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Books of the 1940s

The Second World War and its aftermath. Camus published both The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus in 1942. Orwell was sharpening his arguments. 54 titles in the catalogue from this decade.

The Power and the Glory Graham Greene · 1940 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers · 1940 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
The Stranger Albert Camus · 1942 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
The World of Yesterday Stefan Zweig · 1942 Essential Read See details →
Chess Story Stefan Zweig · 1942 Essential Read See details →
The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery · 1943 Essential Read See details →
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith · 1943 Essential Read See details →
Ficciones Jorge Luis Borges · 1944 Essential Read See details →
Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh · 1945 Essential Read See details →
An Inspector Calls J.B. Priestley · 1945 Essential Read See details →
Black Boy Richard Wright · 1945 Essential Read See details →
Man's Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl · 1946 Essential Read See details →
The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank · 1947 Essential Read See details →
A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams · 1947 Essential Read See details →
The Plague Albert Camus · 1947 Essential Read See details →
1984 George Orwell · 1949 Editor's Choice See details →
Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller · 1949 Essential Read See details →
Meḿoires de guerre Charles de Gaulle · 1940 Recommended See details →
The Problem of Pain C. S. Lewis · 1940 Recommended See details →
The bright pavilions Hugh Walpole · 1940 Recommended See details →
The ill-made knight T. H. White · 1940 Recommended See details →
Under the sea-wind Rachel Carson · 1941 Recommended See details →
Escape from Freedom Erich Fromm · 1941 Recommended See details →
Between the Acts Virginia Woolf · 1941 Recommended See details →
The Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus · 1942 Recommended See details →
The Moon is Down John Steinbeck · 1942 Recommended See details →
The Body in the Library Agatha Christie · 1942 Recommended See details →
Generation of vipers Philip Wylie · 1942 Recommended See details →
Schachnovelle Stefan Zweig · 1943 Recommended See details →
Het Achterhuis Anne Frank · 1944 Recommended See details →
The Razor's Edge William Somerset Maugham · 1944 Recommended See details →
The horse's mouth Joyce Cary · 1944 Recommended See details →
The Road to Serfdom Friedrich A. von Hayek · 1944 Recommended See details →
A History of Western Philosophy Bertrand Russell · 1945 Recommended See details →
Management information systems Kenneth C. Laudon · 1945 Recommended See details →
Animal Farm George Orwell · 1945 Recommended See details →
Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda Paramahansa · 1946 Recommended See details →
Kometen kommer (Kometjakten) Tove Jansson · 1946 Recommended See details →
Tears and laughter Kahlil Gibran · 1946 Recommended See details →
Before philosophy, the intellectual adventure of ancient man Henri Frankfort · 1946 Recommended See details →
Between man and man Martin Buber · 1947 Recommended See details →
4th of July James Patterson · 1947 Recommended See details →
The Portable James Joyce James Joyce · 1947 Recommended See details →
One, two, three ... infinity George Gamow · 1947 Recommended See details →
Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown · 1947 Recommended See details →
The Second World War Winston S. Churchill · 1948 Recommended See details →
The magic of believing Claude M. Bristol · 1948 Recommended See details →
I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith · 1948 Recommended See details →
The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath · 1948 Recommended See details →
The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir · 1949 Recommended See details →
The Intelligent Investor Benjamin Graham · 1949 Recommended See details →
Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell · 1949 Recommended See details →
Authority and the Individual Bertrand Russell · 1949 Recommended See details →
Ursprungsgeschichte des Bewusstseins Erich Neumann · 1949 Recommended See details →

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