| Title | Author | Publication Date | Activity | Start Date | End Date |
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| Enbury Heath | Stella Gibbons | 1935 | Borrow | Jan 6, 1940 | Jan 10, 1940 |
| Nightwood | Djuna Barnes | 1936 | Borrow | Jan 10, 1940 | Jan 13, 1940 |
| My Next Bride | Kay Boyle | 1934 | Crossed out | Jan 13, 1940 | - |
| The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | 1926 | Borrow | Jan 13, 1940 | Jan 15, 1940 |
| My Thirty Years' War | Margaret C. Anderson | 1930 | Borrow | Jan 15, 1940 | Jan 16, 1940 |
| My Next Bride | Kay Boyle | 1934 | Borrow | Jan 16, 1940 | Jan 19, 1940 |
| The One Who Is Legion | Natalie Clifford Barney | 1930 | Borrow | Jan 19, 1940 | Jan 20, 1940 |
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Travels in Arabia Deserta
Vol. 1
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Charles M. Doughty | 1883 | Borrow | Jan 20, 1940 | Feb 14, 1940 |
| Extraordinary Women: Theme and Variations | Compton Mackenzie | 1928 | Borrow | Jan 20, 1940 | Jan 22, 1940 |
| Flowering Judas and Other Stories | Katherine Anne Porter / Mrs. Katherine Anne Pressly | 1930 | Borrow | Jan 22, 1940 | Jan 24, 1940 |
| Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | 1811 | Borrow | Jan 24, 1940 | Jan 29, 1940 |
| Dusty Answer | Rosamond Lehmann | 1927 | Borrow | Jan 31, 1940 | Feb 1, 1940 |
| A Three-Legged Tour in Greece: March 24 – May 4, 1925 | Ethel Smyth | 1927 | Borrow | Feb 1, 1940 | Feb 2, 1940 |
| The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems | Edna St. Vincent Millay | 1923 | Borrow | Feb 2, 1940 | Feb 5, 1940 |
| The Rock Pool | Cyril Connolly | 1936 | Borrow | Feb 5, 1940 | Feb 6, 1940 |
| Enemies of Promise | Cyril Connolly | 1938 | Borrow | Feb 6, 1940 | Feb 8, 1940 |
| Jacob's Room | Virginia Woolf | 1922 | Crossed out | Feb 6, 1940 | - |
| The House in Paris | Elizabeth Bowen | 1935 | Borrow | Feb 8, 1940 | Feb 9, 1940 |
| The Death of the Heart | Elizabeth Bowen | 1938 | Borrow | Feb 9, 1940 | Feb 14, 1940 |
| To the North | Elizabeth Bowen | 1932 | Borrow | Feb 14, 1940 | Feb 15, 1940 |
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Travels in Arabia Deserta
Vol. 2
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Charles M. Doughty | 1883 | Borrow | Feb 14, 1940 | Mar 26, 1940 |
| Mr. Norris Changes Trains | Christopher Isherwood | 1935 | Borrow | Feb 15, 1940 | Feb 17, 1940 |
| Goodbye to Berlin | Christopher Isherwood | 1939 | Borrow | Feb 17, 1940 | Feb 22, 1940 |
| Axel's Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870 – 1930 | Edmund Wilson | 1931 | Borrow | Feb 22, 1940 | Feb 23, 1940 |
| The Legacy of Greece: Essays | Gilbert Murray; William Ralph Inge; John Burnet; T. L. Heath; Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth; Charles Singer; R. W. Livingstone; Arnold Toynbee; Alfred Zimmern; Percy Gardner; Reginald Blomfield | 1921 | Purchase | Feb 22, 1940 | Feb 22, 1940 |
| Huntsman, What Quarry? | Edna St. Vincent Millay | 1939 | Borrow | Feb 23, 1940 | Feb 24, 1940 |
