Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Kazuo Ishiguro
Charting Mar 22, 2015 → May 16, 2021 · 15 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.95%
- week of May 9, 2021
- Career Power
- 99
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 59
- May 2020 – May 2021
- Peak Five Years
- 59
- May 2016 – May 2021
- Top-five weeks
- 7
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 15
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Mar 22, 2015
- Comebacks
- 1
- Mar 2021, after 6 quiet years
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
2 books · 99 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Klara and the Sun | #3 | 9 | 59.0 | ||
| The Buried Giant | #3 | 6 | 39.6 |
At their peak
2020 in books →Kazuo Ishiguro's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 2020 to May 2021. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Brit Bennett401
- 2Delia Owens388
- 3John Grisham319
- 4Nicholas Sparks186
- 5V. E. Schwab176
- 6James Patterson175
- 7Matt Haig172
- 8Kristin Hannah161
- 9Lucy Foley126
- 10Danielle Steel125
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.