I, My Ancestor

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 ParasitesDaphne Du Maurier
2. #2The EgyptianMika Waltari
3. #3The King's CavalierSamuel Shellabarger
4. #4Gentian HillElizabeth Goudge
5. #5MarySholem Asch
6. #6A Rage to LiveJohn O'Hara
7. #7The Horse's MouthJoyce Cary
8. #8One on the HouseMary Lasswell
9. #9I, My AncestorNancy Wilson Ross
10. #10A Long Day's DyingFrederick Buechner

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