| Title | Author | Publication Date | Activity | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seven Pillars of Wisdom | T. E. Lawrence | 1935 | Borrow | Feb 11, 1938 | Feb 16, 1938 |
| Keep the Aspidistra Flying | Eric Arthur Blair / George Orwell (pseudonym) | 1936 | Borrow | Feb 16, 1938 | Feb 19, 1938 |
| The Best Short Stories Work data is uncertain or incomplete. | - | - | Borrow | Feb 19, 1938 | Feb 24, 1938 |
| Thieves Like Us | Edward Anderson | 1937 | Borrow | Feb 24, 1938 | Feb 25, 1938 |
| One Life, One Kopeck | Walter Duranty | 1937 | Borrow | Feb 25, 1938 | Feb 26, 1938 |
| This Must Be the Place: Memoirs of Jimmie, the Barman (James Charters) as Told by Morrill Cody | Jimmie Charters; Morrill Cody | 1934 | Borrow | Feb 26, 1938 | Feb 28, 1938 |
| Burmese Days | Eric Arthur Blair / George Orwell (pseudonym) | 1934 | Borrow | Feb 28, 1938 | Mar 2, 1938 |
| Soldiers' Pay | William Faulkner | 1926 | Borrow | Mar 2, 1938 | Mar 7, 1938 |
| Absalom, Absalom! | William Faulkner | 1936 | Crossed out | Mar 2, 1938 | - |
| These Foolish Things | Michael Sadleir | 1936 | Borrow | Mar 7, 1938 | Mar 8, 1938 |
| Death in the Afternoon | Ernest Hemingway | 1932 | Borrow | Mar 8, 1938 | Mar 14, 1938 |
| Tibet's Great Yogī, Milarepa | - | 1928 | Borrow | Mar 14, 1938 | Mar 17, 1938 |
| The Burning Cactus | Stephen Spender | 1936 | Borrow | Mar 17, 1938 | Mar 19, 1938 |
| Pie in the Sky | Arthur Calder-Marshall | 1937 | Borrow | Mar 19, 1938 | Mar 28, 1938 |
| Ends and Means: An Enquiry into the Nature of Ideals and into the Methods Employed for Their Realization | Aldous Huxley | 1937 | Borrow | Mar 28, 1938 | Apr 6, 1938 |
| The Rains Came | Louis Bromfield / Lewis Bromfield | 1937 | Borrow | Apr 6, 1938 | Apr 25, 1938 |
| Constance Markievicz: Or, the Average Revolutionary | John Francis Whelan / Seán O'Faoláin / Seán Ó Faoláin | 1934 | Borrow | Apr 25, 1938 | May 2, 1938 |
| Ulysses | James Joyce | 1922 | Borrow | May 2, 1938 | May 21, 1938 |
| Dead Centre | Arthur Calder-Marshall | 1933 | Borrow | May 21, 1938 | May 24, 1938 |
| The Unvanquished | William Faulkner | 1938 | Borrow | May 24, 1938 | May 28, 1938 |
| Northwest Passage | Kenneth Roberts | 1937 | Borrow | May 28, 1938 | Jun 2, 1938 |
| The Fight for Life | Paul de Kruif | 1938 | Borrow | Jun 2, 1938 | Jun 15, 1938 |
| Living China: Modern Chinese Short Stories | - | 1936 | Borrow | Jun 15, 1938 | Jun 20, 1938 |
| Anthony Adverse | Hervey Allen | 1933 | Borrow | Jun 20, 1938 | Jun 23, 1938 |
| Light in August | William Faulkner | 1932 | Borrow | Jun 23, 1938 | Jun 29, 1938 |
| Those Were the Days! | Osbert Sitwell | 1938 | Borrow | Jun 29, 1938 | Jul 4, 1938 |
| My Country and My People | Yutang Lin | 1935 | Borrow | Jul 4, 1938 | Jul 11, 1938 |
| Let Your Mind Alone! | James Thurber | 1937 | Borrow | Jul 11, 1938 | Jul 13, 1938 |
| Imperial City | Elmer Rice | 1937 | Borrow | Jul 13, 1938 | Jul 18, 1938 |
| Three Guineas | Virginia Woolf | 1938 | Borrow | Jul 18, 1938 | Jul 23, 1938 |
| The Sisters | Myron Brinig | 1937 | Borrow | Jul 23, 1938 | Jul 28, 1938 |
| Journeys between Wars | John Dos Passos | 1938 | Borrow | Oct 19, 1938 | Oct 24, 1938 |
| Boundary against Night | Edmund Gilligan | 1938 | Borrow | Oct 24, 1938 | Oct 27, 1938 |
| New Directions in Prose and Poetry Work data is uncertain or incomplete. | - | - | Borrow | Oct 27, 1938 | Oct 31, 1938 |
