Fiction
  1."Forever Amber" ... Kathleen Winsor. Macmillan
  2."The Robe" ... Lloyd C. Douglas. Houghton Mifflin
  3."The Black Rose" ... Thomas B. Costain. Doubleday
  4."The White Tower" ... James Ramsey Ullman. Lippincott
  5."Cass Timberlane"... Sinclair Lewis. Random House
  6."A Lion Is In the Streets" ... Adria Locke Langley. Whittlesey House
  7."So Well Remembered" ... James Hilton. Little, Brown
  8."Captain from Castile" ... Samuel Shellabarger. Little, Brown
  9."Earth and High Heaven" ... Gwethalyn Graham. Lippincott
10." Immortal Wife" ... Irving Stone. Doubleday
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Nonfiction
 1."Brave Men" ... Ernie Pyle. Holt
  2."Dear Sir" ... Juliet Lowell. Duell, Sloan & Pearce
  3."Up Front" ... Bill Mauldin. Holt
  4."Black Boy" ... Richard Wright. Harper
  5."Try and Stop Me" ... Bennett Cerf. Simon & Schuster
  6."Anything Can Happen" ... George and Helen Papashvily. Harper
  7."General Marshall's Report" ... Simon & Schuster
  8."The Egg and 1" ... Betty MacDonald. Lippincott
  9."The Thurber Carnival" ... James Thurber. Harper
10. "Pleasant Valley" ... Louis Bromfield. Harper