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Laura Dave

Charting May 23, 2021Feb 22, 2026 · 72 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    4 crowns

    20212026

    Longest 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 →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Last Thing He Told Me#165424.1
The First Time I Saw Him#2532.2
The Night We Lost Him#7210.6

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:

  1. 1Laura Dave344
  2. 2Matt Haig341
  3. 3John Grisham301
  4. 4Amor Towles222
  5. 5James Patterson191
  6. 6Nicholas Sparks144
  7. 7Stephen King142
  8. 8Mitch Albom136
  9. 9Danielle Steel124
  10. 10Taylor Jenkins Reid123

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.