Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Prairie Avenue
Entered May 15, 1949 · peaked at #6 on May 22, 1949 · 12 weeks on the list, last seen Jul 31, 1949
- Book Power
- 67.1
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 10
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 12
- May 1949 – July 1949
Ranked by Book Power, part of the ChartReign Power model — not a list published by anyone else. How it works →
The run
Position by week; a gap is a spell off the list.What it earned each author
Book Power is the book's own figure. Power contributed is what it earned each author's Career Power: a featured credit takes its reduced share, and a week where the author had other books charting is split between them.
| Author | Credit | Credit share | Power contributed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur Meeker | primary | 100% | 67.1 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See May 22, 1949 on the timeline →- #1Point of No ReturnJohn P. Marquand
- #2The Big FishermanLloyd C. Douglas
- #3Dinner at Antoine'sFrances Parkinson Keyes
- #4Cutlass EmpireF. Van Wyck Mason
- #5The Brave BullsTom Lea
- #6Prairie AvenueArthur Meeker
- #7KinfolkPearl S. Buck
- #8The ChainPaul I. Wellman
- #9The Naked and the DeadNorman Mailer
- #10Pride's CastleFrank Yerby