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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 310 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,846,375 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 304 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,807,677 ratings — published 1949
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 227 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,546,808 ratings — published 1942
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,350,372 ratings — published 1947
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 206 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,625,871 ratings — published 1943
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.02 — 336,263 ratings — published 1947
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 113 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,992,966 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 — 132,479 ratings — published 1945
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.60 — 267,882 ratings — published 1949
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.31 — 536,714 ratings — published 1943
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 125,022 ratings — published 1940
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 329,015 ratings — published 1940
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 342,625 ratings — published 1947
The Pearl (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.59 — 294,631 ratings — published 1947
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 834,503 ratings — published 2008
Chess Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.26 — 199,872 ratings — published 1942
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,081,247 ratings — published 2014
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.05 — 321,192 ratings — published 2009
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.18 — 503,347 ratings — published 2006
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.05 — 108,139 ratings — published 1940
I Capture the Castle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 119,402 ratings — published 1948
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.92 — 293,811 ratings — published 1948
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.06 — 163,235 ratings — published 1943
The Screwtape Letters (Screwtape, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.27 — 556,126 ratings — published 1942
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.36 — 947,751 ratings — published 1946
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.36 — 289,643 ratings — published 2011
The Lottery and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.01 — 84,642 ratings — published 1949
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 55 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.09 — 44,447 ratings — published 1940
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,418,041 ratings — published 2015
The Invention of Morel (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.93 — 39,385 ratings — published 1940
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.35 — 273,422 ratings — published 2016
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.16 — 212,978 ratings — published 1945
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.39 — 84,486 ratings — published 1944
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.03 — 122,559 ratings — published 1948
The Glass Menagerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.74 — 146,298 ratings — published 1945
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 639,565 ratings — published 1989
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.44 — 412,882 ratings — published 2021
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.19 — 49,615 ratings — published 1949
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
by (shelved 47 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.81 — 137,031 ratings — published 1942
Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #23)
by (shelved 47 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.97 — 94,126 ratings — published 1941
The Heart of the Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.96 — 31,679 ratings — published 1948
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,900 ratings — published 1949
City of Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.04 — 333,526 ratings — published 2019
Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.92 — 24,988 ratings — published 1946
The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.89 — 342,482 ratings — published 1943
The Alice Network (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.32 — 684,165 ratings — published 2017
Crooked House (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.08 — 98,877 ratings — published 1949
The Razor’s Edge (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.19 — 56,349 ratings — published 1944
The Power and the Glory (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 45,986 ratings — published 1940
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 131,503 ratings — published 2012
“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
“Music does something to people; it's unexplainable as the tunes wrap around the listeners and gathers them close together. The effect it has on people is almost magical.
Music brings us ever closer to the God Who created song, as if He is speaking to us in a universal language.”
― Echoes of Mercy
Music brings us ever closer to the God Who created song, as if He is speaking to us in a universal language.”
― Echoes of Mercy
