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1940s Books
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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 289 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,529,165 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 280 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,434,845 ratings — published 1949
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,391,944 ratings — published 1942
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 201 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,178,877 ratings — published 1947
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 197 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,466,123 ratings — published 1943
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.02 — 313,480 ratings — published 1947
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 109 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,869,816 ratings — published 2005
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.00 — 126,371 ratings — published 1945
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.59 — 258,432 ratings — published 1949
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 119,184 ratings — published 1940
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.30 — 511,066 ratings — published 1943
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 317,506 ratings — published 1940
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.19 — 808,873 ratings — published 2008
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 334,056 ratings — published 1947
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.05 — 314,842 ratings — published 2009
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,967,044 ratings — published 2014
The Pearl (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.57 — 270,759 ratings — published 1947
Chess Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.27 — 171,441 ratings — published 1942
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.18 — 494,545 ratings — published 2006
I Capture the Castle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 115,149 ratings — published 1948
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
by (shelved 58 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.06 — 153,918 ratings — published 1943
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.04 — 104,523 ratings — published 1940
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.37 — 275,858 ratings — published 2011
The Lottery and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.02 — 84,423 ratings — published 1949
The Screwtape Letters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 53 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.27 — 519,495 ratings — published 1942
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,078,968 ratings — published 2015
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.94 — 250,705 ratings — published 1948
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 53 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,757 ratings — published 1940
The Glass Menagerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.74 — 143,075 ratings — published 1945
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 619,435 ratings — published 1989
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.04 — 109,398 ratings — published 1948
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.37 — 872,488 ratings — published 1946
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.40 — 78,834 ratings — published 1944
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.15 — 209,086 ratings — published 1945
The Invention of Morel (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.96 — 34,034 ratings — published 1940
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.35 — 254,498 ratings — published 2016
Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #24)
by (shelved 47 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 88,109 ratings — published 1941
The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.89 — 337,034 ratings — published 1943
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.44 — 366,946 ratings — published 2021
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
by (shelved 44 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.81 — 127,213 ratings — published 1942
The Alice Network (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.32 — 623,167 ratings — published 2017
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,223 ratings — published 1949
City of Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.04 — 320,369 ratings — published 2019
Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.93 — 23,661 ratings — published 1946
All the King's Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.09 — 66,560 ratings — published 1946
The Postmistress (Audio CD)
by (shelved 41 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.36 — 45,490 ratings — published 2010
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.00 — 128,066 ratings — published 2012
The Heart of the Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.96 — 30,812 ratings — published 1948
The Member of the Wedding (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.81 — 20,299 ratings — published 1946
The Power and the Glory (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,587 ratings — published 1940
“I Have Fought the Good Fight and Won”
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“Once war was over, everyone wanted to find some normality, to settle and fix their disordered homes. The reality, of course, was that it was impossible. Not with rationing and homes bombed and fathers not yet returned.”
― The Sleeping Beauties
― The Sleeping Beauties
