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1939 Books & Bestsellers |
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1939 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 2. All This, and Heaven Too by Rachel Field 3. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 4. Wickford Point by John Marquard 5. Escape by Ethel Vance 6. Disputed Passage by Lloyd C. Douglas 7. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 8. The Tree of Liberty by Elizabeth Page 9. The Nazarene by Sholem Asch 10. Kitty Foyle by Christopher Morley |
1939 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. Days of Our Years by Pierre Van Paasen 2. Reaching for the Stars by Nora Waln 3. Inside Asia by John Gunther 4. Autobiography with Letters by William Lyon Phelps 5. Country Lawyer by Bellamy Partridge 6. Wind, Sand, and Stars by Antoine de St. Exupéry 7. Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler 8. A Peculiar Treasure by Edna Ferber 9. Not Peace but a Sword by Vincent Sheehan 10. Listen! The Wind by Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
1939 Notable Literature |
| The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West Finnegans Wake by James Joyce Studies in Iconology by Erwin Panofsky Freedom and Culture by John Dewey Factories in the Field by Carey McWilliams Modern Poetry and the Tradition by Cleanth Brooks The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler The Civilizing Process by Norbert Elias |
1939 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White Unforgotten Years by Logan Pearsall Smith Days of Our Years by Pierre van Paassen The Patriot by Pearl S. Buck Each to the Other by Christopher LaFarge Ordeal by Nevil Shute Captain Horatio Hornblower by C.S. Forester America in Midpassage by Charles and Mary Beard Wind, Sand, and Stars by Antoine de St. Exupéry The Brandons by Angela Thirkell Not Peace but a Sword by Vincent Sheean Christ in Concrete by Pietro di Donato You and Heredity by Amram Scheinfeld Escape by Ethel Vance The Nazarene by Sholem Asch Moment in Peking by Lin Yutang |
| 1939 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1939, according to GoodReads |