Non-fiction
- Kenneth Anger - Hollywood Babylon
- Thomas B. Costain - The Three Edwards (Third book in the Plantagenet or Pageant of England series)
- L. Sprague de Camp - Engines
- August Derleth
- Arkham House: The First 20 Years
- Some Notes on H. P. Lovecraft
- Savitri Devi - Impeachment of Man
- C. S. Forester - Sink the Bismarck! aka The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck
- Erving Goffman - The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
- Laurie Lee - Cider With Rosie
- Miguel León-Portilla - Visión de los vencidos: Relaciones indígenas de la conquista
- Garrett Mattingly - The Defeat of the Spanish Armada
- Karl Popper - The Logic of Scientific Discovery
- Cornelius Ryan - The Longest Day
- William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White - The Elements of Style
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