Richard Hughes publishes his first novel, A High Wiind in Jamaica

Ernest Hemingway publishes A Farewell to Arms, closely reflecting his own wartime experiences

Italian writer Alberto Moravia wins success with his first novel, The Time of Indifference

Erich Maria Remarque publishes All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel based on his wartime experiences in the German army

US author Thomas Wolfe publishes an autobiographical first novel, Look Homeward, Angel

English author J.B. Priestley has an immediate success with his first novel, The Good Companions

US crime-writer Dashiell Hammett publishes The Maltese Falcon, the novel in which he introduces his sardonic private eye, Sam Spade

Agatha Christie's Miss Marple makes her first appearance, in Murder at the Vicarage

In his novel As I Lay Dying William Faulkner follows the journey of a coffin in a mule-drawn wagon

US author John Dos Passos publishes the first novel of his trilogy The 42nd Parallel

Virginia Woolf publishes the most fluid of her novels, The Waves, in which she tells the story through six interior monologues

In Pietr-Le-Letton, the first novel published under his own name, the Belgian writer Georges Simenon introduces Inspector Maigret

Ernest Hemingway, an aficionado of the sport, publishes Death in the Afternoon, a non-fiction account of bullfighting in Spain

British author Aldous Huxley gives a bleak view of a science-based future in his novel Brave New World

US novelist Erskine Caldwell publishes Tobacco Road, about white sharecroppers coping with poverty and desperation in Georgia

John Cowper Powys's novel A Glastonbury Romance is published first in New York

Young Lonigan: a Boyhood in Chicago Streets is the first novel in James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan trilogy

US author Damon Runyon publishes his first collection of stories about low-life New York, under the title Guys and Dolls

In My Life and Hard Times James Thurber's publishes an affectionate account of his family, including the night the bed fell on his father

H.G. Wells publishes The Shape of Things to Come, a novel in which he accurately predicts a renewal of world war

English author Antonia White publishes an autobiographical first novel, Frost in May

Erskine Caldwell publishes a novel, God's Little Acre, about a farmer obsessed with finding gold on his farm

US author Scott FitzGerald publishes his novel Tender Is the Night

US author Henry Miller publishes in Paris a largely sexual autobiography, Tropic of Cancer, about his life as an expatriate

Australian author Christina Stead publishes a first novel based on her own family, Seven Poor Men of Sydney