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1940s Books
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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 302 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,673,593 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 296 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,608,069 ratings — published 1948
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 225 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,458,030 ratings — published 1942
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,257,852 ratings — published 1947
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 205 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,538,185 ratings — published 1943
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.02 — 323,076 ratings — published 1947
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 112 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,927,978 ratings — published 2005
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.00 — 128,710 ratings — published 1945
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 121,453 ratings — published 1940
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.59 — 262,895 ratings — published 1949
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.30 — 522,020 ratings — published 1943
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 322,610 ratings — published 1940
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 338,187 ratings — published 1947
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.19 — 821,353 ratings — published 2008
The Pearl (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.58 — 279,514 ratings — published 1947
Chess Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.26 — 182,141 ratings — published 1942
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.05 — 317,762 ratings — published 2009
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,022,768 ratings — published 2014
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.18 — 498,691 ratings — published 2006
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.06 — 157,835 ratings — published 1943
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.93 — 269,773 ratings — published 1948
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.04 — 106,143 ratings — published 1940
I Capture the Castle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 117,032 ratings — published 1948
The Screwtape Letters (Screwtape, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.27 — 536,563 ratings — published 1942
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 56 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.09 — 43,550 ratings — published 1940
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.36 — 282,285 ratings — published 2011
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.37 — 904,391 ratings — published 1946
The Lottery and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.02 — 83,008 ratings — published 1949
The Glass Menagerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.74 — 144,561 ratings — published 1945
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.40 — 81,276 ratings — published 1944
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.15 — 210,888 ratings — published 1945
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,244,882 ratings — published 2015
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.03 — 115,605 ratings — published 1948
The Invention of Morel (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.95 — 36,009 ratings — published 1940
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 629,112 ratings — published 1989
Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #24)
by (shelved 49 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 90,580 ratings — published 1941
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.35 — 263,003 ratings — published 2016
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,316 ratings — published 1949
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
by (shelved 46 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.81 — 131,893 ratings — published 1942
The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.89 — 339,447 ratings — published 1943
The Heart of the Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.96 — 31,170 ratings — published 1948
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.44 — 389,199 ratings — published 2021
The Alice Network (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.32 — 652,797 ratings — published 2017
Crooked House (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.08 — 94,576 ratings — published 1949
City of Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.04 — 326,519 ratings — published 2019
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,202 ratings — published 1949
All the King's Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.09 — 67,230 ratings — published 1946
The Member of the Wedding (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.81 — 20,583 ratings — published 1946
The Power and the Glory (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 44,504 ratings — published 1940
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.00 — 129,602 ratings — published 2012
“Lila was afraid of love. But she couldn't voice it. Instead, she continued smoking her cigarette, hand shaky, shoulders trembling, heartbeat soaring. Yet her voice was cool through her gift of acting. "I care about you, Kent.”
― Sweethearts And Jazz
― Sweethearts And Jazz
“Maybe he was broken. Like a clock that always stops when it shouldn't, or a cracked teacup that spills anything poured inside.
Something was broken inside him, causing his gears to work incorrectly, and that's why he could never seem to do anything right. Useless. Garbage, to be thrown away.”
― Echoes of Mercy
Something was broken inside him, causing his gears to work incorrectly, and that's why he could never seem to do anything right. Useless. Garbage, to be thrown away.”
― Echoes of Mercy
