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Tana French

Charting Aug 1, 2010Apr 26, 2026 · 31 weeks with chart power

Compare with other authors
Peak Power
3.12%
week of Nov 15, 2020
Career Power
168
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
41
December 2019 – December 2020
Peak Five Years
84
December 2015 – December 2020
Top-five weeks
7
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
31
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of Oct 23, 2016
Comebacks
6
Sep 2014 · Oct 2016 · Nov 2018 · Nov 2020 · Mar 2024 · Apr 2026

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

8 books · 168 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 Searcher#3741.1
The Secret Place#4630.8
The Trespasser#2421.8
The Hunter#5421.8
The Witch Elm#7421.3
The Keeper#4211.9
Broken Harbor#6210.9
Faithful Place#827.9

At their peak

2019 in books

Tana French's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 2019 to December 2020. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Delia Owens576
  2. 2John Grisham340
  3. 3Jeanine Cummins251
  4. 4Brit Bennett237
  5. 5James Patterson188
  6. 6Stephen King170
  7. 7Alex Michaelides160
  8. 8David Baldacci130
  9. 9Elin Hilderbrand121
  10. 10Nicholas Sparks113

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.