| Title | Author | Publication Date | Activity | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Testament of Youth | Vera Brittain | 1933 | Borrow | Dec 15, 1933 | Jan 2, 1934 |
| Mary of Nazareth | Mary Borden / Bridget Maclagan (pseudonym) | 1933 | Borrow | Jan 2, 1934 | Jan 9, 1934 |
| The Bird of Dawning | John Masefield | 1933 | Borrow | Jan 9, 1934 | Jan 15, 1934 |
| Over the River (End of Chapter) | John Galsworthy | 1933 | Borrow | Jan 15, 1934 | Jan 25, 1934 |
| No Second Spring | Janet Beith | 1933 | Borrow | Jan 25, 1934 | Feb 1, 1934 |
| Ah King | W. Somerset Maugham | 1933 | Borrow | Feb 1, 1934 | Feb 8, 1934 |
| Peter Abelard: A Novel | Helen Waddell | 1933 | Borrow | Feb 8, 1934 | Feb 15, 1934 |
| Flush: A Biography | Virginia Woolf | 1933 | Borrow | Feb 15, 1934 | Feb 22, 1934 |
| Cry Havoc! | Beverley Nichols | 1933 | Borrow | Feb 22, 1934 | Mar 1, 1934 |
| The First Wife and Other Stories | Pearl S. Buck / Pearl Sydenstricker | 1933 | Borrow | Mar 1, 1934 | Mar 12, 1934 |
| A Modern Tragedy | Phyllis Bentley | 1934 | Borrow | Mar 12, 1934 | Mar 19, 1934 |
| Blessington-D'Orsay | Michael Sadleir | 1933 | Borrow | Mar 19, 1934 | Mar 26, 1934 |
| Obscure Destinies | Willa Cather | 1932 | Borrow | Mar 26, 1934 | Mar 28, 1934 |
| Vanessa | Hugh Walpole | 1933 | Borrow | Mar 28, 1934 | Apr 6, 1934 |
| Sea Wall | L. A. G. Strong | 1933 | Borrow | Apr 6, 1934 | Apr 13, 1934 |
| More Memories | Margot Asquith | 1933 | Borrow | Apr 13, 1934 | Apr 17, 1934 |
| T. E. Lawrence in Arabia and After | B. H. Liddell Hart | 1934 | Borrow | Apr 17, 1934 | Apr 23, 1934 |
| English Journey | J. B. Priestley | 1934 | Borrow | Apr 23, 1934 | May 4, 1934 |
| Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself | Radclyffe Hall | 1934 | Borrow | May 4, 1934 | May 5, 1934 |
| Youth Can't Be Served | Norah Hoult | 1933 | Borrow | May 5, 1934 | May 12, 1934 |
| Time Gentlemen! Time! | Norah Hoult | 1930 | Borrow | May 12, 1934 | May 14, 1934 |
| Invitation to the Waltz | Rosamond Lehmann | 1932 | Borrow | May 14, 1934 | May 24, 1934 |
| St. Ignatius Work data is uncertain or incomplete. | - | - | Borrow | May 24, 1934 | Jun 4, 1934 |
| Song and Its Fountains | George William Russell / Æ | 1932 | Borrow | Jun 4, 1934 | Jun 11, 1934 |
| Holy Deadlock | A. P. Herbert | 1934 | Borrow | Jun 11, 1934 | Jun 15, 1934 |
| A Backward Glance | Edith Wharton | 1934 | Borrow | Jun 14, 1934 | Jun 22, 1934 |
| Along the Road: Notes and Essays of a Tourist | Aldous Huxley | 1925 | Borrow | Jun 14, 1934 | Jun 15, 1934 |
| The Ante-Room | Kate O'Brien | 1934 | Borrow | Sep 20, 1934 | Sep 24, 1934 |
| Blind Men Crossing a Bridge: A Novel | Ursula Wyllie Roberts / Susan Miles (pseudonym) | 1934 | Borrow | Sep 24, 1934 | Oct 3, 1934 |
| The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England | T. S. Eliot | 1933 | Borrow | Oct 3, 1934 | Oct 5, 1934 |
| Experiment in Autobiography: Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (Since 1866) | H. G. Wells | 1934 | Borrow | Oct 5, 1934 | Oct 16, 1934 |
