Rankings from Bowker's Annual/Publisher's Weekly

1940: Fiction
	1	How Green Was My Valley	Llewellyn, Richard
	2	Kitty Foyle	Morley, Christopher
	3	Mrs. Miniver	Struther, Jan
	4	For Whom the Bell Tolls	Hemingway, Ernest
	5	The Nazarene	Asch, Sholem
	6	Stars on the Sea	Mason, F. van Wyck
	7	Oliver Wiswell	Roberts, Kenneth
	8	The Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John
	9	Night in Bombay	Bromfield, Louis
	10	The Family	Fedorova, Nina
1940: Non-Fiction
	1	I Married Adventure	Johnson, Osa
	2	How to Read a Book	Adler, Mortimer
	3	A Smattering of Ignorance	Levant, Oscar
	4	Country Squire in the White House	Flynn, John T.
	5	Land Below the Wind	Keith, Agnes Newton
	6	American White Paper	Alsop, Joseph W.,Jr. and Robert Kintnor
	7	New England: Indian Summer	Brooks, Van Wyck
	8	As I Remember Him	Zinsser, Hans
	9	Days of Our Years	van Paassen, Pierre
	10	Bet It's a Boy	Blunt, Betty B.
1941: Fiction
	1	The Keys of the Kingdom	Cronin, A. J.
	2	Random Harvest	Hilton, James
	3	This Above All	Knight, Eric
	4	The Sun Is My Undoing	Steen, Marguerite
	5	For Whom the Bell Tolls	Hemingway, Ernest
	6	Oliver Wiswell	Roberts, Kenneth
	7	H. M. Pulham, Esquire	Marquand, John P.
	8	Mr. and Mrs. Cugat	Rorick, Isabel Scott
	9	Saratoga Trunk	Ferber, Edna
	10	Windswept	Chase, Mary Ellen
1941: Non-Fiction
	1	Berlin Diary	Shirer, William L.
	2	The White Cliffs	Miller, Alice Duer
	3	Out of the Night	Valtin, Jan
	4	Inside Latin America	Gunther, John
	5	Blood, Sweat and Tears	Churchill, Winston S.
	6	You Can't Do Business with Hitler	Miller, Douglas
	7	Reading I've Liked	Fadiman, Clifton, editor
	8	Reveille in Washington	Leech, Margaret
	9	Exit Laughing	Cobb, Irvin S.
	10	My Sister and I	van der Heide, Dirk
1942: Fiction
	1	The Song of Bernadette	Werfel, Franz
	2	The Moon Is Down	Steinbeck, John
	3	Dragon Seed	Buck, Pearl S.
	4	And Now Tomorrow	Field, Rachel
	5	Drivin' Woman	Pickett, Elizabeth
	6	Windswept	Chase, Mary Ellen
	7	The Robe	Douglas, Lloyd C.
	8	The Sun Is My Undoing	Steen, Marguerite
	9	Kings Row	Bellamann, Henry
	10	The Keys of the Kingdom	Cronin, A. J.
1942: Non-Fiction
	1	See Here, Private Hargrove	Hargrove, Marion
	2	Mission to Moscow	Davies, Joseph E.
	3	The Last Time I Saw Paris	Paul, Elliot
	4	Cross Creek	Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
	5	Victory Through Air Power	de Seversky, Major Alexander P.
	6	Past Imperfect	Chase, Ilka
	7	They Were Expendable	White, W. L.
	8	Flight to Arras	de St. Exupery, Antoine
	9	Washington Is Like That	Kiplinger, W. M.
	10	Inside Latin America	Gunther, John
1943: Fiction
	1	The Robe	Douglas, Lloyd C.
	2	The Valley of Decision	Davenport, Marcia
	3	So Little Time	Marquand, John P.
	4	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	Smith, Betty
	5	The Human Comedy	Saroyan, William
	6	Mrs. Parkington	Bromfield, Louis
