Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Patrick Rothfuss
Charting Mar 20, 2011 → Dec 3, 2023 · 8 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
1 crown
20112023First crown Mar 2011
- Peak Power
- 3.24%
- week of Apr 3, 2011
- Career Power
- 69
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 1
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 34
- April 2010 – April 2011
- Peak Five Years
- 61
- December 2009 – December 2014
- Top-five weeks
- 6
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 8
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Mar 20, 2011
- Comebacks
- 1
- Nov 2014
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 · 69 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Wise Man’S Fear | #1 | 3 | 33.9 | ||
| The Slow Regard of Silent Things | #2 | 4 | 27.6 | ||
| The Narrow Road Between Desires | #6 | 1 | 7.6 |
At their peak
2010 in books →Patrick Rothfuss's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 2010 to April 2011. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Stieg Larsson481
- 2Kathryn Stockett389
- 3James Patterson239
- 4John Grisham168
- 5Jonathan Franzen142
- 6David Baldacci108
- 7Ken Follett96
- 8Nicholas Sparks94
- 9Janet Evanovich84
- 10Lee Child84
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.