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Charting Aug 31, 2014 → May 28, 2017 · 3 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.30%
week of Aug 31, 2014
Career Power
7
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
3
September 2013 – August 2014
Peak Five Years
7
May 2012 – May 2017
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
3
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.77%
week of Aug 31, 2014
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

3 books · 7 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
Fool's Assassin#1312.8
Fool's Quest#1412.4
Assassin's Fate#1512.1

At their peak

2013 in books →

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

  1. 1Donna Tartt439
  2. 2Stephen King238
  3. 3James Patterson218
  4. 4John Grisham218
  5. 5Sue Monk Kidd183
  6. 6Mitch Albom130
  7. 7Robert Galbraith126
  8. 8Janet Evanovich120
  9. 9David Baldacci120
  10. 10Nicholas Sparks119

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2010s.