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
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