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Lisa Gardner

Charting Jan 30, 2005Aug 23, 2026 · 53 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    1 crown

    20052026

    First crown Feb 2017

Peak Power
2.53%
week of Mar 5, 2017
Career Power
279
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
45
February 2016 – February 2017
Peak Five Years
117
February 2015 – March 2020
Top-five weeks
12
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
53
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Feb 19, 2017
Comebacks
3
Apr 2011 · Mar 2015 · Feb 2022

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

21 books · 279 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
Right Behind You#1327.0
Look for Me#5425.8
Gone#4423.6
Touch and Go#4422.5
Find Her#4421.9
Catch Me#2318.7
One Step Too Far#5416.2
Never Tell#3215.8
When You See Me#3315.2
Hide#9312.9
Love You More#5212.5
Crash and Burn#7311.4
Before She Disappeared#729.5
Fear Nothing#929.0
Alone#928.0
Live to Tell#1026.3
Say Goodbye#1225.6
You'll Be Sorry#915.2
The Neighbor#914.8
KISS Her Goodbye#1014.2
Still See You Everywhere#1312.9

At their peak

2016 in books

Lisa Gardner's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 2016 to February 2017. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Patterson247
  2. 2Colson Whitehead229
  3. 3Nicholas Sparks209
  4. 4John Grisham207
  5. 5Anthony Doerr207
  6. 6Danielle Steel184
  7. 7Paula Hawkins181
  8. 8David Baldacci163
  9. 9Kristin Hannah160
  10. 10Ruth Ware129

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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