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

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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