Bestselling Books

1948 Books & Bestsellers 1948 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Big Fisherman by Lloyd C. Douglas 2. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer 3. Dinner at Antoine’s by Frances Parkinson Keyes 4. The Bishop’s Mantle by Agnes Sligh Turnbull 5. Tomorrow Will Be Better by Betty Smith 6. The Golden Hawk by Frank Yerby 7. Raintree County by Ross Lockridge Jr 8. Shannon’s Way by […]

1946 Books & Bestsellers 1946 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The King’s General by Daphne du Maurier 2. This Side of Innocence by Taylor Caldwell 3. The River Road by Frances Parkinson Keyes 4. The Miracle of the Bells by Russell Janney 5. The Hucksters by Frederic Wakeman 6. The Foxes of Harrow by Frank Yerby 7. Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque 8. The Black

1945 Books & Bestsellers 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

1944 Books & Bestsellers 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

1943 Books & Bestsellers 1943 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas 2. The Valley of Decision by Marcia Davenport 3. So Little Time by John P. Marquand 4. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 5. The Human Comedy by William Saroyan 6. Mrs. Parkington by Louis Bromfield 7. The Apostle by Sholem Asch 8. Hungry Hill by Daphne du Maurier 9.

1942 Books & Bestsellers 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

1941 Books & Bestsellers 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.

1940 Books & Bestsellers 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

1939 Books & Bestsellers 1939 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 2. All This, and Heaven Too by Rachel Field 3. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 4. Wickford Point by John Marquard 5. Escape by Ethel Vance 6. Disputed Passage by Lloyd C. Douglas 7. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 8. The Tree of Liberty by Elizabeth Page 9. The Nazarene by Sholem

1938 Books & Bestsellers 1938 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 2. The Citadel by A.J. Cronin 3. My Son, My Son! by Howard Spring 4. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 5. Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts 6. All This, and Heaven Too by Rachel Field 7. The Rains Came by Louis Bromfield 8. And Tell of Time by Laura Krey 9. The Mortal