Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Ian McEwan
Charting Jan 24, 1999 → Oct 12, 2025 · 48 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.44%
- week of May 15, 2005
- Career Power
- 229
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 62
- February 2002 – February 2003
- Peak Five Years
- 109
- May 2000 – May 2005
- Top-five weeks
- 7
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 48
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Apr 10, 2005
- Comebacks
- 5
- Mar 2002 · Apr 2005 · Jul 2007 · Oct 2014, after 7 quiet years · Oct 2016
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
11 books · 229 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atonement | #4 | 14 | 62.2 | ||
| Saturday | #3 | 7 | 46.4 | ||
| The Children Act | #4 | 5 | 32.8 | ||
| Amsterdam | #9 | 8 | 22.9 | ||
| On Chesil Beach | #7 | 5 | 19.1 | ||
| Nutshell | #7 | 3 | 14.8 | ||
| Solar | #6 | 2 | 10.4 | ||
| Sweet Tooth | #4 | 1 | 9.6 | ||
| Machines Like Me | #10 | 1 | 4.2 | ||
| What We Can Know | #11 | 1 | 3.7 | ||
| Lessons | #14 | 1 | 2.4 |
At their peak
2002 in books →Ian McEwan's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 2002 to February 2003. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Alice Sebold346
- 2John Grisham323
- 3James Patterson216
- 4Danielle Steel189
- 5Stephen King168
- 6Tom Clancy141
- 7Mattie J.T. Stepanek122
- 8Emma McLaughlin119
- 9Nicola Kraus119
- 10Jean M. Auel116
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.