Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Yaa Gyasi
Charting Jun 26, 2016 → Oct 4, 2020 · 4 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.96%
- week of Oct 4, 2020
- Career Power
- 23
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 21
- September 2019 – October 2020
- Peak Five Years
- 23
- September 2015 – October 2020
- Top-five weeks
- 1
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 4
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Sep 20, 2020
- 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
2 books · 23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transcendent Kingdom | #3 | 3 | 21.0 | ||
| Homegoing | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
2019 in books →Yaa Gyasi's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 2019 to October 2020. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Delia Owens657
- 2John Grisham318
- 3Stephen King268
- 4Jeanine Cummins251
- 5James Patterson190
- 6Brit Bennett182
- 7Alex Michaelides160
- 8Ann Patchett156
- 9David Baldacci134
- 10Jojo Moyes113
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.