| Title | Author | Publication Date | Activity | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Esquire | - | - | Purchase | May 20, 1937 | May 20, 1937 |
| Very Heaven | Richard Aldington | 1937 | Borrow | May 20, 1937 | May 31, 1937 |
| Present Indicative | Noel Coward | 1937 | Borrow | May 31, 1937 | Jun 9, 1937 |
| Busman's Honeymoon | Dorothy L. Sayers | 1937 | Borrow | Jun 8, 1937 | Jun 12, 1937 |
| The Years | Virginia Woolf | 1937 | Borrow | Jun 12, 1937 | Jun 18, 1937 |
| Manhattan Transfer | John Dos Passos | 1925 | Borrow | Jun 18, 1937 | Jun 25, 1937 |
| The Gay and Melancholy Flux | William Saroyan | 1937 | Borrow | Jun 25, 1937 | Jun 29, 1937 |
|
Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant
Vol. 2
Pleasant Plays |
George Bernard Shaw | 1898 | Borrow | Jun 25, 1937 | Jul 9, 1937 |
| Bernard Shaw | Edward Shanks | 1924 | Borrow | Jun 29, 1937 | Jul 9, 1937 |
| Winchester House | Anne Green | 1936 | Borrow | Jun 29, 1937 | Jul 20, 1937 |
| Bernard Shaw: Playboy and Prophet | Archibald Henderson | 1932 | Borrow | Jun 29, 1937 | Jul 9, 1937 |
| Pie in the Sky | Arthur Calder-Marshall | 1937 | Borrow | Jul 9, 1937 | Jul 22, 1937 |
| Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | 1936 | Borrow | Jul 9, 1937 | Jul 16, 1937 |
| Great Laughter | Fannie Hurst | 1936 | Borrow | Jul 26, 1937 | Sep 3, 1937 |
| Faraway | J. B. Priestley | 1932 | Borrow | Sep 13, 1937 | Sep 17, 1937 |
| I'll Tell You Everything | J. B. Priestley; Gerald Bullett | 1933 | Borrow | Sep 13, 1937 | Sep 17, 1937 |
| John Webster | John Webster | - | Borrow | Sep 17, 1937 | Sep 23, 1937 |
| The Best Plays of Thomas Middleton | Thomas Middleton | - | Borrow | Sep 23, 1937 | Oct 8, 1937 |
| Burmese Days | Eric Arthur Blair / George Orwell (pseudonym) | 1934 | Borrow | Sep 23, 1937 | Oct 5, 1937 |
| Let Your Mind Alone! | James Thurber | 1937 | Borrow | Oct 5, 1937 | Oct 8, 1937 |
| Best Mystery Stories Work data is uncertain or incomplete. | - | - | Borrow | Oct 8, 1937 | Oct 18, 1937 |
| The Best Short Stories Work data is uncertain or incomplete. | - | - | Borrow | Dec 1937 | Dec 10, 1937 |
| We Are Ten | Fannie Hurst | 1937 | Borrow | Dec 10, 1937 | Dec 24, 1937 |
| Some American People | Erskine Caldwell | 1935 | Borrow | Dec 10, 1937 | Dec 24, 1937 |
| Mantrap | Sinclair Lewis | 1926 | Borrow | Jan 3, 1938 | Jan 21, 1938 |
| Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott | Sinclair Lewis | 1920 | Borrow | Jan 3, 1938 | Jan 21, 1938 |
| The Happy Philistine | Silvia Dobson | 1937 | Borrow | Jan 21, 1938 | Feb 8, 1938 |
| The Asiatics | Frederic Prokosch | 1935 | Borrow | Jan 21, 1938 | Feb 8, 1938 |
| Movies for the Millions: An Account of Motion Pictures, Principally in America | Gilbert Seldes | 1937 | Borrow | Feb 11, 1938 | Feb 15, 1938 |
| A President Is Born | Fannie Hurst | 1928 | Borrow | Feb 15, 1938 | Mar 3, 1938 |
| Appassionata | Fannie Hurst | 1926 | Borrow | Feb 15, 1938 | Feb 18, 1938 |
| Lummox | Fannie Hurst | 1923 | Borrow | Feb 18, 1938 | Mar 3, 1938 |
| Procession | Fannie Hurst | 1929 | Borrow | Mar 3, 1938 | Mar 7, 1938 |
| Murder Up My Sleeve | Erle Stanley Gardner / Carleton Kendrake (pseudonym) | 1937 | Borrow | Mar 7, 1938 | Mar 12, 1938 |
