Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction

The Egyptian

Mika Waltari

Entered Sep 11, 1949 · peaked at #1 on Oct 30, 1949 · 59 weeks on the list, last seen Oct 31, 1954

Book Power
575.7
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Weeks at #1
16
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
50
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
59
September 1949 – October 1954

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.

AuthorCreditCredit sharePower contributed
Mika Waltariprimary100%575.0

The top ten the week it peaked

See Oct 30, 1949 on the timeline →
  1. #1The EgyptianMika Waltari
  2. #2A Rage to LiveJohn O'Hara
  3. #3MarySholem Asch
  4. #4Let Love Come LastTaylor Caldwell
  5. #5Father of the BrideEdward Streeter
  6. #6Twilight on the FloodsMarguerite Steen
  7. #7The Way WestA.B. Guthrie Jr
  8. #8The Man with the Golden ArmNelson Algren
  9. #9The MudlarkTheodore Bonnet
  10. #10West of the HillGladys Hasty Carroll