A Century of Books V
By the Decade: 1940-1949

Most titles will be found in the fiction section, under the author’s last name. When that is not the case, the call number is noted.

1940:
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families, James Agee 
976.1 AGE

The Man with the Golden Arm, Nelson Algren

Farewell, My Lovely (in The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window)
Raymond Chandler

For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway

The Man Who Loved Children, Christina Stead

You Can’t Go Home Again, Thomas Wolfe

Native Son, Richard Wright

1941:
Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler

Above Suspicion (in Triple Threat: Three Novels), Helen MacInnes

1942:
The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis 
248.4 LEW

A Witness Tree, Robert Frost 
811.52 FRO

The Stranger, Albert Camus

1943:
Bound for Glory, Woody Guthrie  B Guthrie

The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand

The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Big Rock Candy Mountain, Wallace Earle Stegner

1944:
Dangling Man, Saul Bellow

A Bell for Adano, John Hersey

1945:
A History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell 
109 RUS

No Exit, Jean Paul Sartre 
842.914 SAR

The Age of Jackson, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. 
973.5 SCH

Animal Farm, George Orwell

Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder, Evelyn Waugh

1946:
Hiroshima, John Hersey 
940.5425 HER

The Berlin Stories, Christopher Isherwood

The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers

All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren

Delta Wedding, Eudora Welty

1947:
A Masque of Mercy, Robert Frost 
811.52 FRO

All My Sons, Arthur Miller 
812.52 MIL

A Streetcar Named Desire (in Volume 1 of Plays), Tennessee Williams 
812.54 WIL

Tales of the South Pacific, James A. Michener 
813.8 MIC

The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank 
940.5318092 FRA

Doctor Faustus, Thomas Mann

1948:
Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft, Thor Heyerdahl 
910.4 HEY

The Gathering Storm, Sir Winston Churchill 
940.53 CHU

The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton  B Merton

The Plague, Albert Camus

Other Voices, Other Rooms, Truman Capote

The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer

Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton

1949:
Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller 
812.52 MIL

The Way West, A. B. Guthrie

The Lottery (in The Lottery and Other Stories), Shirley Jackson

Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell

Time of Hope, C. P. Snow

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