Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
William Kent Krueger
Charting Sep 9, 2012 → Sep 6, 2026 · 18 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.52%
- week of Oct 6, 2019
- Career Power
- 97
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 25
- September 2023 – September 2024
- Peak Five Years
- 60
- September 2019 – September 2024
- Top-five weeks
- 5
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 18
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.35%
- week of Sep 8, 2024
- Comebacks
- 2
- Sep 2021 · Oct 2023
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
13 books · 97 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This Tender Land | #3 | 3 | 16.6 | ||
| The River We Remember | #5 | 3 | 13.2 | ||
| Spirit Crossing | #3 | 1 | 11.4 | ||
| Lightning Strike | #5 | 2 | 10.5 | ||
| Fox Creek | #5 | 1 | 8.3 | ||
| Desolation Mountain | #6 | 1 | 7.4 | ||
| God's Country | #7 | 1 | 6.9 | ||
| Apostle's Cove | #7 | 1 | 6.3 | ||
| Sulfur Springs | #9 | 1 | 4.8 | ||
| Manitou Canyon | #11 | 1 | 3.6 | ||
| Trickster's Point | #12 | 1 | 3.2 | ||
| Windigo Island | #12 | 1 | 3.2 | ||
| Tamarack County | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
2023 in books →William Kent Krueger's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 2023 to September 2024. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Rebecca Yarros857
- 2Kristin Hannah409
- 3James McBride236
- 4Bonnie Garmus225
- 5Stephen King225
- 6John Grisham215
- 7James Patterson144
- 8Shelby Van Pelt120
- 9Emily Henry118
- 10Ann Patchett117
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.