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Best Sellers · 1940s

1942

#1 bestsellers month by month.

January

Hardcover Fiction

THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM

Mary Ellen Chase

Hardcover Nonfiction

William L. Shirer

MISSION TO MOSCOW

Joseph E. Davies

February

Hardcover Fiction

Mary Ellen Chase

FRENCHMAN'S CREEK

Daphne du Maurier

Hardcover Nonfiction

MISSION TO MOSCOW

Joseph E. Davies

March

Hardcover Fiction

THE MOON IS DOWN

Hardcover Nonfiction

MISSION TO MOSCOW

Joseph E. Davies

FLIGHT TO ARRAS

Antonine de St. Exupery

THE JAPANESE ENEMY

April

Hardcover Fiction

THE MOON IS DOWN

Hardcover Nonfiction

FLIGHT TO ARRAS

Antonine de St. Exupery

May

Hardcover Fiction

THE MOON IS DOWN

Hardcover Nonfiction

Marjorie Rawlings

THE LAST TIME I SAW PARIS

June

Hardcover Fiction

THE MOON IS DOWN

AND NOW TOMORROW

Hardcover Nonfiction

THE LAST TIME I SAW PARIS

July

Hardcover Fiction

AND NOW TOMORROW

THE SONG OF BERNADETTE

Hardcover Nonfiction

THE LAST TIME I SAW PARIS

August

Hardcover Fiction

AND NOW TOMORROW

THE SONG OF BERNADETTE

Hardcover Nonfiction

THE LAST TIME I SAW PARIS

WASHINGTON IS LIKE THAT

W. M. Kiplinger

VICTORY THROUGH AIR POWER

A. P. de Seversky

SEE HERE, PRIVATE HARGROVE

Marion Hargrove

September

Hardcover Fiction

THE SONG OF BERNADETTE

Hardcover Nonfiction

THE LAST TIME I SAW PARIS

VICTORY THROUGH AIR POWER

A. P. de Seversky

THE COMING BATTLE OF GERMANY

William B. Ziff

THEY WERE EXPENDABLE

October

Hardcover Fiction

THE SONG OF BERNADETTE

Hardcover Nonfiction

THEY WERE EXPENDABLE

SEE HERE, PRIVATE HARGROVE

Marion Hargrove

November

Hardcover Fiction

THE PRODIGAL WOMEN

THE VALLEY OF DECISION

Marcia Davenport

Hardcover Nonfiction

SEE HERE, PRIVATE HARGROVE

Marion Hargrove

December

Hardcover Fiction

THE PRODIGAL WOMEN

Lloyd C. Douglas

Hardcover Nonfiction

SEE HERE, PRIVATE HARGROVE

Marion Hargrove

OUR HEARTS WERE YOUNG AND GAY

Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough

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