The fifth installment of best selling books of the Twentieth Century as detailed in Publisher’s Weekly:
* 1940
How Green Was My Valley, Richard Llewellyn
* 1941
The Keys of the Kingdom, A. J. Cronin
*1942
The Song of Bernadette, Franz Werfel
* 1943
The Robe, Lloyd C. Douglas
* 1944
Strange Fruit, Lillian Smith
* 1945
Forever Amber, Kathleen Winsor
* 1946
The King’s General, Daphne du Maurier
* 1947
The Miracle of the Bells, Russell Janney
* 1948
The Big Fisherman, Lloyd C. Douglas
* 1949
The Egyptian, Mika Waltari
Anyone who has read any of these is welcome to make a comment.