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Jay Kristoff portraitJay Kristoff

Charting Oct 3, 2021Nov 23, 2025 · 3 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.09%
week of Mar 31, 2024
Career Power
20
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
10
April 2023 – March 2024
Peak Five Years
20
December 2020 – November 2025
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
3
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.97%
week of Mar 31, 2024
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

3 books · 20 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
Empire of the Damned#4110.0
Empire of the Vampire#815.5
Empire of the Dawn#1014.2

At their peak

2023 in books

Jay Kristoff's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 2023 to March 2024. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Rebecca Yarros735
  2. 2Bonnie Garmus475
  3. 3Barbara Kingsolver238
  4. 4James McBride224
  5. 5Abraham Verghese207
  6. 6Emily Henry200
  7. 7Ann Patchett170
  8. 8Stephen King143
  9. 9John Grisham141
  10. 10James Patterson128

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.