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1940s Books
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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 284 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,459,493 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 278 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,353,289 ratings — published 1949
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,361,688 ratings — published 1942
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 199 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,428,631 ratings — published 1943
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 196 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,136,306 ratings — published 1947
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.02 — 308,853 ratings — published 1947
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 109 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,842,270 ratings — published 2005
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.00 — 125,536 ratings — published 1945
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.59 — 256,535 ratings — published 1949
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 118,390 ratings — published 1940
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 315,335 ratings — published 1940
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.30 — 506,931 ratings — published 1943
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.19 — 803,215 ratings — published 2008
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 332,145 ratings — published 1947
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.05 — 313,768 ratings — published 2009
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,942,005 ratings — published 2014
The Pearl (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.56 — 267,004 ratings — published 1947
Chess Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.27 — 166,654 ratings — published 1942
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.18 — 493,020 ratings — published 2006
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
by (shelved 58 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.06 — 152,324 ratings — published 1943
I Capture the Castle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 114,462 ratings — published 1948
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.04 — 104,130 ratings — published 1940
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.37 — 272,985 ratings — published 2011
The Lottery and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.02 — 83,809 ratings — published 1949
The Glass Menagerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.74 — 142,363 ratings — published 1945
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.95 — 242,524 ratings — published 1948
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 53 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,426 ratings — published 1940
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.64 — 2,013,038 ratings — published 2015
The Screwtape Letters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.27 — 511,045 ratings — published 1942
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.19 — 614,778 ratings — published 1989
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.04 — 107,409 ratings — published 1948
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.35 — 250,878 ratings — published 2016
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.37 — 856,772 ratings — published 1946
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.40 — 77,745 ratings — published 1944
The Invention of Morel (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.97 — 33,152 ratings — published 1940
Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #24)
by (shelved 47 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 87,180 ratings — published 1941
The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.89 — 335,886 ratings — published 1943
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.15 — 208,289 ratings — published 1945
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.44 — 357,692 ratings — published 2021
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.18 — 46,736 ratings — published 1949
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
by (shelved 44 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.82 — 125,328 ratings — published 1942
The Alice Network (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.32 — 611,060 ratings — published 2017
All the King's Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.09 — 66,283 ratings — published 1946
City of Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.04 — 317,845 ratings — published 2019
Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.92 — 23,424 ratings — published 1946
The Postmistress (Audio CD)
by (shelved 41 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.36 — 45,412 ratings — published 2010
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.00 — 127,210 ratings — published 2012
The Heart of the Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.96 — 30,634 ratings — published 1948
The Member of the Wedding (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.81 — 20,169 ratings — published 1946
The Power and the Glory (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,220 ratings — published 1940
“Economic experts tell us that the women of America spend 80 per cent of the national income, and the largest part of this expenditure is made for the necessities and the small luxuries of life.”
― Radio: The Fifth Estate
― Radio: The Fifth Estate
“Lila was afraid of love. But she couldn't voice it. Instead, she continued smoking her cigarette, hand shaky, shoulders trembling, heartbeat soaring. Yet her voice was cool through her gift of acting. "I care about you, Kent.”
― Sweethearts And Jazz
― Sweethearts And Jazz
