Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
The Proving Ground
Entered Nov 9, 2025 · peaked at #2 on Nov 9, 2025 · 3 weeks on the list, last seen Nov 23, 2025
Cover image: The New York Times · the artwork is the publisher’s.
- Book Power
- 23.7
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 3
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 3
- November 2025 – November 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Connelly | primary | 100% | 23.9 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Nov 9, 2025 on the timeline →- #1The WidowJohn Grisham
- #2The Proving GroundMichael Connelly
- #3The Things Gods BreakAbigail Owen
- #4The Secret of SecretsDan Brown
- #5AlchemisedSenLinYu
- #6RemainNicholas Sparks & M. Night Shyamalan
- #7Gone Before GoodbyeReese Witherspoon & Harlan Coben
- #8The IntruderFreida McFadden
- #9King SorrowJoe Hill
- #10TwiceMitch Albom