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V. E. Schwab portraitV. E. Schwab

Charting Mar 12, 2017Sep 7, 2025 · 53 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    1 crown

    20172025

    First crown Jun 2025

Peak Power
5.96%
week of May 9, 2021
Career Power
298
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
223
September 2020 – September 2021
Peak Five Years
285
September 2020 – September 2025
Top-five weeks
12
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
53
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.65%
week of Jun 29, 2025
Comebacks
1
Jul 2025

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

5 books · 298 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 Invisible Life of Addie Larue#244229.5
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil#1647.7
A Conjuring of Light#617.3
The Fragile Threads of Power#617.3
Vengeful#716.4

At their peak

2020 in books

V. E. Schwab's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 2020 to September 2021. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Matt Haig302
  2. 2John Grisham279
  3. 3Brit Bennett241
  4. 4V. E. Schwab223
  5. 5Kristin Hannah214
  6. 6Laura Dave202
  7. 7James Patterson198
  8. 8Nicholas Sparks186
  9. 9Delia Owens147
  10. 10Danielle Steel129

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.