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Fiction. The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. The two most popular books that year were How Green Was My Valley, by Richard Llewellyn, which held on top of the list for 13 weeks, and Stars on the Sea by F. Van Wyck Mason, which was on top of the list for 10 weeks.
This is a list of lists by year of The New York Times number-one books . The New York Times Best Seller list was first published without fanfare on October 12, 1931. [1] [2] It consisted of five fiction and four nonfiction for the New York City region only. [2] The following month the list was expanded to eight cities, with a separate list for ...
1940. How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn. Kitty Foyle by Christopher Morley. Mrs. Miniver by Jan Struther. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. The Nazarene by Sholem Asch. Stars on the Sea by F. Van Wyck Mason. Oliver Wiswell by Kenneth Roberts. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. Seven books topped the list that year, the longest on top being The Green Years , which dominated the winter months (17 weeks). Other particularly popular titles included A Lion in the Streets (12 weeks on top), Captain from Castile (7 weeks) and The Black Rose (18 weeks ...
Best Seller list. The New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States. [1] [2] Since October 12, 1931, The New York Times Book Review has published the list weekly. [1] In the 21st century, it has evolved into multiple lists, grouped by genre and format, including fiction and ...
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. The most popular books of the year were A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith and Strange Fruit, by Lillian Smith with respectively 22 and 15 weeks at the top. A "sleeper" success, A Tree Grows had been published fully 6 months before it eventually made it to the No. 1 spot.
Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1940s References [ edit ] ^ John Bear , The #1 New York Times Best Seller: intriguing facts about the 484 books that have been #1 New York Times bestsellers since the first list, 50 years ago , Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1992. pp. 21-27
Fiction. The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. The two most popular books that year were The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, which held on top of the list for 24 weeks, and All This and Heaven Too by Rachel Field, which was on top of the list for 14 weeks.
Fiction. The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. Only three titles topped the list in 1943. The most popular was The Robe, by Lloyd Douglas, which started the year at the top of the list and only dropped to number two for one week in March to Mrs. Parkington, by Louis Bromfield, before finally ceding the top spot to So Little Time, by John P. Marquand, in mid-October.
Fiction. The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. The two most popular books that year were The Song of Bernadette, by Franz Werfel, which made the list for fifteen weeks; and The Robe, by Lloyd Douglas, which would dominate the list for the final six weeks of 1942 and most of 1943.