| Prefaces and Essays | George Saintsbury | 1933 | Borrow | Oct 16, 1934 | Oct 19, 1934 |
| The Taking of the Gry | John Masefield | 1934 | Borrow | Oct 19, 1934 | - |
| Brazilian Adventure | Peter Fleming | 1933 | Borrow | Oct 26, 1934 | Nov 7, 1934 |
| The Darkening Green | Compton Mackenzie | 1934 | Borrow | Nov 7, 1934 | Nov 29, 1934 |
| Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson | E. M. Forster | 1934 | Borrow | Nov 29, 1934 | Dec 13, 1934 |
| Nijinsky | Romola de Pulszky Nijinsky | 1933 | Borrow | Dec 13, 1934 | Jan 4, 1935 |
| Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson | E. M. Forster | 1934 | Borrow | Apr 8, 1935 | Apr 11, 1935 |
| Erasmus of Rotterdam | Stefan Zweig | 1934 | Borrow | May 11, 1935 | May 18, 1935 |
| The Proud Servant: The Story of Montrose | Margaret Irwin | 1934 | Borrow | May 18, 1935 | Jun 3, 1935 |
| We Have Been Warned | Naomi Mitchison | 1935 | Borrow | Jun 3, 1935 | Jun 7, 1935 |
| Peckover | J. D. Beresford | 1934 | Borrow | Jun 7, 1935 | Jun 15, 1935 |
| Dusk at the Grove | Samuel Rogers | 1934 | Crossed out | Jun 15, 1935 | - |
| Forsytes, Pendyces and Others (The Forsyte Saga) | John Galsworthy | 1935 | Borrow | Jun 15, 1935 | - |
| The House in Paris | Elizabeth Bowen | 1935 | Borrow | Sep 16, 1935 | Sep 21, 1935 |
| Now in November | Josephine Winslow Johnson | 1934 | Borrow | Sep 21, 1935 | Sep 30, 1935 |
| The One-Eyed Moon | Marguerite Steen | 1935 | Borrow | Nov 16, 1935 | Dec 4, 1935 |
| Love in Winter | Storm Jameson | 1935 | Borrow | Dec 4, 1935 | Dec 14, 1935 |
| Clear Horizon (Pilgrimage 11) | Dorothy M. Richardson | 1935 | Borrow | Dec 14, 1935 | Jan 14, 1936 |
| Coventry Patmore's Poems | Coventry Patmore | - | Borrow | Jan 1, 1936 | Jan 14, 1936 |
| Captain Patch | T. F. Powys | 1935 | Borrow | Jan 14, 1936 | Jan 27, 1936 |
| Mr. Norris Changes Trains | Christopher Isherwood | 1935 | Borrow | Jan 27, 1936 | Jan 31, 1936 |
| God Is My Adventure: A Book on Modern Mystics, Masters and Teachers | Rom Landau | 1935 | Borrow | Jan 31, 1936 | Feb 8, 1936 |
| White Ladies | Francis Brett Young | 1935 | Borrow | Feb 8, 1936 | Feb 29, 1936 |
| A Silver Rattle | Sylvia Thompson | 1935 | Borrow | Feb 28, 1936 | Mar 18, 1936 |
| No Mean City: A Story of the Glasgow Slums | Alexander McArthur; Herbert Kingsley Long | 1935 | Borrow | Mar 18, 1936 | Mar 20, 1936 |
| The Life and Letters of John Galsworthy | H. V. Marrot | 1935 | Borrow | Mar 20, 1936 | Apr 4, 1936 |
| The Sayings of Lao Tzu | Laozi | 1926 | Borrow | Apr 25, 1936 | Apr 25, 1936 |
| Darby and Joan | Maurice Baring | 1935 | Borrow | Apr 27, 1936 | May 2, 1936 |
| Sparkenbroke | Charles Morgan | 1936 | Borrow | May 2, 1936 | May 9, 1936 |
| Greengates: A Novel | R. C. Sherriff | 1936 | Borrow | May 9, 1936 | May 16, 1936 |
| Shakespeare | John Middleton Murry | 1936 | Borrow | May 16, 1936 | May 23, 1936 |
| Abinger Harvest | E. M. Forster | 1936 | Borrow | May 23, 1936 | May 29, 1936 |
|
Within a Budding Grove (À la recherche du temps perdu 2)
2 vols.
