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1940s Books
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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 286 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,498,761 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 279 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,399,604 ratings — published 1949
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,380,254 ratings — published 1942
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,158,391 ratings — published 1947
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 198 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,448,952 ratings — published 1943
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.02 — 311,972 ratings — published 1947
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 109 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,857,275 ratings — published 2005
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.00 — 126,084 ratings — published 1945
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.59 — 257,780 ratings — published 1949
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 118,944 ratings — published 1940
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.30 — 509,631 ratings — published 1943
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 316,749 ratings — published 1940
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.19 — 806,412 ratings — published 2008
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 333,444 ratings — published 1947
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.05 — 314,411 ratings — published 2009
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,955,267 ratings — published 2014
The Pearl (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.56 — 269,362 ratings — published 1947
Chess Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.27 — 169,624 ratings — published 1942
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.18 — 493,976 ratings — published 2006
I Capture the Castle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.99 — 114,913 ratings — published 1948
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
by (shelved 58 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.06 — 153,350 ratings — published 1943
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.04 — 104,413 ratings — published 1940
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.37 — 274,737 ratings — published 2011
The Lottery and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.02 — 84,266 ratings — published 1949
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,051,122 ratings — published 2015
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 53 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,639 ratings — published 1940
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.94 — 247,736 ratings — published 1948
The Glass Menagerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.74 — 142,826 ratings — published 1945
The Screwtape Letters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.27 — 515,712 ratings — published 1942
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.19 — 617,259 ratings — published 1989
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.04 — 108,704 ratings — published 1948
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.37 — 866,045 ratings — published 1946
The Invention of Morel (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.97 — 33,712 ratings — published 1940
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.35 — 253,058 ratings — published 2016
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.40 — 78,443 ratings — published 1944
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.15 — 208,786 ratings — published 1945
Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #24)
by (shelved 47 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 87,735 ratings — published 1941
The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.89 — 336,616 ratings — published 1943
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.44 — 363,511 ratings — published 2021
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
by (shelved 44 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.81 — 126,458 ratings — published 1942
The Alice Network (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.32 — 618,310 ratings — published 2017
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,053 ratings — published 1949
City of Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.04 — 319,490 ratings — published 2019
All the King's Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.09 — 66,488 ratings — published 1946
The Postmistress (Audio CD)
by (shelved 41 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.36 — 45,467 ratings — published 2010
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as 1940s)
avg rating 4.00 — 127,710 ratings — published 2012
Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.93 — 23,588 ratings — published 1946
The Heart of the Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.96 — 30,754 ratings — published 1948
The Member of the Wedding (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.81 — 20,257 ratings — published 1946
The Power and the Glory (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as 1940s)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,442 ratings — published 1940
“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
“And at this very moment, like a miracle, the rail-bus appeared. We waved our arms frantically, hardly daring to hope that it would stop. It did stop. We scrambled thankfully on board.
That is the irony of travel. You spend your boyhood dreaming of a magic, impossibly distant day when you will cross the Equator, when your eyes will behold Quito. And then, in the slow prosaic process of life, that day undramatically dawns—and finds you sleepy, hungry and dull. The Equator is just another valley; you aren’t sure which and you don’t much care. Quito is just another railroad station, with fuss about baggage and taxis and tips. And the only comforting reality, amidst all this picturesque noisy strangeness, is to find a clean pension run by Czech refugees and sit down in a cozy Central European parlor to a lunch of well-cooked Wiener Schnitzel.”
― The Condor And The Cows: A South American Travel Diary
That is the irony of travel. You spend your boyhood dreaming of a magic, impossibly distant day when you will cross the Equator, when your eyes will behold Quito. And then, in the slow prosaic process of life, that day undramatically dawns—and finds you sleepy, hungry and dull. The Equator is just another valley; you aren’t sure which and you don’t much care. Quito is just another railroad station, with fuss about baggage and taxis and tips. And the only comforting reality, amidst all this picturesque noisy strangeness, is to find a clean pension run by Czech refugees and sit down in a cozy Central European parlor to a lunch of well-cooked Wiener Schnitzel.”
― The Condor And The Cows: A South American Travel Diary
