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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 — 4,608,633 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 290 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,530,556 ratings — published 1948
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,426,473 ratings — published 1942
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,222,003 ratings — published 1947
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 200 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,506,823 ratings — published 1943
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.02 — 318,648 ratings — published 1947
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 109 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,901,523 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 — 127,507 ratings — published 1945
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.59 — 260,658 ratings — published 1949
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.30 — 516,564 ratings — published 1943
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 120,193 ratings — published 1940
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 320,223 ratings — published 1940
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.19 — 815,942 ratings — published 2008
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 336,192 ratings — published 1947
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.05 — 316,384 ratings — published 2009
The Pearl (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.57 — 275,245 ratings — published 1947
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,996,893 ratings — published 2014
Chess Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.26 — 177,103 ratings — published 1942
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.18 — 496,746 ratings — published 2006
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.06 — 155,912 ratings — published 1943
I Capture the Castle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 116,053 ratings — published 1948
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.04 — 105,126 ratings — published 1940
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.94 — 261,073 ratings — published 1948
The Screwtape Letters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 55 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.27 — 528,801 ratings — published 1942
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.37 — 279,315 ratings — published 2011
The Lottery and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.01 — 84,976 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 — 2,171,789 ratings — published 2015
The Glass Menagerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.74 — 143,840 ratings — published 1945
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.37 — 891,219 ratings — published 1946
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 624,761 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 — 34,997 ratings — published 1940
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.04 — 111,220 ratings — published 1948
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.40 — 80,090 ratings — published 1944
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.35 — 258,824 ratings — published 2016
Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #24)
by (shelved 47 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 89,436 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 — 129,979 ratings — published 1942
The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.89 — 338,310 ratings — published 1943
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.44 — 378,561 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 — 323,480 ratings — published 2019
The Alice Network (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.32 — 638,923 ratings — published 2017
All the King's Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.09 — 66,864 ratings — published 1946
The Power and the Glory (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 44,045 ratings — published 1940
The Postmistress (Audio CD)
by (shelved 41 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.36 — 45,621 ratings — published 2010
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.00 — 128,906 ratings — published 2012
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.88 — 30,945 ratings — published 1949
“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
“There won't be any revolution in America. The middle classes are too well-fed, the working class is too well-fooled into thinking it's the middle class, and the intellectuals are too damn tired.”
― The End of My Life
― The End of My Life