	7	The Apostle	Asch, Sholem
	8	Hungry Hill	du Maurier, Daphne
	9	The Forest and the Fort	Allen, Hervey
	10	The Song of Bernadette	Werfel, Franz
1943: Non-Fiction
	1	Under Cover	Carlson, John Roy
	2	One World	Willkie, Wendell L.
	3	Journey Among Warriors	Curie, Eve
	4	On Being a Real Person	Fosdick, Harry Emerson
	5	Guadalcanal Diary	Tregaskis, Richard
	6	Burma Surgeon	Seagrave, Lt. Col. Gordon
	7	Our Hearts Were Young and Gay	Skinner, Cornelia Otis and Emily Kimbrough
	8	U. S. Foreign Policy	Lippmann, Walter
	9	Here Is Your War	Pyle, Ernie
	10	See Here, Private Hargrove	Hargrove, Marion
1944: Fiction
	1	Strange Fruit	Smith, Lillian
	2	The Robe	Douglas, Lloyd C.
	3	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	Smith, Betty
	4	Forever Amber	Winsor, Kathleen
	5	The Razor's Edge	Maugham, W. Somerset
	6	The Green Years	Cronin, A. J.
	7	Leave Her to Heaven	Williams, Ben Ames
	8	Green Dolphin Street	Goudge, Elizabeth
	9	A Bell for Adano	Hersey, John
	10	The Apostle	Asch, Sholem
1944: Non-Fiction
	1	I Never Left Home	Hope, Bob
	2	Brave Men	Pyle, Ernie
	3	Good Night, Sweet Prince	Fowler, Gene
	4	Under Cover	Carlson, John Roy
	5	Yankee from Olympus	Bowen, Catherine Drinker
	6	The Time for Decision	Welles, Sumner
	7	Here Is Your War	Pyle, Ernie
	8	Anna and the King of Siam	Landon, Margaret
	9	The Curtain Rises	Reynolds, Quentin
	10	Ten Years in Japan	Grew, Joseph C.
1945: Fiction
	1	Forever Amber	Winsor, Kathleen
	2	The Robe	Douglas, Lloyd C.
	3	The Black Rose	Costain, Thomas B.
	4	The White Tower	Ullman, James Ramsey
	5	Cass Timberlane	Lewis, Sinclair
	6	A Lion Is in the Streets	Langley, Adria Locke
	7	So Well Remembered	Hilton, James
	8	Captain from Castile	Shellabarger, Samuel
	9	Earth and High Heaven	Graham, Gwethalyn
	10	Immortal Wife	Stone, Irving
1945: Non-Fiction
	1	Brave Men	Pyle, Ernie
	2	Dear Sir	Lowell, Juliet
	3	Up Front	Mauldin, Bill
	4	Black Boy	Wright, Richard
	5	Try and Stop Me	Cerf, Bennett
	6	Anything Can Happen	Papashvily, George and Helen
	7	General Marshall's Report	U.S. War Department General Staff
	8	The Egg and I	MacDonald, Betty
	9	The Thurber Carnival	Thurber, James
	10	Pleasant Valley	Bromfield, Louis
1946: Fiction
	1	The King's General	du Maurier, Daphne
	2	This Side of Innocence	Caldwell, Taylor
	3	The River Road	Keyes, Frances Parkinson
	4	The Miracle of the Bells	Janney, Russell
	5	The Hucksters	Wakeman, Frederic
	6	The Foxes of Harrow	Yerby, Frank
	7	Arch of Triumph	Remarque, Erich Maria
	8	The Black Rose	Costain, Thomas B.
	9	B. F.'s Daughter	Marquand, John P.
	10	The Snake Pit	Ward, Mary Jane
1946: Non-Fiction
	1	The Egg and I	MacDonald, Betty
	2	Peace of Mind	Liebman, Joshua L.
	3	As He Saw It	Roosevelt, Elliott
	4	The Roosevelt I Knew	Perkins, Frances
	5	Last Chapter	Pyle, Ernie
