Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
- Book Power
- 351.5
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Peak
- #1
- 5 weeks there · first Mar 26, 1950
- Top-ten weeks
- 32
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 34
- March 1950 – October 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Hersey | primary | 100% | 351.5 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Mar 26, 1950 on the timeline →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 Cardinal · Henry Morton Robinson
- Across the River and Into the Trees · Ernest Hemingway
- The Disenchanted · Budd Schulberg