List of The New York Times number-one books of 1945

This is a list of books that topped The New York Times best-seller list in 1945.

Fiction

The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. Seven books topped the list that year, the longest on top being The Green Years, which dominated the winter months (17 weeks). Other particularly popular titles included A Lion in the Streets (12 weeks on top), Captain from Castile (7 weeks) and The Black Rose (18 weeks including 4 in 1946). ^[1]

Date	Book	Author
January 1	The Green Years	A.J. Cronin
January 8
January 15
January 22
January 29
February 5
February 12
February 19
February 26
March 4
March 11
March 18
March 25
April 1
April 8
April 15
April 22	Earth and High Heaven	Gwethalyn Graham
April 29
May 6	The Green Years	A.J. Cronin
May 13	Captain from Castile	Samuel Shellabarger
May 20
May 27
June 3
June 10
June 17
June 24
July 1	A Lion is in the Streets	Adria Locke Langley
July 8
July 15
July 22
July 29
August 5
August 12
August 19
August 26
September 2
September 9
September 16
September 23	So Well Remembered	James Hilton
September 30	The Black Rose	Thomas B. Costain
October 7
October 14
October 21
October 28
November 4
November 11
November 18
November 25
December 2
December 9
December 16
December 23
December 30

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

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. pp. 17-21