	6	Starling of the White House	Thomas Sugrue and Col. Edmund Starling
	7	I Chose Freedom	Kravchenko, Victor
	8	The Anatomy of Peace	Reves, Emery
	9	Top Secret	Ingersoll, Ralph
	10	A Solo in Tom-Toms	Fowler, Gene
1947: Fiction
	1	The Miracle of the Bells	Janney, Russell
	2	The Moneyman	Costain, Thomas B.
	3	Gentleman's Agreement	Hobson, Laura Z.
	4	Lydia Bailey	Roberts, Kenneth
	5	The Vixens	Yerby, Frank
	6	The Wayward Bus	Steinbeck, John
	7	House Divided	Williams, Ben Ames
	8	Kingsblood Royal	Lewis, Sinclair
	9	East Side, West Side	Marcia Davenport
	10	Prince of Foxes	Shellabarger, Samuel
1947: Non-Fiction
	1	Peace of Mind	Liebman, Joshua L.
	2	Information Please Almanac, 1947	Kieran, John, editor
	3	Inside U.S.A.	Gunther, John
	4	A Study of History	Toynbee, Arnold J.
	5	Speaking Frankly	Byrnes, James F.
	6	Human Destiny	du Noey, Pierre Lecomte
	7	The Egg and I	MacDonald, Betty
	8	The American Past	Butterfield, Roger
	9	The Fireside Book of Folk Songs	Boni, Margaret B., editor
	10	Together	Katharine T. Marshall
1948: Fiction
	1	The Big Fisherman	Douglas, Lloyd C.
	2	The Naked and the Dead	Mailer, Norman
	3	Dinner at Antoine's	Keyes, Frances Parkinson
	4	The Bishop's Mantle	Turnbull, Agnes Sligh
	5	Tomorrow Will Be Better	Smith, Betty
	6	The Golden Hawk	Yerby, Frank
	7	Raintree County	Lockridge, Ross Jr.
	8	Shannon's Way	Cronin, A. J.
	9	Pilgrim's Inn	Goudge, Elizabeth
	10	The Young Lions	Shaw,Irwin
1948: Non-Fiction
	1	Crusade in Europe	Eisenhower, Dwight D.
	2	How to Stop Worrying and Start Living	Carnegie, Dale
	3	Peace of Mind	Liebman, Joshua L.
	4	Sexual Behavior in the Human Male	Kinsey, A. C., et al.
	5	Wine, Women and Words	Rose, Billy
	6	The Life and Times of the Shmoo	Capp, Al
	7	The Gathering Storm	Churchill, Winston
	8	Roosevelt and Hopkins	Sherwood, Robert E.
	9	A Guide to Confident Living	Peale, Norman Vincent
	10	The Plague and I	MacDonald, Betty
1949: Fiction
	1	The Egyptian	Waltari, Mika
	2	The Big Fisherman	Douglas, Lloyd C.
	3	Mary	Asch, Sholem
	4	A Rage to Live	O'Hara, John
	5	Point of No Return	Marquand, John P.
	6	Dinner at Antoine's	Keyes, Frances Parkinson
	7	High Towers	Costain, Thomas B.
	8	Cutlass Empire	Mason, Van Wyck
	9	Pride's Castle	Yerby, Frank
	10	Father of the Bride	Streeter, Edward
1949: Non-Fiction
	1	White Collar Zoo	Barnes, Clare Jr.
	2	How to Win at Canasta	Jacoby, Oswald
	3	The Seven Storey Mountain	Merton, Thomas
	4	Home Sweet Zoo	Barnes,Clare Jr.
	5	Cheaper by the Dozen	Gilbreth, Frank B. Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
	6	The Greatest Story Ever Told	Oursler, Fulton
	7	Canasta, the Argentine Rummy Game	Reilly, Ottilie H.
	8	Canasta	de Viel, Josephine Artayeta and Ralph Michael
	9	Peace of Soul	Sheen, Fulton J.
	10	A Guide to Confident Living	Peale, Norman Vincent

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