| The Prodigal Parents | Sinclair Lewis | 1938 | Borrow | Mar 18, 1938 | Mar 25, 1938 |
| The French Powder Mystery | Frederic Dannay / Ellery Queen (pseudonym); Manfred B. Lee / Ellery Queen (pseudonym) | 1930 | Borrow | Mar 18, 1938 | Mar 25, 1938 |
| The Case of the Lame Canary | Erle Stanley Gardner / Carleton Kendrake (pseudonym) | 1937 | Borrow | Mar 25, 1938 | Apr 4, 1938 |
| The Seven Who Fled | Frederic Prokosch | 1937 | Borrow | Mar 25, 1938 | Apr 4, 1938 |
| Persons in Hiding | J. Edgar Hoover | 1938 | Borrow | Apr 4, 1938 | Apr 7, 1938 |
| Seven against Reeves: A Comedy-Farce | Richard Aldington | 1938 | Borrow | Apr 4, 1938 | Apr 7, 1938 |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | 1937 | Borrow | Apr 4, 1938 | Apr 7, 1938 |
| The Education of Hyman Kaplan | Leo Rosten | 1937 | Borrow | Apr 7, 1938 | Apr 13, 1938 |
| Serenade | James M. Cain | 1937 | Borrow | Apr 7, 1938 | Apr 13, 1938 |
| Journalist's Wife | Lilian T. Mowrer | 1937 | Borrow | Apr 13, 1938 | Apr 28, 1938 |
| Death on the Nile | Agatha Christie | 1937 | Borrow | Apr 13, 1938 | Apr 21, 1938 |
| Silent Witnesses | Dorothy Stockbridge Tillett / John Stephen Strange (pseudonym) | 1938 | Crossed out | Apr 21, 1938 | - |
| Ends and Means: An Enquiry into the Nature of Ideals and into the Methods Employed for Their Realization | Aldous Huxley | 1937 | Borrow | Apr 21, 1938 | Apr 28, 1938 |
| Mr. Norris Changes Trains | Christopher Isherwood | 1935 | Borrow | Apr 21, 1938 | Apr 26, 1938 |
| Journeyman | Erskine Caldwell | 1938 | Borrow | Apr 26, 1938 | Apr 28, 1938 |
| Life | - | - | Periodical Subscription | Apr 28, 1938 | Apr 28, 1938 |
| The Unvanquished | William Faulkner | 1938 | Borrow | Apr 28, 1938 | May 2, 1938 |
| The Postman Always Rings Twice | James M. Cain | 1934 | Purchase | Apr 29, 1938 | Apr 29, 1938 |
| Serenade | James M. Cain | 1937 | Purchase | Apr 29, 1938 | Apr 29, 1938 |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | 1937 | Purchase | Apr 29, 1938 | Apr 29, 1938 |
| Warrant for X | Philip MacDonald | 1938 | Borrow | May 2, 1938 | May 9, 1938 |
| Thirteen O'Clock: Stories of Several Worlds | Stephen Vincent Benét | 1937 | Borrow | May 2, 1938 | May 12, 1938 |
| Cards on the Table | Agatha Christie | 1936 | Borrow | May 9, 1938 | May 12, 1938 |
| We Are the Living: Stories | Erskine Caldwell | 1933 | Borrow | May 12, 1938 | May 17, 1938 |
| The Devil to Pay | Frederic Dannay / Ellery Queen (pseudonym); Manfred B. Lee / Ellery Queen (pseudonym) | 1938 | Borrow | May 12, 1938 | May 19, 1938 |
| The Dead Don't Care | Jonathan Latimer | 1938 | Borrow | May 19, 1938 | May 23, 1938 |
| Hope of Heaven and Other Stories | John O'Hara | 1938 | Borrow | May 19, 1938 | May 23, 1938 |
| I Live under a Black Sun | Edith Sitwell | 1937 | Borrow | May 23, 1938 | Jun 2, 1938 |
| Three Lives | Gertrude Stein | 1909 | Borrow | May 23, 1938 | Jun 2, 1938 |
| Northwest Passage | Kenneth Roberts | 1937 | Borrow | Jun 2, 1938 | Jun 10, 1938 |
| Hangman's House | Donn Byrne | 1926 | Borrow | Jun 2, 1938 | Jun 10, 1938 |
| The Moon Is Feminine | Winifred Ashton / Clemence Dane (pseudonym) | 1938 | Borrow | Jun 10, 1938 | Jun 17, 1938 |
