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Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 1940s
1.
The Diary of a Young Girl
by:
Anne Frank
4.20 avg rating — 4,073,110 ratings
2.
The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud
by:
Henry Miller
3.92 avg rating — 1,274 ratings
3.
West with the Night
by:
Beryl Markham
4.15 avg rating — 40,231 ratings
4.
Black Boy
by:
Richard Wright
4.09 avg rating — 55,306 ratings
4.
I Rode With Stonewall: Being Chiefly The War Experiences of the Youngest Member of Jackson's Staff from John Brown's Raid to the Hanging of Mrs. Surratt
by:
Henry Kyd Douglas
4.30 avg rating — 187 ratings
6.
The Ethics of Ambiguity
by:
Simone de Beauvoir
4.17 avg rating — 7,754 ratings
6.
Головні правила українського правопису
by:
George Y. Shevelov
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
6.
The Unmoving
by:
Maria Stadnicka
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
6.
God Passes by
by:
Shoghi Effendi
4.64 avg rating — 183 ratings
6.
Autobiography of a Yogi
by:
Paramahansa Yogananda
4.25 avg rating — 71,253 ratings
6.
Man's Search for Meaning
by:
Viktor E. Frankl
4.37 avg rating — 832,442 ratings
6.
Ordeal of the Union, Vol 1: Fruits of Manifest Destiny 1847-52
by:
Allan Nevins
4.37 avg rating — 68 ratings
13.
The Discovery of India
by:
Jawaharlal Nehru
4.09 avg rating — 8,511 ratings
13.
Походження українського народу
by:
Віктор Петров
3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
13.
Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era: An Introduction to the Bahá'í Faith
by:
J.E. Esslemont
4.30 avg rating — 360 ratings
13.
Strangely Enough
by:
C. B. Colby
4.01 avg rating — 250 ratings
13.
Lee's Lieutenants: A Study In Command (Volume I: Manassas to Malvern Hill)
by:
Douglas Southall Freeman
4.40 avg rating — 473 ratings
18.
The World of Yesterday
by:
Stefan Zweig
4.51 avg rating — 27,405 ratings
18.
Дорогою відрадянщення: публіцистичні та наукові тексти 1941-1943 рр.
by:
George Y. Shevelov
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
18.
The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry Into the Salem Witch Trials
by:
Marion L. Starkey
3.60 avg rating — 939 ratings
18.
Newspaper Days, 1899-1906 : Volume 2 of Mencken's Autobiography
by:
H.L. Mencken
4.20 avg rating — 129 ratings
22.
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
by:
Rebecca West
4.22 avg rating — 2,622 ratings
22.
Economics in One Lesson
by:
Henry Hazlitt
4.17 avg rating — 21,134 ratings
22.
Думки проти течії
by:
George Y. Shevelov
4.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
22.
The Mask of Sanity
by:
Hervey M. Cleckley
3.99 avg rating — 1,035 ratings
26.
On the Abolition of All Political Parties
by:
Simone Weil
4.04 avg rating — 1,707 ratings
26.
Nine Suitcases: A Memoir
by:
Béla Zsolt
4.03 avg rating — 363 ratings
26.
Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son
by:
William Alexander Percy
3.99 avg rating — 523 ratings
29.
Roger Fry
by:
Virginia Woolf
3.70 avg rating — 145 ratings
29.
Farm in the Green Mountains
by:
Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer
3.94 avg rating — 552 ratings
31.
Prime of Life (1929-1944)
by:
Simone de Beauvoir
4.18 avg rating — 2,021 ratings
31.
Up Front
by:
Bill Mauldin
4.45 avg rating — 1,556 ratings
33.
The Second Sex
by:
Simone de Beauvoir
4.18 avg rating — 45,864 ratings
33.
War Years with Jeb Stuart
by:
W.W. Blackford
4.24 avg rating — 233 ratings
33.
The Plague and I (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #2)
by:
Betty MacDonald
4.20 avg rating — 2,362 ratings
36.
South From Corregidor
by:
John H. Morrill
4.46 avg rating — 735 ratings
37.
