Number

Author

Title

1

100 American Poems

Selden Rodman (ed)

2

Tragic Ground

Erskine Caldwell

3

Invitation to the Waltz

Rosamand Lehman

4

As Good As Dead

Thomas B. Dewey

5

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce

6

Strange Fruit

Lilian Smith

7

The Valley of Hunted Men

Paul Evan Lehman

8

The Pinkerton Case Book

Alan Hynd

9

The Dim View

Basil Heatter

10

The Caballero

Johnston McCulley

11

They Shoot Horses, Don't They

Horace McCoy

12

Darkness at Noon

Arthur Koestler

13

Cattle Kingdom

Alan LeMay

14

Sons of the Saddle

William MacLeod Raine

15

Mine Own Executioner

Nigel Balchin

16

About the Kinsey Report

Donald P. Geddes & Enid Curie

17

Ariane

Claude Anet

18

Guilty Bystander

Wade Miller

19

The Signet Crossword Puzzle Book

20

Laramie Rides Alone

Will Ermine

21

Past All Dishonor

James M. Cain

22

Contract Bridge for Everyone

Ely Culbertson

23

Blood of the West

Paul Evan Lehman

24

The Lost Weekend

Charles Jackson

25

Slay the Murderer

Hugh Holman

26

Lobo Law

Will Ermine

27

A House in the Uplands

Erskine Caldwell

28

Shore Leave

Frederic Wakeman

29

High Pockets

Herbert Shapiro

30

The Silver Tombstone

Frank Gruber

31

No Pockets in a Shroud

Horace McCoy

32

All the Girls We Loved

Prudencia de Pereda

33

The Old Man

William Faulkner

34

I Love You, I Love You, I Love You

Ludwig Bemelmans

35

Lawless Range

Charles N. Heckleman

36

Fatal Step

Wade Miller

37

The Snake Pit

Mary Jane Ward

38

Look Homeward, Angel

Thomas Wolfe

39

Black Sombrero

William Colt MacDonald

40

I, the Jury

Mickey Spillane

41

Other Voices, Other Rooms

Truman Capote

42

Finnley Wren

Phillip Wylie

43

The Vehement Flame

Ludwig Lewison

44

Find My Killer

Manly Wade Wellman

45

Gold of Smokey Mesa

Johnston McCulley

46

A Woman in the House

Erskine Caldwell

47

Last of the Conquerors

William Gardner Smith

48

The Honest Dealer

Frank Gruber

49

The Texan

Herbert Shapiro

50

Deadlier than the Male

James E. Gunn

51

The Street

Ann Petry

52

Love in Dishevelment

David Greenhood

53

The Fighting Tenderfoot

William MacLeod Raine

54

Murder as a fine art

Frnacis Bonnamy

55

The Guilded Hearse

Charles O. Gorham

56

The Fall of Valor

Charles Jackson

57

We Were Strangers

Robert Sylvester

58

A Son of Arizona

Charles Alden Seltzer

59

Another Man's Poison

Hugh Holman

60

Baseball for Everyone

Joe Dimaggio

61

The Butterfly

James M. Cain

62

Night of Flame

Warren Desmond

63

Uneasy Street

Wade Miller

64

The Crimson Quirt

William Colt MacDonald

65

The Golden Sleep

Vivian Connel

66

At Heaven's Gate

Robert Penn Warren

67

The Whispering Master

Frank Gruber

68

Trigger Justice

Leslie Erenwein

69

Lona Hanson

Thomas Savage

70

Stranger in Town

Howard Hunt

71

The Body in the Bed

Bill S. Ballinger

72

Montana Man

Paul Evan Lehman

73

The Sure Hand of God

Erskine Caldwell

74

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevski

75

Meet the Girls

James T. Farrell

76

Everybody Slept Here

Elliot Arnold

77

Draw the Curtain Close

Thomas B. Dewey

78

Brave in the Saddle

Will Ermine

79

Nightmare Alley

William Lindsay Gresham

80

Beyond the Forest

Stuart Engstradt

81

Whistling Lead

Eugene Cunningham

82

Life in the Putty Knife Factory

1. Allen Smith

83

Kill or Cure

William Francis

84

Intruder in the Dust

William Faulkner

85

The Christian Demand for Social Justice

Bishop Scarlett

86

The Ox-Bow Incident

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

87

Human Destiny

Pierre Lecomte du Nouy

88

Walden

Henry David Thoreau

89

Mistress Glory

Susan Morley

90

Forever Wilt Thou Love

Ludwig Lewison

91

Devil in the Flesh

Raymond Radiguet

92

Love Without Fear

Eustace Chesser, MD

93

The Future of Mr. Dolan

Charles Gorham

94

The Gamecock Murders

Frank Gruber

95

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

Horace McCoy

96

An American Tragedy

Theodore Dreiser

97

If He Hollers Let Him Go

Chester Himes

98

Brother of the Cheyennes

Max Brand

99

Clattering Hoofs

William MacLeod Raine

100

Everybody Does It/The Embezzler

James M. Cain