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The 1940s
Every #1 New York Times bestseller, year by year.
Hardcover Fiction
1940
THE NAZARENE
Sholem Asch
1940
KITTY FOYLE
Christopher Morley
1940
HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
Richard Llewellyn
1940
NATIVE SON
Richard Wright
1940
STARS ON THE SEA
F. van Wyck Mason
1940
MRS. MINIVER
Jan Struther
1940
THE BELOVED RETURNS
Thomas Mann
1940
YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN
Thomas Wolfe
1940
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
Ernest Hemingway
1940
OLIVER WISWELL
Kenneth Roberts
Hardcover Nonfiction
1940
A TREASURY OF ART MASTERPIECES
Thomas Craven
1940
COUNTRY LAWYER
Bellamy Partridge
1940
A SMATTERING OF IGNORANCE
Oscar Levant
1940
HOW TO READ A BOOK
Mortimer J. Adler
1940
FAILURE OF A MISSION
Sir Nevile Henderson
1940
AMERICAN WHITE PAPER
Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner
1940
I MARRIED ADVENTURE
Osa Johnson
1940
AS I REMEMBER HIM
Hans Zinsser
1940
COUNTRY SQUIRE IN THE WHITE HOUSE
John Flynn
1940
THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
1940
A TREASURY OF THE WORLD'S GREAT LETTERS
M. Lincoln Schuster
1940
THE WHITE CLIFFS
Alice Duer Miller
Hardcover Fiction
Hardcover Fiction
1942
THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM
A. J. Cronin
1942
WINDSWEPT
Mary Ellen Chase
1942
DRAGON SEED
Pearl S. Buck
1942
FRENCHMAN'S CREEK
Daphne du Maurier
1942
THE MOON IS DOWN
John Steinbeck
1942
AND NOW TOMORROW
Rachel Field
1942
THE SONG OF BERNADETTE
Franz Werfel
1942
THE PRODIGAL WOMEN
Nancy Hale
1942
THE VALLEY OF DECISION
Marcia Davenport
1942
THE ROBE
Lloyd C. Douglas
Hardcover Nonfiction
1942
BERLIN DIARY
William L. Shirer
1942
MISSION TO MOSCOW
Joseph E. Davies
1942
FLIGHT TO ARRAS
Antonine de St. Exupery
1942
THE JAPANESE ENEMY
Hugh Byas
1942
PAST IMPERFECT
Ilka Chase
1942
CROSS CREEK
Marjorie Rawlings
1942
THE LAST TIME I SAW PARIS
Elliot Paul
1942
WASHINGTON IS LIKE THAT
W. M. Kiplinger
1942
VICTORY THROUGH AIR POWER
A. P. de Seversky
1942
SEE HERE, PRIVATE HARGROVE
Marion Hargrove
1942
THE COMING BATTLE OF GERMANY
William B. Ziff
1942
THEY WERE EXPENDABLE
W. L. White
1942
OUR HEARTS WERE YOUNG AND GAY
Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough
Hardcover Fiction
Hardcover Nonfiction
1943
SEE HERE, PRIVATE HARGROVE
Marion Hargrove
1943
OUR HEARTS WERE YOUNG AND GAY
Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough
1943
GUADALCANAL DIARY
Richard Tregaskis
1943
BETWEEN THE THUNDER AND THE SUN
Vincent Sheean
1943
ONE WORLD
Wendell L. Willkie
1943
U.S. FOREIGN POLICY: SHIELD OF THE REPUBLIC
Walter Lippmann
1943
JOURNEY AMONG WARRIORS
Eve Curie
1943
UNDER COVER
John Roy Carlton
Hardcover Fiction
Hardcover Fiction
1945
THE GREEN YEARS
A. J. Cronin
1945
EARTH AND HIGH HEAVEN
Gwenthalyn Graham
1945
THE BALLAD AND THE SOURCE
Rosamond Lehmann
1945
FOREVER AMBER
Kathleen Winsor
1945
CAPTAIN FROM CASTILLE
Samuel Shellaburger
1945
A LION IS IN THE STREETS
Adria Locke Langley
1945
SO WELL REMEMBERED
James Hilton
1945
THE BLACK ROSE
Thomas B. Costain
Hardcover Fiction
Hardcover Fiction
Hardcover Fiction
1948
HOUSE DIVIDED
Ben Ames Williams
1948
EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE
Marcia Davenport
1948
EAGLE IN THE SKY
F. Van Wyck Mason
1948
THE IDES OF MARCH
Thornton Wilder
1948
RAINTREE COUNTY
Ross Lockridge
1948
PILGRIM'S INN
Elizabeth Goudge
1948
THE NAKED AND THE DEAD
Norman Mailer
1948
SHANNON'S WAY
A.J. Cronin
1948
THE YOUNG LIONS
Irwin Shaw
1948
THE BIG FISHERMAN
Lloyd C. Douglas
Hardcover Nonfiction
1948
SPEAKING FRANKLY
James F. Byrnes
1948
INSIDE U.S.A.
John Gunther
1948
PEACE OF MIND
Joshua Loth Liebman
1948
SEXUAL BEHAVIOR IN THE HUMAN MALE
Alfred Charles Kinsey
1948
HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING
Dale Carnegie
1948
THE GATHERING STORM
Winston Churchill
1948
ROOSEVELT AND HOPKINS
Robert E. Sherwood
1948
CRUSADE IN EUROPE
Dwight David Eisenhower
