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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. 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.
The most popular title was The Hucksters which spent much of the latter half of the year (19 weeks) at the top of the list and a total of 35 weeks among the top 15. During its reign at the top, it was challenged, but never toppled, by two recognized classics, George Orwell's Animal Farm and Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men , neither of ...
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.
The New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States. [1][2] The New York Times Book Review has published the list weekly since October 12, 1931. [1] In the 21st century, it has evolved into multiple lists, grouped by genre and format, including fiction and nonfiction, hardcover ...
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. The two most popular books that year were The Keys of the Kingdom, by A. J. Cronin, which held on top of the list for 16 weeks, and This Above All by Eric Knight, which was on top of the list for 15 weeks.