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Best Sellers · 1940s

1948

#1 bestsellers month by month.

January

Hardcover Fiction

Ben Ames Williams

Hardcover Nonfiction

SPEAKING FRANKLY

James F. Byrnes

February

Hardcover Fiction

Ben Ames Williams

EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE

Marcia Davenport

Hardcover Nonfiction

Joshua Loth Liebman

March

Hardcover Fiction

EAGLE IN THE SKY

F. Van Wyck Mason

Hardcover Nonfiction

Joshua Loth Liebman

April

Hardcover Fiction

THE IDES OF MARCH

Thornton Wilder

EAGLE IN THE SKY

F. Van Wyck Mason

RAINTREE COUNTY

Hardcover Nonfiction

Joshua Loth Liebman

May

Hardcover Fiction

RAINTREE COUNTY

Elizabeth Goudge

Hardcover Nonfiction

Joshua Loth Liebman

SEXUAL BEHAVIOR IN THE HUMAN MALE

Alfred Charles Kinsey

June

Hardcover Fiction

Elizabeth Goudge

THE NAKED AND THE DEAD

Hardcover Nonfiction

Joshua Loth Liebman

July

Hardcover Fiction

THE NAKED AND THE DEAD

Hardcover Nonfiction

Joshua Loth Liebman

August

Hardcover Fiction

THE NAKED AND THE DEAD

Hardcover Nonfiction

HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING

THE GATHERING STORM

Winston Churchill

Joshua Loth Liebman

September

Hardcover Fiction

THE NAKED AND THE DEAD

Hardcover Nonfiction

THE GATHERING STORM

Winston Churchill

HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING

October

Hardcover Fiction

THE NAKED AND THE DEAD

Hardcover Nonfiction

HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING

November

Hardcover Fiction

THE YOUNG LIONS

THE NAKED AND THE DEAD

Hardcover Nonfiction

HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING

December

Hardcover Fiction

THE YOUNG LIONS

THE BIG FISHERMAN

Lloyd C. Douglas

Hardcover Nonfiction

HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING

ROOSEVELT AND HOPKINS

Robert E. Sherwood

CRUSADE IN EUROPE

Dwight David Eisenhower

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