New Books
- Margery Allingham - Traitor's Purse
- William Attaway - Blood on the Forge
- Frans Gunnar Bengtsson - The Long Ships (part 1)
- Maurice Blanchot - Thomas l'obscure
- Pearl S. Buck - China Sky
- James M. Cain - Mildred Pierce
- John Dickson Carr
- The Case of the Constant Suicides
- Death Turns the Tables
- Seeing is Believing (as by Carter Dickson)
- Joyce Cary - Herself Surprised
- Agatha Christie
- Evil Under the Sun
- N or M?
- A. J. Cronin - The Keys of the Kingdom
- L. Sprague de Camp - Lest Darkness Fall (Complete novel)
- August Derleth - Someone in the Dark
- Walter D. Edmonds - The Matchlock Gun
- F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Last Tycoon
- Robert A. Heinlein - Methuselah's Children
- James Hilton - Random Harvest
- C. S. Lewis - The Screwtape Letters
- Janet Lewis - The Wife of Martin Guerre
- Robert McCloskey - Make Way for Ducklings
- Hugh MacLennan - Barometer Rising
- W. Somerset Maugham - Up at the Villa
- Oscar Micheaux - The Wind From Nowhere
- Vladimir Nabokov - The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
- Flann O'Brien - An Béal Bocht
- E. Phillips Oppenheim - The Shy Plutocrat
- Arthur Ransome - Missee Lee
- H. A. Rey and Margret Rey - Curious George
- Rafael Sabatini - Columbus
- Budd Schulberg - What Makes Sammy Run?
- Anya Seton - My Theodosia
- Armstrong Sperry - Call It Courage
- Phoebe Atwood Taylor
- The Perennial Boarder
- The Hollow Chest (as by Alice Tilton)
- Kylie Tennant - The Battlers
- Eudora Welty - A Curtain of Green
- Franz Werfel - The Song of Bernadette
- Virginia Woolf - Between the Acts (posthumously)
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