| The Kennel Murder Case: A Philo Vance Story | Willard Huntington Wright / S. S. Van Dine (pseudonym) | 1933 | Borrow | Jun 10, 1938 | Jun 17, 1938 |
| Scoop | Evelyn Waugh | 1938 | Borrow | Jun 17, 1938 | Jun 24, 1938 |
| Death for Dear Clara | Richard Wilson Webb / Q. Patrick (pseudonym); Hugh Callingham Wheeler / Q. Patrick (pseudonym) | 1937 | Borrow | Jun 17, 1938 | Jun 24, 1938 |
| The Hairy Ape | Eugene O'Neill | 1923 | Borrow | Jun 24, 1938 | Jun 30, 1938 |
| The Daughter | Bessie Breuer | 1938 | Borrow | Jun 24, 1938 | Jun 30, 1938 |
| The Case of the Lucky Legs | Erle Stanley Gardner / Carleton Kendrake (pseudonym) | 1934 | Borrow | Jun 30, 1938 | Jul 4, 1938 |
| Memories of Love Work data is uncertain or incomplete. | - | - | Borrow | Jun 30, 1938 | Jul 4, 1938 |
| Inheritance | Phyllis Bentley | 1932 | Borrow | Jul 4, 1938 | Jul 8, 1938 |
| Three Guineas | Virginia Woolf | 1938 | Borrow | Jul 4, 1938 | Jul 8, 1938 |
| The Sisters | Myron Brinig | 1937 | Borrow | Jul 8, 1938 | Jul 20, 1938 |
| Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | 1936 | Borrow | Jul 8, 1938 | Jul 20, 1938 |
| In Hazard: A Sea Story | Richard Hughes | 1938 | Borrow | Jul 20, 1938 | Jul 22, 1938 |
| The Case of the Howling Dog | Erle Stanley Gardner / Carleton Kendrake (pseudonym) | 1934 | Borrow | Jul 20, 1938 | Jul 22, 1938 |
| The Truth about English Prisons | Henry Ernest Degras / Mark Benney (pseudonym) | 1938 | Borrow | Jul 22, 1938 | Jul 29, 1938 |
| Imperial City | Elmer Rice | 1937 | Borrow | Jul 22, 1938 | Jul 26, 1938 |
| New York Detective | Ernest L. Van Wagner | 1938 | Borrow | Jul 27, 1938 | Sep 8, 1938 |
| Journeys between Wars | John Dos Passos | 1938 | Borrow | Jul 29, 1938 | Sep 2, 1938 |
| My Country and My People | Yutang Lin | 1935 | Borrow | Jul 29, 1938 | Sep 22, 1938 |
| Brighton Rock | Graham Greene | 1938 | Borrow | Jul 29, 1938 | Sep 2, 1938 |
| Trial of a Judge: A Tragedy in Five Acts | Stephen Spender | 1938 | Borrow | Jul 29, 1938 | Sep 2, 1938 |
| Looking behind the Censorships | Eugene Jared Young | 1938 | Borrow | Jul 29, 1938 | Sep 2, 1938 |
| The Fight for Life | Paul de Kruif | 1938 | Borrow | Jul 29, 1938 | Sep 2, 1938 |
| Looking behind the Censorships | Eugene Jared Young | 1938 | Crossed out | Sep 20, 1938 | - |
| Death in Five Boxes | John Dickson Carr / Carter Dickson (pseudonym) | 1938 | Borrow | Sep 20, 1938 | Oct 6, 1938 |
| Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1879 | Borrow | Sep 20, 1938 | Sep 22, 1938 |
| The Crimson Hair Murders | Darwin Teilhet; Hildegarde Teilhet | 1936 | Borrow | Sep 22, 1938 | Oct 4, 1938 |
| Looking behind the Censorships | Eugene Jared Young | 1938 | Borrow | Oct 4, 1938 | Oct 13, 1938 |
| Unforgotten Years | Logan Pearsall Smith | 1938 | Borrow | Oct 6, 1938 | Oct 13, 1938 |
| Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | 1938 | Borrow | Oct 13, 1938 | Oct 17, 1938 |
| This Is Mr. Fortune | H. C. Bailey | 1938 | Borrow | Oct 13, 1938 | Oct 17, 1938 |
| Elizabethan Drama | Janet Spens | 1922 | Borrow | Oct 17, 1938 | Oct 27, 1938 |
| An Elizabethan Journal | G. B. Harrison | 1929 | Borrow | Oct 17, 1938 | Oct 27, 1938 |
