1941 in Literature

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)