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Best Sellers · 1940s

1941

#1 bestsellers month by month.

January

Hardcover Fiction

Kenneth Roberts

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS

Ernest Hemingway

Hardcover Nonfiction

THE WHITE CLIFFS

Alice Duer Miller

February

Hardcover Fiction

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS

Ernest Hemingway

Kenneth Roberts

Hardcover Nonfiction

OUT OF THE NIGHT

March

Hardcover Fiction

Hardcover Nonfiction

OUT OF THE NIGHT

April

Hardcover Fiction

Hardcover Nonfiction

OUT OF THE NIGHT

THE WHITE CLIFFS

Alice Duer Miller

BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS

Winston Churchill

May

Hardcover Fiction

Hardcover Nonfiction

BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS

Winston Churchill

June

Hardcover Fiction

Hardcover Nonfiction

THE TIME IS NOW

Pierre van Paassen

BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS

Winston Churchill

William L. Shirer

July

Hardcover Fiction

Hardcover Nonfiction

William L. Shirer

August

Hardcover Fiction

THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM

Hardcover Nonfiction

William L. Shirer

September

Hardcover Fiction

THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM

Hardcover Nonfiction

William L. Shirer

October

Hardcover Fiction

THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM

Hardcover Nonfiction

William L. Shirer

November

Hardcover Fiction

THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM

Hardcover Nonfiction

William L. Shirer

December

Hardcover Fiction

THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM

Mary Ellen Chase

Hardcover Nonfiction

William L. Shirer

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