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1941 Books & Bestsellers |
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1941 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Keys of the Kingdom by A.J. Cronin 2. Random Harvest by James Hilton 3. This Above All by Eric Knight 4. The Sun Is My Undoing by Marguerite Steen 5. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway 6. Oliver Wiswell by Kenneth Roberts 7. H.M. Pulham, Esquire by John P. Marquand 8. Mr. and Mrs. Cugat by Isabel Scott Rorick 9. Saratoga Trunk by Edna Ferber 10. Windswept by Mary Ellen Chase |
1941 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. Berlin Diary by William L. Shirer 2. The White Cliffs by Alice Duer Miller 3. Out of the Night by Jan Valtin 4. Inside Latin America by John Gunther 5. Blood, Sweat and Tears by Winston S. Churchill 6. You Can’t Do Business with Hitler by Douglas Miller 7. Reading I’ve Liked edited by Clifton Fadiman 8. Reveille in Washington by Margaret Leech 9. Exit Laughing by Irvin S. Cob 10. My Sister and I by Dirk van der Heide |
1941 Notable Literature |
| Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges The Nature and Destiny of Man, vol. 1 by Reinhold Niebuhr Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm Mission to Moscow by Joseph Davies Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans American Renaissance by F.O. Matthiessen The Mind of the South by W.J. Cash The Social Life of a Modern Community by W. Lloyd Warner and Paul S. Lunt Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West |
1941 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather My Name is Aram by William Saroyan Out of the Night by Jan Valtin H. M. Pulham, Esquire by John Marquand Kabloona by Gontran de Poincins The Good Shepherd by Gunnar Gunnarsson Blood, Sweat, and Tears by Winston Churchill Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler Junior Miss by Sally Benson Berlin Diary by William L. Shirer Keys of the Kingdom by A.J. Cronin The Timeless Land by Eleanor Dark Reveille in Washington by Margaret Leech Inside Latin America by John Gunther Young Man of Caracas by T.R. Ybarra Storm by George Steward Language in Action by S.I. Hayakawa |
| There was no 1941 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1941, according to GoodReads |