Non-fiction
- "Cato" (Michael Foot and others) - Guilty Men
- G. H. Hardy - A Mathematician's Apology
- C. S. Lewis - The Problem of Pain
- Arthur Marder - The Anatomy of British Sea Power: a history of British naval policy in the pre-Dreadnought era, 1880-1905
- A. A. Milne - War with Honour
- Edmund Wilson - To the Finland Station
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