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Best Sellers · 1940s

1944

#1 bestsellers month by month.

January

Hardcover Fiction

A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN

Hardcover Nonfiction

John Roy Carlton

February

Hardcover Fiction

A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN

Hardcover Nonfiction

John Roy Carlton

GOOD NIGHT, SWEET PRINCE

March

Hardcover Fiction

A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN

Hardcover Nonfiction

John Roy Carlton

GOOD NIGHT, SWEET PRINCE

April

Hardcover Fiction

A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN

Hardcover Nonfiction

GOOD NIGHT, SWEET PRINCE

May

Hardcover Fiction

Hardcover Nonfiction

GOOD NIGHT, SWEET PRINCE

June

Hardcover Fiction

Hardcover Nonfiction

GOOD NIGHT, SWEET PRINCE

July

Hardcover Fiction

Hardcover Nonfiction

YANKEE FROM OLYMPUS

Catherine Drinker Bowen

I NEVER LEFT HOME

August

Hardcover Fiction

THE RAZOR'S EDGE

Somerset Maugham

Hardcover Nonfiction

I NEVER LEFT HOME

September

Hardcover Fiction

THE RAZOR'S EDGE

Somerset Maugham

THE HISTORY OF ROME HANKS

Joseph S. Pennell

Hardcover Nonfiction

I NEVER LEFT HOME

THE TIME FOR DECISION

October

Hardcover Fiction

THE RAZOR'S EDGE

Somerset Maugham

GREEN DOLPHIN STREET

Elizabeth Goudge

Hardcover Nonfiction

I NEVER LEFT HOME

THE TIME FOR DECISION

November

Hardcover Fiction

Kathleen Winsor

Hardcover Nonfiction

YANKEE FROM OLYMPUS

Catherine Drinker Bowen

I NEVER LEFT HOME

December

Hardcover Fiction

Kathleen Winsor

THE GREEN YEARS

Hardcover Nonfiction

THE TIME FOR DECISION

YANKEE FROM OLYMPUS

Catherine Drinker Bowen

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