| J for Jupiter | Timothy Fuller | 1937 | Borrow | Oct 17, 1938 | Oct 27, 1938 |
| The Doomsday Men | J. B. Priestley | 1938 | Borrow | Oct 27, 1938 | Nov 3, 1938 |
| The Judas Window | John Dickson Carr / Carter Dickson (pseudonym) | 1938 | Borrow | Oct 27, 1938 | Nov 3, 1938 |
| With Malice toward Some | Margaret Halsey | 1938 | Borrow | Nov 3, 1938 | Nov 8, 1938 |
| Southways: Stories | Erskine Caldwell | 1938 | Borrow | Nov 3, 1938 | Nov 8, 1938 |
| The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories | Ernest Hemingway | 1938 | Borrow | Nov 5, 1938 | Nov 14, 1938 |
| The Theme Is Murder | Charles Rodda / Gavin Holt (pseudonym) | 1938 | Borrow | Nov 7, 1938 | Nov 14, 1938 |
| Monday Night | Kay Boyle | 1938 | Borrow | Nov 14, 1938 | Nov 24, 1938 |
| Apropos of Dolores | H. G. Wells | 1938 | Borrow | Nov 14, 1938 | Nov 16, 1938 |
| America | Franz Kafka | 1938 | Borrow | Nov 24, 1938 | Dec 2, 1938 |
| The Gracie Allen Murder Case: A Philo Vance story | Willard Huntington Wright / S. S. Van Dine (pseudonym) | 1938 | Borrow | Nov 24, 1938 | Dec 2, 1938 |
| Being Geniuses Together | Robert McAlmon | 1938 | Borrow | Dec 2, 1938 | Dec 7, 1938 |
|
New Writing
no. 1, Autumn 1938
New Series |
- | - | Borrow | Dec 2, 1938 | Dec 13, 1938 |
| The Best Short Stories of 1938: English and American | - | 1938 | Borrow | Dec 7, 1938 | Dec 13, 1938 |
| The Case of the Cheating Bride | Milton M. Propper | 1938 | Borrow | Dec 13, 1938 | Dec 23, 1938 |
| White Mule | William Carlos Williams | 1937 | Borrow | Dec 13, 1938 | Dec 23, 1938 |
| The Long Valley | John Steinbeck | 1938 | Borrow | Dec 23, 1938 | Jan 2, 1939 |
| The Glass Slipper | Mignon Good Eberhart | 1938 | Borrow | Dec 23, 1938 | Jan 2, 1939 |
| Life and Death of a Spanish Town | Elliot Paul | 1937 | Borrow | Jan 2, 1939 | Jan 14, 1939 |
| My Son! My Son! | Howard Spring | 1938 | Borrow | Jan 2, 1939 | Jan 14, 1939 |
| The Case of the Substitute Face | Erle Stanley Gardner / Carleton Kendrake (pseudonym) | 1938 | Borrow | Jan 14, 1939 | Jan 19, 1939 |
| Young Man with a Horn | Dorothy (Dodds) Baker / Mme Howard Baker | 1938 | Borrow | Jan 14, 1939 | Jan 19, 1939 |
| The Adventure of Christopher Columin | Sylvia Thompson | 1939 | Borrow | Jan 19, 1939 | Jan 27, 1939 |
| Fellow Countrymen: Collected Stories | James T. Farrell | 1937 | Borrow | Jan 19, 1939 | Jan 27, 1939 |
| Those Were the Days! | Osbert Sitwell | 1938 | Borrow | Jan 27, 1939 | Feb 3, 1939 |
| The Flying Dutchman | Michael Arlen / Dikran Kouyoumdjian | 1939 | Borrow | Jan 27, 1939 | Feb 6, 1939 |
| The Government of Mankind | J. A. Spender | 1938 | Borrow | Feb 1, 1939 | Feb 9, 1939 |
| Drop to His Death | John Dickson Carr / Carter Dickson (pseudonym); Cecil Street / Miles Burton, John Rhode (pseudonyms) | 1939 | Borrow | Feb 3, 1939 | Feb 9, 1939 |
| Starting Point | C. Day Lewis | 1937 | Borrow | Feb 9, 1939 | Feb 16, 1939 |
| Memorial Work data is uncertain or incomplete. | - | - | Borrow | Feb 9, 1939 | Feb 16, 1939 |
| The Midas Touch | Margaret Kennedy | 1938 | Borrow | Feb 16, 1939 | Mar 6, 1939 |
| Those Were the Days! | Osbert Sitwell | 1938 | Borrow | Feb 16, 1939 | Mar 6, 1939 |
