Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
The Fourth Option
Entered May 31, 2026 · peaked at #4 on May 31, 2026 · 1 week on the list
Cover image: The New York Times · the artwork is the publisher’s.
- Book Power
- 9.6
- 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
- May 2026
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Carr | primary | 50% | 5.0 |
| M.P. Woodward | primary | 50% | 5.0 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See May 31, 2026 on the timeline →- #1A Parade of HorriblesMatt Dinniman
- #2YesteryearCaro Claire Burke
- #3Broken DoveDani Francis
- #4The Fourth OptionJack Carr & M.P. Woodward
- #5Our Perfect StormCarley Fortune
- #6The CorrespondentVirginia Evans
- #7The Calamity ClubKathryn Stockett
- #826 BeautiesJames Patterson
- #9The Last MandarinLouise Penny & Mellissa Fung
- #10Fury BoundSable Sorensen