Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Maria Semple
Charting Sep 9, 2012 → May 10, 2026 · 8 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.64%
- week of Nov 13, 2016
- Career Power
- 32
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 19
- November 2015 – November 2016
- Peak Five Years
- 25
- November 2011 – November 2016
- Top-five weeks
- 1
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 8
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of Oct 23, 2016
- 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 · 32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today Will Be Different | #6 | 4 | 18.8 | ||
| Go Gentle | #9 | 2 | 6.9 | ||
| Where'd You Go, Bernadette | #9 | 2 | 6.6 |
At their peak
2015 in books →Maria Semple's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 2015 to November 2016. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Anthony Doerr315
- 2Paula Hawkins286
- 3Kristin Hannah219
- 4James Patterson214
- 5John Grisham187
- 6Stephen King178
- 7Nicholas Sparks171
- 8Danielle Steel153
- 9David Baldacci148
- 10Colson Whitehead122
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.