1948 in literature

See also: 1947 in literature, other events of 1948, 1949 in literature, list of years in literature.

New books

• The American Political Tradition - Richard Hofstadter
• Catalina - W. Somerset Maugham
• Concluding - Henry Green
• Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
• The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline - Isaac Asimov
• The Foundling ? Georgette Heyer
• The Golden Warrior - Hope Muntz
• Guard of Honor - James Gould Cozzens
• The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
• The Hearth and the Eagle - Anya Seton
• The House of Sleep - Anna Kavan
• Ides of March - Thornton Wilder
• John Aubrey and His Friends - Anthony Powell
• Joseph and His Brothers - Thomas Mann
• Last Of The Conquerors - William Gardner Smith
• The Living Is Easy - Dorothy West
• The Mask of Circe - C. L. Moore
• Melissa (novel) - Taylor Caldwell
• My Glorious Brothers - Howard Fast
• The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer
• Parris Mitchell of King's Row - Henry Bellamann
• Raintree County - Ross Lockridge, Jr.
• Seraph On The Sewanee - Zora Neale Hurston
• The Twenty-One Balloons - William Pène du Bois
• The White Goddess - Robert Graves
• The World is Not Enough - Zoe B. Oldenbourg
• The Young Lions - Irwin Shaw