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Elizabeth Strout portraitElizabeth Strout

Charting Mar 14, 1999May 31, 2026 · 48 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    1 crown

    19992026

    First crown Jan 2016

Peak Power
4.83%
week of Mar 20, 2016
Career Power
248
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
74
April 2015 – April 2016
Peak Five Years
141
June 2012 – June 2017
Top-five weeks
10
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
48
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Jan 31, 2016
Comebacks
3
Jan 2016 · Dec 2019 · Oct 2024, after 5 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

9 books · 248 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
My Name Is Lucy Barton#11073.5
The Burgess Boys#3644.6
Olive, Again#71242.3
Tell Me Everything#3627.8
Anything Is Possible#4522.5
Lucy by the Sea#5210.7
Oh William!#8310.0
The Things We Never Say#728.9
Amy and Isabelle#928.0

At their peak

2015 in books

Elizabeth Strout's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 2015 to April 2016. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Paula Hawkins510
  2. 2Anthony Doerr507
  3. 3Kristin Hannah253
  4. 4Harper Lee223
  5. 5James Patterson216
  6. 6John Grisham187
  7. 7Stephen King170
  8. 8Nicholas Sparks145
  9. 9David Baldacci143
  10. 10Danielle Steel86

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.