Most Popular Fiction Books of the 1940s

Hospital of the Transfiguration

Stanislaw Lem

Translation · Mainstream

1948

Friends and Lovers

Helen MacInnes

Spy Thriller · Historical Fiction · Mystery · Romance · Thriller

January 1, 1947

Date With Darkness

Donald Hamilton

Mystery

January 1, 1947

Inspector Hazlerigg #1

Close Quarters

Michael Gilbert

Crime Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

January 1, 1947

The Wayward Bus

John Steinbeck

February 1, 1947

The Pearl

John Steinbeck

Novella · Historical Fiction

January 1, 1947

Revelations in Black

Carl Jacobi

Horror · Science Fiction · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction · Anthology

1947

On the Marble Cliffs

Ernst Jünger

Science Fiction · Translation

1947

Unholy Relics

M. P. Dare

Horror · Short Stories

1947

Miracle on 34th Street

Valentine Davies

Fantasy · Childrens

1947

The Angelic Avengers

Pierre Andrézel

Horror

1947

Not Exactly Ghosts

Andrew Caldecott

Horror · Short Stories

1947

A Name for Evil

Andrew Lytle

Horror

1947

The Dark Fantastic

Margaret Echard

Fantasy

1947

Somewhere I'll Find You

Milton Lesser

Science Fiction

1947

Greener Than You Think

Ward Moore

Science Fiction

1947

Edison's Conquest of Mars

Garrett P. Serviss

Science Fiction

1947

This Mortal Coil

Cynthia Asquith

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

1947

Venus Equilateral

Venus Equilateral

George O. Smith

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1947

Spacehounds of IPC

E. E. Smith

Science Fiction

1947

The Black Wheel

A. Merritt, Hannes Bok

Fantasy

1947

Aarn Munro

The Mightiest Machine

John W. Campbell

Science Fiction

1947

The Book of Ptath

A. E. van Vogt

Science Fiction

1947

With Folded Hands

Jack Williamson

Science Fiction

1947

Jorkens #4

The Fourth Book of Jorkens

Lord Dunsany

Fantasy · Short Stories

1947

Enter the Nebula

Carl Jacobi

Science Fiction · Space Opera

1946

Lucifer and the Child

Ethel Mannin

Horror

1946

Breaking of the Seals

Francis Leslie Ashton

Science Fiction

1946

Neither Man Nor Dog: Short Stories

Gerald Kersh

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Short Stories

1946

Blunder: A Story of the End of the World

Philip Wylie

Science Fiction

1946

The Horror of Abbot's Grange

Frederick Cowles

Horror · Short Stories

1946

The Zero Ray Terrors

E. T. Portwin

Science Fiction

1946

Star of the Unborn

Franz Werfel

Science Fiction

1946

Spawn of the Vampire

N. Wesley Firth

Horror

1946

Don't Break the Seal

A. M. Burrage

Horror

1946

The Invisible Companion and Other Stories

J. Jefferson Farjeon

Fantasy · Short Stories

1946