Reading in the 1940s
All The King’s Men. Robert Penn Warren
Animal Farm. George Orwell
A Bell for Adano. John Hersey
Berlin Diary. William L. Shirer
Blood, Sweat and Tears. Winston Churchill
Brideshead Revisited. Evelyn Waugh
Crusade in Europe. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Cry, The Beloved Country. Alan Paton
Curious George. Magret and H.A Rey
Darkness At Noon. Arthur Koestler
Death Be Not Proud. John Gunther
Death of a Salesman. Arthur Miller
The Diary of a Young Girl. Anne Frank
Dinner at Antoine’s. Frances Parkinson Keyes
For Whom the Bell Tolls. Ernest Hemingway
Forever Amber. Kathleen Winsor
The Fountainhead. Ayn Rand
The Foxes of Harrow. Frank Yerby
The Friendly Persuasion. Jessamyn West
Gentleman’s Agreement. Laura Hobson
The Glass Menagerie. Tennessee Williams
Good night Moon. Margaret Wise Brown
A Guide to Confident Living. Norman Vincent Peale
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Carson McCullers
Here is Your War. Ernie Pyle
How Green Was My Valley. Robert Llewellyn
The Hundred Dresses. Eleanor Estes
I, The Jury. Mickey Spillane
Johnny Tremain. Esther Forbes
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. James Agee
The Little Prince. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Loved One. Evelyn Waugh
Make Way for Ducklings. Robert McCloskey
The Man With the Golden Arm. Nelson Algren
Many Moons. James Thurber
The Naked and the Dead. Norman Mailer
Native Son. Richard Wright
Nineteen Eighty-Four. George Orwell
The Ox-Bow Incident. Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Persons and Places: Fragments of Autobiography. George Santayana
Prayer for a Child (ill. Elizabeth Orton Jones, HP Author). Rachel Field
Raintree County. Ross Lockridge
The Razor’s Edge. W. Somerset Maugham
Reading I’ve Liked. Clifton Fadiman
The Robe. Lloyd C. Douglas
A Second Sex. Simone de Beauvoir
The Seven-Storey Mountain. Thomas Merton
The Snake Pit. Mary Jane Ward
Song of Bernadette. Franz Werfel
A Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams
Tales of the South Pacific. James Michener
They Were Expendable. William L. White
This Side of Innocence. Taylor Caldwell
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Betty Smith
Up Front. Bill Mauldin
What I Believe. Sholem Asch
Young Lions. Irwin Shaw
Zorba the Greek. Nikos Kazantzakis