShelby Van Pelt

Charting May 22, 2022Mar 9, 2025 · 64 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.01%
week of May 5, 2024
Career Power
207
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
126
June 2023 – June 2024
Peak Five Years
207
March 2020 – March 2025
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
64
weeks with chart power
Dominance
10.04%
week of Jan 21, 2024
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 · 207 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
Remarkably Bright Creatures#464207.2

At their peak

2023 in books

Shelby Van Pelt's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 2023 to June 2024. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Rebecca Yarros857
  2. 2Bonnie Garmus351
  3. 3James McBride257
  4. 4Kristin Hannah245
  5. 5Barbara Kingsolver192
  6. 6Emily Henry190
  7. 7Abraham Verghese176
  8. 8Stephen King171
  9. 9Ann Patchett170
  10. 10John Grisham156

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.