1958 in Literature - New Books

New Books

• Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
• Kingsley Amis - I Like It Here
• Jorge Amado - Gabriela, Cravo e Canela (Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon)
• Louis Aragon - La Semaine Sainte
• H. E. Bates - The Darling Buds of May
• Thomas Berger - Crazy in Berlin
• James Blish - A Case of Conscience
• Joseph Payne Brennan - Nine Horrors and a Dream
• Algis Budrys
  • Man of Earth
  • Who?
• Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's
• John Dickson Carr - The Dead Man's Knock
• Raymond Chandler - Playback
• Agatha Christie - Ordeal by Innocence
• Richard Condon - The Oldest Confession
• A. J. Cronin
  • The Innkeeper's Wife
  • The Northern Light
• L. Sprague de Camp - An Elephant for Aristotle
• Patrick Dennis - Around the World with Auntie Mame
• August Derleth
  • The Mask of Cthulhu
  • The Return of Solar Pons
• Lawrence Durrell
  • Balthazar
  • Mountolive
• Ian Fleming - Dr. No
• Peter George - Red Alert
• Graham Greene - Our Man in Havana
• Cyril Hare - He Should Have Died Hereafter
• Marlen Haushofer - We Murder Stella
• Georgette Heyer - Venetia
• Harold L. Humes - The Underground City
• Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums
• Frances Parkinson Keyes - Victorine
• Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - The Leopard (published posthumously)
• Manuel Lopes - O Galo Que Cantou na Baía
• John D. MacDonald - The Executioners
• Ross Macdonald - The Doomsters
• Richard Matheson - A Stir of Echoes
• Alberto Moravia - La ciociara
• R. K. Narayan - The Guide
• Kenzaburō Ōe - Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
• Mary Renault - The King Must Die
• Anya Seton - The Winthrop Woman
• Dr. Seuss - Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
• Alan Sillitoe - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
• Terry Southern (as Maxwell Kenton) - Candy
• Rex Stout
  • And Four to Go
  • Champagne for One
• Yves Thériault - Agaguk
• Robert Traver - Anatomy of a Murder
• Jack Vance - The Languages of Pao
• Rex Warner - Young Caesar
• Jerome Weidman - The Enemy Camp