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Kazuo Ishiguro portraitKazuo Ishiguro

Charting Mar 22, 2015May 16, 2021 · 15 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Klara and the Sun#3959.0
The Buried Giant#3639.6

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:

  1. 1Brit Bennett401
  2. 2Delia Owens388
  3. 3John Grisham319
  4. 4Nicholas Sparks186
  5. 5V. E. Schwab176
  6. 6James Patterson175
  7. 7Matt Haig172
  8. 8Kristin Hannah161
  9. 9Lucy Foley126
  10. 10Danielle Steel125

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.