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Viola Davis

Charting Mar 29, 2026May 17, 2026 · 8 weeks with chart power

Compare with other authors
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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
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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:

  1. 1Virginia Evans300
  2. 2Dan Brown225
  3. 3John Grisham210
  4. 4SenLinYu210
  5. 5Rebecca Yarros179
  6. 6Taylor Jenkins Reid177
  7. 7Matt Dinniman169
  8. 8James Patterson149
  9. 9Callie Hart148
  10. 10Fredrik Backman123

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.