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1945 Books & Bestsellers |
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1945 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor 2. The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas 3. The Black Rose by Thomas B. Costain 4. The White Tower by James Ramsey Ullman 5. Cass Timberlane by Sinclair Lewis 6. A Lion Is in the Streets by Adria Locke Langley 7. So Well Remembered by James Hilton 8. Captain from Castile by Samuel Shellabarger 9. Earth and High Heaven by Adria Locke Langley 10. Immortal Wife by Irving Stone |
1945 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. Brave Men by Ernie Pyle 2. Dear Sir by Juliet Lowell 3. Up Front by Bill Mauldin 4. Black Boy by Richard Wright 5. Try and Stop Me by Bennett Cerf 6. Anything Can Happen by George and Helen Papashvily 7. General Marshall’s Report by U.S. War Department General Staff 8. The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald 9. The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber 10. Pleasant Valley by Louis Bromfield |
1945 Notable Literature |
| Animal Farm by George Orwell Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Loving by Henry Green The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper Science-The Endless Frontier by Vannevar Bush Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot The Age of Jackson by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr |
1945 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| Story of a Secret State by Jan Karski Anything Can Happen by George and Helen Papashvily The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber Black Boy by Richard Wright Apartment in Athens by Glenway Wescott The Ballad and the Source by Rosamond Lehmann American Guerrilla in the Philippines by Ira Wolfert Commodore Hornblower by C.S. Forester The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith by Bruce Marshall Up Front by Bill Mauldin Rickshaw Boy by Lau Shaw The White Tower by James Ramsey Ullman Cass Timberlane by Sinclair Lewis Days and Nights by Constantin Simonov Beach Red by Peter Bowman Lovely is the Lee by Robert Gibbings |
| 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1945, according to GoodReads |