1940s


Animal Farm
1984
The Stranger
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Little Prince
The Plague
The Book Thief
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Death of a Salesman
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
For Whom the Bell Tolls
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Pearl
The Potato Man by Devon MinchinGoddesses in Slacks by Allan DayAmos Intolerable by Richard MallettBeyond the Atom by John DeVriesPink Pills for Pale People by F. William Saul
Least Popular Books From The 1940s
100 books — 1 voter
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth WeinCharlotte Gray by Sebastian FaulksA Life in Secrets by Sarah HelmThe Alice Network by Kate QuinnThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
If You Liked Agent Carter, Try...
193 books — 45 voters

1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinLife In Instalments by Danielle SartorelliBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonJohn Adams by David McCullough
U.S. History Reading List
484 books — 202 voters
1984 by George OrwellSpace Cadet by Robert A. HeinleinEarth Abides by George R. StewartAnimal Farm by George OrwellRed Planet by Robert A. Heinlein
Classic Science Fiction - 1940-1949
75 books — 115 voters

1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
815 books — 1,159 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakCode Name Verity by Elizabeth WeinBetween Shades of Gray by Ruta SepetysRose Under Fire by Elizabeth WeinSalt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
YA Fiction set in the 1940s
262 books — 168 voters

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I can laugh because I know my life is in His hands. I serve a living Savior, Who walks with me everyday. Even after the pain of losing Tony, I came to realize--life is worth the living, because He is alive.
LaKaysha Stenersen, Echoes of Mercy

Perhaps the suspicions stemmed from the distinct lack of women in Batman’s world. True, he crafted his Bruce Wayne alter ego to be an idle playboy, which meant there were a lot of beautiful women in his life. But, the most important female figure in his world seemed only to be his sainted, slain mother, to whose memory, along with that of his late father, Bruce swore to uphold justice and thwart evil. Bruce and Batman might have had romances with girls like debutante Julie Madison or reporter Vi ...more
Mike Madrid, Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines

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