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.

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

• Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1940s