Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Haruki Murakami
Charting Feb 27, 2005 → Dec 8, 2024 · 24 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
2 crowns
20052024Longest reign 2 weeks (Aug–Sep 2014) · First crown Aug 2014
- Peak Power
- 4.42%
- week of Sep 21, 2014
- Career Power
- 141
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 2
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 63
- August 2014 – August 2015
- Peak Five Years
- 110
- September 2010 – August 2015
- Top-five weeks
- 7
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 24
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.63%
- week of Aug 31, 2014
- Comebacks
- 1
- Aug 2014
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
8 books · 141 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage | #1 | 7 | 57.6 | ||
| 1Q84 | #2 | 9 | 47.3 | ||
| Killing Commendatore | #8 | 3 | 10.0 | ||
| First Person Singular | #6 | 1 | 7.3 | ||
| The City and Its Uncertain Walls | #7 | 1 | 6.3 | ||
| Men Without Women | #8 | 1 | 5.6 | ||
| Wind/Pinball | #8 | 1 | 5.5 | ||
| Kafka on the Shore | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
2014 in books →Haruki Murakami's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 2014 to August 2015. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Anthony Doerr516
- 2Paula Hawkins414
- 3John Grisham210
- 4James Patterson201
- 5David Baldacci182
- 6Stephen King163
- 7Kristin Hannah160
- 8Ken Follett114
- 9Jan Karon96
- 10Jodi Picoult89
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.