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David Mitchell portraitDavid Mitchell

Charting Jul 18, 2010Aug 2, 2020 · 10 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.54%
week of Oct 19, 2014
Career Power
58
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
43
January 2014 – January 2015
Peak Five Years
49
January 2010 – January 2015
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
10
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Sep 21, 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

4 books · 58 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 Bone Clocks#3643.3
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet#1126.0
Utopia Avenue#914.8
Slade House#1113.6

At their peak

2014 in books

David Mitchell's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 2014 to January 2015. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Donna Tartt405
  2. 2James Patterson226
  3. 3John Grisham216
  4. 4Anthony Doerr190
  5. 5Sue Monk Kidd186
  6. 6Stephen King177
  7. 7David Baldacci145
  8. 8Liane Moriarty123
  9. 9Ken Follett114
  10. 10Jan Karon96

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.