Non-fiction
- Elizabeth Bowen - Bowen's Court
- Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus (Le Mythe de Sisyphe)
- Salvador Dalí - The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí
- Edith Hamilton - Mythology
- Richard Hillary - The Last Enemy
- Aldous Huxley - The Art of Seeing
- C. S. Lewis - A Preface to Paradise Lost
- Elliot Paul - The Last Time I Saw Paris
- Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. - Picketing Hell
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - Flight to Arras
- Rebecca West - Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
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