1948


I Am Ozzy
No Longer Human
The Naked and the Dead
The Lottery
1984
El túnel
I Capture the Castle
The Heart of the Matter
The Loved One
Other Voices, Other Rooms
The Road Through the Wall
My Father's Dragon (My Father's Dragon, #1)
Snow Country
Nothing But the Night
Dirty Snow
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakCode Name Verity by Elizabeth WeinBetween Shades of Gray by Ruta SepetysSalt to the Sea by Ruta SepetysRose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein
YA Fiction set in the 1940s
258 books — 166 voters

Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskeyCry, the Beloved Country by Alan PatonCheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.The English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare by Robert HornbackI Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Best Books 1948
85 books — 58 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


Ghada Karmi
Just as the ripples of a stone thrown into a pond will spread further and further away from the source, so the ripples of the disaster in 1948 hit my parents first and then spread to us and to our children long afterwards. Seeing only the ripples, it was easy to confuse the original cause with its effects.
Ghada Karmi, Return: A Palestinian Memoir

Ray Bradbury
The fiction writer is, first and foremost, an emotionalist.
Ray Bradbury

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