Face of a Hero

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. #2Across the River and Into the TreesErnest Hemingway
3. #3FloodtideFrank Yerby
4. #4The Spanish GardenerA. J. Cronin
5. #5Jubilee TrailGwen Bristow
6. #6World and Enough TimeRobert Penn Warren
7. #7The WallJohn Hersey
8. #8The Little World of Don CamilloGiovanni Guareschi
9. #9The LegacyNevil Shute
10. #10The AdventurerMika Waltari

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