| What I Believe | E. M. Forster | 1925 | Borrow | Feb 24, 1940 | - |
| Collected Poems of Elinor Wylie | Elinor Wylie | 1932 | Borrow | Feb 24, 1940 | Feb 26, 1940 |
| Ladies Almanack: Showing Their Signs and Their Tides; Their Moons and Their Changes; the Seasons as It Is with Them; Their Eclipses and Equinoxes; as well as a Full Record of Diurnal and Nocturnal Distempers | Djuna Barnes | 1928 | Borrow | Feb 26, 1940 | Feb 28, 1940 |
| Memory of Love | Bessie Breuer | 1935 | Borrow | Feb 28, 1940 | Feb 29, 1940 |
| Books and Characters, French and English | Lytton Strachey | 1922 | Borrow | Feb 29, 1940 | Mar 2, 1940 |
| A Note in Music | Rosamond Lehmann | 1930 | Borrow | Feb 29, 1940 | Mar 2, 1940 |
| Death of a Man | Kay Boyle | 1936 | Borrow | Mar 2, 1940 | Mar 4, 1940 |
| The White Horses of Vienna | Kay Boyle | 1936 | Borrow | Mar 4, 1940 | Mar 8, 1940 |
| The Burning Cactus | Stephen Spender | 1936 | Borrow | Mar 8, 1940 | Mar 11, 1940 |
| The Spanish House | Eleanor Smith | 1938 | Borrow | Mar 8, 1940 | Mar 11, 1940 |
| Gentlemen, I Address You Privately | Kay Boyle | 1933 | Borrow | Mar 11, 1940 | Mar 13, 1940 |
| Renascence and Other Poems | Edna St. Vincent Millay | 1917 | Borrow | Mar 11, 1940 | Mar 13, 1940 |
| Famous Plays of 1932 | Ronald Mackenzie; John Van Druten; Elmer Rice; Clifford Bax; Moss Hart; George S. Kaufman | 1932 | Borrow | Mar 13, 1940 | Mar 18, 1940 |
| Abinger Harvest | E. M. Forster | 1936 | Borrow | Mar 13, 1940 | Mar 15, 1940 |
| Aspects of the Novel | E. M. Forster | 1927 | Borrow | Mar 15, 1940 | Mar 18, 1940 |
| My Son! My Son! | Howard Spring | 1938 | Borrow | Mar 18, 1940 | Mar 21, 1940 |
| Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties | Christopher Isherwood | 1938 | Borrow | Mar 21, 1940 | Mar 22, 1940 |
| Sir Thomas Browne's Works | Thomas Browne | - | Borrow | Mar 21, 1940 | Mar 26, 1940 |
| After Such Pleasures | Dorothy Parker | 1933 | Borrow | Mar 21, 1940 | Mar 22, 1940 |
| Flowering Judas and Other Stories | Katherine Anne Porter / Mrs. Katherine Anne Pressly | 1930 | Borrow | Mar 22, 1940 | Mar 26, 1940 |
| Pharos and Pharillon | E. M. Forster | 1923 | Borrow | Mar 22, 1940 | Mar 26, 1940 |
| T. E. Lawrence by His Friends | A. W. Lawrence | 1937 | Borrow | Mar 26, 1940 | Apr 22, 1940 |
| Memorial Work data is uncertain or incomplete. | - | - | Borrow | Mar 26, 1940 | Mar 27, 1940 |
| Three Lives | Gertrude Stein | 1909 | Borrow | Mar 27, 1940 | Apr 2, 1940 |
| Paradise Lost: A Play in Three Acts | Clifford Odets | 1936 | Borrow | Apr 2, 1940 | Apr 5, 1940 |
| Escape: A Novel Inside Germany | Grace Zaring Stone / Ethel Vance (pseudonym) | 1939 | Borrow | Apr 5, 1940 | Apr 8, 1940 |
| Ballerina | Eleanor Smith | 1932 | Borrow | Apr 8, 1940 | Apr 9, 1940 |
| Death in the Afternoon | Ernest Hemingway | 1932 | Borrow | Apr 8, 1940 | Apr 16, 1940 |
| Flamenco | Eleanor Smith | 1931 | Borrow | Apr 9, 1940 | Apr 12, 1940 |
| Red Wagon: A Story of the Tober | Eleanor Smith | 1930 | Borrow | Apr 12, 1940 | Apr 16, 1940 |