|
Marcel Proust | 1924 | Borrow | May 27, 1936 | May 29, 1936 |
| Third Act in Venice | Sylvia Thompson | 1936 | Borrow | May 29, 1936 | Jun 8, 1936 |
| The House of the Four Winds | John Buchan | 1935 | Borrow | May 29, 1936 | Jun 6, 1936 |
| The Gap in the Curtain | John Buchan | 1932 | Borrow | Jun 6, 1936 | Jun 8, 1936 |
| The Well and the Shallows | G. K. Chesterton | 1935 | Borrow | Jun 8, 1936 | Jun 12, 1936 |
| Arthur James Balfour, First Earl of Balfour, K.G., O.M., F.R.S., etc. | Blanche Dugdale | 1936 | Borrow | Oct 12, 1936 | Oct 17, 1936 |
| Gaudy Night | Dorothy L. Sayers | 1935 | Borrow | Oct 17, 1936 | Oct 27, 1936 |
| Far Forest | Francis Brett Young | 1936 | Borrow | Oct 27, 1936 | Nov 16, 1936 |
| The Weather in the Streets | Rosamond Lehmann | 1936 | Borrow | Nov 16, 1936 | Nov 30, 1936 |
| New Writing | - | - | Borrow | Nov 30, 1936 | Dec 7, 1936 |
| Eggs and Baker; Or, the Days of Trial | John Masefield | 1936 | Borrow | Dec 7, 1936 | Jan 5, 1937 |
| G. K. Chesterton Work data is uncertain or incomplete. | - | - | Borrow | Jan 5, 1937 | Jan 16, 1937 |
| Monogram | G. B. Stern | 1936 | Borrow | Jan 16, 1937 | Jan 25, 1937 |
| Bird Alone | John Francis Whelan / Seán O'Faoláin / Seán Ó Faoláin | 1936 | Borrow | Jan 23, 1937 | Feb 1, 1937 |
| Famine | Liam O'Flaherty | 1937 | Borrow | Feb 1, 1937 | Feb 15, 1937 |
| A Prayer for My Son: A Novel | Hugh Walpole | 1936 | Borrow | Feb 15, 1937 | Feb 23, 1937 |
| Honourable Estate: A Novel of Transition | Vera Brittain | 1936 | Borrow | Feb 23, 1937 | Mar 6, 1937 |
| Not under Forty | Willa Cather | 1936 | Borrow | Mar 6, 1937 | Mar 11, 1937 |
| Eve's Doctor | Signe Toksvig | 1937 | Borrow | Mar 11, 1937 | Mar 18, 1937 |
| Africa Dances | Geoffrey Gorer | 1935 | Borrow | Mar 11, 1937 | Mar 18, 1937 |
| Blind Man's Year | Warwick Deeping | 1937 | Borrow | Apr 9, 1937 | Apr 14, 1937 |
| The Years | Virginia Woolf | 1937 | Borrow | Apr 14, 1937 | Apr 19, 1937 |
| The Earlier Letters of Gertrude Bell | Gertrude Lowthian Bell | 1937 | Borrow | Apr 19, 1937 | Apr 23, 1937 |
| Grey of Fallodon: The LIfe and Letters of Sir Edward Grey, afterwards Viscount Grey of Fallodon | George Macaulay Trevelyan | 1937 | Borrow | Apr 23, 1937 | May 13, 1937 |
| Present Indicative | Noel Coward | 1937 | Borrow | May 13, 1937 | May 21, 1937 |
| The Du Mauriers | Daphne du Maurier | 1937 | Borrow | May 21, 1937 | May 31, 1937 |
| The Olive Tree and Other Essays | Aldous Huxley | 1936 | Borrow | May 31, 1937 | Jun 11, 1937 |
| Strange Houses: A Tale | Cora Jarrett | 1936 | Borrow | Jun 11, 1937 | Jun 26, 1937 |
