Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
The Adventurer
Entered Oct 8, 1950 · peaked at #3 on Oct 22, 1950 · 22 weeks on the list, last seen Mar 4, 1951
- Book Power
- 174.5
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 20
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 22
- October 1950 – March 1951
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mika Waltari | primary | 100% | 174.6 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Oct 22, 1950 on the timeline →- #1Across the River and Into the TreesErnest Hemingway
- #2The CardinalHenry Morton Robinson
- #3The AdventurerMika Waltari
- #4FloodtideFrank Yerby
- #5The Spanish GardenerA. J. Cronin
- #6Owen GlenBen Ames Williams
- #7The Little World of Don CamilloGiovanni Guareschi
- #8Jubilee TrailGwen Bristow
- #9World and Enough TimeRobert Penn Warren
- #10The Roman Spring of Mrs.StoneTennessee Williams