Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Brandon Sanderson
Charting Nov 15, 2009 → Feb 22, 2026 · 56 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.30%
- week of Jan 19, 2025
- Career Power
- 300
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 4
- weeks as the top author
- 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
- February 2013, December 2017, December 2020, December 2022, December 2024
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After decline | Mar 20, 2011 | Feb 3, 2013 | 98 | 60 | 1.92% | 1.50% |
| After decline | Jul 13, 2014 | Dec 3, 2017 | 175 | 91 | 3.12% | 1.58% |
| After absence | Feb 18, 2018 | Dec 6, 2020 | 144 | 144 | 3.12% | 1.58% |
| After decline | Feb 21, 2021 | Dec 4, 2022 | 93 | 54 | 3.12% | 1.38% |
| After decline | Jan 8, 2023 | Dec 22, 2024 | 102 | 38 | 3.12% | 1.59% |
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions (config version 4, Sep 22, 2026). How it works →
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).
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 |