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Haruki Murakami portraitHaruki Murakami

Charting Feb 27, 2005Dec 8, 2024 · 24 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    2 crowns

    20052024

    Longest 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 →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage#1757.6
1Q84#2947.3
Killing Commendatore#8310.0
First Person Singular#617.3
The City and Its Uncertain Walls#716.3
Men Without Women#815.6
Wind/Pinball#815.5
Kafka on the Shore#1611.8

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:

  1. 1Anthony Doerr516
  2. 2Paula Hawkins414
  3. 3John Grisham210
  4. 4James Patterson201
  5. 5David Baldacci182
  6. 6Stephen King163
  7. 7Kristin Hannah160
  8. 8Ken Follett114
  9. 9Jan Karon96
  10. 10Jodi Picoult89

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.