New Fiction Books
- Samuel Hopkins Adams - The Harvey Girls
- Henry Bellamann - Floods of Spring
- Earle Birney - David
- Taylor Caldwell - The Strong City
- Albert Camus - The Stranger (L'Étranger)
- John Dickson Carr
- The Emperor's Snuff-Box
- The Gilded Man (as by Carter Dickson)
- Joyce Cary - To Be a Pilgrim
- Raymond Chandler - The High Window
- Agatha Christie
- The Body in the Library
- Five Little Pigs
- The Moving Finger
- Lloyd C. Douglas - The Robe
- Daphne du Maurier - Frenchman's Creek
- Rachel Field - And Now Tomorrow
- F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Last Tycoon
- Robert A. Heinlein - Beyond This Horizon
- Kalki Krishnamurthy - Parthiban Kanavu
- C. S. Lewis - The Screwtape Letters
- Janette Sebring Lowrey - The Poky Little Puppy
- Sándor Márai - Embers
- Beryl Markham - West with the Night
- Robert Musil - The Man Without Qualities
- Ellery Queen - Calamity Town
- Raymond Queneau - Pierrot mon ami
- Clayton Rawson - No Coffin for the Corpse
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - Cross Creek
- Nevil Shute - Pied Piper
- Curt Siodmak - Donovan's Brain
- Clark Ashton Smith - Out of Space and Time
- Eleanor Smith
- Caravan
- The Man in Grey
- John Steinbeck - The Moon is Down
- Rex Stout - Black Orchids
- Phoebe Atwood Taylor
- The Six Iron Spiders
- Three Plots for Asey Mayo
- Vercors - Le Silence de la mer
- Evelyn Waugh - Put Out More Flags
- Cornell Woolrich - Black Alibi
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