| Title | Author | Publication Date | Activity | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Asiatics | Frederic Prokosch | 1935 | Borrow | Jul 29, 1940 | Aug 5, 1940 |
| The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze | William Saroyan | 1934 | Borrow | Aug 5, 1940 | Aug 12, 1940 |
| Pylon | William Faulkner | 1935 | Borrow | Aug 12, 1940 | Aug 28, 1940 |
| Three Soldiers | John Dos Passos | 1921 | Borrow | Aug 28, 1940 | Sep 16, 1940 |
| The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories | Ernest Hemingway | 1938 | Borrow | Sep 16, 1940 | Sep 26, 1940 |
| Adventures of a Young Man | John Dos Passos | 1939 | Borrow | Sep 26, 1940 | Oct 8, 1940 |
| The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories | Ernest Hemingway | 1938 | Borrow | Oct 8, 1940 | Oct 22, 1940 |
| To Have and Have Not | Ernest Hemingway | 1937 | Borrow | Oct 22, 1940 | Oct 31, 1940 |
| An American Tragedy | Theodore Dreiser | 1925 | Borrow | Oct 31, 1940 | Dec 2, 1940 |
| Murder in the Cathedral | T. S. Eliot | 1935 | Borrow | Nov 18, 1940 | Dec 2, 1940 |
| Bird Alone | John Francis Whelan / Seán O'Faoláin / Seán Ó Faoláin | 1936 | Borrow | Dec 1940 | Dec 16, 1940 |
| The Works of Edgar Allan Poe | Edgar Allan Poe | - | Borrow | Dec 16, 1940 | Dec 23, 1940 |
| Dodsworth | Sinclair Lewis | 1929 | Borrow | Dec 16, 1940 | Dec 31, 1940 |
| Strange Interlude | Eugene O'Neill | 1928 | Borrow | Dec 23, 1940 | Dec 31, 1940 |
| Babbitt | Sinclair Lewis | 1922 | Borrow | Dec 31, 1940 | Jan 20, 1941 |
| Trent's Own Case | Edmund Clerihew Bentley | 1936 | Borrow | Dec 31, 1940 | Jan 13, 1941 |
| Trial of a Judge: A Tragedy in Five Acts | Stephen Spender | 1938 | Borrow | Jan 13, 1941 | - |
| To Have and Have Not | Ernest Hemingway | 1937 | Borrow | Jan 20, 1941 | Feb 3, 1941 |
| The Big Money | John Dos Passos | 1936 | Borrow | Feb 3, 1941 | Feb 28, 1941 |
| Come and Get It | Edna Ferber | 1935 | Borrow | Feb 28, 1941 | Mar 11, 1941 |
| Nobody's in Town | Edna Ferber | 1938 | Borrow | Feb 28, 1941 | Mar 18, 1941 |
| Death in the Afternoon | Ernest Hemingway | 1932 | Borrow | Mar 18, 1941 | May 15, 1941 |
| Light in August | William Faulkner | 1932 | Borrow | Mar 25, 1941 | Apr 9, 1941 |
| To Have and Have Not | Ernest Hemingway | 1937 | Borrow | Apr 9, 1941 | Apr 15, 1941 |
| Manhattan Transfer | John Dos Passos | 1925 | Borrow | Apr 15, 1941 | May 2, 1941 |
| Sanctuary | William Faulkner | 1931 | Borrow | May 2, 1941 | May 9, 1941 |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 1939 | Borrow | May 9, 1941 | May 12, 1941 |
| The Backward Son | Stephen Spender | 1940 | Borrow | May 12, 1941 | May 19, 1941 |
| Sister Carrie | Theodore Dreiser | 1900 | Borrow | May 19, 1941 | May 27, 1941 |
| Mr. Norris Changes Trains | Christopher Isherwood | 1935 | Borrow | May 27, 1941 | Jun 9, 1941 |
|
A Gallery of Women
2 vols.
|
Theodore Dreiser | 1929 | Borrow | May 27, 1941 | Jun 9, 1941 |
| We Are the Living: Stories | Erskine Caldwell | 1933 | Borrow | Jun 9, 1941 | Jun 13, 1941 |
| Southways: Stories | Erskine Caldwell | 1938 | Borrow | Jun 9, 1941 | Jun 13, 1941 |
| Journeyman | Erskine Caldwell | 1938 | Borrow | Jun 13, 1941 | Jun 23, 1941 |
| As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner | 1930 | Borrow | Jun 13, 1941 | Jun 23, 1941 |
| Tortilla Flat | John Steinbeck | 1935 | Borrow | Jun 23, 1941 | Jul 7, 1941 |
| Absalom, Absalom! | William Faulkner | 1936 | Borrow | Jun 23, 1941 | Jul 15, 1941 |
| Adventures of a Young Man | John Dos Passos | 1939 | Borrow | Jul 7, 1941 | Jul 23, 1941 |
| Winner Take Nothing | Ernest Hemingway | 1933 | Borrow | Jul 15, 1941 | Jul 29, 1941 |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 1932 | Borrow | Jul 23, 1941 | Jul 29, 1941 |
| The Dog Beneath the Skin | W. H. Auden; Christopher Isherwood | 1935 | Borrow | Jul 29, 1941 | Sep 5, 1941 |
| Aaron's Rod | D. H. Lawrence | 1922 | Borrow | Jul 29, 1941 | Sep 5, 1941 |
| The Charwoman's Daughter | James Stephens | 1912 | Borrow | Jul 29, 1941 | Sep 5, 1941 |
| The Lake | George Moore | 1905 | Borrow | Jul 29, 1941 | Sep 5, 1941 |
| Travels in Wicklow, West Kerry and Connemara | J. M. Synge | 1912 | Borrow | Jul 29, 1941 | Sep 5, 1941 |
| Men without Women | Ernest Hemingway | 1927 | Borrow | Sep 5, 1941 | Sep 19, 1941 |
| Soldiers' Pay | William Faulkner | 1926 | Borrow | Sep 5, 1941 | Sep 19, 1941 |
| Men without Art | Wyndham Lewis | 1934 | Borrow | Sep 19, 1941 | Oct 13, 1941 |
| Flowering Judas and Other Stories | Katherine Anne Porter / Mrs. Katherine Anne Pressly | 1930 | Borrow | Sep 19, 1941 | Oct 13, 1941 |