Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Brian Herbert
Charting Oct 24, 1999 → Aug 23, 2009 · 30 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.04%
- week of Sep 24, 2006
- Career Power
- 67
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 22
- September 2006 – September 2007
- Peak Five Years
- 43
- September 2002 – September 2007
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 30
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 5.50%
- week of Sep 10, 2006
- 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
10 books · 67 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandworms of Dunewith Kevin J. Anderson | #4 | 4 | 11.7 | ||
| Hunters of Dunewith Kevin J. Anderson | #3 | 3 | 11.1 | ||
| DUNE: House Corrinowith Kevin J. Anderson | #8 | 4 | 7.8 | ||
| DUNE: The Battle of Corrinwith Kevin J. Anderson | #9 | 4 | 7.4 | ||
| DUNE: House Harkonnenwith Kevin J. Anderson | #8 | 4 | 7.4 | ||
| Dune: the Butlerian Jihadwith Kevin J. Anderson | #7 | 3 | 7.1 | ||
| DUNE: House Atreideswith Kevin J. Anderson | #12 | 4 | 5.9 | ||
| Dune: the Machine Crusadewith Kevin J. Anderson | #7 | 2 | 5.6 | ||
| Paul of Dunewith Kevin J. Anderson | #11 | 1 | 1.8 | ||
| The Winds of Dunewith Kevin J. Anderson | #15 | 1 | 1.0 |
At their peak
2006 in books →Brian Herbert's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 2006 to September 2007. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Patterson320
- 2Mitch Albom312
- 3Janet Evanovich205
- 4Khaled Hosseini196
- 5Danielle Steel121
- 6Jodi Picoult118
- 7David Baldacci105
- 8Nicholas Sparks99
- 9Michael Ledwidge95
- 10J. R. R. Tolkien. Christopher Tolkien92
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.