Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Brandon Sanderson
Charting Nov 15, 2009 → Feb 22, 2026 · 56 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
4 crowns
20092026First crown Mar 2014
- Peak Power
- 4.30%
- week of Jan 19, 2025
- Career Power
- 300
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 4
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 55
- January 2024 – January 2025
- Peak Five Years
- 146
- May 2009 – May 2014
- Top-five weeks
- 11
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 56
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Mar 23, 2014
- Comebacks
- 5
- Feb 2013 · Dec 2017 · Dec 2020 · Dec 2022 · Dec 2024
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
18 books · 300 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wind and Truth | #1 | 5 | 51.6 | ||
| A Memory of Lightwith Robert Jordan | #1 | 12 | 49.0 | ||
| Words of Radiance | #1 | 6 | 36.8 | ||
| Oathbringer | #1 | 3 | 23.7 | ||
| Rhythm of War | #1 | 3 | 23.2 | ||
| The Gathering Stormwith Robert Jordan | #1 | 8 | 23.2 | ||
| Towers of Midnightwith Robert Jordan | #1 | 6 | 21.2 | ||
| The Lost Metal | #2 | 1 | 12.7 | ||
| The Bands of Mourning | #6 | 2 | 10.0 | ||
| The Way of Kings | #7 | 2 | 10.0 | ||
| Isles of the Emberdark | #5 | 1 | 8.3 | ||
| The Alloy of Law | #7 | 1 | 6.3 | ||
| Tress of the Emerald Sea | #7 | 1 | 6.3 | ||
| Shadows of Self | #8 | 1 | 5.5 | ||
| Tailored Realities | #10 | 1 | 4.2 | ||
| The Sunlit Man | #12 | 1 | 3.3 | ||
| Yumi and the Nightmare Painter | #13 | 1 | 2.8 | ||
| Dawnshard | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
2024 in books →Brandon Sanderson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 2024 to January 2025. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Rebecca Yarros679
- 2Kristin Hannah619
- 3Percival Everett185
- 4James Patterson156
- 5Liz Moore145
- 6Nicholas Sparks138
- 7Emily Henry125
- 8James McBride119
- 9Shelby Van Pelt97
- 10Elin Hilderbrand93
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.