Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction

The Christmas Stranger

Richard Paul Evans

Entered Nov 23, 2025 · peaked at #5 on Nov 23, 2025 · 1 week on the list

Cover image: The New York Times · the artwork is the publisher’s.

Book Power
8.3
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
1
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
1
November 2025

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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.

AuthorCreditCredit sharePower contributed
Richard Paul Evansprimary100%8.3

The top ten the week it peaked

See Nov 23, 2025 on the timeline →
  1. #1The WidowJohn Grisham
  2. #2The Secret of SecretsDan Brown
  3. #3AlchemisedSenLinYu
  4. #4Gone Before GoodbyeReese Witherspoon & Harlan Coben
  5. #5The Christmas StrangerRichard Paul Evans
  6. #6TwiceMitch Albom
  7. #7RemainNicholas Sparks & M. Night Shyamalan
  8. #8The Proving GroundMichael Connelly
  9. #9The IntruderFreida McFadden
  10. #10Empire of the DawnJay Kristoff