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Tom Hanks

Charting Nov 5, 2017Jun 11, 2023 · 13 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.06%
week of Dec 10, 2017
Career Power
70
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
51
January 2017 – January 2018
Peak Five Years
51
January 2013 – January 2018
Top-five weeks
4
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
13
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.68%
week of May 28, 2023
Comebacks
1
May 2023, after 5 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 · 70 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
Uncommon Type#31051.1
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece#2319.1

At their peak

2017 in books

Tom Hanks's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 2017 to January 2018. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1John Grisham392
  2. 2James Patterson262
  3. 3Danielle Steel221
  4. 4Paula Hawkins160
  5. 5Amor Towles153
  6. 6David Baldacci149
  7. 7Dan Brown148
  8. 8Michael Connelly133
  9. 9Lee Child129
  10. 10Neil Gaiman127

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.