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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 310 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,826,672 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 303 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,784,707 ratings — published 1949
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 229 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,536,093 ratings — published 1942
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,340,260 ratings — published 1947
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 206 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,616,092 ratings — published 1943
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.02 — 334,535 ratings — published 1947
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 113 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,985,632 ratings — published 2005
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.00 — 132,066 ratings — published 1945
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.60 — 267,332 ratings — published 1949
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 124,530 ratings — published 1940
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.31 — 535,041 ratings — published 1943
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 328,277 ratings — published 1940
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 342,073 ratings — published 1947
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 832,622 ratings — published 2008
The Pearl (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.59 — 292,663 ratings — published 1947
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,075,550 ratings — published 2014
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.05 — 320,813 ratings — published 2009
Chess Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.26 — 197,589 ratings — published 1942
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.18 — 502,782 ratings — published 2006
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.05 — 107,975 ratings — published 1940
I Capture the Castle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 119,163 ratings — published 1948
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.06 — 162,564 ratings — published 1943
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.92 — 290,939 ratings — published 1948
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.37 — 942,911 ratings — published 1946
The Screwtape Letters (Screwtape, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.27 — 553,785 ratings — published 1942
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.36 — 288,382 ratings — published 2011
The Lottery and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.02 — 84,345 ratings — published 1949
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 55 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.09 — 44,347 ratings — published 1940
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,399,565 ratings — published 2015
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.16 — 212,672 ratings — published 1945
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.35 — 271,750 ratings — published 2016
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.39 — 84,095 ratings — published 1944
The Invention of Morel (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.93 — 38,992 ratings — published 1940
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.03 — 120,705 ratings — published 1948
The Glass Menagerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.74 — 146,075 ratings — published 1945
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 638,116 ratings — published 1989
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.44 — 410,302 ratings — published 2021
Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #23)
by (shelved 48 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.97 — 93,756 ratings — published 1941
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.19 — 49,430 ratings — published 1949
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
by (shelved 46 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.81 — 136,189 ratings — published 1942
The Heart of the Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.96 — 31,625 ratings — published 1948
City of Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.04 — 332,771 ratings — published 2019
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,817 ratings — published 1949
The Alice Network (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.32 — 680,557 ratings — published 2017
Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.92 — 24,893 ratings — published 1946
The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.89 — 342,111 ratings — published 1943
Crooked House (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.08 — 98,291 ratings — published 1949
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 131,270 ratings — published 2012
Confessions of a Mask (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.95 — 43,262 ratings — published 1949
The Razor’s Edge (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.19 — 56,203 ratings — published 1944
“There was only so much he could stand being mad at her for. She was being a pain but he still liked her.”
― The Widow's Second Chance
― The Widow's Second Chance
“It was hard to live through the early 1940s in France and not have the war be the center from which the rest of your life spiraled.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
