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Maria Semple portraitMaria Semple

Charting Sep 9, 2012May 10, 2026 · 8 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Today Will Be Different#6418.8
Go Gentle#926.9
Where'd You Go, Bernadette#926.6

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:

  1. 1Anthony Doerr315
  2. 2Paula Hawkins286
  3. 3Kristin Hannah219
  4. 4James Patterson214
  5. 5John Grisham187
  6. 6Stephen King178
  7. 7Nicholas Sparks171
  8. 8Danielle Steel153
  9. 9David Baldacci148
  10. 10Colson Whitehead122

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.