
| 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 | H. 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 |