Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Pierce Brown
Charting Jan 25, 2015 → Nov 2, 2025 · 7 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
1 crown
20152025First crown Feb 2016
- Peak Power
- 1.81%
- week of Mar 6, 2016
- Career Power
- 65
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 1
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 18
- March 2015 – March 2016
- Peak Five Years
- 45
- August 2014 – August 2019
- Top-five weeks
- 4
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 7
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Feb 28, 2016
- Comebacks
- 2
- Feb 2018 · Aug 2023, 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
6 books · 65 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morning Star | #1 | 2 | 18.2 | ||
| Light Bringer | #2 | 1 | 12.7 | ||
| Iron Gold | #3 | 1 | 11.0 | ||
| Dark Age | #5 | 1 | 8.3 | ||
| Golden Son | #6 | 1 | 7.3 | ||
| Red Rising | #6 | 1 | 7.3 |
At their peak
2015 in books →Pierce Brown's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 2015 to March 2016. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Paula Hawkins542
- 2Anthony Doerr520
- 3Kristin Hannah248
- 4Harper Lee207
- 5James Patterson206
- 6John Grisham197
- 7Stephen King170
- 8Nicholas Sparks145
- 9David Baldacci145
- 10Danielle Steel82
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.