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1940 Books
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For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.99 — 321,899 ratings — published 1940
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.99 — 120,992 ratings — published 1940
Darkness at Noon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.12 — 34,352 ratings — published 1940
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.04 — 105,682 ratings — published 1940
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,529,142 ratings — published 1943
The Tartar Steppe (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.21 — 43,873 ratings — published 1940
The Invention of Morel (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.95 — 35,714 ratings — published 1940
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,448,955 ratings — published 1942
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.09 — 43,434 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 — 28,362 ratings — published 1940
The Power and the Glory (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.98 — 44,379 ratings — published 1940
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,654,800 ratings — published 1945
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (Hercule Poirot, #23)
by (shelved 5 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.78 — 45,970 ratings — published 1940
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,247,213 ratings — published 1947
Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #22)
by (shelved 5 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.94 — 48,292 ratings — published 1940
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.30 — 520,289 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 — 95,061 ratings — published 1940
Journey into Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,406 ratings — published 1940
Kallocain (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.72 — 17,702 ratings — published 1940
You Can't Go Home Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,429 ratings — published 1940
Horton Hatches the Egg (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.19 — 50,305 ratings — published 1940
City of Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.04 — 325,622 ratings — published 2019
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.44 — 386,234 ratings — published 2021
Call It Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.76 — 14,745 ratings — published 1940
The Pilgrim Hawk (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.59 — 1,628 ratings — published 1940
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.93 — 267,247 ratings — published 1948
The Hamlet (The Snopes Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.86 — 6,039 ratings — published 1940
I Capture the Castle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.98 — 116,744 ratings — published 1948
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.02 — 321,836 ratings — published 1947
Comet in Moominland (The Moomins, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.25 — 23,640 ratings — published 1946
Their Finest Hour (The Second World War, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.41 — 4,645 ratings — published 1949
To Lose a Battle: France 1940 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.26 — 974 ratings — published 1969
The Cypress Maze (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.38 — 17,410 ratings — published 2023
La familia de Pascual Duarte (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.78 — 19,370 ratings — published 1942
Daughter of the Reich (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.29 — 21,032 ratings — published 2020
The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,273 ratings — published 1940
The Ox-Bow Incident (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.88 — 6,731 ratings — published 1940
La invención de Morel / El gran Serafín (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,912 ratings — published
The Book of Lost Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.44 — 310,720 ratings — published 2020
Rendezvous in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,520 ratings — published 1948
Eloísa está debajo de un almendro (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,912 ratings — published 1940
Chess Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.26 — 180,626 ratings — published 1942
The Flight Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.24 — 33,181 ratings — published 2019
The Beantown Girls (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.33 — 35,591 ratings — published 2019
Lilac Girls (Woolsey-Ferriday, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.29 — 347,549 ratings — published 2016
Poet in New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,708 ratings — published 1940
Homer Price (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.08 — 23,210 ratings — published 1943
Curious George (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.17 — 140,540 ratings — published 1941
The Waste Land and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.22 — 74,455 ratings — published 1922
“25 de dezembro [1940]
As luzes tão débeis das velinhas coloridas derretem a escura neve que a fieira dos dias acumula nos corações. Vera e Lúcio são como retratos do passado – o mesmo espanto, os mesmo gritos! E os olhos sentem que foram criados para o êxtase das bolas multicores, das estrelas brilhantes, dos brinquedos ricos ou pobres. O verde da Árvore é o verde da esperança. Invisíveis pássaros de paz fazem ninho nos ramos enfeitados. Poderemos ouvir os seus cantos de paz.
Perdão para os nossos inimigos, perdão para os nossos amigos, perdão para nós próprios. Gosto de amor na boca. Boca – espelho do coração”
― A Mudança
As luzes tão débeis das velinhas coloridas derretem a escura neve que a fieira dos dias acumula nos corações. Vera e Lúcio são como retratos do passado – o mesmo espanto, os mesmo gritos! E os olhos sentem que foram criados para o êxtase das bolas multicores, das estrelas brilhantes, dos brinquedos ricos ou pobres. O verde da Árvore é o verde da esperança. Invisíveis pássaros de paz fazem ninho nos ramos enfeitados. Poderemos ouvir os seus cantos de paz.
Perdão para os nossos inimigos, perdão para os nossos amigos, perdão para nós próprios. Gosto de amor na boca. Boca – espelho do coração”
― A Mudança
“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