| The Gay and Melancholy Flux | William Saroyan | 1937 | Borrow | Oct 31, 1938 | Nov 7, 1938 |
| Southways: Stories | Erskine Caldwell | 1938 | Borrow | Nov 7, 1938 | Nov 10, 1938 |
| Imperial City | Elmer Rice | 1937 | Borrow | Nov 10, 1938 | Nov 15, 1938 |
| The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze | William Saroyan | 1934 | Borrow | Nov 15, 1938 | Nov 19, 1938 |
| Little Children | William Saroyan | 1938 | Borrow | Nov 19, 1938 | Nov 24, 1938 |
| White Mule | William Carlos Williams | 1937 | Borrow | Nov 24, 1938 | Nov 26, 1938 |
| The Long Valley | John Steinbeck | 1938 | Borrow | Nov 26, 1938 | Nov 30, 1938 |
| Seven against Reeves: A Comedy-Farce | Richard Aldington | 1938 | Borrow | Nov 30, 1938 | Dec 15, 1938 |
| They Seek a Country | Francis Brett Young | 1937 | Borrow | Nov 30, 1938 | Dec 15, 1938 |
| Blessington-D'Orsay | Michael Sadleir | 1933 | Borrow | Dec 15, 1938 | Jan 23, 1939 |
| Of Human Bondage | W. Somerset Maugham | 1915 | Borrow | Jan 23, 1939 | Jan 30, 1939 |
| Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | 1938 | Borrow | Jan 30, 1939 | Feb 6, 1939 |
| Boundary against Night | Edmund Gilligan | 1938 | Borrow | Feb 6, 1939 | - |
| Those Were the Days! | Osbert Sitwell | 1938 | Borrow | Feb 8, 1939 | Feb 13, 1939 |
| My Sister Eileen | Ruth McKenney | 1938 | Borrow | Feb 13, 1939 | Feb 16, 1939 |
| Arthur Rimbaud | Enid Starkie | 1938 | Borrow | Feb 16, 1939 | Feb 21, 1939 |
| Do What You Will: Essays | Aldous Huxley | 1929 | Borrow | Feb 21, 1939 | Feb 27, 1939 |
| The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories | Ernest Hemingway | 1938 | Borrow | Feb 27, 1939 | Mar 1, 1939 |
| The Jungle of the Mind | Edgar James Swift | 1931 | Borrow | Mar 1, 1939 | Mar 13, 1939 |
| Benjamin Franklin | Carl van Doren | 1938 | Borrow | Mar 13, 1939 | Mar 16, 1939 |
| The Midas Touch | Margaret Kennedy | 1938 | Borrow | Mar 16, 1939 | Mar 18, 1939 |
| Lillian Wald, Neighborhood and Crusader | R. L. Duffus | 1938 | Borrow | Mar 18, 1939 | Mar 22, 1939 |
| Trio: Dissertations on Some Aspects of National Genius | Edith Sitwell; Osbert Sitwell; Sacheverell Sitwell | 1938 | Borrow | Mar 22, 1939 | Mar 24, 1939 |
| The Wild Palms | William Faulkner | 1939 | Borrow | Mar 24, 1939 | Mar 31, 1939 |
| Young Man with a Horn | Dorothy (Dodds) Baker / Mme Howard Baker | 1938 | Borrow | Mar 31, 1939 | Apr 5, 1939 |
| The Destructive Element: A Study of Modern Writers and Beliefs | Stephen Spender | 1935 | Borrow | Apr 5, 1939 | Apr 17, 1939 |
| Christmas Holiday | W. Somerset Maugham | 1939 | Borrow | Apr 17, 1939 | Apr 19, 1939 |
| The Flashing Stream: A Play | Charles Morgan | 1938 | Borrow | Apr 19, 1939 | Apr 21, 1939 |
| At Swim-Two-Birds | Flann O'Brien / Brian O'Nolan / Brian Ó Nualláin | 1939 | Borrow | Apr 21, 1939 | Apr 24, 1939 |
| The Unbroken Heart | Robert Speaight | 1939 | Borrow | Apr 24, 1939 | Apr 28, 1939 |
| The Midas Touch | Margaret Kennedy | 1938 | Borrow | Apr 28, 1939 | May 1, 1939 |
| Hamlet | William Shakespeare | - | Borrow | Jan 28, 1940 | Jan 31, 1940 |
| The Crazy Hunter: Three Short Novels | Kay Boyle | 1940 | Borrow | Jan 31, 1940 | Feb 3, 1940 |
| Other Gods: An American Legend | Pearl S. Buck / Pearl Sydenstricker | 1940 | Borrow | Feb 3, 1940 | Feb 10, 1940 |
