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1942 Books & Bestsellers |
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1942 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Song of Bernadette by Franz Werfel 2. The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck 3. Dragon Seed by Pearl S. Buck 4. And Now Tomorrow by Rachel Field 5. Drivin’ Woman by Elizabeth Pickett 6. Windswept by Mary Ellen Chase 7. The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas 8. The Sun Is My Undoing by Marguerite Steen 9. Kings Row by Henry Bellamann 10. The Keys of the Kingdom by A.J. Cronin |
1942 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. See Here, Private Hargrove by Marion Hargrove 2. Mission to Moscow by Joseph E. Davies 3. The Last Time I Saw Paris by Elliot Paul 4. Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 5. Victory Through Air Power by Major Alexander P. de Seversky 6. Past Imperfect by Ilka Chase 7. They Were Expendable by W.L. White 8. Flight to Arras by Antoine de St. Exupéry 9. Washington Is Like That by W.M. Kiplinger 10. Inside Latin America by John Gunther |
1942 Notable Literature |
| Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner The Stranger by Albert Camus Philosophy in a New Key by Suzanne K. Langer On Native Grounds by Alfred Kazin Capitalism, Socialism, Democracy by Joseph Schumpeter And Keep Your Powder Dry by Margaret Mead The Company She Keeps by Mary McCarthy West with the Night by Beryl Markham Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston |
1942 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| The Ivory Mischief by Arthur Meeker, Jr Dragon Seed by Pearl S. Buck Admiral of the Ocean Sea by Samuel Eliot Morison The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings The Making of Tomorrow by Raoul de Roussy de Sales The Song of Bernadette by Franz Werfel Victory through Air Power by Alexander P. de Seversky Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes The Just and the Unjust by James Gould Cozzens The Raft by Robert Trumbull The Days of Ofelia by Gertrude Diamant The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers They Were Expendable by W.L. White Look to the Mountain by LeGrand Cannon, Jr Our Hearts Were Young and Gay by Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough We Took to the Woods by Louis Dickinson Rich |
| There was no 1942 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1942, according to GoodReads |