List of The New York Times number-one books of 1944

This is a list of books that topped The New York Times best-seller list in 1944.

Fiction

The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books.

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 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

Nonfiction

The following list ranks the number-one best-selling nonfiction books.

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