Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Christopher Paolini
Charting Oct 4, 2020 → Jun 4, 2023 · 3 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.23%
- week of Oct 11, 2020
- Career Power
- 15
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 12
- October 2019 – October 2020
- Peak Five Years
- 15
- June 2018 – June 2023
- Top-five weeks
- 1
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 3
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Oct 4, 2020
- 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
2 books · 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| To Sleep in a Sea of Stars | #4 | 2 | 12.3 | ||
| Fractal Noise | #14 | 1 | 2.4 |
At their peak
2019 in books →Christopher Paolini's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 2019 to October 2020. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Delia Owens652
- 2John Grisham318
- 3Stephen King255
- 4Jeanine Cummins251
- 5James Patterson190
- 6Brit Bennett189
- 7Alex Michaelides160
- 8Ann Patchett156
- 9David Baldacci132
- 10Jojo Moyes113
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 2020s.