542 books
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135 voters
1940 S Books
Showing 1-50 of 1,511
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,466,343 ratings — published 1949
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,555,631 ratings — published 1945
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,195,050 ratings — published 1947
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,480,069 ratings — published 1943
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,402,896 ratings — published 1942
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 4.02 — 315,054 ratings — published 1947
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 4.00 — 126,660 ratings — published 1945
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 4.40 — 79,216 ratings — published 1944
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 3.81 — 128,106 ratings — published 1942
I Capture the Castle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 3.98 — 115,387 ratings — published 1948
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 3.99 — 119,465 ratings — published 1940
The Pursuit of Love (Radlett & Montdore, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 3.95 — 22,898 ratings — published 1945
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,880,644 ratings — published 2005
The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 3.85 — 58,103 ratings — published 1942
Chess Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 4.27 — 173,116 ratings — published 1942
The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 4.03 — 56,986 ratings — published 2013
The Invention of Morel (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 3.96 — 34,298 ratings — published 1940
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 3.99 — 318,303 ratings — published 1940
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 3.59 — 259,086 ratings — published 1949
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 4.30 — 512,666 ratings — published 1943
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,869 ratings — published 1940
Dear Mrs. Bird (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 3.80 — 57,341 ratings — published 2018
Cry, the Beloved Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 3.93 — 79,602 ratings — published 1948
Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 3.92 — 23,757 ratings — published 1946
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 4.00 — 128,397 ratings — published 2012
Frenchman's Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 3.99 — 24,231 ratings — published 1941
The Member of the Wedding (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 3.81 — 20,348 ratings — published 1946
The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
by (shelved 5 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,094 ratings — published 1943
I, the Jury (Mike Hammer, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 3.62 — 6,763 ratings — published 1947
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 4.06 — 154,500 ratings — published 1943
A Sunlit Weapon (Maisie Dobbs, #17)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,318 ratings — published 2022
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 4.44 — 370,389 ratings — published 2021
The Right Sort of Man (Sparks & Bainbridge, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,394 ratings — published 2019
The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs, #15)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 4.32 — 19,850 ratings — published 2019
To Die But Once (Maisie Dobbs, #14)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 4.23 — 19,582 ratings — published 2018
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 4.18 — 495,209 ratings — published 2006
L'écume des jours (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 3.92 — 42,953 ratings — published 1947
84, Charing Cross Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 4.16 — 98,821 ratings — published 1970
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,364,603 ratings — published 1956
Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot, #25)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 4.03 — 92,679 ratings — published 1942
Crooked House (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 4.08 — 91,798 ratings — published 1949
Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #24)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 3.98 — 88,479 ratings — published 1941
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 4.04 — 104,683 ratings — published 1940
Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #22)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 3.94 — 47,210 ratings — published 1940
The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 3.89 — 337,439 ratings — published 1943
Mildred Pierce (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 3.93 — 10,771 ratings — published 1941
The Aleph and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 4.32 — 49,179 ratings — published 1945
The Glass Menagerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 3.74 — 143,322 ratings — published 1945
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940-s)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,895,730 ratings — published 1951













