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1940s Books
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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 291 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,554,099 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 282 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,464,529 ratings — published 1949
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,402,211 ratings — published 1942
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 203 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,194,193 ratings — published 1947
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 199 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,479,334 ratings — published 1943
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.02 — 314,958 ratings — published 1947
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 109 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,880,052 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 — 126,643 ratings — published 1945
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.59 — 259,033 ratings — published 1949
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 119,452 ratings — published 1940
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.30 — 512,580 ratings — published 1943
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 318,250 ratings — published 1940
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.19 — 810,841 ratings — published 2008
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 334,658 ratings — published 1947
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.05 — 315,275 ratings — published 2009
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,976,496 ratings — published 2014
The Pearl (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.57 — 271,952 ratings — published 1947
Chess Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.27 — 173,012 ratings — published 1942
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.18 — 495,173 ratings — published 2006
I Capture the Castle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 115,371 ratings — published 1948
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.06 — 154,460 ratings — published 1943
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.37 — 276,839 ratings — published 2011
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.04 — 104,667 ratings — published 1940
The Screwtape Letters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 53 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.27 — 522,331 ratings — published 1942
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,107,194 ratings — published 2015
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.94 — 253,524 ratings — published 1948
The Lottery and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.02 — 84,569 ratings — published 1949
The Glass Menagerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.74 — 143,310 ratings — published 1945
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 52 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,862 ratings — published 1940
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 621,145 ratings — published 1989
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.04 — 109,926 ratings — published 1948
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.37 — 878,235 ratings — published 1946
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.15 — 209,391 ratings — published 1945
The Invention of Morel (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.96 — 34,282 ratings — published 1940
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.40 — 79,191 ratings — published 1944
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.35 — 255,758 ratings — published 2016
Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #24)
by (shelved 47 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 88,469 ratings — published 1941
The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.89 — 337,407 ratings — published 1943
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
by (shelved 45 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.81 — 128,058 ratings — published 1942
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.44 — 370,191 ratings — published 2021
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,363 ratings — published 1949
The Alice Network (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.32 — 627,571 ratings — published 2017
Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.92 — 23,754 ratings — published 1946
City of Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.04 — 321,254 ratings — published 2019
All the King's Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.09 — 66,641 ratings — published 1946
The Postmistress (Audio CD)
by (shelved 41 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.36 — 45,524 ratings — published 2010
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.00 — 128,385 ratings — published 2012
The Heart of the Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.96 — 30,849 ratings — published 1948
The Member of the Wedding (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.81 — 20,342 ratings — published 1946
The Power and the Glory (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,691 ratings — published 1940
“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
“Gory frontline memories from war in the Philippines returned to Mitch as he submerged himself in the brush. He sunk deep into the leaves and mud, and stayed there. He remembered scenes from the jungle. The tremors of falling bombs. The smell of smoke.”
― Ruthless Shadow
― Ruthless Shadow
