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]

Date Book Author
January 2A Tree Grows in BrooklynBetty 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 14Strange FruitLillian Smith
May 21A Tree Grows in BrooklynBetty Smith
May 28
June 4Strange FruitLillian Smith
June 11
June 18A Tree Grows in BrooklynBetty Smith
June 25Strange FruitLillian Smith
July 2The Razor's EdgeSomerset Maugham
July 9Strange FruitLillian Smith
July 16
July 23
July 30The Razor's EdgeSomerset Maugham
August 6Strange FruitLillian Smith
August 13
August 20The Razor's EdgeSomerset Maugham
August 27Strange FruitLillian Smith
September 3
September 10
September 17
September 24The Razor's EdgeSomerset Maugham
October 1Strange FruitLillian Smith
October 8
October 15Green Dolphin StreetElizabeth Goudge
October 22
October 29
November 5
November 12Forever AmberKathleen Winsor
November 19
November 26
December 3Green Dolphin StreetElizabeth Goudge
December 10Forever AmberKathleen Winsor
December 17The Green YearsA. J. Cronin
December 25Forever AmberKathleen Winsor

See also

References

  1. 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
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