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NYRB Classics, Most Published Authors

All authors with 3 or more distinct works published by NYRB Classics (New York Review Books Classics).
All data source credit goes to u/jjflash78 (and others, referenced in post) for the spreadsheet embeded on this post in the r/nyrbclassics subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/nyrbclassics/comments/1q6z63c/updated_list/.
Years and Nationality sources: Wikipedia and/or NYRB Classics website (https://www.nyrb.com/)!
Last updated 5/18/2026, and includes all (known) out-of-print and forthcoming works.
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Number of Works
Works
Years
Language/Nationality
Author
11
Act of Passion
Dirty Snow
The Engagement
The Man Who Watched Trains Go
Monsieur Monde Vanishes
Pedigree
Red Lights
The Strangers in the House
Three Bedrooms in Manhattan
Tropic Moon
The Widow
1903 - 1989
French/Belgian
Georges Simenon
9
The Alteration
Dear Illusion
Ending Up
Girl, 20
The Green Man
Lucky Jim
The Old Devils
One Fat Englishman
Take a Girl Like You
1922 - 1995
English/British
Kingsley Amis
9
Back
Blindness
Caught
Doting
Living
Loving
Nothing
Party Going
Surviving: The Uncollected Writings
1905 - 1973
English/British
Henry Green
8
Between the Woods and the Water
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
Mani
Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece
A Time of Gifts
A Time to Keep Silence
The Traveller's Tree
The Violins of Saint-Jacques
1915 - 2011
English/British
Patrick Leigh Fermor
7
From the Front Line
An Armenian Sketchbook
Everything Flows
Life and Fate
The People Immortal
The Road
Stalingrad
1905 - 1964
Russian/Soviet
Vasily Grossman
7
Fatale
Ivory Pearl
The Mad and the Bad
Nada
The N'Gustro Affair
No Room at the Morgue
Skeletons in the Closet
1942 - 1995
French/French
Jean-Patrick Manchette
7
The Case of Comrade Tulayev
Conquered City
Last Times
Memoirs of a Revolutionary
Midnight in the Century
Notebooks 1936-1947
Unforgiving Years
1890 - 1947
French/Belgian-born Russian
Victor Serge
6
A Woman of Thirty
The Girl with the Golden Eyes
The Human Comedy
Letters of Two Brides
Lily of the Valley
The Unknown Masterpiece / Gambara
1799 - 1850
French/French
Honoré de Balzac
6
Berlin Stories
Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories
Jakob von Gunten
Little Snow Landscape
A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories
Selected Stories
1878 - 1956
German/Swiss
Robert Walser
5
The Bewitched Bourgeois: Fifty Stories
A Love Affair
The Singularity
The Stronghold (The Tartar Steppe)
Poem Strip (now part of NYRB Comics)
1906 - 1972
Italian/Italian
Dino Buzatti
5
The Fierce and Beautiful World (replaced by Soul)
Chevengur
The Foundation Pit
Happy Moscow
Soul: And Other Stories
1899 - 1951
Russian/Soviet
Andrey Platonov
5
Little Reunions
Love in a Fallen City
Naked Earth
Time Tunnel
Written on Water
1920 - 1995
Chinese & English/Chinese and later American
Eileen Chang
5
The Cost of Living
A Fairly Good Time
Paris Stories
The Uncollected Stories of _____ _______
Varieties of Exile (Montreal Stories)
1922 - 2014
English/Canadian
Mavis Gallant
5
The Collected Essays of _________ ________
The New York Stories of _________ ________
Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature
Sleepless Nights
The Uncollected Essays of _________ ________
1916 - 2007
English/American
Elizabeth Hardwick
5
The Ivory Tower
The New York Stories of _____ _____
On Writers and Writing: Selected Essays
The Other House
The Outcry
1843 - 1916
English/American-British
Henry James
5
Fair Play
The Summer Book
Sun City
The True Deceiver
The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories
1914 - 2001
Swedish/Finland-Swedish
Tove Jansson
5
Autobiography of a Corpse
The Letter Killers Club
Memories of the Future
The Return of Munchausen
Unwitting Street
1887 - 1950
Russian/Soviet (though Ukrainian-born of Polish parents)
Sigismund Krzyzanowski
5
The Day of the Owl
Equal Danger
The Moro Affair
To Each His Own
The Wine-Dark Sea
1921 - 1989
Italian/Italian
Leonardo Sciascia
5
Blue Lard
Ice Trilogy
The Queue
Red Pyramid
Telluria
1955 -
Russian/Russian
Vladimir Sorokin
5
Abigail
The Door
The Fawn
Iza's Ballad
Katalin Street
1917 - 2007
Hungarian/Hungarian
Magda Szabó
5
Angel
A Game of Hide and Seek
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
A View of the Harbour
You'll Enjoy It When You Get There
1912 - 1975
English/British
Elizabeth Taylor
5
Augustus
Butcher's Crossing
English Renaissance Poetry: A Collection of Shorter Poems
Nothing but the Night
Stoner
1922 - 1994
English/American
John Williams
5
Beware of Pity
