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Patrick Rothfuss portraitPatrick Rothfuss

Charting Mar 20, 2011Dec 3, 2023 · 8 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    1 crown

    20112023

    First 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Wise Man’S Fear#1333.9
The Slow Regard of Silent Things#2427.6
The Narrow Road Between Desires#617.6

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:

  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 2010s, the 2020s.