| 1920 | Moon-Calf. The first novel by the radical journalist and editor of the Masses and the Liberator is an autobiographical account of Felix Fay's youth and early journalism career in Chicago. A sequel, The Briary-Patch (1921), would continue his story and present the Chicago literary scene of the period. |
| 1923 | Janet March. Dell's psychological study of a modern woman's rebellion against convention and its frank sexuality cause the book to be withdrawn from sale in Massachusetts and New York and earn its author notoriety. Dell would follow it with other portraits of the postwar generation in Runaway (1925) and This Mad Ideal (1925). |
| 1926 | Intellectual Vagabondage: An Apology for the Intelligentsia. Dell's major literary criticism is collected in this volume, which takes aim at the waffling of his generation of intellectuals and the weakness of modern literature. In Dell's view, literature fails "to tell the whole truth about our generation" and should be directed to "the relief of the world-wide misery produced by capitalism." |
| 1931 | Love Without Money. Dell looks at a couple who manage without either money or marriage while portraying a wide range of sexual expression, including free love and homosexuality. |
