Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
The River Is Waiting
Entered Jun 29, 2025 · peaked at #6 on Jun 29, 2025 · 3 weeks on the list, last seen Jul 13, 2025
Cover image: The New York Times · the artwork is the publisher’s.
- Book Power
- 15.2
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 2
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 3
- June 2025 – July 2025
Ranked by Book Power, part of the ChartReign Power model — not a list published by anyone else. How it works →
The run
Position by week; a gap is a spell off the list.What it earned each author
Book Power is the book's own figure. Power contributed is what it earned each author's Career Power: a featured credit takes its reduced share, and a week where the author had other books charting is split between them.
| Author | Credit | Credit share | Power contributed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wally Lamb | primary | 100% | 15.3 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Jun 29, 2025 on the timeline →- #1Bury Our Bones in the Midnight SoilV. E. Schwab
- #2AtmosphereTaylor Jenkins Reid
- #3Never FlinchStephen King
- #4The First GentlemanBill Clinton & James Patterson
- #5With a VengeanceRiley Sager
- #6The River Is WaitingWally Lamb
- #7Great Big Beautiful LifeEmily Henry
- #8NightshadeMichael Connelly
- #9King of AshesS.A. Cosby
- #10My FriendsFredrik Backman