Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Laura Dave
Charting May 23, 2021 → Feb 22, 2026 · 72 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
4 crowns
20212026Longest reign 2 weeks (Jul 2021) · First crown May 2021
- Peak Power
- 10.00%
- week of Aug 29, 2021
- Career Power
- 467
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 4
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 344
- May 2021 – May 2022
- Peak Five Years
- 467
- March 2021 – February 2026
- Top-five weeks
- 23
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 72
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of May 23, 2021
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
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
3 books · 467 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Last Thing He Told Me | #1 | 65 | 424.1 | ||
| The First Time I Saw Him | #2 | 5 | 32.2 | ||
| The Night We Lost Him | #7 | 2 | 10.6 |
At their peak
2021 in books →Laura Dave's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 2021 to May 2022. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Laura Dave344
- 2Matt Haig341
- 3John Grisham301
- 4Amor Towles222
- 5James Patterson191
- 6Nicholas Sparks144
- 7Stephen King142
- 8Mitch Albom136
- 9Danielle Steel124
- 10Taylor Jenkins Reid123
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 2020s.