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For Whom the Bell Tolls
1940 novel by Ernest Hemingway

Lassie Come-Home
1940 novel by Eric Knight

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
1940 novel by Carson McCullers
Farewell, My Lovely
novel by Raymond Chandler

Slan
Slan is a science-fiction novel by the Canadian-American writer A. E. van Vogt (1912–2000) — it is also the name of the fictional race of superbeings featured in the novel. The work was first serialized in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction (Sept–Dec 1940) and then published in hardcover in 1946 by Arkham House in an edition of 4,051 copies.

The Hamlet
1940 novel by William Faulkner

Synthetic Men of Mars
1940 novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Long Winter
American children's novel, 1940, sixth in the Little House series

The Snow Goose
novel by Paul Gallico
Native Son
1940 novel by Richard Wright