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1940s Books
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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 302 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,743,374 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 297 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,679,839 ratings — published 1948
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 227 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,490,020 ratings — published 1942
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,293,384 ratings — published 1947
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 204 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,568,628 ratings — published 1943
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.02 — 327,289 ratings — published 1947
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 112 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,952,749 ratings — published 2005
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.00 — 130,245 ratings — published 1945
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.59 — 264,914 ratings — published 1949
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.30 — 527,556 ratings — published 1943
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 122,791 ratings — published 1940
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 324,861 ratings — published 1940
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 339,857 ratings — published 1947
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.19 — 825,995 ratings — published 2008
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.05 — 319,016 ratings — published 2009
Chess Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.26 — 187,661 ratings — published 1942
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,047,267 ratings — published 2014
The Pearl (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.58 — 284,647 ratings — published 1947
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.18 — 500,451 ratings — published 2006
I Capture the Castle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 117,966 ratings — published 1948
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.06 — 159,731 ratings — published 1943
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.05 — 107,163 ratings — published 1940
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.93 — 278,623 ratings — published 1948
The Screwtape Letters (Screwtape, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.27 — 543,983 ratings — published 1942
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.36 — 285,107 ratings — published 2011
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 55 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.09 — 43,932 ratings — published 1940
The Lottery and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.02 — 83,562 ratings — published 1949
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.37 — 922,164 ratings — published 1946
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,311,047 ratings — published 2015
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.39 — 82,370 ratings — published 1944
The Glass Menagerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.74 — 145,210 ratings — published 1945
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.15 — 211,636 ratings — published 1945
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.03 — 117,694 ratings — published 1948
The Invention of Morel (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.94 — 37,225 ratings — published 1940
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.35 — 266,892 ratings — published 2016
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 633,098 ratings — published 1989
Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #23)
by (shelved 49 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.97 — 91,848 ratings — published 1941
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,831 ratings — published 1949
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
by (shelved 47 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.81 — 133,584 ratings — published 1942
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.44 — 398,488 ratings — published 2021
The Heart of the Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.96 — 31,360 ratings — published 1948
City of Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.04 — 329,284 ratings — published 2019
The Alice Network (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.32 — 665,050 ratings — published 2017
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 130,296 ratings — published 2012
Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.92 — 24,512 ratings — published 1946
The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.89 — 340,549 ratings — published 1943
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,461 ratings — published 1949
The Power and the Glory (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 45,043 ratings — published 1940
Crooked House (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.08 — 96,030 ratings — published 1949
All the King's Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.09 — 67,562 ratings — published 1946
“In 2013 there were 7,427 poetry readings in April, many on a Thursday. For anyone born in 1928 who pays attention to poetry, the numerousness is astonishing. In April 1948, there were 15 readings in the United States, 12 by Robert Frost. So I claim. The figures are imaginary, but you get the point.”
― Essays After Eighty
― Essays After Eighty
“Making her debut in 1947, Black Canary was the archetype of the new Film Noir era heroine. Originally, Black Canary was a mysterious female vigilante, who played the role of criminal in order to infiltrate the underworld and bring its gangsters to justice. A gorgeous blonde in a low cut black swimsuit, bolero jacket and fishnet tights, Black Canary was actually Dinah Drake, a florist who wore her black hair tied in a bun, and sensible, high-necked blouses. When trouble brewed, Dinah slipped into her fishnets and pinned on a blonde wig to become the gutsy, karate chopping Black Canary. But Dinah had another incentive to lead a secret life. A roguishly handsome private detective named Larry Lance became a frequent customer in Dinah’s florist shop. He had a knack for getting into trouble, and Dinah would usually end up switching into her Black Canary guise to rescue him.”
― Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines
― Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines
