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Robert Jordan

Charting Oct 6, 1991 → Apr 14, 2013 · 97 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
6 crowns
19912013
Longest reign 2 weeks (Nov 1998) · First crown Nov 1998

Peak Power: 6.04%; week of Mar 16, 2003
Career Power: 572; share-weeks
Crowns: 6; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 100; April 2002 – April 2003
Peak Five Years: 243; November 2000 – November 2005
Top-five weeks: 28; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 97; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.69%; week of Oct 30, 2005
Comebacks: 6; Jun 1996 · Nov 1998 · Nov 2000 · Jan 2003 · Nov 2005 · Feb 2013, after 7 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

13 books · 572 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
Crossroads of Twilight	#1January 2003	12	January 2003 – April 2003	100.5	100.5
Knife of Dreams	#1October 2005	8	October 2005 – December 2005	57.1	56.7
The Path of Daggers	#1November 1998	7	November 1998 – December 1998	56.8	56.8
A Crown of Swords	#2June 1996	8	June 1996 – August 1996	56.0	54.8
Winter's Heart	#1November 2000	8	November 2000 – January 2001	52.9	52.9
A Memory of Lightwith Brandon Sanderson	#1January 2013	12	January 2013 – April 2013	49.0	97.8
NEW SPRING: The Novel	#3January 2004	7	January 2004 – March 2004	41.3	40.7
Lord of Chaos	#4November 1994	6	October 1994 – December 1994	38.9	38.8
The Fires of Heaven	#6November 1993	6	October 1993 – December 1993	35.7	34.2
The Shadow Rising	#7October 1992	5	October 1992 – November 1992	26.3	26.0
The Gathering Stormwith Brandon Sanderson	#1November 2009	8	November 2009 – January 2010	23.2	46.2
Towers of Midnightwith Brandon Sanderson	#1November 2010	6	November 2010 – December 2010	21.2	42.5
The Dragon Reborn	#11October 1991	4	October 1991 – October 1991	13.7	13.7

At their peak

2002 in books →

Robert Jordan's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 2002 to April 2003. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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