New Prose Fiction
- Eric Ambler - The Mask of Dimitrios
- Sholem Asch - The Nazarene
- William Attaway - Let Me Breathe Thunder
- Arna Wendell Bontemps - Drums at Dusk
- Pearl S. Buck - The Patriot
- Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan the Magnificent
- John Dickson Carr
- The Black Spectacles
- The Problem of the Wire Cage
- The Reader is Warned (as by Carter Dickson)
- Drop to His Death (in collaboration with John Rhode)
- Aimé Césaire - Cahier d'un Retour au Pays Natal
- Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep
- Agatha Christie
- And Then There Were None
- Murder is Easy
- The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories
- Jeffrey Dell - Nobody Ordered Wolves
- John Fante - Ask the Dust
- William Faulkner - If I Forget Thee Jerusalem (The Wild Palms/Old Man)
- Vardis Fisher - Children of God
- Zona Gale - Magna
- Henry Green - Party Going
- Ernest Hemingway - The Snows of Kilimanjaro
- Zora Neale Hurston - Moses, Man Of The Mountain
- Aldous Huxley - After Many a Summer
- Christopher Isherwood - Goodbye to Berlin
- James Joyce - Finnegans Wake
- Arthur Koestler - The Gladiators
- Richard Llewellyn - How Green Was My Valley
- H. P. Lovecraft - The Outsider and Others
- Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Ingleside
- Flann O'Brien - At Swim-Two-Birds.
- John O'Hara - Files on Parade
- George Orwell - Coming Up for Air
- Elliot Paul - The Mysterious Mickey Finn
- Ellery Queen - The Dragon's Teeth
- Katherine Anne Porter - Pale Horse, Pale Rider
- Arthur Ransome - We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea
- Clayton Rawson - The Footprints on the Ceiling
- Seymour Reit- The Friendly Ghost
- Dorothy L. Sayers - In the Teeth of the Evidence
- John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
- Rex Stout - Some Buried Caesar
- Phoebe Atwood Taylor
- Spring Harrowing
- Cold Steal (as by Alice Tilton)
- Dalton Trumbo - Johnny Got His Gun
- S. S. Van Dine - The Winter Murder Case
- Elio Vittorini - Conversations in Sicily (Conversazione in Sicilia)
- Nathanael West - The Day of the Locust
- Ernest Vincent Wright - Gadsby
- Pierre Schaeffer - Chlothar Nicole (Clotaire Nicole)
- Marguerite Yourcenar - Coup de Grâce
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