The Prodigal Heart

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. #1Across the River and Into the TreesErnest Hemingway
2. #2The CardinalHenry Morton Robinson
3. #3FloodtideFrank Yerby
4. #4The Spanish GardenerA. J. Cronin
5. #5The AdventurerMika Waltari
6. #6Jubilee TrailGwen Bristow
7. #7World and Enough TimeRobert Penn Warren
8. #8Owen GlenBen Ames Williams
9. #9The Little World of Don CamilloGiovanni Guareschi
10. #10The WallJohn Hersey

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