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Lisa See portraitLisa See

Charting Jul 15, 2007Jun 28, 2026 · 36 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    1 crown

    20072026

    First 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Shanghai Girls#41053.4
Dreams of Joy#1323.9
The Island of Sea Women#8621.7
Peony in Love#6520.7
Lady Tan's Circle of Women#5520.2
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane#6417.5
China Dolls#1026.6
Daughters of the Sun and Moon#1213.2

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:

  1. 1Stephenie Meyer325
  2. 2David Wroblewski244
  3. 3James Patterson211
  4. 4John Grisham145
  5. 5Janet Evanovich125
  6. 6David Baldacci124
  7. 7Nicholas Sparks110
  8. 8Patricia Cornwell101
  9. 9Michael Connelly97
  10. 10Jodi Picoult86

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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