- From here to eternity, by James Jones
- The web and the rock, Thomas Wolfe
- The naked and the dead, Norman Mailer
- Gone with the wind, by Margaret Mitchell
- Bolts of melody, new poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and Millicent Todd Bingham
- Hiroshima, John Hersey
- A bell for Adano, [by] John Hersey
- The member of the wedding, [by] Carson McCullers
- Requiem for a nun
- Of time and the river;, a legend of man's hunger in his youth,, by Thomas Wolfe ..
- Death of a salesman;, certain private conversations in two acts and a requiem
- The grapes of wrath, [by] John Steinbeck
- Reflections in a golden eye,, by Carson McCullers
- You can't go home again, Thomas Wolfe
- The hills beyond,, with a note on Thomas Wolfe by Edward C. Aswell
- Of the farm, John Updike