Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Isabel Allende
Charting Jun 16, 1985 → Feb 13, 2022 · 40 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.56%
- week of Apr 30, 2000
- Career Power
- 176
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- weeks as the top author
- Peak Year
- 91
- May 1999 – May 2000
- Peak Five Years
- 93
- November 1996 – November 2001
- Top-five weeks
- 9
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 40
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 10.44%
- week of Mar 12, 2000
- Comebacks
- 1
- March 2020
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After absence | Aug 6, 2000 | Mar 8, 2020 | 1015 | 182 | 5.56% | 2.02% |
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions (config version 4, Sep 22, 2026). How it works →
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
13 books · 176 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daughter of Fortune | #4 | 13 | 90.6 | ||
| A Long Petal of the Sea | #8 | 6 | 26.2 | ||
| Zorro | #12 | 4 | 10.7 | ||
| The Stories of Eva Luna | #12 | 4 | 9.4 | ||
| Island Beneath the Sea | #13 | 3 | 7.0 | ||
| The House of the Spirits | #9 | 2 | 6.9 | ||
| In the Midst of Winter | #10 | 2 | 6.3 | ||
| Violeta | #8 | 1 | 5.5 | ||
| The Japanese Lover | #9 | 1 | 4.8 | ||
| Portrait in Sepia | #14 | 1 | 2.4 | ||
| InÉS of My Soul | #14 | 1 | 2.4 | ||
| Maya's Notebook | #15 | 1 | 2.1 | ||
| Ripper | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |