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Best Sellers · 1940s · 1940

November 1940

#1 bestsellers each week.

Week of November 4, 1940

1940
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
Ernest Hemingway
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Hardcover Fiction

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS

Ernest Hemingway

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1940
COUNTRY SQUIRE IN THE WHITE HOUSE
John Flynn
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Hardcover Nonfiction

COUNTRY SQUIRE IN THE WHITE HOUSE

John Flynn

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Week of November 11, 1940

1940
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
Ernest Hemingway
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Hardcover Fiction

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS

Ernest Hemingway

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1940
THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Hardcover Nonfiction

THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Week of November 18, 1940

1940
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
Ernest Hemingway
Cover of FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS

Hardcover Fiction

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS

Ernest Hemingway

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1940
THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Hardcover Nonfiction

THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Week of November 25, 1940

1940
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
Ernest Hemingway
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Hardcover Fiction

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS

Ernest Hemingway

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1940
A TREASURY OF THE WORLD'S GREAT LETTERS
M. Lincoln Schuster
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Hardcover Nonfiction

A TREASURY OF THE WORLD'S GREAT LETTERS

M. Lincoln Schuster

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