Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Jhumpa Lahiri
Charting Sep 21, 2003 → May 16, 2021 · 21 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
1 crown
20032021First crown Apr 2008
- Peak Power
- 4.66%
- week of May 25, 2008
- Career Power
- 139
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 1
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 63
- June 2007 – June 2008
- Peak Five Years
- 103
- June 2003 – June 2008
- Top-five weeks
- 9
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 21
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Apr 20, 2008
- Comebacks
- 2
- Apr 2008 · Oct 2013, 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
4 books · 139 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unaccustomed Earth | #1 | 7 | 62.6 | ||
| The Namesake | #4 | 8 | 40.7 | ||
| The Lowland | #3 | 5 | 29.9 | ||
| Whereabouts | #8 | 1 | 5.5 |
At their peak
2007 in books →Jhumpa Lahiri's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 2007 to June 2008. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Khaled Hosseini496
- 2James Patterson300
- 3John Grisham291
- 4Ken Follett181
- 5Janet Evanovich144
- 6David Baldacci130
- 7Nicholas Sparks114
- 8Dean Koontz111
- 9Jodi Picoult80
- 10John Sandford80
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.