| The Note-Books and Papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins | Gerard Manley Hopkins | 1937 | Borrow | Oct 2, 1937 | Oct 9, 1937 |
| Busman's Holiday: A Comedy of the Open Road | Rowland Walker | 1937 | Borrow | Oct 9, 1937 | Oct 12, 1937 |
| The Friendly Tree | C. Day Lewis | 1936 | Borrow | Oct 9, 1937 | Oct 13, 1937 |
| The Diary of Selma Lagerlöf | Selma Lagerlöf | 1936 | Borrow | Oct 9, 1937 | Oct 12, 1937 |
| Japan's Feet of Clay | Freda Utley | 1937 | Borrow | Oct 13, 1937 | Oct 16, 1937 |
| Lancer at Large | Francis Yeats-Brown | 1936 | Borrow | Oct 16, 1937 | Oct 27, 1937 |
| They Seek a Country | Francis Brett Young | 1937 | Borrow | Oct 27, 1937 | Nov 5, 1937 |
| The Mind in Chains: Socialism and the Cultural Revolution | - | 1937 | Borrow | Oct 27, 1937 | Nov 29, 1937 |
| John Cornelius: His Life and Adventures | Hugh Walpole | 1937 | Borrow | Nov 29, 1937 | Dec 13, 1937 |
| Charles Kingsley, 1819 – 1875 | Margaret Farrand Thorp | 1937 | Borrow | Dec 13, 1937 | Dec 17, 1937 |
| Square Peg or The Gun Fella | John Masefield | 1937 | Borrow | Dec 17, 1937 | Jan 7, 1938 |
| The Living Torch | George William Russell / Æ | 1937 | Borrow | Jan 7, 1938 | Jan 19, 1938 |
| Pavements at Anderby | Winifred Holtby | 1937 | Borrow | Jan 10, 1938 | Jan 13, 1938 |
| A Memoir of A.E., George William Russell | William Kirkpatrick Magee | 1937 | Borrow | Jan 13, 1938 | Jan 17, 1938 |
| Edge of Taos Desert (Intimate Memories 4) | Mabel Dodge Luhan | 1937 | Borrow | Jan 17, 1938 | Jan 24, 1938 |
| Plagued by the Nightingale | Kay Boyle | 1931 | Borrow | Jan 17, 1938 | - |
| Age of [unclear] Work data is uncertain or incomplete. | - | - | Borrow | Jan 24, 1938 | Feb 4, 1938 |
| Journalist's Wife | Lilian T. Mowrer | 1937 | Borrow | Feb 4, 1938 | Feb 7, 1938 |
| Robinson of England | John Drinkwater | 1937 | Borrow | Feb 7, 1938 | Feb 18, 1938 |
| Dead Centre | Arthur Calder-Marshall | 1933 | Borrow | Feb 18, 1938 | Feb 25, 1938 |
| The Crystal Cabinet | Mary Butts | 1937 | Borrow | Feb 25, 1938 | Feb 28, 1938 |
| Starting Point | C. Day Lewis | 1937 | Borrow | Feb 28, 1938 | Mar 28, 1938 |
| Three Ways Home | Sheila Kaye-Smith | 1937 | Borrow | Mar 16, 1938 | Mar 28, 1938 |
| Head in Green Bronze and Other Stories | Hugh Walpole | 1938 | Borrow | Mar 28, 1938 | Apr 30, 1938 |
| The Citadel | A. J. Cronin | 1937 | Crossed out | Apr 30, 1938 | - |
| The Summing Up | W. Somerset Maugham | 1938 | Borrow | Apr 30, 1938 | May 13, 1938 |
| The Moon Is Feminine | Winifred Ashton / Clemence Dane (pseudonym) | 1938 | Borrow | May 13, 1938 | May 17, 1938 |
