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WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLERS

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Listed below are samplings of the bestseller lists published weekly in the Washington Post between 1939 and 1943:

Sunday June 25th 1939:
FICTION
The Web and the Rock --- Thomas Wolfe
The Grapes of Wrath --- John Steinbeck
Wine of Good Hope --- David Rame
Capt. Horatio Hornblower --- E.S. Forrester
Wickford Point -- J.P. Marquand
Death of the Heart --- Elizabeth Bowen

GENERAL
America in Midpassage --- Charles and Mary Beard
Wind Sand and Stars --- Antoine St. Exupery
Lizzie Borden --- Mrs. Belloc-Lowndes
Reaching for the Stars --- Nora Waln
Inside Asia --- John Gunther
Autobiography --- William Lyon Phelps (7)

Sunday June 2nd 1940:
Fiction
Night in Bombay --- Louis Bromfield
Chad Hanna --- Walter D. Edmonds
Kitty Foyle --- Marjorie Rawlings
How Green Was My Valley --- Richard Llewellyn
Mr. Skeffington --- Elizabeth.
The Bird in the Tree --- Elizabeth Goudge

GENERAL
American White Paper --- Alsop and Kintner
Foreign Policy for the United States --- Charles Beard
I Married Adventure --- Osa Johnson
Your Federal Civil Service --- O'Brien and Marenberg
A Southerner Discovers New England --- Jonathan Daniels
How to Pay for the War --- J.M. Keynes (8)

Sunday June 22nd 1941:
FICTION
This Above All --- Eric Knight
The Transposed Heads --- Thomas Mann
Something of a Hero --- I.J. Kapstein
Random Harvest --- James Hilton
Whistle Stop --- Maritta Wolf
No One Now Will Know --- E.M. Delafield

GENERAL
The Time Is Now --- Van Paasen
Managerial Revolution --- James Burnham
Mission to the North --- Florence Harriman
Men and Politics --- L. Fischer
Blood,Sweat,and Tears --- Winston Churchill
Men of Wealth --- John T. Flynn (9)

Sunday June 14th 1942:
FICTION
Song of Bernadette --- Franz Werfel
Kings Row --- Henry Bellaman
War and Peace --- Leo Tolstoy
The Moon Is Down --- John Steinbeck
The Castle on the Hill --- Elizabeth Goudge
The Children --- Nina Federova

GENERAL
Washington Is Like That --- W.M. Kiplinger
Victory Through Air Power --- De Seversky
Officers' Guide --- Eighth Edition
The Last Time I Saw Paris --- Elliott Paul
Road We Are Traveling --- Stuart Chase
Past Imperfect --- Ilka Chase (10)

Sunday June 20th 1943:
FICTION
Winter's Tales --- Isak Dinesen
Capricornia --- Xavier Herbert
Gideon Planish --- Sinclair Lewis
Kate Fanningate --- Booth Tarkington The Ship --- C.S. Forester
The Little Prince --- Antoine St. Exupery

GENERAL
One World --- Wendell Willkie
On Being a Real Person --- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Journey Among Warriors --- Eve Curie
Combined Operations --- Anonymous
Between the Thunder and the Sun --- Vincent Sheean
U.S. Foreign Policy --- Walter Lippman (11)

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