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1940 Books & Bestsellers |
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1940 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn 2. Kitty Foyle by Christopher Morley 3. Mrs. Miniver by Jan Struther 4. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway 5. The Nazarene by Sholem Asch 6. Stars on the Sea by F. van Wyck Mason 7. Oliver Wiswell by Kenneth Roberts 8. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 9. Night in Bombay by Louis Bromfield 10. The Family by Nina Fedorova |
1940 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. I Married Adventure by Osa Johnson 2. How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler 3. A Smattering of Ignorance by Oscar Levant 4. Country Squire in the White House by John T. Flynn 5. Land Below the Wind by Agnes Newton Keith 6. American White Paper by Joseph W. Alsop Jr and Robert Kintner 7. New England: Indian Summer by Van Wyck Brooks 8. As I Remember Him by Hans Zinsser 9. Days of Our Years by Pierre van Paassen 10. Bet It’s a Boy by Betty B. Blunt |
1940 Notable Literature |
| To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers Native Son by Richard Wright |
1940 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| Verdun by Jules Romains The Star-Gazer by Zsolt de Harsányi The Trees by Conrad Richter Native Son by Richard Wright Mr. Skeffington by Elizabeth Failure of a Mission by Sir Nevile Henderson I Married Adventure by Osa Johnson As I Remember Him by Hans Zinsser The American Presidency by Harold Laski Mrs. Miniver by Jan Struther New England: Indian Summer by Van Wyck Brooks Trelawny by Margaret Armstrong For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway Embezzled Heaven by Franz Werfel |
| There was no 1940 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1940, according to GoodReads |