Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Viola Davis
Charting Mar 29, 2026 → May 17, 2026 · 8 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.50%
- week of May 3, 2026
- Career Power
- 35
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 35
- May 2025 – May 2026
- Peak Five Years
- 35
- May 2021 – May 2026
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 8
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.60%
- week of Apr 5, 2026
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
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
1 book · 35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Judge Stonewith James Patterson | #1 | 8 | 35.4 |
At their peak
2025 in books →Viola Davis's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 2025 to May 2026. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Virginia Evans300
- 2Dan Brown225
- 3John Grisham210
- 4SenLinYu210
- 5Rebecca Yarros179
- 6Taylor Jenkins Reid177
- 7Matt Dinniman169
- 8James Patterson149
- 9Callie Hart148
- 10Fredrik Backman123
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 2020s.