| The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories | Ernest Hemingway | 1938 | Borrow | Apr 16, 1940 | Apr 17, 1940 |
| Life and Death of a Spanish Town | Elliot Paul | 1937 | Borrow | Apr 17, 1940 | Apr 22, 1940 |
| We Too Are Drifting | Gale Wilhelm | 1935 | Borrow | Apr 22, 1940 | Apr 23, 1940 |
| The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | 1926 | Borrow | Apr 23, 1940 | Apr 25, 1940 |
| My Life: The Autobiography of Havelock Ellis | Havelock Ellis | 1939 | Borrow | Apr 25, 1940 | May 1, 1940 |
| Butterfield 8 | John O'Hara | 1935 | Borrow | May 1, 1940 | May 3, 1940 |
| Spanish Testament | Arthur Koestler | 1937 | Borrow | May 3, 1940 | May 6, 1940 |
| Books and You | W. Somerset Maugham | 1940 | Purchase | May 6, 1940 | May 6, 1940 |
| Appointment in Samarra | John O'Hara | 1934 | Borrow | May 6, 1940 | May 8, 1940 |
| Pale Horse, Pale Rider | Katherine Anne Porter / Mrs. Katherine Anne Pressly | 1936 | Borrow | May 8, 1940 | May 10, 1940 |
| Party Going | Henry Vincent Yorke / Henry Green (pseudonym) | 1939 | Borrow | May 10, 1940 | May 14, 1940 |
| A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway | 1929 | Purchase | May 10, 1940 | May 10, 1940 |
| Green Hills of Africa | Ernest Hemingway | 1935 | Borrow | May 14, 1940 | May 15, 1940 |
| Liber Amoris, Or, The New Pygmalion | William Hazlitt | 1823 | Borrow | May 15, 1940 | May 16, 1940 |
| Testament of Friendship | Vera Brittain | 1940 | Borrow | May 16, 1940 | May 18, 1940 |
| Oriental Assembly | T. E. Lawrence | 1932 | - | May 18, 1940 | - |
| Being Geniuses Together | Robert McAlmon | 1938 | Borrow | May 18, 1940 | May 20, 1940 |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | L. Frank Baum | 1900 | Purchase | May 18, 1940 | May 18, 1940 |
| Flowering Judas and Other Stories | Katherine Anne Porter / Mrs. Katherine Anne Pressly | 1930 | Borrow | May 21, 1940 | May 23, 1940 |
| Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art | - | - | Purchase | May 23, 1940 | May 23, 1940 |
| Two Selves | Bryher | 1923 | Borrow | May 23, 1940 | May 24, 1940 |
| West | Bryher | 1925 | Borrow | May 24, 1940 | May 27, 1940 |
| Ashe of Rings | Mary Butts | 1925 | Borrow | May 27, 1940 | May 28, 1940 |
| Development | Bryher | 1920 | Borrow | May 29, 1940 | May 30, 1940 |
| Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth | William Hazlitt | 1821 | Borrow | May 30, 1940 | Jun 3, 1940 |
| Last Stories | Mary Butts | 1938 | Borrow | Jun 3, 1940 | Jun 4, 1940 |
| Look Homeward, Angel | Thomas Wolfe | 1929 | Crossed out | Jun 4, 1940 | - |
| The Backward Son | Stephen Spender | 1940 | Borrow | Jun 4, 1940 | Jun 6, 1940 |
| Look 1 Work data is uncertain or incomplete. | - | - | - | Jun 4, 1940 | - |
| The Crazy Hunter: Three Short Novels | Kay Boyle | 1940 | Borrow | Jun 6, 1940 | Jun 10, 1940 |
| Flowering Judas and Other Stories | Katherine Anne Porter / Mrs. Katherine Anne Pressly | 1930 | Borrow | Dec 18, 1944 | Jan 1945 |
| My Next Bride | Kay Boyle | 1934 | Borrow | Dec 18, 1944 | Jan 1945 |