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R. A. Salvatore

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Peak Power: 5.06%; week of Jun 16, 2002
Career Power: 240; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 76; November 2001 – November 2002
Peak Five Years: 112; November 2001 – November 2006
Top-five weeks: 10; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 50; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 12.64%; week of May 12, 2002
Comebacks: 3; Nov 1999, after 7 quiet years · May 2002 · Nov 2004

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

23 books · 240 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
Star Wars: Episode 2 -- Attack of the Clones	#2May 2002	7	May 2002 – June 2002	66.3	66.3
The Two Swords	#4November 2004	4	November 2004 – November 2004	20.8	20.4
The Orc King	#7October 2007	4	October 2007 – November 2007	18.0	18.0
The Pirate King	#3October 2008	2	October 2008 – November 2008	16.5	16.5
THE NEW JEDI ORDER: Vector Prime	#10October 1999	4	October 1999 – November 1999	15.9	14.2
The Legacy	#9September 1992	4	September 1992 – October 1992	15.8	15.8
Neverwinter	#4October 2011	2	October 2011 – October 2011	12.0	12.0
Charon's Claw	#4August 2012	2	August 2012 – September 2012	11.4	11.4
The Lone Drow	#7November 2003	3	November 2003 – November 2003	11.2	11.2
Passage to Dawn	#13August 1996	3	August 1996 – September 1996	7.4	7.2
The Companions	#10August 2013	2	August 2013 – September 2013	7.3	7.3
The Thousand Orcs	#11November 2002	2	November 2002 – November 2002	6.8	6.8
The Last Threshold	#10March 2013	1	March 2013	4.2	4.2
The Ghost King	#11October 2009	1	October 2009	3.7	3.6
Starless Night	#12September 1993	1	September 1993	3.2	3.2
Siege of Darkness	#13September 1994	1	September 1994	2.8	2.8
Road of the Patriarch	#13November 2006	1	November 2006	2.8	2.8
Gauntlgrym	#13October 2010	1	October 2010	2.8	2.8
Timeless	#14September 2018	1	September 2018	2.4	2.4
Servant of the Shard	#14November 2000	1	November 2000	2.4	2.4
Sea of Swords	#14November 2001	1	November 2001	2.4	2.4
Promise of the Witch-King	#15November 2005	1	November 2005	2.1	2.1
Night of the Hunter	#16April 2014	1	April 2014	1.8	1.8

At their peak

2001 in books →

R. A. Salvatore's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 2001 to November 2002. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.