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Terry Goodkind

Charting Oct 26, 1997Feb 12, 2017 · 45 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    2 crowns

    19972017

    First crown Aug 2006

Peak Power
3.77%
week of Sep 3, 2006
Career Power
291
share-weeks
Crowns
2
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
48
September 2005 – September 2006
Peak Five Years
165
December 2002 – December 2007
Top-five weeks
16
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
45
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Aug 6, 2006
Comebacks
6
May 1999 · Sep 2000 · Aug 2003 · Jan 2005 · Aug 2006 · Sep 2011

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

14 books · 291 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
Phantom#1648.4
Naked Empire#3745.3
Chainfire#3743.6
Faith of the Fallen#2638.1
The Omen Machine#1328.3
Confessor#2427.3
Temple of the Winds#8312.7
Soul of the Fire#6211.4
The Third Kingdom#5210.7
Severed Souls#419.6
The Pillars of Creation#914.8
Death's Mistress#1014.2
The Law of Nines#1014.2
Warheart#1611.8

At their peak

2005 in books

Terry Goodkind's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 2005 to September 2006. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Dan Brown343
  2. 2James Patterson306
  3. 3Patricia Cornwell174
  4. 4Nicholas Sparks158
  5. 5Danielle Steel153
  6. 6Nora Roberts136
  7. 7Dean Koontz118
  8. 8Mary Higgins Clark105
  9. 9Stephen King100
  10. 10Sue Grafton94

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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