| A Murder of Convenience | Robert George Dean | 1938 | Borrow | Mar 6, 1939 | Mar 13, 1939 |
| Banbury Bog | Phoebe Atwood Taylor | 1938 | Borrow | Mar 6, 1939 | Mar 13, 1939 |
| Joseph Andrews | Henry Fielding | 1742 | Borrow | Mar 13, 1939 | Mar 31, 1939 |
| The Marble Faun / Transformation | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1860 | Borrow | Mar 13, 1939 | Mar 31, 1939 |
| The Four of Hearts | Frederic Dannay / Ellery Queen (pseudonym); Manfred B. Lee / Ellery Queen (pseudonym) | 1938 | Borrow | Mar 13, 1939 | Mar 29, 1939 |
| The Works of Edgar Allan Poe | Edgar Allan Poe | - | Borrow | Mar 13, 1939 | Mar 31, 1939 |
| To Beg I Am Ashamed | Sheila Cousins | 1938 | - | Mar 13, 1939 | - |
| The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe | Erle Stanley Gardner / Carleton Kendrake (pseudonym) | 1938 | Borrow | Mar 31, 1939 | Apr 4, 1939 |
| Straws in Amber | Naomi Jacob | 1938 | Borrow | Mar 31, 1939 | Apr 6, 1939 |
| Christmas Holiday | W. Somerset Maugham | 1939 | Borrow | Apr 6, 1939 | Apr 14, 1939 |
| The Christmas Tree Murders | Joseph Francis Delany / Joel Y. Dane (pseudonym) | 1938 | Borrow | Apr 6, 1939 | Apr 14, 1939 |
| Death and the Maiden | Richard Wilson Webb / Q. Patrick (pseudonym); Hugh Callingham Wheeler / Q. Patrick (pseudonym) | 1939 | Borrow | Apr 6, 1939 | Apr 14, 1939 |
| The Triple Thinkers: Ten Essays on Literature | Edmund Wilson | 1938 | Borrow | Apr 14, 1939 | Apr 18, 1939 |
| The Woman in the Hall | G. B. Stern | 1939 | Borrow | Apr 14, 1939 | Apr 18, 1939 |
| Have His Carcase | Dorothy L. Sayers | 1932 | Borrow | Apr 18, 1939 | Apr 25, 1939 |
| Lord Peter Views the Body | Dorothy L. Sayers | 1928 | Borrow | Apr 18, 1939 | Apr 25, 1939 |
| A Bill of Divorcement | Winifred Ashton / Clemence Dane (pseudonym) | 1921 | Borrow | Apr 27, 1939 | May 11, 1939 |
| Goodbye to Berlin | Christopher Isherwood | 1939 | Borrow | Apr 27, 1939 | May 11, 1939 |
| The Moon Is Feminine | Winifred Ashton / Clemence Dane (pseudonym) | 1938 | Borrow | May 11, 1939 | May 16, 1939 |
| The Wild Palms | William Faulkner | 1939 | Borrow | May 11, 1939 | May 16, 1939 |
| The English Renaissance: A Lecture Delivered on the Occasion of His Visit to America | Oscar Wilde | 1906 | Borrow | May 16, 1939 | Jun 12, 1939 |
| Something Wrong: A Collective of Twelve Stories | James Stern | 1938 | Borrow | May 16, 1939 | May 20, 1939 |
| The Unbroken Heart | Robert Speaight | 1939 | Borrow | May 20, 1939 | Jun 3, 1939 |
| The Back Door | Julian Rutherford Meade | 1938 | Borrow | May 31, 1939 | Jun 6, 1939 |
| The Case of the Perjured Parrot | Erle Stanley Gardner / Carleton Kendrake (pseudonym) | 1939 | Borrow | May 31, 1939 | Jun 6, 1939 |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 1939 | Borrow | Jun 12, 1939 | Jun 21, 1939 |
| Murder in the Bud | Phyllis Bottome | 1939 | Borrow | Jun 12, 1939 | Jun 21, 1939 |
| Coming Up for Air | Eric Arthur Blair / George Orwell (pseudonym) | 1939 | Borrow | Jun 21, 1939 | Jun 26, 1939 |
| The Red Bull, or, Some Buried Caesar | Rex Stout | 1939 | Borrow | Jun 21, 1939 | Jul 4, 1939 |
| Millie's Daughter | Donald Henderson Clarke | 1939 | Borrow | Jun 26, 1939 | Jul 4, 1939 |
| Reaching for the Stars | Nora Waln | 1939 | Borrow | Jul 1939 | Sep 16, 1939 |
