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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