Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
- Book Power
- 37.0
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Peak
- #9
- 2 weeks there · first Jan 15, 1950
- Top-ten weeks
- 5
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 11
- January 1950 – March 1950
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Bowles | primary | 100% | 37.0 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Jan 15, 1950 on the timeline →- #1The EgyptianMika Waltari
- #2MarySholem Asch
- #3A Rage to LiveJohn O'Hara
- #4The Way WestA.B. Guthrie Jr
- #5One on the HouseMary Lasswell
- #6The Woman of RomeAlberto Moravia
- #7The MudlarkTheodore Bonnet
- #8The Man with the Golden ArmNelson Algren
- #9The Sheltering SkyPaul Bowles
- #10The Big FishermanLloyd C. Douglas
The #1 bestsellers of 1950
1950 in books →Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1950.
- The Egyptian · Mika Waltari
- The Parasites · Daphne Du Maurier
- The Wall · John Hersey
- The Cardinal · Henry Morton Robinson
- Across the River and Into the Trees · Ernest Hemingway
- The Disenchanted · Budd Schulberg