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1940s Books
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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 295 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,608,518 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 290 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,530,407 ratings — published 1948
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,426,414 ratings — published 1942
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,221,908 ratings — published 1947
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 200 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,506,761 ratings — published 1943
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.02 — 318,643 ratings — published 1947
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 109 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,901,464 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 — 127,504 ratings — published 1945
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.59 — 260,648 ratings — published 1949
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.30 — 516,542 ratings — published 1943
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 120,194 ratings — published 1940
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 320,221 ratings — published 1940
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.19 — 815,923 ratings — published 2008
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 336,190 ratings — published 1947
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.05 — 316,380 ratings — published 2009
The Pearl (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.57 — 275,229 ratings — published 1947
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,996,839 ratings — published 2014
Chess Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.26 — 177,101 ratings — published 1942
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.18 — 496,738 ratings — published 2006
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.06 — 155,905 ratings — published 1943
I Capture the Castle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 116,050 ratings — published 1948
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.04 — 105,124 ratings — published 1940
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.94 — 261,054 ratings — published 1948
The Screwtape Letters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 55 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.27 — 528,772 ratings — published 1942
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.37 — 279,307 ratings — published 2011
The Lottery and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.01 — 84,977 ratings — published 1949
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 53 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.09 — 43,198 ratings — published 1940
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,171,565 ratings — published 2015
The Glass Menagerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.74 — 143,837 ratings — published 1945
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.37 — 891,100 ratings — published 1946
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 624,745 ratings — published 1989
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.15 — 210,010 ratings — published 1945
The Invention of Morel (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.96 — 34,998 ratings — published 1940
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.04 — 111,217 ratings — published 1948
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.40 — 80,088 ratings — published 1944
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.35 — 258,814 ratings — published 2016
Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #24)
by (shelved 47 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 89,435 ratings — published 1941
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,745 ratings — published 1949
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
by (shelved 45 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.81 — 129,974 ratings — published 1942
The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.89 — 338,309 ratings — published 1943
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.44 — 378,528 ratings — published 2021
Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.92 — 24,001 ratings — published 1946
The Heart of the Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.96 — 30,989 ratings — published 1948
City of Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.04 — 323,470 ratings — published 2019
The Alice Network (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.32 — 638,875 ratings — published 2017
All the King's Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.09 — 66,863 ratings — published 1946
The Power and the Glory (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 44,044 ratings — published 1940
The Postmistress (Audio CD)
by (shelved 41 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.36 — 45,620 ratings — published 2010
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.00 — 128,903 ratings — published 2012
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.88 — 30,944 ratings — published 1949
“I’ll find out whatever I can about this Frank. Would the girls go to the police if they were in danger, do you think?”
“I can’t say,” Shyla replied, but her head was shaking as she spoke. That was hardly a surprise. A lot of Aboriginal people were suspicious of the police, or gunjies, as Shyla sometimes called them. Through conversations with Shyla, Billie had some of the picture—how contacting the authorities about anything might lead to being arrested for something else, or having the men taken, or having the Aborigines Welfare Board take children away “for their own good.”
Stuff like that tended to ensure that trust was in short supply. That long and troubled history had not been forgotten and had created understandable tension between Aboriginal communities and the white authorities. That couldn’t simply vanish overnight.”
― The War Widow
“I can’t say,” Shyla replied, but her head was shaking as she spoke. That was hardly a surprise. A lot of Aboriginal people were suspicious of the police, or gunjies, as Shyla sometimes called them. Through conversations with Shyla, Billie had some of the picture—how contacting the authorities about anything might lead to being arrested for something else, or having the men taken, or having the Aborigines Welfare Board take children away “for their own good.”
Stuff like that tended to ensure that trust was in short supply. That long and troubled history had not been forgotten and had created understandable tension between Aboriginal communities and the white authorities. That couldn’t simply vanish overnight.”
― The War Widow
“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
