1942


The Stranger
The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays
La familia de Pascual Duarte
Chess Story
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot, #24)
The Shooting Star (Tintin #10)
The Moon Is Down
Embers
The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
The Road to the City
The Myth of Sisyphus
The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #3)
Adam of the Road
Black Alibi
The Body in the Library by Agatha ChristieThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise BrownThe Screwtape Letters by C.S. LewisThe Moving Finger by Agatha Christie
Best Books 1942
83 books — 37 voters
1984 by George OrwellSpace Cadet by Robert A. HeinleinEarth Abides by George R. StewartAnimal Farm by George OrwellRed Planet by Robert A. Heinlein
Classic Science Fiction - 1940-1949
75 books — 115 voters

Escape on Venus by Edgar Rice BurroughsSecond Stage Lensmen by E.E. "Doc" SmithOut of Space and Time by Clark Ashton SmithUnknown Worlds, Vol. 6, No. 2, August 1942 by John W. Campbell Jr.Land of Unreason by L. Sprague de Camp
Science Fiction Published 1942
7 books — 1 voter
1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
815 books — 1,159 voters

Wilhelm Reich
The vulgar Marxist concept of 'private enterprise' was totally misconstrued by man's irrationality; it was understood to mean that the liberal development of society precluded every private possession. Naturally, this was widely exploited by political reaction. Quite obviously, social development and individual freedom have nothing to do with the so-called abolishment of private property. Marx's concept of private property did not refer to man's shirts, pants, typewriters, toilet paper, books, b ...more
Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed the subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing.
Adolf Hitler; Martin Bormann, Hitler's Table Talk, 1941-1944

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