Listă cu cele mai bune romane din SUA în anii 1940

1940
#	Titlu	Autor
1.	How Green Was My Valley	Richard Llewellyn
2.	Kitty Foyle	Christopher Morley
3.	Mrs. Miniver	Jan Struther
4.	Pentru cine bat clopotele	Ernest Hemingway
5.	The Nazarene	Sholem Asch
6.	Stars on the Sea	F. van Wyck
7.	Oliver Wiswell	Kenneth Roberts
8.	The Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck
9.	Night in Bombay	Louis Bromfield
10.	The Family	Nina Fedorova

1941
#	Titlu	Autor
1.	The Keys of the Kingdom	A. J. Cronin
2.	Random Harvest	James Hilton
3.	This Above All	Eric Knight
4.	The Sun Is My Undoing	Marguerite Steen
5.	Pentru cine bat clopotele	Ernest Hemingway
6.	Oliver Wiswell	Kenneth Roberts
7.	H.M. Pulham, Esquire	John P. Marquand
8.	Mr. and Mrs. Cugat	Isabel Scott Rorick
9.	Saratoga Trunk	Edna Ferber
10.	Windswept	Mary Ellen Chase

1942
#	Titlu	Autor
1.	The Song of Bernadette	Franz Werfel
2.	The Moon Is Down	John Steinbeck
3.	Dragon Seed	Pearl S. Buck
4.	And Now Tomorrow	Rachel Field
5.	Drivin' Woman	Elizabeth Pickett
6.	Windswept	Mary Ellen Chase
7.	The Robe	Lloyd C. Douglas
8.	The Sun Is My Undoing	Marguerite Sheen
9.	King's Row	Henry Bellamann
10.	The Keys of the Kingdom	A. J. Cronin

1943
#	Titlu	Autor
1.	The Robe	Lloyd C. Douglas
2.	The Valley of Decision	Marcia Davenport
3.	So Little Time	John P. Marquand
4.	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	Betty Smith
5.	The Human Comedy	William Saroyan
6.	Mrs. Parkington	Louis Bromfield
7.	The Apostle	Sholem Asch
8.	Hungry Hill	Daphne du Maurier
9.	The Forest and the Fort	Hervey Allen
10.	The Song of Bernadette	Franz Werfel

1944
#	Titlu	Autor
1.	Strange Fruit	Lillian Smith
2.	The Robe	Lloyd C. Douglas
3.	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	Betty Smith
4.	Forever Amber	Kathleen Winsor
5.	The Razor's Edge	W. Somerset Maugham
6.	The Green Years	A. J. Cronin
7.	Leave Her to Heaven	Ben Ames Williams
8.	Green Dolphin Street	Elizabeth Goudge
9.	A Bell for Adano	John Hersey
10.	The Apostle	Sholem Asch

1945
#	Titlu	Autor
1.	Forever Amber	Kathleen Winsor
2.	The Robe	Lloyd C. Douglas
3.	The Black Rose	Thomas B. Costain
4.	The White Tower	James Ramsey Ullman
5.	Cass Timberlane	Sinclair Lewis
6.	A Lion Is in the Streets	Adria Locke Langley
7.	So Well Remembered	James Hilton
8.	Captain from Castile	Samuel Shellabarger
9.	Earth and High Heaven	Gwethalyn Graham
10.	Immortal Wife	Irving Stone

1946
#	Titlu	Autor
1.	The King's General	Daphne du Maurier
2.	This Side of Innocence	Taylor Caldwell
3.	The River Road	Frances Parkinson Keyes
4.	The Miracle of the Bells	Russell Janney
5.	The Hucksters	Frederic Wakeman, Sr.
6.	The Foxes of Harrow	Frank Yerby
7.	Arch of Triumph	Erich Maria Remarque
8.	The Black Rose	Thomas B. Costain
9.	B.F.'s Daughter	John P. Marquand
10.	The Snake Pit	Mary Jane Ward

1947
#	Titlu	Autor
1.	The Miracle of the Bells	Russell Janney
2.	The Moneyman	Thomas B. Costain
3.	Gentleman's Agreement	Laura Z. Hobson
4.	Lydia Bailey	Kenneth Roberts
5.	The Vixens	Frank Yerby
6.	The Wayward Bus	John Steinbeck
7.	House Divided	Ben Ames Williams
8.	Kingsblood Royal	Sinclair Lewis
9.	East Side, West Side	Marcia Davenport
10.	Prince of Foxes	Samuel Shellabarger

1948
#	Titlu	Autor
1.	The Big Fisherman	Lloyd C. Douglas
2.	The Naked and the Dead	Norman Mailer
3.	Dinner at Antoine's	Frances Parkinson Keyes
4.	The Bishop's Mantle	Agnes Sligh Turnbull
5.	Tomorrow Will Be Better	Betty Smith
6.	The Golden Hawk	Frank Yerby
7.	Raintree County	Ross Lockridge, Jr.
8.	Shannon's Way	A. J. Cronin
9.	Pilgrim's Inn	Elizabeth Goudge
10.	The Young Lions	Irwin Shaw

1949
#	Titlu	Autor
1.	The Egyptian	Mika Waltari
2.	The Big Fisherman	Lloyd C. Douglas
3.	Mary	Sholem Asch
4.	A Rage to Live	John O'Hara
5.	Point of No Return	John P. Marquand
6.	Dinner at Antoine's	Frances Parkinson Keyes
7.	High Towers	Thomas B. Costain
8.	Cutlass Empire	Van Wyck Mason
9.	Pride's Castle	Frank Yerby
10.	Father of the Bride	Edward Streeter