1942


The Stranger
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Chess Story
La familia de Pascual Duarte
Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot, #25)
The Shooting Star (Tintin #10)
The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #3)
Embers
The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
The Road to the City
The Screwtape Letters
The Moon Is Down
The Myth of Sisyphus
Adam of the Road
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

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
819 books — 1,144 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Devil in Massachusetts by Marion L. StarkeyThe Life of Johnny Reb by Bell Irvin WileyGod Passes by by Shoghi EffendiMythology by Edith Hamilton
History Published in Decade: 1940s
24 books — 5 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

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!

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