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1940s Books
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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 302 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,743,907 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 297 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,680,476 ratings — published 1948
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 227 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,490,293 ratings — published 1942
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,293,660 ratings — published 1947
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 204 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,568,897 ratings — published 1943
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.02 — 327,325 ratings — published 1947
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 112 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,952,912 ratings — published 2005
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.00 — 130,257 ratings — published 1945
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.59 — 264,931 ratings — published 1949
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.30 — 527,599 ratings — published 1943
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 122,800 ratings — published 1940
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 324,881 ratings — published 1940
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 339,875 ratings — published 1947
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.19 — 826,019 ratings — published 2008
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.05 — 319,019 ratings — published 2009
Chess Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.26 — 187,714 ratings — published 1942
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,047,396 ratings — published 2014
The Pearl (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.58 — 284,687 ratings — published 1947
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.18 — 500,457 ratings — published 2006
I Capture the Castle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 117,973 ratings — published 1948
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.06 — 159,743 ratings — published 1943
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.05 — 107,164 ratings — published 1940
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.93 — 278,695 ratings — published 1948
The Screwtape Letters (Screwtape, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.27 — 544,029 ratings — published 1942
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.36 — 285,123 ratings — published 2011
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 55 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.09 — 43,935 ratings — published 1940
The Lottery and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.02 — 83,565 ratings — published 1949
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.37 — 922,264 ratings — published 1946
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,311,462 ratings — published 2015
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.39 — 82,384 ratings — published 1944
The Glass Menagerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.74 — 145,212 ratings — published 1945
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.15 — 211,641 ratings — published 1945
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.03 — 117,706 ratings — published 1948
The Invention of Morel (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.94 — 37,231 ratings — published 1940
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.35 — 266,911 ratings — published 2016
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 633,117 ratings — published 1989
Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #23)
by (shelved 49 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.97 — 91,864 ratings — published 1941
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,833 ratings — published 1949
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
by (shelved 47 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.81 — 133,609 ratings — published 1942
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.44 — 398,541 ratings — published 2021
The Heart of the Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.96 — 31,361 ratings — published 1948
City of Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.04 — 329,298 ratings — published 2019
The Alice Network (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.32 — 665,107 ratings — published 2017
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 130,298 ratings — published 2012
Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.92 — 24,516 ratings — published 1946
The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.89 — 340,561 ratings — published 1943
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,462 ratings — published 1949
The Power and the Glory (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 45,044 ratings — published 1940
Crooked House (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.08 — 96,039 ratings — published 1949
All the King's Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.09 — 67,565 ratings — published 1946
“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
“I feel like a nineteen forties teenager at a Frank Sinatra concert! (On finally being published)”
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