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The 1940s

Not every book published in the 1940s: the 21 that were shortlisted for, or won, Best Novel at the Retro Hugo Award.

By year of publication

  • Kallocain — Karin Boye (1940)
  • The Ill-Made Knight — T. H. White (1940)
  • Darkness and the Light — Olaf Stapledon (1942)
  • Donovan's Brain — Curt Siodmak (1942)
  • Islandia — Austin Tappan Wright (1942)
  • The Uninvited — Dorothy Macardle (1942)
  • Conjure Wife — Fritz Leiber (1943)
  • Das Glasperlenspiel — Hermann Hesse (1943)
  • Perelandra — C. S. Lewis (1943)
  • Land of Terror — Edgar Rice Burroughs (1944)
  • Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord — Olaf Stapledon (1944)
  • The Golden Fleece — Robert Graves (1944)
  • The Wind on the Moon — Eric Linklater (1944)
  • Destiny Times Three — Fritz Leiber (1945)
  • Red Sun of Danger — Edmond Hamilton, Ray Bradbury, William Morrison (1945)
  • That Hideous Strength — C. S. Lewis (1945)
  • The Mule — Isaac Asimov (1945)
  • Slan — A. E. van Vogt (1946)
  • The Weapon Makers — A. E. van Vogt (1947)
  • Beyond This Horizon — Robert A. Heinlein (1948)
  • The World of Null-A — A. E. van Vogt (1948)