The New York Review of Books reissues lost classics. The books are beautiful - uniformly designed by Katy Homans with striking imagery and colors. The list below is my collection.
Year | Author | Title | |
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1831 | Honoré de Balzac | The Unknown Masterpiece | |
1862 | Ivan Turgenev | Fathers and Children | |
1898 | Italo Svevo | As a Man Grows Older | |
1909 | Robert Walser | Jakob von Gunten | |
1935 | Ivy Compton-Burnett | A House and Its Head | |
1938 | Charles Duff | A Handbook on Hanging | |
1939 | Geoffrey Household | Rogue Male | |
1940 | Glenway Wescott | The Pilgrim Hawk | |
1946 | William Lindsay Gresham | Nightmare Alley | |
1946 | Georges Simenon | Three Bedrooms in Manhattan | |
1946 | Kenneth Fearing | The Big Clock | |
1948 | Georges Simenon | Dirty Snow | |
1949 | Cesare Pavese | The Moon and the Bonfires | |
1950 | Martin A. Hansen | The Liar | |
1952 | Georges Simenon | Monsieur Monde Vanishes | |
1953 | Elliott Chaze | Black Wings Has My Angel | |
1953 | L.P. Hartley | The Go-Between | |
1954 | Kingsley Amis | Lucky Jim | |
1956 | Antonio di Benedetto | Zama | |
1957 | Ernst Junger | The Glass Bees | |
1958 | Oakley Hall | Warlock | |
1958 | Randall Jarrell | Randall Jarrell's Book of Stories | |
1959 | Barbara Comyns | The Vet’s Daughter | |
1960 | J. R. Ackerley | We Think the World of You | |
1960 | Alberto Moravia | Boredom | |
1962 | J. F. Powers | Morte D'Urban | |
1962 | Dorothy Baker | Cassandra at the Wedding | |
1963 | Edward Lewis Wallant | The Tenants of Moonbloom | |
1965 | J. R. Ackerley | My Dog Tulip | |
1965 | John Williams | Stoner | |
1966 | Leonardo Sciascia | To Each His Own | |
1966 | Don Carpenter | Hard Rain Falling | |
1967 | Diana Athill | Don't Look At Me Like That | |
1967 | J.A. Baker | The Peregrine | |
1967 | Evan S. Connell | The Diary of a Rapist | |
1967 | Malcolm Braly | On the Yard | |
1968 | Norman Mailer | Miami and the Siege of Chicago | |
1968 | William Gass | In the Heart of the Heart of the Country | |
1968 | Alfred Hayes | The End of Me | |
1969 | Leonard Gardner | Fat City | |
1969 | J. R. Ackerley | My Father and Myself | |
1971 | Kingsley Amis | Girl, 20 | |
1971 | Elizabeth Taylor | Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont | |
1972 | Jean-Patrick Manchette | The Mad and the Bad | |
1972 | Peter Handke | A Sorrow Beyond Dreams | |
1973 | Iris Owens | After Claude | |
1974 | Eve Babitz | Eve's Hollywood | |
1974 | Leonora Carrington | The Hearing Trumpet | |
1975 | Oğuz Atay | Waiting for the Fear | |
1976 | Renata Adler | Speedboat | |
1976 | Lucille Clifton | Generations | |
1976 | Jean-Patrick Manchette | Skeletons in the Closet | |
1977 | Caroline Blackwood | Great Granny Webster | |
1977 | Darcy O’Brien | A Way of Life, Like Any Other | |
1978 | James Schuyler | What’s for Dinner? | |
1979 | Elizabeth Hardwick | Sleepless Nights | |
1980 | J. L. Carr | A Month in the Country | |
1981 | Molly Keane | Good Behaviour | |
1982 | Robert Walser | Selected Stories | |
1984 | Janet Malcolm | In the Freud Archives | |
1987 | Magda Szabo | The Door | |
1988 | J. F. Powers | Wheat That Springeth Green | |
1994 | Qiu Miaojin | Notes of a Crocodile | |
2002 | Mavis Gallant | Paris Stories | |
2003 | Ross Feld | Guston in Time | |
2007 | Patrick Modiano | In the Café of Lost Youth |