The Little Locksmith
by:
Katharine Butler Hathaway
3.66 avg rating — 1,186 ratings
37.
I Saw Poland Betrayed: an American Ambassador Reports to the American People
by:
Arthur Bliss Lane
4.30 avg rating — 37 ratings
37.
Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941
by:
William L. Shirer
4.34 avg rating — 6,315 ratings
40.
Too Much Salt and Pepper
by:
Sam Campbell
4.19 avg rating — 162 ratings
40.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by:
Betty Smith
4.30 avg rating — 499,209 ratings
42.
The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
by:
Władysław Szpilman
4.25 avg rating — 79,657 ratings
42.
The Whole of Their Lives
by:
Benjamin Gitlow
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
42.
Climax in Crete
by:
Theodore Stephanides
4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
45.
The Snake Pit
by:
Mary Jane Ward
4.01 avg rating — 710 ratings
45.
Left Hand, Right Hand!
by:
Osbert Sitwell
3.83 avg rating — 41 ratings
47.
How to Cook a Wolf
by:
M.F.K. Fisher
4.15 avg rating — 2,993 ratings
47.
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
by:
Mary McCarthy
3.72 avg rating — 1,980 ratings
49.
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
by:
James Agee
3.97 avg rating — 3,971 ratings
49.
On The Tip of My Tongue
by:
Iles Brody
4.86 avg rating — 56 ratings
51.
The Roosevelt Myth
by:
John T. Flynn
4.07 avg rating — 167 ratings
51.
The Unprejudiced Palate: Classic Thoughts on Food and the Good Life
by:
Angelo M. Pellegrini
4.02 avg rating — 200 ratings
53.
Where Stands a Winged Sentry (Handheld World War 2 Classics Book 4)
by:
Margaret Kennedy
4.30 avg rating — 80 ratings
53.
The Proper Bostonians
by:
Cleveland Amory
3.96 avg rating — 81 ratings
55.
Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel
by:
John Scott
3.71 avg rating — 649 ratings
55.
Dickens, Dali And Others: (Authorized Orwell Edition): A Mariner Books Classic
by:
George Orwell
3.86 avg rating — 174 ratings
57.
We Shook the Family Tree
by:
Hildegarde Dolson
4.32 avg rating — 141 ratings
57.
50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship
by:
Salvador Dalí
4.19 avg rating — 315 ratings
59.
The Jungle is Neutral
by:
F. Spencer Chapman
4.05 avg rating — 855 ratings
59.
Clementine in the Kitchen: Modern Library Foods
by:
Samuel V. Chamberlain
4.06 avg rating — 418 ratings
61.
The Culture Industry
by:
Theodor W. Adorno
4.05 avg rating — 5,726 ratings
61.
Memories of Old Montana
by:
Con Price
4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
63.
Joan of Arc: Her Story
by:
Régine Pernoud
4.03 avg rating — 665 ratings
63.
Coral Comes High: U.S. Marines and the Fight for Peleliu
by:
George P. Hunt
4.17 avg rating — 611 ratings
65.
Advance to Barbarism: The Development of Total Warfare from Sarajevo to Hiroshima
by:
Frederick J. Veale
4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
65.
Spitfire Pilot: A Personal Account of the Battle of Britain
by:
David M. Crook
4.12 avg rating — 1,618 ratings
67.
The Strange Death of Franklin Roosevelt: A History of the Roosevelt-Delano Dynasty: America's Royal Family
by:
Emanuel M. Josephson
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
67.
Hiroshima
by:
John Hersey
4.04 avg rating — 86,440 ratings
69.
Here Is New York
by:
E.B. White
4.30 avg rating — 10,123 ratings
69.
A Distant Prospect
by:
Lord Berners
4.05 avg rating — 22 ratings
71.
The Concept of Mind
by:
Gilbert Ryle
3.93 avg rating — 1,747 ratings
71.
A Tenderfoot Kid on Gyp Water
by:
Carl Peters Benedict
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
73.
Trails I Rode
by:
Con Price
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings