New Books
- Isaac Asimov - Nine Tomorrows
- Saul Bellow - Henderson the Rain King
- Robert Bloch - Psycho
- Ray Bradbury - A Medicine for Melancholy
- John Brunner
- Echo in the Skull
- The World Swappers
- Algis Budrys - The Falling Torch
- William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch
- Taylor Caldwell - Dear and Glorious Physician
- John Dickson Carr - Scandal at High Chimneys: A Victorian Melodrama
- Agatha Christie - Cat Among the Pigeons
- Ivy Compton-Burnett - A Heritage and Its History
- Richard Condon - The Manchurian Candidate
- Alexander Cordell - Rape of the Fair Country
- Julio Cortázar - Las armas secretas (short stories)
- Richard Crichton - The Great Impostor
- Allen Drury - Advise and Consent
- Alfred Duggan - Children of the Wolf
- Ian Fleming - Goldfinger
- Paul Gallico - Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
- William Golding - Free Fall
- Günter Grass - The Tin Drum
- Robert A. Heinlein
- The Menace From Earth
- Starship Troopers
- The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
- Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House
- John Knowles - A Separate Peace
- William J. Lederer and Eugene L. Burdick - The Ugly American
- H. P. Lovecraft and Divers Hands - The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces
- John Lymington - Night of the Big Heat
- John D. MacDonald
- Deadly Welcome
- The Beach Girls
- The Crossroads
- Colin MacInnes - Absolute Beginners
- Alistair MacLean - Night Without End
- Naguib Mahfouz - The Children of Gebelaawi
- Norman Mailer - Advertisements for Myself
- James A. Michener - Hawaii
- Mervyn Peake - Titus Alone
- Robert Randall (pseudonym of Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett) - The Dawning Light
- Mordecai Richler - The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
- Philip Roth - Goodbye, Columbus
- Robert Ruark - Poor No More
- Nathalie Sarraute - Le Planétarium
- Alan Sillitoe - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
- Aimée Sommerfelt – The Road to Agra
- Terry Southern - The Magic Christian
- Rex Stout - Plot It Yourself
- John Updike - The Same Door
- Leon Uris - Exodus
- Kurt Vonnegut - The Sirens of Titan
- Keith Waterhouse - Billy Liar
- Sheila Watson - The Double Hook
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