1944 in Literature - New Prose Fiction

New Prose Fiction

• Samuel Hopkins Adams – Canal Town
• Jorge Amado – Terras do Sem Fim (The Violent Land)
• Saul Bellow – Dangling Man
• Jorge Luis Borges – Ficciones
• Christianna Brand – Green for Danger
• John Dickson Carr
  • Till Death Do Us Part
  • He Wouldn't Kill Patience (as by Carter Dickson)
• Joyce Cary – The Horse's Mouth
• Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Guignol's Band
• Agatha Christie
  • Death Comes as the End
  • Towards Zero
  • Absent in the Spring (as by Mary Westmacott)
• Edmund Crispin – The Case of the Gilded Fly
• Eric Linklater – The Wind on the Moon
• A. J. Cronin – The Green Years
• Esther Forbes – Johnny Tremain
• Jean Genet – Notre Dame des Fleurs
• John Hersey – A Bell for Adano
• Georgette Heyer – Friday's Child
• Charles R. Jackson – The Lost Weekend
• Pär Lagerkvist – Dvärgen
• Astrid Lindgren – Pippi Longstocking
• H. P. Lovecraft – Marginalia
• W. Somerset Maugham – The Razor's Edge
• Oscar Micheaux – The Case of Mrs. Wingate
• Alberto Moravia – Agostino (Two Adolescents)
• Gunnar Myrdal – An American Dilemma
• Feodor Rojankovsky – The Tall Book of Nursery Tales
• Anya Seton – Dragonwyck
• Clark Ashton Smith – Lost Worlds
• Rex Stout – Not Quite Dead Enough
• Phoebe Atwood Taylor – Dead Ernest (as by Alice Tilton)
• Donald Wandrei – The Eye and the Finger
• Martin Wickremasinghe – Gamperaliya
• Henry S. Whitehead – Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales