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Robert Galbraith portraitRobert Galbraith

Charting Aug 4, 2013Sep 21, 2025 · 35 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    7 crowns

    20132025

    Longest reign 5 weeks (Aug–Sep 2013) · First crown Aug 2013

Peak Power
8.35%
week of Sep 29, 2013
Career Power
320
share-weeks
Crowns
7
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
171
August 2013 – July 2014
Peak Five Years
228
December 2010 – November 2015
Top-five weeks
21
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
35
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.83%
week of Oct 7, 2018
Comebacks
0
none detected

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

8 books · 320 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 Cuckoo's Calling#111126.7
The Silkworm#21071.6
Lethal White#1432.7
Career of Evil#3429.7
Troubled Blood#2217.4
The Ink Black Heart#2216.8
The Running Grave#2112.7
The Hallmarked Man#2112.7

At their peak

2013 in books

Robert Galbraith's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 2013 to July 2014. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Donna Tartt398
  2. 2James Patterson225
  3. 3Stephen King224
  4. 4John Grisham218
  5. 5Sue Monk Kidd181
  6. 6Robert Galbraith171
  7. 7Dan Brown137
  8. 8Mitch Albom130
  9. 9David Baldacci120
  10. 10Nicholas Sparks119

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.