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Matt Haig portraitMatt Haig

Charting Oct 18, 2020Jul 12, 2026 · 115 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Year

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    2 crowns

    20202026

    First crown Feb 2022

Peak Power
9.04%
week of Mar 13, 2022
Career Power
700
share-weeks
Crowns
2
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
372
March 2021 – February 2022
Peak Five Years
678
October 2019 – October 2024
Top-five weeks
31
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
115
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Feb 6, 2022
Comebacks
0
none detected

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

3 books · 700 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
The Midnight Library#1106649.2
The Life Impossible#6528.7
The Midnight Train#4421.6

At their peak

2021 in books

Matt Haig's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 2021 to February 2022. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Matt Haig372
  2. 2Laura Dave315
  3. 3John Grisham291
  4. 4Kristin Hannah185
  5. 5Amanda Gorman176
  6. 6Amor Towles176
  7. 7James Patterson164
  8. 8Nicholas Sparks149
  9. 9Stephen King141
  10. 10Mitch Albom125

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2020s.