The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 1944
This is a list of adult fiction books that topped The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers list in 1944.
The most popular books of the year were A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith and Strange Fruit, by Lillian Smith with respectively 22 and 15 weeks at the top. A "sleeper" success, A Tree Grows had been published fully 6 months before it eventually made it to the No. 1 spot. Somerset Maugham's mystical The Razor's Edge spent several weeks at No. 2, four times displacing Strange Fruit at No. 1.[1]
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn spent 22 weeks at the top of the NYT bestsellers list in 1944
| Date |
Book |
Author |
| January 2 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith |
| January 9 |
| January 16 |
| January 23 |
| January 30 |
| February 6 |
| February 13 |
| February 20 |
| February 27 |
| March 5 |
| March 12 |
| March 19 |
| March 26 |
| April 2 |
| April 9 |
| April 16 |
| April 23 |
| April 30 |
| May 7 |
| May 14 | Strange Fruit | Lillian Smith |
| May 21 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith |
| May 28 |
| June 4 | Strange Fruit | Lillian Smith |
| June 11 |
| June 18 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith |
| June 25 | Strange Fruit | Lillian Smith |
| July 2 | The Razor's Edge | Somerset Maugham |
| July 9 | Strange Fruit | Lillian Smith |
| July 16 |
| July 23 |
| July 30 | The Razor's Edge | Somerset Maugham |
| August 6 | Strange Fruit | Lillian Smith |
| August 13 |
| August 20 | The Razor's Edge | Somerset Maugham |
| August 27 | Strange Fruit | Lillian Smith |
| September 3 |
| September 10 |
| September 17 |
| September 24 | The Razor's Edge | Somerset Maugham |
| October 1 | Strange Fruit | Lillian Smith |
| October 8 |
| October 15 | Green Dolphin Street | Elizabeth Goudge |
| October 22 |
| October 29 |
| November 5 |
| November 12 | Forever Amber | Kathleen Winsor |
| November 19 |
| November 26 |
| December 3 | Green Dolphin Street | Elizabeth Goudge |
| December 10 | Forever Amber | Kathleen Winsor |
| December 17 | The Green Years | A. J. Cronin |
| December 25 | Forever Amber | Kathleen Winsor |
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See also
References
- ↑ John Bear, The #1 New York Times Best Seller: intriguing facts about the 484 books that have been #1 New York Times bestsellers since the first list, 50 years ago, Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1992