| Westward Ho! or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the County of Devon, in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth | Charles Kingsley | 1855 | Borrow | Jul 4, 1939 | Jul 11, 1939 |
| The Bigger They Come | Erle Stanley Gardner / Carleton Kendrake (pseudonym) | 1939 | Borrow | Jul 4, 1939 | Jul 11, 1939 |
| Death Before Honour | John Victor Turner / David Hume (pseudonym) | 1939 | Borrow | Jul 11, 1939 | Jul 20, 1939 |
| Harlequin House | Margery Sharp | 1939 | Borrow | Jul 11, 1939 | Sep 13, 1939 |
| Inside Asia | John Gunther | 1939 | Borrow | Jul 12, 1939 | Sep 14, 1939 |
| Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Notorious Highwaymen | Alexander Smith | 1926 | Borrow | Jul 20, 1939 | Oct 11, 1939 |
| Adventures of a Young Man | John Dos Passos | 1939 | Borrow | Jul 28, 1939 | Oct 23, 1939 |
| Shakespeare's England: An Account of His Life and Manners of His Age | - | - | Borrow | Jul 28, 1939 | Sep 14, 1939 |
| Selected Essays, 1917 – 1932 | T. S. Eliot | 1932 | Borrow | Jul 28, 1939 | - |
| Elizabethan Rogues and Vagabonds | Frank Aydelotte | 1913 | Purchase | Aug 1, 1939 | Aug 1, 1939 |
| An Elizabethan Journal | G. B. Harrison | 1929 | Borrow | Sep 14, 1939 | Oct 11, 1939 |
| Shakespeare's England: An Account of His Life and Manners of His Age | - | - | Borrow | Sep 14, 1939 | Oct 11, 1939 |
| Tortilla Flat | John Steinbeck | 1935 | Borrow | Sep 14, 1939 | Oct 16, 1939 |
| The Defence of Conny-Catching | Robert Greene | 1592 | Borrow | Sep 14, 1939 | Oct 16, 1939 |
| The Seven Deadly Sinnes of London | Thomas Dekker | - | Borrow | Sep 14, 1939 | Oct 16, 1939 |
| Ben Jonson and King James: Biography and Portrait | Eric Linklater | 1931 | Borrow | Oct 23, 1939 | Nov 11, 1939 |
| The White Cockatoo | Mignon Good Eberhart | 1933 | Borrow | Oct 23, 1939 | Nov 6, 1939 |
| Here Lies: The Collected Stories | Dorothy Parker | 1939 | Borrow | Nov 6, 1939 | Nov 20, 1939 |
| Shakespeare's England: An Account of His Life and Manners of His Age | - | - | Borrow | Nov 11, 1939 | Nov 20, 1939 |
| After Many a Summer | Aldous Huxley | 1939 | Purchase | Nov 16, 1939 | Nov 16, 1939 |
| Death without Honour Work data is uncertain or incomplete. | - | - | Borrow | Nov 16, 1939 | Dec 21, 1939 |
| The Defence of Conny-Catching | Robert Greene | 1592 | Borrow | Nov 20, 1939 | Jan 15, 1940 |
| Night of the Poor | Frederic Prokosch | 1939 | Borrow | Nov 20, 1939 | Dec 5, 1939 |
| Tumbling in the Hay | Oliver St. John Gogarty | 1939 | Borrow | Dec 16, 1939 | Dec 30, 1939 |
| Best Mystery Stories Work data is uncertain or incomplete. | - | - | Borrow | Dec 16, 1939 | Dec 30, 1939 |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 1939 | Purchase | Dec 16, 1939 | Dec 16, 1939 |
| The Novels of Mrs. Aphra Behn | Aphra Behn | 1913 | Borrow | Dec 30, 1939 | Jan 15, 1940 |
| Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art | - | - | Periodical Subscription | Dec 30, 1939 | Dec 30, 1939 |
| The Dragon's Teeth | Frederic Dannay / Ellery Queen (pseudonym); Manfred B. Lee / Ellery Queen (pseudonym) | 1939 | Borrow | Dec 30, 1939 | Jan 15, 1940 |
