New Prose Fiction
- Kingsley Amis - That Uncertain Feeling
- Isaac Asimov
- The End of Eternity
- The Martian Way and Other Stories
- Leigh Brackett - The Long Tomorrow
- Ray Bradbury - The October Country
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Conversations with Professor Y
- Agatha Christie - Hickory Dickory Dock
- Arthur C. Clarke - Earthlight
- Thomas B. Costain - The Tontine
- Gertrude Crampton - Scuffy the Tugboat
- Patrick Dennis - Auntie Mame
- John Dickson Carr - Captain Cut-Throat
- J. P. Donleavy - The Ginger Man
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt - Once a Greek
- Ian Fleming - Moonraker
- Franquin - La corne de rhinocéros
- William Gaddis - The Recognitions
- William Golding - The Inheritors
- Graham Greene - The Quiet American
- Henri René Guieu
- L'Agonie du Verre
- Commandos de l'Espace
- Robert A. Heinlein - Tunnel in the Sky
- Frank Herbert - The Dragon in the Sea
- Georgette Heyer - Bath Tangle
- Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr. Ripley
- Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp - Tales of Conan
- Mac Hyman - No Time for Sergeants
- Aldous Huxley - The Genius and the Goddess
- MacKinlay Kantor - Andersonville
- Nikos Kazantzakis - Greek edition of The Last Temptation of Christ (Ο Τελευταίος Πειρασμός)
- Yasar Kemal - Memed, My Hawk
- C. S. Lewis - The Magician's Nephew
- Alistair Maclean - HMS Ulysses
- Norman Mailer - The Deer Park
- Gabriel García Márquez - The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (Relato de un náufrago)
- J. J. Marric's - Gideon's Day
- Brian Moore -The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
- Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
- Flannery O'Connor
- Good Country People
- A Good Man Is Hard To Find
- Marco Denevi - Rosaura a las 10
- John O'Hara - Ten North Frederick
- Anthony Powell - The Acceptance World
- Marin Preda - Moromeții, vol. i
- Barbara Pym - Less than Angels
- Robert Ruark - Something of Value
- Juan Rulfo - Pedro Paramo
- Françoise Sagan - Bonjour Tristesse
- Isaac Bashevis Singer - Satan in Goray
- Thomas Sterling - The Evil of the Day
- Rex Stout - Before Midnight
- Morton Thompson - Not As a Stranger
- J. R. R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King
- Gore Vidal - Messiah
- Evelyn Waugh - Officers and Gentlemen
- Patrick White - The Tree of Man
- Leonard Wibberley - The Mouse That Roared
- Sloan Wilson - The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
- Herman Wouk - Marjorie Morningstar
- John Wyndham - The Chrysalids
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