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1944 Books & Bestsellers |
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1944 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Strange Fruit by Lillian Smith 2. The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas 3. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 4. Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor 5. The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham 6. The Green Years by A.J. Cronin 7. Leave Her to Heaven by Ben Ames Williams 8. Green Dolphin Street by Elizabeth Goudge 9. A Bell for Adano by John Hersey 10. The Apostle by Sholem Asch |
1944 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. I Never Left Home by Bob Hope 2. Brave Men by Ernie Pyle 3. Good Night, Sweet Prince by Gene Fowler 4. Under Cover by John Roy Carlson 5. Yankee from Olympus by Catherine Drinker Bowen 6. The Time for Decision by Sumner Welles 7. Here Is Your War by Ernie Pyle 8. Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon 9. The Curtain Rises by Quentin Reynolds 10. Ten Years in Japan by Joseph C. Grew |
1944 Notable Literature |
| An American Dilemma by Gunnar Myrdal TVA: Democracy on the March by David Lilienthal The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness by Reinhold Niebuhr The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek Ethics and Language by C.L. Stevenson Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges Psychology of Women by Helene Deutsch Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre Theory of Games and Economic Behavior by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern |
1944 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| The Signpost by E. Arnot Robertson Persons and Places by George Santayana Der Fuehrer by Konrad Heiden Now I Law Me Down to Sleep by Ludwig Bemelmans Crazy Weather by Charles L. McNichols Blessed Are the Meek by Zofia Kossak Yankee from Olympus by Catherine Drinker BowenH.E. Bates Fair Stood the Wind for France by Lost Island by James Norman Hall Joseph the Provider by Thomas Mann The Time for Decision by Sumner Welles Cluny Brown by Margery Sharp Pastoral by Nevil Shute The World of Washington Irving by Van Wyck Brooks Control of Germany and Japan by Harold G. Moulton and Louis Marlio Young ‘Un by Herbert Best The American Character by Denis Brogan Brave Men by Ernie Pyle |
| 1944 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1944, according to GoodReads |