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This is a list of books that topped The New York Times best-seller list in 1940. When the list began in 1931 through 1941 it only reflected sales in the New York City area.
By the early 1940s, fourteen cities were included. A national list was created August 9, 1942, in The New York Times Book Review (Sundays) as a supplement to the regular paper's city lists (Monday edition). [2]
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).
This is a list of books that topped The New York Times best-seller list in 1944.
These criticisms have been ongoing ever since the list originated. A book industry report in the 1940s found that best-seller lists were a poor indicator of sales, since they were based on misleading data and were only measuring fast sales.
This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1940s, as determined by Publishers Weekly. The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1940 through 1949.