Chess Story
Confusion
Journey into the Past
The Post-Office Girl
1881 - 1942
German/Austrian
Stefan Zweig
4
Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal
My Dog Tulip
My Father and Myself
We Think The World of You
1896 - 1967
English/British
JR Ackerley
4
A Favourite of the Gods; and Compass Error
Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education
A Legacy
A Visit to Don Otavio
1911 - 2006
English/German-British
Sybille Bedford
4
Afternoon Raag
Freedom Song
Immortals
A Strange and Sublime Address
1962 -
English/English-Indian
Amit Chaudhuri
4
Hill
A King Alone
Melville
The Open Road
1895 - 1970
French/French
Jean Giono
4
The Fox in the Attic
A High Wind in Jamaica
In Hazard
The Wooden Shepherdess
1900 - 1976
English/Welsh
Richard Hughes
4
Diary of a Foreigner in Paris
Kaputt
The Kremlin Ball
The Skin
1898 - 1957
Italian/Italian
Curzio Malaparte
4
Frederick the Great
Madame de Pompadour
The Sun King
Voltaire in Love
1904 - 1973
English/British
Nancy Mitford
4
A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary, 1939-1940
Images & Shadows: Part of a Life
The Merchant of Prato
War in Val d'Orcia
1902 - 1988
English/British and later Italian
Iris Origo
4
Abel and Cain
An Ermine in Czernopol
Memoirs of an Anti-Semite
The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography
1914 - 1998
German/Austrian-born, Romanian, Bukovina-German
Gregor von Rezzori
4
The Corner That Held Them
Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman
Mr Fortune's Maggot and The Salutation
Summer Will Show
1893 - 1978
English/British
Sylvia Townsend Warner
4
The New Life
Inferno
Purgatorio
Paradiso
1265 - 1321
Italian/Italian
Dante Alighieri
3
The End of the Hunt
The Tenants of Time
The Year of the French
1923 - 2002
English/American
Thomas Flanagan
3
Herself Surprised
The Horse's Mouth
To Be a Pilgrim
1888 - 1957
English/Anglo-Irish
Joyce Cary
3
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
Short Letter, Long Farewell
Slow Homecoming
1942 -
German/Austrian
Peter Handke
3
Eve's Hollywood
I Used to Be Charming
Slow Days, Fast Company
1943 - 2021
English/American
Eve Babitz
3
Down Below
The Hearing Trumpet
The Stone Door
1917 - 2011
English/British and later Mexican
Leonora Carrington
3
Asleep in the Sun
The Invention of Morel
Borges
1914 - 1999
Spanish/Argentine
Adolfo Bioy Casares
3
The Juniper Tree
Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
The Vet's Daughter
1907 - 1992
English/British
Barbara Comyns
3
Inhuman Land
Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp
Memories of Starobielsk: Essays Between Art and History
1896 - 1993
Polish/Polish
Józef Czapski
3
Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1768-1800
Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1800-1815
Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1815-1830
1768 - 1848
French/French
François-René de Chateaubriand
3
Afloat
Alien Hearts
Like Death (Strong as Death)
1850 - 1893
French/French
Guy de Maupassant
3
The Silentiary
The Suicides
Zama
1922 - 1986
Spanish/Argentine
Antonio di Benedetto
3
The Siege of Krishnapur
The Singapore Grip
Troubles
1935 - 1979
English/Anglo-Irish
JG Farrell
3
J R
Letters of _______ ______
The Recognitions
1922 - 1998
English/American
William Gaddis
3
Family and Borghesia
Family Lexicon
Valentino and Sagittarius
1916 - 1991
Italian/Italian
Natalia Ginzburg
3
The End of Me
In Love
My Face for the World to See
1911 - 1985
English/American
Alfred Hayes
3
All for Nothing
Marrow and Bone
An Ordinary Youth
1929 - 2007
German/German
Walter Kempowski
3
Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy
Fortunes of War: The Levant Trilogy
School for Love
1908 - 1980
English/British
Olivia Manning
3
Agostino
Boredom
Contempt
1907 - 1990
Italian/Italian
Alberto Moravia
3
Boys Alive
Theorem
Petrolio
1922 - 1975
Italian/Italian
Pier Paolo Pasolini
3
Morte d'Urban
The Stories of __ ______
Wheat that Springeth Green
1917 - 1999
English/American
JF Powers
3
The Skin of Dreams
We Always Treat Women Too Well
Witch Grass
1903 - 1976
French/French
Raymond Queneau
3
The Dead Girls' Class Trip
The Seventh Cross
Transit
1900 - 1983
German/German
Anna Seghers
3
Fire
Names on the Land
Storm
1895 - 1980
English/American
George R. Stewart
3
Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea
Other Worlds: Peasants, Pilgrims, Spirits, Saints
Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me
1872 - 1952
Russian/Russian
Teffi
3
The Book of Blam
Kapo
The Use of Man
1924 - 2003
Serbo-Croatian/Serbian
Aleksandar Tišma
3
Fathers and Sons
Virgin Soil
Smoke
1818 - 1883
Russian/Russian
Ivan Turgenev
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