| The Spanish House | Eleanor Smith | 1938 | Borrow | May 17, 1938 | May 24, 1938 |
| The Late George Apley | John P. Marquand | 1937 | Borrow | May 24, 1938 | Jun 1, 1938 |
| Seven Pillars of Wisdom | T. E. Lawrence | 1935 | Borrow | Jun 1, 1938 | Jun 22, 1938 |
| The Way and Its Power | Laozi | 1934 | Borrow | Jun 1, 1938 | Jun 22, 1938 |
| Northwest Passage | Kenneth Roberts | 1937 | Borrow | Jun 22, 1938 | Sep 8, 1938 |
|
Joseph in Egypt
Vol. 1
|
Thomas Mann | 1938 | Borrow | Sep 15, 1938 | Sep 21, 1938 |
| Enchanter's Nightshade | Mary Ann Dolling (Sanders), Lady O'Malley / Ann Bridge (pseudonym) | 1937 | Borrow | Sep 21, 1938 | Oct 3, 1938 |
| The Younger Venus | Naomi Royde-Smith | 1938 | Borrow | Oct 3, 1938 | Oct 6, 1938 |
| Dr. Bradley Remembers | Francis Brett Young | 1938 | Borrow | Oct 6, 1938 | Oct 17, 1938 |
| My Country and My People | Yutang Lin | 1935 | Borrow | Oct 17, 1938 | Oct 24, 1938 |
| Swiss Sonata | Gwethalyn Graham | 1938 | Borrow | Oct 24, 1938 | Oct 28, 1938 |
| The Joyful Delaneys: A Novel | Hugh Walpole | 1938 | Borrow | Oct 28, 1938 | Nov 7, 1938 |
| The Flashing Stream: A Play | Charles Morgan | 1938 | Borrow | Nov 7, 1938 | Nov 14, 1938 |
| Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | 1938 | Borrow | Nov 14, 1938 | Nov 16, 1938 |
| Apropos of Dolores | H. G. Wells | 1938 | Borrow | Nov 16, 1938 | Nov 28, 1938 |
| Paris Work data is uncertain or incomplete. | - | - | Borrow | Nov 28, 1938 | Dec 7, 1938 |
| The Greenwood Hat: Being a Memoir of James Anon, 1885 – 1887 | J. M. Barrie | 1930 | Borrow | Dec 7, 1938 | Dec 14, 1938 |
| The Government of Mankind | J. A. Spender | 1938 | Borrow | Dec 14, 1938 | Jan 26, 1939 |
| Edwin Arlington Robinson Work data is uncertain or incomplete. | - | - | Borrow | Feb 10, 1939 | Feb 28, 1939 |
| The Story of My Heart: My Autobiography | Richard Jefferies | 1883 | Borrow | Feb 28, 1939 | Mar 10, 1939 |
| Richard Jeffries Work data is uncertain or incomplete. | - | - | Borrow | Feb 28, 1939 | Mar 10, 1939 |
| Plotinus Work data is uncertain or incomplete. | - | - | Borrow | Mar 10, 1939 | Mar 22, 1939 |
| Vale Work data is uncertain or incomplete. | - | - | Borrow | Mar 10, 1939 | Mar 13, 1939 |
| George Eliot's Family Life and Letters | Arthur Paterson | 1928 | Borrow | Mar 13, 1939 | Mar 22, 1939 |
| The Clue to History | John Macmurray | 1939 | Borrow | Mar 17, 1939 | Mar 22, 1939 |
| The Midas Touch | Margaret Kennedy | 1938 | Borrow | Mar 22, 1939 | Apr 19, 1939 |
| The Squire | Enid Bagnold | 1938 | Borrow | Apr 19, 1939 | Apr 25, 1939 |
