The Backward Bride

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.

1. #1The CardinalHenry Morton Robinson
2. #2World and Enough TimeRobert Penn Warren
3. #3Jubilee TrailGwen Bristow
4. #4The LegacyNevil Shute
5. #5The WallJohn Hersey
6. #6Two AdolescentsAlberto Moravia
7. #7White Witch DoctorLouise A. Stinetorf
8. #8Homeward BorneRuth Chatterton
9. #9Star MoneyKathleen Winsor
10. #10Too Little LoveRobert Henriques

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