Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Haruki Murakami
Charting Feb 27, 2005 → Dec 8, 2024 · 24 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.42%
- week of Sep 21, 2014
- Career Power
- 141
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 2
- weeks as the top author
- 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
- August 2014
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After absence | Apr 8, 2012 | Aug 31, 2014 | 125 | 125 | 2.94% | 1.60% |
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions (config version 4, Sep 22, 2026). 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.
| 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 |