Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Joy Street
Entered Dec 10, 1950 · 34 weeks on the list, last seen Aug 12, 1951
- Book Power
- 354.0
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Peak
- #1
- 8 weeks there · first Jan 14, 1951
- Top-ten weeks
- 31
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 34
- December 1950 – August 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frances Parkinson Keyes | primary | 100% | 354.0 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Jan 14, 1951 on the timeline →- #1Joy StreetFrances Parkinson Keyes
- #2The DisenchantedBudd Schulberg
- #3Son of a Hundred KingsThomas B. Costain
- #4The CardinalHenry Morton Robinson
- #5The AdventurerMika Waltari
- #6Across the River and Into the TreesErnest Hemingway
- #7The Little World of Don CamilloGiovanni Guareschi
- #8Bennett's WelcomeInglis Fletcher
- #9The 13 ClocksJames Thurber
- #10Pathway to the StarsHarnett T. Kane
The #1 bestsellers of 1951
1951 in books →Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1951.
- The Disenchanted · Budd Schulberg
- From Here to Eternity · James Jones
- The Caine Mutiny · Herman Wouk