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Best Sellers · 1940s

1943

#1 bestsellers month by month.

January

Hardcover Fiction

Lloyd C. Douglas

Hardcover Nonfiction

SEE HERE, PRIVATE HARGROVE

Marion Hargrove

OUR HEARTS WERE YOUNG AND GAY

Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough

February

Hardcover Fiction

THE VALLEY OF DECISION

Marcia Davenport

Lloyd C. Douglas

Hardcover Nonfiction

OUR HEARTS WERE YOUNG AND GAY

Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough

GUADALCANAL DIARY

Richard Tregaskis

March

Hardcover Fiction

THE VALLEY OF DECISION

Marcia Davenport

Lloyd C. Douglas

Hardcover Nonfiction

GUADALCANAL DIARY

Richard Tregaskis

April

Hardcover Fiction

Lloyd C. Douglas

Hardcover Nonfiction

GUADALCANAL DIARY

Richard Tregaskis

BETWEEN THE THUNDER AND THE SUN

Wendell L. Willkie

May

Hardcover Fiction

Lloyd C. Douglas

Hardcover Nonfiction

Wendell L. Willkie

June

Hardcover Fiction

Lloyd C. Douglas

Hardcover Nonfiction

Wendell L. Willkie

July

Hardcover Fiction

Lloyd C. Douglas

Hardcover Nonfiction

Wendell L. Willkie

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY: SHIELD OF THE REPUBLIC

Walter Lippmann

JOURNEY AMONG WARRIORS

August

Hardcover Fiction

Lloyd C. Douglas

Hardcover Nonfiction

JOURNEY AMONG WARRIORS

John Roy Carlton

September

Hardcover Fiction

John P. Marquand

A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN

Hardcover Nonfiction

John Roy Carlton

October

Hardcover Fiction

John P. Marquand

A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN

Hardcover Nonfiction

John Roy Carlton

November

Hardcover Fiction

A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN

Hardcover Nonfiction

John Roy Carlton

December

Hardcover Fiction

A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN

Hardcover Nonfiction

John Roy Carlton

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