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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 — 322,618 ratings — published 1940
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.99 — 121,455 ratings — published 1940
Darkness at Noon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.12 — 34,461 ratings — published 1940
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.04 — 106,145 ratings — published 1940
The Invention of Morel (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.95 — 36,009 ratings — published 1940
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,538,263 ratings — published 1943
The Tartar Steppe (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.21 — 44,264 ratings — published 1940
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,458,115 ratings — published 1942
The Power and the Glory (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.98 — 44,507 ratings — published 1940
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.09 — 43,552 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 — 28,459 ratings — published 1940
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,673,782 ratings — published 1945
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (Hercule Poirot, #23)
by (shelved 5 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.78 — 46,155 ratings — published 1940
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,257,942 ratings — published 1947
Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #22)
by (shelved 5 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.94 — 48,560 ratings — published 1940
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.30 — 522,028 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 — 95,106 ratings — published 1940
Journey into Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,420 ratings — published 1940
Kallocain (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.72 — 17,840 ratings — published 1940
You Can't Go Home Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,432 ratings — published 1940
Horton Hatches the Egg (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.19 — 50,346 ratings — published 1940
City of Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.04 — 326,526 ratings — published 2019
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.44 — 389,225 ratings — published 2021
Call It Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.76 — 14,759 ratings — published 1940
The Pilgrim Hawk (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.59 — 1,632 ratings — published 1940
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.93 — 269,785 ratings — published 1948
The Hamlet (The Snopes Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.86 — 6,053 ratings — published 1940
I Capture the Castle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.98 — 117,033 ratings — published 1948
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.02 — 323,086 ratings — published 1947
Comet in Moominland (The Moomins, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.25 — 23,619 ratings — published
Finn Family Moomintroll (The Moomins, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.30 — 19,514 ratings — published 1948
Their Finest Hour (The Second World War, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.41 — 4,659 ratings — published 1949
To Lose a Battle: France 1940 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.26 — 977 ratings — published 1969
The Cypress Maze (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.38 — 17,502 ratings — published 2023
La familia de Pascual Duarte (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.78 — 19,490 ratings — published 1942
Daughter of the Reich (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.29 — 21,163 ratings — published 2020
The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,274 ratings — published 1940
The Ox-Bow Incident (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.88 — 6,751 ratings — published 1940
La invención de Morel / El gran Serafín (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,921 ratings — published
The Book of Lost Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.44 — 313,518 ratings — published 2020
Rendezvous in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,523 ratings — published 1948
Eloísa está debajo de un almendro (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,927 ratings — published 1940
Chess Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.26 — 182,148 ratings — published 1942
The Flight Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.24 — 33,344 ratings — published 2019
The Beantown Girls (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.33 — 35,721 ratings — published 2019
Lilac Girls (Woolsey-Ferriday, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.29 — 348,591 ratings — published 2016
Poet in New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,769 ratings — published 1940
Homer Price (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.08 — 23,227 ratings — published 1943
Curious George (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.17 — 140,625 ratings — published 1941
“Someone might ask, if the dynamic of innovation consists of schema and revision, where does true originality come from? Is there no single work we can point to as the ultimate source of this or that new storrytelling strategy? I'm inclined to say there is no such source. Artists working in mass art forms find originality by revising schemas in circulation, or by revising ones that have fallen into disuse.”
― Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling
― Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling
“We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France and on the seas and oceans; we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender and even if, which I do not for the moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God's good time the New World with all its power and might, sets forth to the liberation and rescue of the Old.”
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