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Patricia Briggs

Charting Feb 22, 2009 → Jul 7, 2024 · 30 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    2 crowns

    20092024

    First crown Apr 2010

Peak Power
2.36%
week of May 2, 2010
Career Power
200
share-weeks
Crowns
2
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
44
April 2010 – April 2011
Peak Five Years
105
April 2010 – March 2015
Top-five weeks
11
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
30
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Apr 18, 2010
Comebacks
2
Mar 2016 · Sep 2022, after 5 quiet years

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

15 books · 200 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
Silver Borne#1325.4
Bone Crossed#3424.6
Frost Burned#1321.7
Night Broken#2318.9
River Marked#3318.6
Silence Fallen#2216.8
Fire Touched#2216.3
Fair Game#4213.2
Soul Taken#419.6
Dead Heat#827.3
Storm Cursed#617.3
Smoke Bitten#617.3
Burn Bright#815.5
Wild Sign#914.8
Winter Lost#1213.2

At their peak

2010 in books →

Patricia Briggs's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 2010 to April 2011. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Stieg Larsson481
  2. 2Kathryn Stockett389
  3. 3James Patterson239
  4. 4John Grisham168
  5. 5Jonathan Franzen142
  6. 6David Baldacci108
  7. 7Ken Follett96
  8. 8Nicholas Sparks94
  9. 9Janet Evanovich84
  10. 10Lee Child84

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.