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Jhumpa Lahiri portraitJhumpa Lahiri

Charting Sep 21, 2003May 16, 2021 · 21 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    1 crown

    20032021

    First 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Unaccustomed Earth#1762.6
The Namesake#4840.7
The Lowland#3529.9
Whereabouts#815.5

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:

  1. 1Khaled Hosseini496
  2. 2James Patterson300
  3. 3John Grisham291
  4. 4Ken Follett181
  5. 5Janet Evanovich144
  6. 6David Baldacci130
  7. 7Nicholas Sparks114
  8. 8Dean Koontz111
  9. 9Jodi Picoult80
  10. 10John Sandford80

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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