Matthew Stevens

NYRB Classics

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
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