Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Tayari Jones
Charting Feb 25, 2018 → Apr 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| An American Marriage | #2 | 11 | 73.0 | ||
| Kin | #3 | 6 | 42.4 |
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:
- 1James Patterson296
- 2Stephen King243
- 3Lisa Wingate187
- 4A.J. Finn186
- 5John Grisham184
- 6Celeste Ng182
- 7David Baldacci161
- 8Danielle Steel152
- 9Kristin Hannah145
- 10Nicholas Sparks121
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.