New Books
- Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana - Layar Terkembang
- Jorge Amado - Mar Morto
- Eric Ambler - The Dark Frontier
- Arturo Ambrogi - El Jetón
- Henry Bellamann - The Gray Man Walks
- Gottfried Benn - The Trainee Man
- Arna Wendell Bontemps - Black Thunder
- Elizabeth Bowen - The House in Paris
- Carol Ryrie Brink - Caddie Woodlawn
- Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan's Quest
- James M. Cain - Double Indemnity
- Morley Callaghan - Now that April's Here and Other Stories
- Karel Čapek - War with the Newts
- John Dickson Carr
- The Arabian Nights Murder
- The Punch and Judy Murders (as by Carter Dickson)
- Willa Cather - Not Under Forty
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Death on the Installment Plan
- Agatha Christie
- The A.B.C. Murders
- Murder in Mesopotamia
- Cards on the Table
- Robert P. Tristram Coffin - John Dawn
- John Dos Passos - The Big Money
- William Pène du Bois - Otto at Sea
- Daphne du Maurier - Jamaica Inn
- Walter D. Edmonds - Drums Along the Mohawk
- William Faulkner - Absalom, Absalom!
- Margaret Flint - The Old Ashburn Place
- Graham Greene - A Gun for Sale
- Aldous Huxley - Eyeless in Gaza
- Winifred Holtby - South Riding
- Arthur Joseph - Dark Metropolis
- Jonathan Latimer - The Lady in the Morgue
- Andrew Lytle - The Long Night
- Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind
- John A. Moroso - Nobody's Buddy
- Ellery Queen - Halfway House
- Ayn Rand - We the Living
- Arthur Ransome - Pigeon Post
- Erich Maria Remarque - Three Comrades
- Israel Joshua Singer - The Brothers Ashkenazi
- John Steinbeck - In Dubious Battle
- Rex Stout - The Rubber Band
- Phoebe Atwood Taylor
- The Crimson Patch
- Out of Order
- S. S. Van Dine - The Kidnap Murder Case
- Vũ Trọng Phụng - Dumb Luck
- Ethel Lina White - The Wheel Spins (later The Lady Vanishes)
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