Non-fiction
- W. H. Auden - The Dyer's Hand and other essays
- Helen Gurley Brown - Sex and the Single Girl
- Rachel Carson – Silent Spring
- Thomas B. Costain – The Last Plantagenets (Fourth book in the Plantagenet or Pageant of England series)
- L. Sprague de Camp – Energy and Power
- August Derleth – 100 Books by August Derleth
- Milton Friedman – Capitalism and Freedom
- Thomas Kuhn – The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- W. Somerset Maugham – Looking Back
- V. S. Naipaul – The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies - British, French and Dutch in the West Indies and South America
- Louis Nizer - My Life in Court
- John Steinbeck – Travels With Charley: In Search of America
- Barbara Tuchman – The Guns of August
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