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
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- weeks as the top author
- 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
- March 2002, April 2005, July 2007, October 2014, October 2016
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After absence | Jun 6, 1999 | Mar 31, 2002 | 147 | 147 | 1.70% | 1.05% |
| After absence | Sep 22, 2002 | Apr 10, 2005 | 132 | 112 | 3.37% | 1.20% |
| After decline | Aug 14, 2005 | Jul 8, 2007 | 98 | 96 | 3.44% | 1.38% |
| After absence | Sep 2, 2007 | Oct 5, 2014 | 370 | 137 | 3.44% | 1.62% |
| After decline | Jan 11, 2015 | Oct 16, 2016 | 90 | 88 | 3.44% | 1.41% |
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
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 |