| The White Horses of Vienna | Kay Boyle | 1936 | Borrow | Feb 10, 1940 | Feb 14, 1940 |
| Death of a Man | Kay Boyle | 1936 | Borrow | Feb 14, 1940 | Feb 18, 1940 |
| The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories | Ernest Hemingway | 1938 | Borrow | Feb 18, 1940 | Feb 24, 1940 |
| Native Son | Richard Wright | 1940 | Borrow | Feb 24, 1940 | Feb 28, 1940 |
| Men without Women | Ernest Hemingway | 1927 | Borrow | Feb 28, 1940 | Mar 6, 1940 |
| Seven Poor Men of Sydney | Christina Stead | 1934 | Borrow | Mar 6, 1940 | Mar 11, 1940 |
| Adrigoole | Peadar O'Donnell | 1929 | Borrow | Mar 6, 1940 | Mar 11, 1940 |
| The Knife | Herbert Adams | 1934 | Borrow | Mar 11, 1940 | Mar 25, 1940 |
| The Salzburg Tales | Christina Stead | 1934 | Borrow | Mar 11, 1940 | Mar 25, 1940 |
| Night of the Poor | Frederic Prokosch | 1939 | Borrow | Mar 25, 1940 | Mar 27, 1940 |
| Now Gentlemen Please | Herbert Ferneé | 1940 | Borrow | Mar 27, 1941 | Apr 1, 1941 |
| Letters to Frederick Tennyson | Hugh J. Schonfield | 1930 | Borrow | Apr 1, 1941 | Apr 10, 1941 |
| The Power and the Glory | Graham Greene | 1940 | Borrow | Apr 1, 1941 | Apr 10, 1941 |
| The Single Hound: A Novel | May Sarton | 1938 | Borrow | Apr 10, 1941 | Apr 21, 1941 |
| James Joyce, His First Forty Years | Herbert Sherman Gorman | 1924 | Borrow | Apr 10, 1941 | Apr 21, 1941 |
| The Crock of Gold | James Stephens | 1912 | Borrow | Apr 21, 1941 | Apr 24, 1941 |
| The Backward Son | Stephen Spender | 1940 | Borrow | Apr 21, 1941 | Apr 24, 1941 |
| Trouble in July | Erskine Caldwell | 1940 | Borrow | Apr 24, 1941 | Apr 28, 1941 |
| Coming Up for Air | Eric Arthur Blair / George Orwell (pseudonym) | 1939 | Borrow | Apr 28, 1941 | May 5, 1941 |
| In All Countries | John Dos Passos | 1934 | Borrow | Apr 28, 1941 | May 5, 1941 |
| The Patriot | Pearl S. Buck / Pearl Sydenstricker | 1939 | Borrow | May 5, 1941 | May 16, 1941 |
| The Way of a Transgressor | Negley Farson | 1936 | Borrow | May 5, 1941 | May 16, 1941 |
| Green Hills of Africa | Ernest Hemingway | 1935 | Borrow | May 16, 1941 | May 26, 1941 |
| As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner | 1930 | Borrow | May 16, 1941 | May 26, 1941 |
| My Next Bride | Kay Boyle | 1934 | Borrow | May 26, 1941 | Jun 3, 1941 |
| Gentlemen, I Address You Privately | Kay Boyle | 1933 | Borrow | May 26, 1941 | Jun 3, 1941 |
| Coming, Sir!: The Autobiography of a Waiter | Arthur Henry Timmins / Dave Marlowe (pseudonym) | 1937 | Borrow | Jun 3, 1941 | Jun 11, 1941 |
| The Best Short Stories of 1938: English and American | - | 1938 | Borrow | Jun 3, 1941 | Jun 11, 1941 |
| Portrait of Jennie | Robert Nathan | 1940 | Borrow | Jun 11, 1941 | Jun 18, 1941 |
| The Blaze of Noon | Rayner Heppenstall | 1939 | Borrow | Jun 11, 1941 | Jun 18, 1941 |
| Pitch Lake: A Story from Trinidad | Alfred Hubert Mendes | 1934 | Borrow | Jun 18, 1941 | Jul 4, 1941 |
| Ulysses | James Joyce | 1922 | Borrow | Jun 18, 1941 | Jul 4, 1941 |
| Party Going | Henry Vincent Yorke / Henry Green (pseudonym) | 1939 | Borrow | Jul 4, 1941 | Jul 15, 1941 |
| The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan | James T. Farrell | 1934 | Borrow | Jul 4, 1941 | Jul 15, 1941 |
| Fellow Countrymen: Collected Stories | James T. Farrell | 1937 | Borrow | Jul 15, 1941 | Sep 2, 1941 |
| The Story of a Lake | Negley Farson | 1938 | Borrow | Jul 15, 1941 | Sep 2, 1941 |