1940 in Literature - New Book

New Book

• Giorgio Basssani - Una città di pianura
• Henry Bellamann - King's Row
• Adolfo Bioy Casares - The Invention of Morel
• Karin Boye - Kallocain
• Edgar Rice Burroughs - Synthetic Men of Mars
• Dino Buzzati - The Tartar Steppe (Il deserto dei Tartari)
• Erskine Caldwell - Trouble in July
• Taylor Caldwell - The Earth is the Lord's
• John Dickson Carr
  • The Department of Queer Complaints
  • The Man Who Could Not Shudder
  • And So To Murder (as by Carter Dickson)
  • Murder in the Submarine Zone (as by Carter Dickson)
• Willa Cather - Sapphira And The Slave
• Raymond Chandler - Farewell, My Lovely
• Agatha Christie
  • Sad Cypress
  • One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
• Walter Clark - The Ox-bow Incident
• James Daugherty - Daniel Boone
• Georges Duhamel - Les Maîtres
• Graham Greene - The Power and the Glory
• Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Georgette Heyer - The Corinthian
• Arthur Koestler - Darkness at Noon
• Dorothy Kunhardt- Pat the Bunny
• John M. Lee - Counter-Clockwise
• Carson McCullers - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
• John O'Hara - Pal Joey
• Raymond Postgate - Verdict of Twelve
• Arthur Ransome - The Big Six
• Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - When the Whippoorwill
• Clayton Rawson -- The Headless Lady
• Michael Sadleir - Fanny by Gaslight
• Mikhail Sholokov - The Don Flows Home to the Sea
• Dr. Seuss - Horton Hatches the Egg
• C. P. Snow - George Passant (first of the Strangers and Brothers series)
• Christina Stead - The Man Who Loved Children
• Rex Stout
  • Over My Dead Body
  • Where There's a Will
• Phoebe Atwood Taylor
  • The Criminal C.O.D.
  • The Deadly Sunshade
  • The Left Leg (as by Alice Tilton)
• Richard Wright -Native Son