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Brent Weeks portraitBrent Weeks

Charting Sep 30, 2012May 14, 2023 · 5 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.92%
week of Sep 14, 2014
Career Power
23
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
8
September 2013 – September 2014
Peak Five Years
18
November 2011 – November 2016
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
5
weeks with chart power
Dominance
8.44%
week of Sep 14, 2014
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

5 books · 23 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 Broken Eye#518.4
The Blood Mirror#815.5
The Blinding Knife#1113.6
The Burning White#1113.6
Night Angel Nemesis#1512.1

At their peak

2013 in books

Brent Weeks's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 2013 to September 2014. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Donna Tartt460
  2. 2Stephen King238
  3. 3John Grisham218
  4. 4James Patterson208
  5. 5Sue Monk Kidd186
  6. 6Mitch Albom130
  7. 7Janet Evanovich120
  8. 8David Baldacci120
  9. 9Nicholas Sparks119
  10. 10Liane Moriarty116

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.