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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 307 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,801,470 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 301 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,755,338 ratings — published 1949
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 228 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,522,370 ratings — published 1942
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,327,338 ratings — published 1947
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 208 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,603,230 ratings — published 1943
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.02 — 332,363 ratings — published 1947
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 113 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,976,143 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 — 131,525 ratings — published 1945
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.60 — 266,656 ratings — published 1949
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.31 — 532,817 ratings — published 1943
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 123,952 ratings — published 1940
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 327,304 ratings — published 1940
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 341,414 ratings — published 1947
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 830,661 ratings — published 2008
The Pearl (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.59 — 290,367 ratings — published 1947
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,067,717 ratings — published 2014
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.05 — 320,301 ratings — published 2009
Chess Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.26 — 194,738 ratings — published 1942
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.18 — 502,077 ratings — published 2006
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.05 — 107,727 ratings — published 1940
I Capture the Castle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 118,812 ratings — published 1948
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.06 — 161,692 ratings — published 1943
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.92 — 287,386 ratings — published 1948
The Screwtape Letters (Screwtape, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.27 — 550,847 ratings — published 1942
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.36 — 287,400 ratings — published 2011
The Lottery and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.02 — 84,076 ratings — published 1949
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.37 — 936,791 ratings — published 1946
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 55 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.09 — 44,231 ratings — published 1940
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,373,786 ratings — published 2015
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.15 — 212,352 ratings — published 1945
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.35 — 270,364 ratings — published 2016
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.39 — 83,579 ratings — published 1944
The Invention of Morel (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.94 — 38,453 ratings — published 1940
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.03 — 119,373 ratings — published 1948
The Glass Menagerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.74 — 145,852 ratings — published 1945
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 636,781 ratings — published 1989
Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #23)
by (shelved 49 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.97 — 93,209 ratings — published 1941
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.44 — 406,790 ratings — published 2021
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.19 — 49,190 ratings — published 1949
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
by (shelved 47 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.81 — 135,378 ratings — published 1942
The Heart of the Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.96 — 31,544 ratings — published 1948
City of Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.04 — 331,752 ratings — published 2019
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,713 ratings — published 1949
The Alice Network (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.32 — 675,840 ratings — published 2017
Crooked House (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.08 — 97,608 ratings — published 1949
Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.93 — 24,749 ratings — published 1946
The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.89 — 341,622 ratings — published 1943
The Power and the Glory (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 45,583 ratings — published 1940
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 130,915 ratings — published 2012
Confessions of a Mask (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.95 — 42,907 ratings — published 1949
“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 Vicki Vale, but showed neither any true affection. The one female who generated the most heat with Batman was the seductive, whip-wielding jewel thief Catwoman. Of course, since she was on the wrong side of the law, any chance of a romance with Batman was immediately crushed.
(...)
Batman’s sexy foe Catwoman was deemed too racy for the new world of the Comics Code. She was gone by 1954.”
― Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines
(...)
Batman’s sexy foe Catwoman was deemed too racy for the new world of the Comics Code. She was gone by 1954.”
― Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines
“You came to France to find out about our methods, and you will have observed that we don't have any.”
― My Friend Maigret
― My Friend Maigret