| Jonah's Gourd Vine | Zora Neale Hurston | 1934 | Borrow | Jan 15, 1940 | Jan 29, 1940 |
| Ten Little Niggers | Agatha Christie | 1939 | Borrow | Jan 15, 1940 | Jan 17, 1940 |
| The Strangest Places | Leo Rosten | 1939 | Borrow | Jan 17, 1940 | Jan 29, 1940 |
| The Reader Is Warned | John Dickson Carr / Carter Dickson (pseudonym) | 1939 | Borrow | Jan 25, 1940 | Feb 12, 1940 |
| The Best Plays of Thomas Middleton | Thomas Middleton | - | Borrow | Jan 25, 1940 | Feb 17, 1940 |
| The Blaze of Noon | Rayner Heppenstall | 1939 | Borrow | Feb 12, 1940 | Feb 13, 1940 |
| More than Somewhat | Damon Runyon | 1937 | Borrow | Feb 13, 1940 | Feb 17, 1940 |
| Harrap's Standard French and English Dictionary | - | 1934 | Purchase | Feb 13, 1940 | Feb 13, 1940 |
| The Story of Fanny Burney: Being an Introduction to the Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay | Frances Burney | 1927 | Borrow | Feb 14, 1940 | Feb 17, 1940 |
| The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | 1906 | Borrow | Feb 14, 1940 | Feb 17, 1940 |
| Keep the Aspidistra Flying | Eric Arthur Blair / George Orwell (pseudonym) | 1936 | Borrow | Feb 17, 1940 | Mar 2, 1940 |
| The Flower Beneath the Foot: Being a Record of the Early Life of St. Laura de Nazianzi and the Times in Which She Lived | Ronald Firbank | 1923 | Borrow | Feb 17, 1940 | Mar 2, 1940 |
| The Guls Hornbook: And the Belman of London in Two Parts | Thomas Dekker | 1886 | Borrow | Feb 17, 1940 | Mar 2, 1940 |
| The Fashion in Shrouds | Margery Allingham | 1938 | Borrow | Mar 2, 1940 | Mar 3, 1940 |
| Peace, It's Wonderful | William Saroyan | 1939 | Borrow | Mar 2, 1940 | Mar 13, 1940 |
| Now Gentlemen Please | Herbert Ferneé | 1940 | Borrow | Mar 5, 1940 | Mar 13, 1940 |
|
Ben Jonson: The Man and His Work
Vol. 1
|
Ben Jonson | 1925 | Borrow | Mar 5, 1940 | Mar 7, 1940 |
| Overburian Characters, to Which Is Added, a Wife | Thomas Overbury | 1936 | Borrow | Mar 7, 1940 | Mar 10, 1940 |
| England in Shakespeare's Day | G. B. Harrison | 1928 | Borrow | Mar 7, 1940 | Mar 16, 1940 |
| Murder in the Bud | Phyllis Bottome | 1939 | Borrow | Mar 13, 1940 | Mar 16, 1940 |
| The Glass Slipper | Mignon Good Eberhart | 1938 | Borrow | Mar 13, 1940 | Mar 16, 1940 |
| Ben Jonson and King James: Biography and Portrait | Eric Linklater | 1931 | Borrow | Mar 16, 1940 | Mar 28, 1940 |
| Death at the Bar | Ngaio Marsh | 1940 | Borrow | Mar 16, 1940 | Mar 20, 1940 |
| Escape: A Novel Inside Germany | Grace Zaring Stone / Ethel Vance (pseudonym) | 1939 | Borrow | Mar 20, 1940 | Apr 3, 1940 |
| England in Shakespeare's Day | G. B. Harrison | 1928 | Borrow | Mar 20, 1940 | Apr 6, 1940 |
| Party Going | Henry Vincent Yorke / Henry Green (pseudonym) | 1939 | Borrow | Apr 6, 1940 | Apr 26, 1940 |
| The Complete Plays of William Congreve | William Congreve | 1887 | Borrow | Apr 6, 1940 | Apr 26, 1940 |
| Sad Cypress | Agatha Christie | 1940 | Purchase | Apr 26, 1940 | Apr 26, 1940 |
| Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog | Dylan Thomas | 1940 | Borrow | Apr 26, 1940 | May 3, 1940 |
| Beaumont and Fletcher | Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher | - | Borrow | Apr 26, 1940 | Sep 25, 1941 |
