1938 in Literature - New Prose Fiction

New Prose Fiction

• Margery Allingham - The Fashion in Shrouds
• Eric Ambler
  • Cause for Alarm
  • Epitaph for a Spy
• Vladimir Bartol - Alamut
• Elizabeth Bowen - The Death of the Heart
• Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan and the Forbidden City
• Taylor Caldwell - Dynasty of Death
• John Dickson Carr
  • The Four False Weapons, Being the Return of Bencolin
  • To Wake the Dead
  • The Crooked Hinge
  • The Judas Window (as by Carter Dickson)
  • Death in Five Boxes (as by Carter Dickson)
• Peter Cheyney - Can Ladies Kill?
• Agatha Christie
  • Hercule Poirot's Christmas
  • Appointment with Death
• Albert Cohen - Nailcruncher
• René Daumal - A Night of Serious Drinking
• John Dos Passos - U.S.A. trilogy
• Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca
• Lawrence Durrell - The Black Book
• William Faulkner - The Unvanquished
• Rachel Field - All This and Heaven Too
• Robert Graves - Count Belisarius
• Graham Greene - Brighton Rock
• Eric Knight - Lassie Come-Home
• Emilio Lussu - Un anno sull'altopiano
• C. S. Lewis - Out of the Silent Planet
• Henry Miller - Tropic of Capricorn
• Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Gift
  • Invitation to a Beheading
• John O'Hara - Hope of Heaven
• Ellery Queen
  • The Devil to Pay
  • The Four of Hearts
• Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - The Yearling
• Clayton Rawson - Death from a Top Hat
• Ayn Rand - Anthem
• Joseph Roth - The Emperor's Tomb
• Jean-Paul Sartre - La Nausée
• Georges Simenon - L'Homme qui regardait passer les trains (The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By)
• Kate Seredy - The White Stag
• Esphyr Slobodkina - Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business
• John Steinbeck - The Long Valley
• Rex Stout - Too Many Cooks
• Phoebe Atwood Taylor
  • The Annulet of Gilt
  • Banbury Bog
  • The Cut Direct (as by Alice Tilton)
  • Murder at the New York World's Fair (as by Freeman Dana)
• B. Traven - The Bridge in the Jungle
• S. S. Van Dine - The Gracie Allen Murder Case
• Evelyn Waugh - Scoop
• T. H. White - The Sword in the Stone
• Gale Wilhelm - Torchlight to Valhalla
• Virginia Woolf - Three Guineas