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Sarah Penner

Charting Mar 21, 2021May 18, 2025 · 10 weeks with chart power

Compare with other authors
Peak Power
1.70%
week of Apr 25, 2021
Career Power
38
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
24
May 2020 – May 2021
Peak Five Years
38
May 2020 – May 2025
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
10
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.32%
week of Mar 21, 2021
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 · 38 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
The Lost Apothecary#7723.7
The London SÉAnce Society#728.4
The Amalfi Curse#815.6

At their peak

2020 in books

Sarah Penner's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 2020 to May 2021. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Delia Owens399
  2. 2Brit Bennett398
  3. 3John Grisham319
  4. 4Nicholas Sparks186
  5. 5James Patterson175
  6. 6V. E. Schwab172
  7. 7Matt Haig165
  8. 8Kristin Hannah153
  9. 9Lucy Foley126
  10. 10Danielle Steel121

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.