| Dr. Bradley Remembers | Francis Brett Young | 1938 | - | Apr 28, 1940 | - |
| Party Going | Henry Vincent Yorke / Henry Green (pseudonym) | 1939 | Crossed out | Apr 28, 1940 | - |
| The Nutmeg Tree | Margery Sharp | 1940 | Borrow | May 3, 1940 | - |
| Elizabethan Plays and Players | G. B. Harrison | 1940 | Borrow | May 3, 1940 | - |
| The Swan of Usk: A Historical Novel | Helen Ashton | 1940 | Borrow | May 11, 1940 | May 27, 1940 |
| Lost Plays of Shakespeare's Age | C. J. Sisson | 1936 | Borrow | May 11, 1940 | Jun 1, 1940 |
| Turn on the Heat | Erle Stanley Gardner / Carleton Kendrake (pseudonym) | 1940 | Borrow | May 11, 1940 | Jun 3, 1940 |
| The Crazy Hunter: Three Short Novels | Kay Boyle | 1940 | Borrow | May 15, 1940 | Jun 6, 1940 |
| Death on the Boat Train | Cecil Street / Miles Burton, John Rhode (pseudonyms) | 1940 | Borrow | May 15, 1940 | May 22, 1940 |
| The Power and the Glory | Graham Greene | 1940 | Borrow | May 30, 1940 | Jun 7, 1940 |
| The Way to Santiago | Arthur Calder-Marshall | 1940 | Borrow | May 30, 1940 | Jun 7, 1940 |
| The Guls Hornbook: And the Belman of London in Two Parts | Thomas Dekker | 1886 | - | Jun 6, 1940 | - |
| Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art | - | - | Crossed out | Jun 6, 1940 | - |
| The Broken Face Murders | Darwin Teilhet; Hildegarde Teilhet | 1940 | - | Jun 6, 1940 | - |
| Miss Susie Slagle's | Augusta Tucker | 1939 | - | Jun 6, 1940 | - |
| Idyls of the Foothills: In Prose and Verse | Bret Harte | 1874 | - | Jun 6, 1940 | - |
| The Yearling | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | 1938 | - | Jun 6, 1940 | - |
| Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Notorious Highwaymen | Alexander Smith | 1926 | Crossed out | May 29, 1941 | - |
| [unclear] Walpole Work data is uncertain or incomplete. | - | - | Crossed out | May 29, 1941 | - |
| Bad Companions | William Roughead | 1931 | Crossed out | May 29, 1941 | - |
| Whose Body? | Dorothy L. Sayers | 1923 | Borrow | Sep 25, 1941 | Oct 4, 1941 |
| Hamlet | William Shakespeare | - | Borrow | Sep 25, 1941 | - |
| Brief Return | Mignon Good Eberhart | 1939 | Borrow | Oct 4, 1941 | Oct 9, 1941 |
| Turn on the Heat | Erle Stanley Gardner / Carleton Kendrake (pseudonym) | 1940 | Borrow | Oct 9, 1941 | Oct 15, 1941 |
| Charles the First, King of England | Hilaire Belloc | 1933 | Borrow | Oct 15, 1941 | Nov 6, 1941 |
| Lost Plays of Shakespeare's Age | C. J. Sisson | 1936 | Borrow | Oct 15, 1941 | Oct 24, 1941 |
| Literary Character of Men of Genius | Isaac Disraeli | 1822 | Borrow | Oct 24, 1941 | Nov 6, 1941 |
| Death Wears a White Gardenia | Zelda Popkin | 1938 | Borrow | Nov 6, 1941 | Nov 12, 1941 |
| The Nine Tailors | Dorothy L. Sayers | 1934 | Borrow | Nov 6, 1941 | Nov 12, 1941 |
| Izaak Walton's Lives | Izaak Walton | 1884 | Borrow | Nov 12, 1941 | Nov 19, 1941 |
| The Adventure of Christopher Columin | Sylvia Thompson | 1939 | Borrow | Nov 12, 1941 | Nov 19, 1941 |
| It's a Battlefield | Graham Greene | 1934 | Borrow | Nov 19, 1941 | Nov 27, 1941 |
| England in Shakespeare's Day | G. B. Harrison | 1928 | Borrow | Nov 19, 1941 | Nov 27, 1941 |
| Flowers for the Judge | Margery Allingham | 1936 | Borrow | Nov 27, 1941 | Dec 2, 1941 |