| With Malice toward Some | Margaret Halsey | 1938 | Borrow | Apr 25, 1939 | Apr 29, 1939 |
| The Letters of T. E. Lawrence | T. E. Lawrence | 1938 | Borrow | Apr 29, 1939 | May 6, 1939 |
| Insanity Fair: A European Cavalcade | Douglas Reed | 1938 | Borrow | May 6, 1939 | May 15, 1939 |
| Straws in Amber | Naomi Jacob | 1938 | Borrow | May 15, 1939 | May 20, 1939 |
| Movers and Shakers (Intimate Memories 3) | Mabel Dodge Luhan | 1936 | Borrow | May 20, 1939 | May 25, 1939 |
| Madame Curie | Eve Curie | 1937 | Borrow | May 25, 1939 | Jun 6, 1939 |
| All This and Heaven Too | Rachel Field | 1938 | Borrow | May 25, 1939 | Jun 6, 1939 |
| The Tree of Liberty | Elizabeth Page | 1939 | Borrow | Jun 7, 1939 | Jul 8, 1939 |
| Some People | Harold Nicolson | 1926 | Borrow | Oct 27, 1939 | Oct 31, 1939 |
| Three Marriages / When Women Love | Elizabeth Monica Dashwood / E. M. Delafield (pseudonym) | 1938 | Borrow | Oct 31, 1939 | Nov 4, 1939 |
| The Three Conventions | Denis Saurat | 1926 | Borrow | Nov 4, 1939 | Nov 7, 1939 |
| The Yearling | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | 1938 | Borrow | Nov 7, 1939 | Nov 27, 1939 |
| After Many a Summer | Aldous Huxley | 1939 | Borrow | Nov 10, 1939 | Nov 18, 1939 |
| The Idea of a Christian Society | T. S. Eliot | 1939 | Borrow | Nov 22, 1939 | Nov 27, 1939 |
| Phoebe's Guest House: A Novel | Horace Annesley Vachell | 1939 | Borrow | Nov 27, 1939 | Dec 1, 1939 |
| Four-Part Setting | Mary Ann Dolling (Sanders), Lady O'Malley / Ann Bridge (pseudonym) | 1939 | Borrow | Dec 1, 1939 | Dec 8, 1939 |
| What I Believe | E. M. Forster | 1925 | Borrow | Dec 8, 1939 | Dec 11, 1939 |
| Let the People Sing | J. B. Priestley | 1939 | Borrow | Dec 8, 1939 | Dec 16, 1939 |
| Reviewing | Virginia Woolf | 1939 | Borrow | Dec 11, 1939 | Dec 16, 1939 |
| Ten Little Niggers | Agatha Christie | 1939 | Borrow | Dec 16, 1939 | Dec 19, 1939 |
| Bernard's Brethren | Charles Macmahon Shaw; George Bernard Shaw | 1939 | Borrow | Dec 19, 1939 | Dec 23, 1939 |
| Selected Modern Short Stories | - | 1938 | Purchase | Dec 23, 1939 | Dec 23, 1939 |
| Polonaise | Zoë (Girling) Zajdlerowa / Martin Hare (pseudonym) | 1939 | Borrow | Dec 23, 1939 | Jan 4, 1940 |
| Murder Must Advertise | Dorothy L. Sayers | 1933 | Borrow | Dec 23, 1939 | Dec 27, 1939 |
| The Great Victorians | Harold John Massingham | 1932 | Purchase | Dec 23, 1939 | Dec 23, 1939 |
| The Cloud of Unknowing | - | - | Purchase | Dec 23, 1939 | Dec 23, 1939 |
| The House of Exile | Nora Waln | 1933 | Purchase | Dec 23, 1939 | Dec 23, 1939 |
