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Bernard Cornwell

Charting Apr 20, 2003 → Oct 21, 2018 · 23 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
1 crown
20032018
First crown Feb 2012

Peak Power: 2.09%; week of Mar 1, 2009
Career Power: 111; share-weeks
Crowns: 1; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 24; March 2008 – March 2009
Peak Five Years: 68; February 2008 – January 2013
Top-five weeks: 4; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 23; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 12.64%; week of Feb 5, 2012
Comebacks: 2; Feb 2012 · Feb 2015

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

13 books · 111 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
Agincourt	#4February 2009	4	February 2009 – March 2009	23.7	23.7
Death of Kings	#2February 2012	3	February 2012 – February 2012	18.1	18.1
The Burning Land	#4February 2010	2	February 2010 – February 2010	12.7	12.7
The Empty Throne	#5January 2015	2	January 2015 – February 2015	11.1	11.1
Sword Song	#8February 2008	2	February 2008 – February 2008	9.7	9.7
The Last Kingdom	#8February 2005	2	February 2005 – February 2005	7.9	7.9
Warriors of the Storm	#8February 2016	2	February 2016 – February 2016	7.3	7.3
The Pagan Lord	#7January 2014	1	January 2014	6.3	6.3
War of the Wolf	#10October 2018	1	October 2018	4.2	4.2
1356	#11January 2013	1	January 2013	3.6	3.6
Sharpe's Havoc	#14April 2003	1	April 2003	2.4	2.4
The Pale Horseman	#15February 2006	1	February 2006	2.1	2.1
Lords of the North	#15February 2007	1	February 2007	2.1	2.1

At their peak

2008 in books →

Bernard Cornwell's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 2008 to March 2009. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.