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- Giorgio Basssani - Una città di pianura
- Henry Bellamann - King's Row
- Adolfo Bioy Casares - The Invention of Morel
- Karin Boye - Kallocain
- Edgar Rice Burroughs - Synthetic Men of Mars
- Dino Buzzati - The Tartar Steppe (Il deserto dei Tartari)
- Erskine Caldwell - Trouble in July
- Taylor Caldwell - The Earth is the Lord's
- John Dickson Carr
- The Department of Queer Complaints
- The Man Who Could Not Shudder
- And So To Murder (as by Carter Dickson)
- Murder in the Submarine Zone (as by Carter Dickson)
- Willa Cather - Sapphira And The Slave
- Raymond Chandler - Farewell, My Lovely
- Agatha Christie
- Sad Cypress
- One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
- Walter Clark - The Ox-bow Incident
- James Daugherty - Daniel Boone
- Georges Duhamel - Les Maîtres
- Graham Greene - The Power and the Glory
- Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Georgette Heyer - The Corinthian
- Arthur Koestler - Darkness at Noon
- Dorothy Kunhardt- Pat the Bunny
- John M. Lee - Counter-Clockwise
- Carson McCullers - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
- John O'Hara - Pal Joey
- Raymond Postgate - Verdict of Twelve
- Arthur Ransome - The Big Six
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - When the Whippoorwill
- Clayton Rawson -- The Headless Lady
- Michael Sadleir - Fanny by Gaslight
- Mikhail Sholokov - The Don Flows Home to the Sea
- Dr. Seuss - Horton Hatches the Egg
- C. P. Snow - George Passant (first of the Strangers and Brothers series)
- Christina Stead - The Man Who Loved Children
- Rex Stout
- Over My Dead Body
- Where There's a Will
- Phoebe Atwood Taylor
- The Criminal C.O.D.
- The Deadly Sunshade
- The Left Leg (as by Alice Tilton)
- Richard Wright -Native Son
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