| Penguin Parade | - | 1939 | Purchase | Dec 23, 1939 | Dec 23, 1939 |
| Peking Picnic: A Novel | Mary Ann Dolling (Sanders), Lady O'Malley / Ann Bridge (pseudonym) | 1932 | Purchase | Dec 23, 1939 | Dec 23, 1939 |
| Typee | Herman Melville | 1846 | Purchase | Dec 23, 1939 | Dec 23, 1939 |
| Whose Body? | Dorothy L. Sayers | 1923 | Borrow | Dec 27, 1939 | Dec 29, 1939 |
| Unnatural Death | Dorothy L. Sayers | 1927 | Borrow | Dec 27, 1939 | Dec 29, 1939 |
| The Documents in the Case | Dorothy L. Sayers; Eustace Robert Barton / Robert Eustace (pseudonym) | 1930 | Borrow | Dec 29, 1939 | Jan 4, 1940 |
| The Five Red Herrings: Suspicious Characters | Dorothy L. Sayers | 1931 | Borrow | Dec 29, 1939 | Jan 4, 1940 |
| The Unbroken Heart | Robert Speaight | 1939 | Borrow | Jan 4, 1940 | Jan 10, 1940 |
| An Oxford Tragedy | J. C. Masterman | 1933 | Purchase | Jan 10, 1940 | Jan 10, 1940 |
| Christmas Holiday | W. Somerset Maugham | 1939 | Borrow | Jan 10, 1940 | Jan 15, 1940 |
| The Common Reader | Virginia Woolf | 1925 | Purchase | Jan 10, 1940 | Jan 10, 1940 |
| The Edwardians | Vita Sackville-West | 1930 | Purchase | Jan 10, 1940 | Jan 10, 1940 |
| Soldiers' Pay | William Faulkner | 1926 | Purchase | Jan 10, 1940 | Jan 10, 1940 |
| Unnatural Death | Dorothy L. Sayers | 1927 | Purchase | Jan 10, 1940 | Jan 10, 1940 |
| Poet's Pub | Eric Linklater | 1930 | Purchase | Jan 10, 1940 | Jan 10, 1940 |
| Children, My Children! | Peter de Polnay | 1939 | Borrow | Jan 15, 1940 | Jan 17, 1940 |
| The Blaze of Noon | Rayner Heppenstall | 1939 | Borrow | Jan 17, 1940 | Jan 23, 1940 |
| England, My England and Other Stories | D. H. Lawrence | 1922 | Borrow | Jan 23, 1940 | Jan 29, 1940 |
| Livingstones: A Novel of Contemporary Life | Derrick León | 1933 | Borrow | Jan 23, 1940 | Jan 29, 1940 |
| The Fox Prowls | Valentine Williams | 1939 | Borrow | Jan 28, 1940 | Feb 7, 1940 |
| I, Claudius | Robert Graves | 1934 | Borrow | Jan 29, 1940 | Feb 7, 1940 |
| The Painted Veil | W. Somerset Maugham | 1925 | Crossed out | Feb 7, 1940 | - |
| The Tree of Liberty | Elizabeth Page | 1939 | Crossed out | Feb 7, 1940 | - |
| It Takes All Kinds | Louis Bromfield / Lewis Bromfield | 1938 | Borrow | Feb 7, 1940 | Feb 22, 1940 |
| The Narrow Corner | W. Somerset Maugham | 1932 | Crossed out | Feb 7, 1940 | - |
| The Farm | Louis Bromfield / Lewis Bromfield | 1933 | Borrow | Feb 22, 1940 | Mar 11, 1940 |
| China at the Crossroads: The Chinese Situation in Perspective | P. C. Change / Peng Chun Chang | 1936 | Borrow | Feb 22, 1940 | Mar 11, 1940 |
