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Tayari Jones portraitTayari Jones

Charting Feb 25, 2018Apr 19, 2026 · 17 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.62%
week of Apr 1, 2018
Career Power
115
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
73
January 2018 – January 2019
Peak Five Years
73
January 2014 – January 2019
Top-five weeks
6
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
17
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of Feb 25, 2018
Comebacks
1
Mar 2026, after 8 quiet years

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

2 books · 115 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
An American Marriage#21173.0
Kin#3642.4

At their peak

2018 in books

Tayari Jones's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 2018 to January 2019. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Patterson296
  2. 2Stephen King243
  3. 3Lisa Wingate187
  4. 4A.J. Finn186
  5. 5John Grisham184
  6. 6Celeste Ng182
  7. 7David Baldacci161
  8. 8Danielle Steel152
  9. 9Kristin Hannah145
  10. 10Nicholas Sparks121

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.