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Michael Ondaatje portraitMichael Ondaatje

Charting May 21, 2000Jun 17, 2018 · 9 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.74%
week of Jun 17, 2018
Career Power
32
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
20
June 2017 – June 2018
Peak Five Years
20
June 2013 – June 2018
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
9
weeks with chart power
Dominance
7.26%
week of May 27, 2018
Comebacks
1
Jun 2018, after 18 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 · 32 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
Warlight#6419.6
Anil's Ghost#12512.2

At their peak

2017 in books

Michael Ondaatje's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 2017 to June 2018. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1John Grisham361
  2. 2Dan Brown240
  3. 3Celeste Ng219
  4. 4James Patterson211
  5. 5Danielle Steel187
  6. 6A.J. Finn176
  7. 7Lisa Wingate165
  8. 8David Baldacci152
  9. 9Kristin Hannah138
  10. 10Michael Connelly127

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.