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1940s Books
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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 303 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,658,261 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 296 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,589,898 ratings — published 1948
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,450,587 ratings — published 1942
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 206 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,530,855 ratings — published 1943
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,249,246 ratings — published 1947
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.02 — 322,079 ratings — published 1947
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 112 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,921,807 ratings — published 2005
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.00 — 128,368 ratings — published 1945
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 121,085 ratings — published 1940
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.59 — 262,333 ratings — published 1949
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.30 — 520,591 ratings — published 1943
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 322,027 ratings — published 1940
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 337,703 ratings — published 1947
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.19 — 820,051 ratings — published 2008
The Pearl (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.57 — 278,444 ratings — published 1947
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.05 — 317,442 ratings — published 2009
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,016,307 ratings — published 2014
Chess Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.26 — 180,938 ratings — published 1942
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.18 — 498,230 ratings — published 2006
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.06 — 157,356 ratings — published 1943
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.93 — 267,697 ratings — published 1948
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.04 — 105,775 ratings — published 1940
I Capture the Castle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 116,814 ratings — published 1948
The Screwtape Letters (Screwtape, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.27 — 534,677 ratings — published 1942
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 56 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.09 — 43,451 ratings — published 1940
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.36 — 281,584 ratings — published 2011
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.37 — 903,506 ratings — published 1946
The Lottery and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.02 — 82,872 ratings — published 1949
The Glass Menagerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.74 — 144,370 ratings — published 1945
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.40 — 80,989 ratings — published 1944
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.15 — 210,666 ratings — published 1945
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,228,390 ratings — published 2015
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.03 — 115,087 ratings — published 1948
The Invention of Morel (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.95 — 35,772 ratings — published 1940
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 628,150 ratings — published 1989
Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #24)
by (shelved 49 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 90,304 ratings — published 1941
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.35 — 262,038 ratings — published 2016
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,170 ratings — published 1949
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
by (shelved 46 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.81 — 131,432 ratings — published 1942
The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.89 — 339,183 ratings — published 1943
The Heart of the Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.96 — 31,132 ratings — published 1948
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.44 — 386,816 ratings — published 2021
The Alice Network (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.32 — 649,680 ratings — published 2017
City of Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.04 — 325,799 ratings — published 2019
Crooked House (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.08 — 94,246 ratings — published 1949
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,144 ratings — published 1949
All the King's Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.09 — 67,139 ratings — published 1946
The Member of the Wedding (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.81 — 20,547 ratings — published 1946
The Power and the Glory (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 44,392 ratings — published 1940
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.00 — 129,447 ratings — published 2012
“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
