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Ward Larsen

Charting Mar 1, 2026Mar 1, 2026 · 1 weeks with chart power

Compare with other authors
Peak Power
0.35%
week of Mar 1, 2026
Career Power
3
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
3
March 2025 – March 2026
Peak Five Years
3
March 2021 – March 2026
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
1
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.25%
week of Mar 1, 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 · 3 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
Cold Zerowith Brad Thor#713.3

At their peak

2025 in books

Ward Larsen's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 2025 to March 2026. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Rebecca Yarros414
  2. 2Dan Brown225
  3. 3John Grisham185
  4. 4SenLinYu182
  5. 5Taylor Jenkins Reid177
  6. 6Virginia Evans162
  7. 7Callie Hart148
  8. 8Emily Henry140
  9. 9Clare Leslie Hall137
  10. 10Fredrik Backman123

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.