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George R. R. Martin portraitGeorge R. R. Martin

Charting Feb 21, 1999Jun 16, 2019 · 128 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    7 crowns

    19992019

    Longest reign 2 weeks (Jul–Aug 2011) · First crown Nov 2005

Peak Power
7.98%
week of Sep 25, 2011
Career Power
653
share-weeks
Crowns
7
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
259
July 2011 – July 2012
Peak Five Years
444
January 2011 – January 2016
Top-five weeks
25
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
128
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Nov 27, 2005
Comebacks
3
Jul 2011, after 5 quiet years · Nov 2015 · Dec 2018

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

7 books · 653 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
A Dance with Dragons#186394.5
Fire and Blood#123169.0
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms#21046.1
A Feast for Crows#1531.9
A Storm of Swords#1225.9
Rogueswith Gardner Dozois#713.2
A Clash of Kings#1312.8

At their peak

2011 in books

George R. R. Martin's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 2011 to July 2012. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Patterson279
  2. 2John Grisham264
  3. 3George R. R. Martin259
  4. 4Stephen King233
  5. 5David Baldacci149
  6. 6Janet Evanovich128
  7. 7Nicholas Sparks122
  8. 8P.D. James106
  9. 9Stieg Larsson93
  10. 10John Sandford90

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.