Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Elizabeth Strout
Charting Mar 14, 1999 → May 31, 2026 · 48 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
1 crown
19992026First 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 →
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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| My Name Is Lucy Barton | #1 | 10 | 73.5 | ||
| The Burgess Boys | #3 | 6 | 44.6 | ||
| Olive, Again | #7 | 12 | 42.3 | ||
| Tell Me Everything | #3 | 6 | 27.8 | ||
| Anything Is Possible | #4 | 5 | 22.5 | ||
| Lucy by the Sea | #5 | 2 | 10.7 | ||
| Oh William! | #8 | 3 | 10.0 | ||
| The Things We Never Say | #7 | 2 | 8.9 | ||
| Amy and Isabelle | #9 | 2 | 8.0 |
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:
- 1Paula Hawkins510
- 2Anthony Doerr507
- 3Kristin Hannah253
- 4Harper Lee223
- 5James Patterson216
- 6John Grisham187
- 7Stephen King170
- 8Nicholas Sparks145
- 9David Baldacci143
- 10Danielle Steel86
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.