Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1940s
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. The standards set for inclusion in the lists – which, for example, lead to the exclusion of the novels in the Harry Potter series from the lists for the 1990s and 2000s – are currently unknown. 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 Night in Bombay by Louis Bromfield The Family by Nina Fedorova 1941 The Keys of the Kingdom by A. J. Cronin Random Harvest by James Hilton This Above All by Eric Knight The Sun Is My Undoing by Marguerite Steen For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway Oliver Wiswell by Kenneth Roberts H. M. Pulham, Esquire by John P. Marquand Mr. and Mrs. Cugat by Isabel Scott Rorick Saratoga Trunk by Edna Ferber Windswept by Mary Ellen