1939 in Literature - New Prose Fiction

New Prose Fiction

• Eric Ambler - The Mask of Dimitrios
• Sholem Asch - The Nazarene
• William Attaway - Let Me Breathe Thunder
• Arna Wendell Bontemps - Drums at Dusk
• Pearl S. Buck - The Patriot
• Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan the Magnificent
• John Dickson Carr
  • The Black Spectacles
  • The Problem of the Wire Cage
  • The Reader is Warned (as by Carter Dickson)
  • Drop to His Death (in collaboration with John Rhode)
• Aimé Césaire - Cahier d'un Retour au Pays Natal
• Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep
• Agatha Christie
  • And Then There Were None
  • Murder is Easy
  • The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories
• Jeffrey Dell - Nobody Ordered Wolves
• John Fante - Ask the Dust
• William Faulkner - If I Forget Thee Jerusalem (The Wild Palms/Old Man)
• Vardis Fisher - Children of God
• Zona Gale - Magna
• Henry Green - Party Going
• Ernest Hemingway - The Snows of Kilimanjaro
• Zora Neale Hurston - Moses, Man Of The Mountain
• Aldous Huxley - After Many a Summer
• Christopher Isherwood - Goodbye to Berlin
• James Joyce - Finnegans Wake
• Arthur Koestler - The Gladiators
• Richard Llewellyn - How Green Was My Valley
• H. P. Lovecraft - The Outsider and Others
• Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Ingleside
• Flann O'Brien - At Swim-Two-Birds.
• John O'Hara - Files on Parade
• George Orwell - Coming Up for Air
• Elliot Paul - The Mysterious Mickey Finn
• Ellery Queen - The Dragon's Teeth
• Katherine Anne Porter - Pale Horse, Pale Rider
• Arthur Ransome - We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea
• Clayton Rawson - The Footprints on the Ceiling
• Seymour Reit- The Friendly Ghost
• Dorothy L. Sayers - In the Teeth of the Evidence
• John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
• Rex Stout - Some Buried Caesar
• Phoebe Atwood Taylor
  • Spring Harrowing
  • Cold Steal (as by Alice Tilton)
• Dalton Trumbo - Johnny Got His Gun
• S. S. Van Dine - The Winter Murder Case
• Elio Vittorini - Conversations in Sicily (Conversazione in Sicilia)
• Nathanael West - The Day of the Locust
• Ernest Vincent Wright - Gadsby
• Pierre Schaeffer - Chlothar Nicole (Clotaire Nicole)
• Marguerite Yourcenar - Coup de Grâce