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Pierce Brown portraitPierce Brown

Charting Jan 25, 2015Nov 2, 2025 · 7 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    1 crown

    20152025

    First 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Morning Star#1218.2
Light Bringer#2112.7
Iron Gold#3111.0
Dark Age#518.3
Golden Son#617.3
Red Rising#617.3

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:

  1. 1Paula Hawkins542
  2. 2Anthony Doerr520
  3. 3Kristin Hannah248
  4. 4Harper Lee207
  5. 5James Patterson206
  6. 6John Grisham197
  7. 7Stephen King170
  8. 8Nicholas Sparks145
  9. 9David Baldacci145
  10. 10Danielle Steel82

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.