| My Man Jeeves | P. G. Wodehouse | 1919 | Purchase | Mar 11, 1940 | Mar 11, 1940 |
| Black Land, White Land: A Reggie Fortune Detective Story | H. C. Bailey | 1937 | Borrow | Mar 11, 1940 | Mar 16, 1940 |
| Letters to a Friend | Winifred Holtby | 1937 | Borrow | Mar 11, 1940 | Mar 27, 1940 |
| The Waxworks Murders | John Dickson Carr / Carter Dickson (pseudonym) | 1932 | Purchase | Mar 11, 1940 | Mar 11, 1940 |
| It Walks by Night | John Dickson Carr / Carter Dickson (pseudonym) | 1930 | Purchase | Mar 11, 1940 | Mar 11, 1940 |
| Vile Bodies | Evelyn Waugh | 1930 | Purchase | Mar 11, 1940 | Mar 11, 1940 |
| The Dragon's Teeth | Frederic Dannay / Ellery Queen (pseudonym); Manfred B. Lee / Ellery Queen (pseudonym) | 1939 | Borrow | Mar 14, 1940 | Mar 18, 1940 |
| The Case of the Lame Canary | Erle Stanley Gardner / Carleton Kendrake (pseudonym) | 1937 | Borrow | Mar 18, 1940 | Mar 27, 1940 |
| The Fox Prowls | Valentine Williams | 1939 | Borrow | Mar 27, 1940 | Mar 28, 1940 |
| South Riding: An English Landscape | Winifred Holtby | 1936 | Borrow | Mar 27, 1940 | Apr 3, 1940 |
| The Case of the Howling Dog | Erle Stanley Gardner / Carleton Kendrake (pseudonym) | 1934 | Borrow | Mar 28, 1940 | Apr 3, 1940 |
| The Nutmeg Tree | Margery Sharp | 1940 | Borrow | Apr 3, 1940 | Apr 3, 1940 |
| The Case of the Velvet Claws | Erle Stanley Gardner / Carleton Kendrake (pseudonym) | 1933 | Borrow | Apr 3, 1940 | Apr 11, 1940 |
| The Swan of Usk: A Historical Novel | Helen Ashton | 1940 | Borrow | Apr 5, 1940 | Apr 11, 1940 |
| Pavements at Anderby | Winifred Holtby | 1937 | Borrow | Apr 11, 1940 | Apr 17, 1940 |
| Mandoa, Mandoa! | Winifred Holtby | 1933 | Borrow | Apr 17, 1940 | Apr 22, 1940 |
| Vein of Iron | Ellen Glasgow | 1935 | Borrow | Apr 22, 1940 | Apr 27, 1940 |
| Gerald: A Portrait | Daphne du Maurier | 1934 | Borrow | Apr 27, 1940 | Apr 29, 1940 |
| Enemies of Promise | Cyril Connolly | 1938 | Borrow | Apr 29, 1940 | May 9, 1940 |
| Ember Lane: A Winter's Tale | Sheila Kaye-Smith | 1940 | Borrow | May 9, 1940 | May 11, 1940 |
|
The New English Weekly
Vol. 26, no. 22, Mar 21, 1940
|
- | - | Borrow | May 11, 1940 | May 23, 1940 |
| Kitty Foyle | Christopher Morley | 1939 | Borrow | May 11, 1940 | May 22, 1940 |
| Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog | Dylan Thomas | 1940 | Borrow | May 11, 1940 | - |
| The New English Weekly | - | - | Borrow | May 11, 1940 | May 23, 1940 |
| Testament of Friendship | Vera Brittain | 1940 | Borrow | May 22, 1940 | Jun 1, 1940 |
| The Unquiet Field | Beatrice Kean Seymour | 1940 | Borrow | Jun 1, 1940 | Jun 10, 1940 |