1944 in literature

See also: 1943 in literature, other events of 1944, 1945 in literature, list of years in literature.

New books

• An American Dilemma - Gunnar Myrdal
• Au rendez-vous allemand - (To the German Rendezvous) - Paul Éluard
• A Bell for Adano - John Hersey
• Beyond the Palisade (poetry) - James K. Baxter
• The Book of Imaginary Beings - Jorge Luis Borges
• Book of Naturalists - Charles William Beebe
• The Case of Mrs. Wingate - Oscar Micheaux
• Dangling Man - Saul Bellow
• The Dawn Appears - Annie Greene Nelson
• Friday's Child ? Georgette Heyer
• The Golden Fleece - Robert von Ranke Graves
• The Horse's Mouth - Joyce Cary
• Johnny Tremain - Esther Forbes
• The Lost Weekend - Charles R. Jackson
• Our Lady of the Flowers - Jean Genet
• Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren
• The Razor's Edge - W. Somerset Maugham
• The Tall Book of Nursery Tales - Feodor Rojankovsky
• Terras do Sem Fim (The Violent Land) - Jorge Amado
• Thou That Dwellest in the Gardens - Hayyim Hazaz
• Two Frontiers (poetry) - Edwin James Bradley