Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Zadie Smith
Charting Jun 25, 2000 → Oct 8, 2023 · 14 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.18%
- week of Oct 23, 2005
- Career Power
- 56
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 24
- October 2004 – October 2005
- Peak Five Years
- 24
- October 2000 – October 2005
- Top-five weeks
- 1
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 14
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Oct 9, 2005
- Comebacks
- 1
- Oct 2023, after 18 quiet years
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
5 books · 56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On Beauty | #5 | 4 | 24.2 | ||
| The Fraud | #8 | 3 | 12.3 | ||
| NW | #8 | 2 | 7.9 | ||
| White Teeth | #14 | 3 | 6.6 | ||
| Swing Time | #14 | 2 | 4.8 |
At their peak
2004 in books →Zadie Smith's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 2004 to October 2005. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Dan Brown578
- 2Mitch Albom294
- 3James Patterson244
- 4Sue Monk Kidd194
- 5Elizabeth Kostova185
- 6Nicholas Sparks156
- 7John Grisham138
- 8Danielle Steel132
- 9Michael Crichton108
- 10Janet Evanovich100
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.