Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction

Haruki Murakami

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

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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
Comebacks (thresholds from config/scoring.json)
KindTrough beganReturnedTrough weeksLongest absencePrior peakReturn share
After absenceApr 8, 2012Aug 31, 20141251252.94%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.

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