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Books That Shaped the 40s

No decade – bar perhaps the 1910s – was more profoundly shaped by a single event, if you can reduce the Second World War to that. The first half of the decade was dominated by the bloodshed of total war; the second by the trauma left in its place.
Despite wartime paper rationing, manpower shortages and censorship, the demand for books never let up. People at home wanted to imagine what it was like on the frontlines, and soldiers on the frontlines wanted to be reminded of home (in fact, demand for battlefield reading material among soldiers was so great, that publishers in the US gave away almost 123 million books to soldiers between 1943 and 1946).
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Native Son (Richard Wright)
Native Son (Richard Wright)
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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The Fountainhead
The Fountainhead
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The Little Prince
The Little Prince
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The Pursuit of Love (Nancy Mitford)
The Pursuit of Love (Nancy Mitford)
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Stuart Little
Stuart Little
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Brideshead Revisited
Brideshead Revisited
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Hiroshima (John Hersey)
Hiroshima (John Hersey)
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Titus Groan (Mervyn Peake)
Titus Groan (Mervyn Peake)
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The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
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The Plague (Albert Camus)
The Plague (Albert Camus)
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Under the Volcano
Under the Volcano
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I Capture the Castle (Dodie Smith)
I Capture the Castle (Dodie Smith)
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The Living Is Easy
The Living Is Easy
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The Naked and the Dead (Norman Mailer)
The Naked and the Dead (Norman Mailer)
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The Heart of the Matter (Graham Greene)
The Heart of the Matter (Graham Greene)
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Annie Allen (Gwendolyn Brooks)
Annie Allen (Gwendolyn Brooks)
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
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