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1940 Books
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For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.99 — 324,363 ratings — published 1940
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.99 — 122,472 ratings — published 1940
Darkness at Noon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.12 — 34,691 ratings — published 1940
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.04 — 106,995 ratings — published 1940
The Tartar Steppe (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.20 — 45,269 ratings — published 1940
The Invention of Morel (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.95 — 36,932 ratings — published 1940
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,560,776 ratings — published 1943
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,482,845 ratings — published 1942
The Power and the Glory (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.98 — 44,915 ratings — published 1940
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.09 — 43,854 ratings — published 1940
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.98 — 28,680 ratings — published 1940
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,723,613 ratings — published 1945
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (Hercule Poirot, #22)
by (shelved 5 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.78 — 46,687 ratings — published 1940
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,285,061 ratings — published 1947
Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #21)
by (shelved 5 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.94 — 49,100 ratings — published 1940
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.30 — 526,251 ratings — published 1943
Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.17 — 95,251 ratings — published 1940
Journey into Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.91 — 4,455 ratings — published 1940
Kallocain (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.73 — 18,254 ratings — published 1940
You Can't Go Home Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,448 ratings — published 1940
Horton Hatches the Egg (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.19 — 50,430 ratings — published 1940
City of Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.04 — 328,645 ratings — published 2019
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.44 — 396,386 ratings — published 2021
Call It Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.76 — 14,814 ratings — published 1940
The Pilgrim Hawk (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.58 — 1,642 ratings — published 1940
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.93 — 276,491 ratings — published 1948
The Hamlet (The Snopes Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.86 — 6,099 ratings — published 1940
I Capture the Castle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.98 — 117,771 ratings — published 1948
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.02 — 326,370 ratings — published 1947
Comet in Moominland (The Moomins, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.25 — 23,888 ratings — published 1946
Finn Family Moomintroll (The Moomins, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.31 — 19,701 ratings — published 1948
Their Finest Hour (The Second World War, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.41 — 4,674 ratings — published 1949
To Lose a Battle: France 1940 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.26 — 980 ratings — published 1969
The Cypress Maze (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.38 — 17,722 ratings — published 2023
La familia de Pascual Duarte (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.78 — 19,805 ratings — published 1942
Daughter of the Reich (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.29 — 21,506 ratings — published 2020
The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,282 ratings — published 1940
The Ox-Bow Incident (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.88 — 6,796 ratings — published 1940
La invención de Morel / El gran Serafín (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,947 ratings — published
The Book of Lost Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.44 — 320,117 ratings — published 2020
Rendezvous in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,528 ratings — published 1948
Eloísa está debajo de un almendro (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,951 ratings — published 1940
Chess Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.26 — 186,295 ratings — published 1942
The Flight Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.24 — 33,711 ratings — published 2019
The Beantown Girls (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.33 — 36,109 ratings — published 2019
Lilac Girls (Woolsey-Ferriday, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.29 — 350,987 ratings — published 2016
Poet in New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,901 ratings — published 1940
Homer Price (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.08 — 23,270 ratings — published 1943
Curious George (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.17 — 140,864 ratings — published 1941
“Language, Sweet," said Magnus's mother, arriving with a plate full of homemade biscuits. She didn't scold him too harshly about his talk these days. Magnus suspected this was because Mama shared Uncle Sweet's opinion about the Nazis. Yet despite the shortages and rationing, she had managed to turn out the most delicious biscuits Magnus had ever tasted. They were redolent of butter, which Mrs. Gundersen up the hill traded for apples from the family orchard.
Uncle Sweet made a great show of fanning himself and swooning as he ate a biscuit. "Language," he said, "is nothing but a bunch of words, and there are no words to express how wonderful this cookie is. I swear, if you were not already married, I would have you locked in a workroom like Rumpelstiltskin's daughter, forced to bake for me all day." He stole another biscuit from the platter and headed for the basement, lighting his way with an oil lamp. No one ever asked where his photographic chemicals came from- no one wanted to hold the answer like a piece of stolen fruit.”
― The Apple Orchard
Uncle Sweet made a great show of fanning himself and swooning as he ate a biscuit. "Language," he said, "is nothing but a bunch of words, and there are no words to express how wonderful this cookie is. I swear, if you were not already married, I would have you locked in a workroom like Rumpelstiltskin's daughter, forced to bake for me all day." He stole another biscuit from the platter and headed for the basement, lighting his way with an oil lamp. No one ever asked where his photographic chemicals came from- no one wanted to hold the answer like a piece of stolen fruit.”
― The Apple Orchard
“Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid..and wish you'd just stayed in bed?”
― Hollow City
― Hollow City
