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, #25)
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
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
74 books — 114 voters
Practically Seventeen by Rosamond du JardinDreams of Glory by Janet LambertFriday's Child by Janet LambertStar Spangled Summer by Janet LambertBeany Malone by Lenora Mattingly Weber
Teen Romance of the 1940s
16 books — 5 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankGod Passes by by Shoghi EffendiThe Life of Johnny Reb by Bell Irvin WileyThe Devil in Massachusetts by Marion L. StarkeyMythology by Edith Hamilton
History Published in Decade: 1940s
24 books — 5 voters
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
82 books — 34 voters

Number the Stars by Lois LowryThe War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker BradleyThe Hundred Dresses by Eleanor EstesSomeone Named Eva by Joan M. WolfLily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
Middle Grade Fiction set in the 1940s
387 books — 81 voters
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. LewisFarmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. TolkienAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryStuart Little by E.B. White
Best Fantasy of the 40s
46 books — 50 voters

Ruth Reichl
Dear Mr. Beard, On the radio last spring, President Roosevelt said that each and every one of us here on the home front has a battle to fight; We must keep our spirits up. I am doing my best, but in my opinion Liver Gems are a lost cause, because they would take the spirit right out of anyone. So when Mother says it is wrong for us to eat better than our brave men overseas, I tell her that I don't see how eating disgusting stuff helps them in the least. But, Mr. Beard, it is very hard to cook g ...more
Ruth Reichl, Delicious!

C.G. Jung
Generally certain symptoms appear, among them a peculiar use of language: one wants to speak forcefully in order to impress one's opponent, so one employs a special, "bombastic" style full of neologisms which might be described as "power-words." This symptom is observable not only in the psychiatric clinic but also among certain modern philosophers, and, above all, whenever anything unworthy of belief has to be insisted on in the teeth of inner resistance: the language swells up, overreaches its ...more
C.G. Jung, Alchemical Studies

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