Best Books

Christmas is house-cleaning time for booksellers. The publishers remit their flood of new titles while shelves are cleared, ledgers audited for the new year. Readers can now reconsider the past year's output, check what they have read, what they have missed, what they might give as presents. Following is a list designed to be helpful:

AND QUIET FLOWS THE DON--Mikhail Sholokhov--Knopf ($3).

CANDLES IN THE STORM--Robert Littell --Harper ($2.50).

THE COLD JOURNEY -- Grace Zaring Stone--Morrow ($2.50).

D IS FOR DUTCH--Thames Williamson --Harcourt, Brace ($2).

THE DARING YOUNG MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE--William Saroyan--Random House ($2.50).

DEFY THE FOUL FIEND--John Collier --Knopf ($2.50).

DR. MARTINO AND OTHER STORIES--William Faulkner -- Smith & Haas ($2.50).

DUSK AT THE GROVE--Samuel Rogers --Little, Brown ($2.50).

EAST AND WEST--W. Somerset Maugham --Doubleday, Doran ($3).

THE EXECUTIONER WAITS--Josephine Herbst--Harcourt, Brace ($2.50).

THE FOLKS--Ruth Suckow--Farrar & Rinehart ($3).

THE FORTY DAYS OF MUSA DAGH-- Franz Werfel--Viking ($3).

GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS--James Hilton --Little, Brown ($1.25).

HOLY DEADLOCK -- A. P. Herbert -- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50).

I, CLAUDIUS--Robert Graves--Smith & Haas ($3).

JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS--Thomas Mann--Knopf ($2.50).

JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE NIGHT-- Louis-Ferdinand Celine -- Little, Brown ($2.50).

LIGHTSHIP--Archie Binns--Reynal & Hitchcock ($2.50).

LONG REMEMBER--MacKinlay Kantor --Coward-McCann ($2.50).

MEN AGAINST THE SEA--Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall--Little, Brown ($2).

THE MOTHER--Pearl S. Buck--Day (12.50).

NOW IN NOVEMBER--Josephine Johnson--Simon & Schuster ($2).

THE OPPERMANNS -- Lion Feuchtwanger--Viking ($2.50).

PASSION'S PILGRIMS--Jules Remains-- Knopf ($2.50).

THE PROUD AND THE MEEK--Jules Romains--Knopf ($2.50).

PITCAIRN'S ISLAND--Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall--Little, Brown ($2.50).

REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST--Marcel Proust--Random House ($12.50).

RESURRECTION -- William Gerhardi -- Harcourt, Brace ($2.50).

THE ROAD LEADS ON--Knut Hamsun --Coward-McCann ($3).

SEVEN GOTHIC TALES-- Isak Dinesen-- Smith & Haas ($2.50).

SO RED THE ROSE-- Stark Young-- Scribner ($2.50).

THE THIN MAN-- Dashiell Hammett-- Knopf ($2).

ULYSSES -- James Joyce -- Random House ($3.50).

UNFINISHED CATHEDRAL -- T. S Stribling-- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50).

THE UNPOSSESSED -- Tess Slesinger -- -- Simon & Schuster ($2.50).

WORK OF ART-- Sinclair Lewis-- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50).

THE WORLD OUTSIDE-- Hans Fallada-- Simon & Schuster ($2.50).

Non-Fiction

AMERICA'S TRAGEDY-- James Truslow Adams-- Scribner ($3).

BEYOND THE MEXIQUE BAY-- Aldous Huxley-- Harper ($2.75).

BLACK MONASTERY-- Aladar Kuncz-- Harcourt, Brace ($2.75).

BRAZILIAN ADVENTURE-- Peter Fleming -- Scribner ($2.75).

THE COMING AMERICAN REVOLUTION George Soule--Macmillan ($2.50).

THE DECLINE OF AMERICAN CAPITALISM-- Lewis Corey-- Covici, Friede ($4).

EXPERIMENT IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- H. G. Wells-- Macmillan ($4).

42 YEARS IN THE WHITE HOUSE-- Irwin Hood ("Ike") Hoover-- Houghton Mifflin ($3.50).

THE HOUR OF DECISION -- Oswald Spengler-- Knopf ($2.50).

MERCHANTS OF DEATH-- H. C. Engelbrecht & F. C. Hanighen-- Dodd, Mead ($2.50).

THE NATIVE'S RETURN-- Louis Adamic -- Harper ($2.75).

THE NEW DEALERS-- Unofficial Observer-- Simon & Schuster ($2.75).

PROPERTY OR PEACE -- Henry Noel Brailsford-- Covici, Friede ($3).

R. E. LEE (Vols. I & II)--Douglas Southall Freeman-- Scribner ($7.50).

THE ROBBER BARONS -- Matthew Josephson -- Harcourt, Brace ($3).

STARS FELL ON ALABAMA-- Carl Carmer -- Farrar & Rinehart ($3).

TECHNICS AND CIVILIZATION -- Lewis Mumford-- Harcourt, Brace ($4.50).

TREATISE ON RIGHT AND WRONG-- H. L. Mencken -- Knopf ($3).

WAR MEMOIRS OF DAVID LLOYD GEORGE (Vols. Ill & IV)-- Little, Brown ($4 each).

THE WORLD AS I SEE IT-- Albert Einstein-- Covici, Friede ($2.50).

Verse

ELEVEN NEW CANTOS-- Ezra Pound-- Farrar & Rinehart ($1.50).

WINE FROM THESE GRAPES-- Edna St.Vincent Millay -- Harper ($2).

Murders

THE BLIND BARBER-- John Dickson Carr -- Harper ($2).

THE CASE OF THE CURIOUS BRIDE-- Erie Stanley Gardner-- Morrow ($2).

THE CASINO MURDER CASE-- S. S. Van Dine -- Scribner ($2).

CREEP, SHADOW!-- A. Merritt-- Doubleday, Doran ($2).

HARRIET -- Elizabeth Jenkins--Doubleday, Doran ($2).

THE NINE TAILORS --Dorothy L. Sayers-- Harcourt, Brace ($2).

SHADOWS ON THE WALL--H. C. Bailey --Crime Club ($2).

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