Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Lisa See
Charting Jul 15, 2007 → Jun 28, 2026 · 36 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
1 crown
20072026First crown Jun 2011
- Peak Power
- 3.47%
- week of Jul 19, 2009
- Career Power
- 167
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 1
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 53
- August 2008 – August 2009
- Peak Five Years
- 98
- July 2006 – July 2011
- Top-five weeks
- 6
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 36
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Jun 19, 2011
- Comebacks
- 5
- Jun 2009 · Jun 2011 · Apr 2017, after 6 quiet years · Apr 2019 · Jul 2023
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
8 books · 167 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shanghai Girls | #4 | 10 | 53.4 | ||
| Dreams of Joy | #1 | 3 | 23.9 | ||
| The Island of Sea Women | #8 | 6 | 21.7 | ||
| Peony in Love | #6 | 5 | 20.7 | ||
| Lady Tan's Circle of Women | #5 | 5 | 20.2 | ||
| The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane | #6 | 4 | 17.5 | ||
| China Dolls | #10 | 2 | 6.6 | ||
| Daughters of the Sun and Moon | #12 | 1 | 3.2 |
At their peak
2008 in books →Lisa See's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 2008 to August 2009. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Stephenie Meyer325
- 2David Wroblewski244
- 3James Patterson211
- 4John Grisham145
- 5Janet Evanovich125
- 6David Baldacci124
- 7Nicholas Sparks110
- 8Patricia Cornwell101
- 9Michael Connelly97
- 10Jodi Picoult86
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.