You know the drill, squad

If you missed our recent sitewide sale, you have another chance to shop for our books at discounted prices. For 24 HOURS ONLY, as a special holiday sale, we're offering up to 40% off all of our books: More than a thousand titles published in our NYRB Classics, NYRB Poets, NYRB Kids, New York Review Comics, and New York Review Books imprints, along with titles published by our distributed presses, Notting Hill Editions and Dorothy, a publishing project.

Sale Ends TOMORROW (11/30) at noon ET!

Placed an order during the sale that closed last Monday and it still hasn’t told me it shipped. This is my first order with them and I searched the website for clues but couldn’t find much. Any help would be nice!

Recently read the new release of Waiting for the Fear by the same author that just released under nyrb. I thought it was exceptional, and have heard even greater things about Atay’s supposed opus, Tutunamayanlar (The Disconnected). I’ve read that the work of a translator for the text is daunting, as the author switches between different styles of Turkish, but is supposedly possible. Given the publisher just put out his collection of short stories, could a translation of Tutunamayanlar be in the works?

Especially if you have any reccs in the New York Review Books series (as in not NYRB Classics) as I'd love to read some more contemporary critics/writers. But I'm open to Classics recommendations as well. Some authors I've already read and enjoyed are Lionel Trilling, Eve Babitz and Edmund Wilson if that's any help.

I need two more books to get the fill discount and I'm in the mood for some criticism. After all, I prefer good literally criticism, that way you get both the novelists ideas as well as the critics ideas. With fiction I can never forget that it's all just made up by the author.

It says on the website this item is not available.

I'm planning to put in a sale order and would like to include a gift for someone I know who doesn't do a great deal of reading but loved Ferrante's Neapolitan novels. I haven't read the books myself, so I don't have a sense of what they're like other than the broad outline of the friendship they trace between two women over time. If anyone here enjoyed those novels, could you weigh in with some NYRB books you like? Not necessarily something with the same epic scope, but perhaps something with a similar feel or sense of character. (I realize this is a broad prompt, I'm just looking to cast a wide net/entertain some options.)

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What the title says. Just a super big fan of non-linear books like catch-22 and infinite jest, big casts, pov's, weird timelines, whatever. Would really appriciate if NYRB has any good ones :).

I threw Pinocchio in there to get free shipping, but I've always been curious about it. Most excited for On the Yard. Thanks to many of you in other threads for all of the indirect recommendations!

Hi everyone, I am trying to take advantage of site wide sale and already have a few in the list from other Reddit threads I’ve checked out (list below), but wanting to diversify my reading across continents and topics. Mostly looking for fiction but will read anything. Give me your favorite NYRB classics you’ve read list I have already:

• Hard Rain Falling
• Stoner
• The Door
• Chess Story
• Stalingrad

I haven't read this book yet (released later this week) and might not get to it for a while, but mentioning it here because he's the Editorial Director of NYRB and the "founder" of the Classics series.

Edwin Frank, STRANGER THAN FICTION (FSG, 2024)

NYT review (paywalled): https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/10/books/review/stranger-than-fiction-edwin-frank.html

New Yorker review by Louis Menand (haven't read it yet...paywalled but you can usually read a first article free?): https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/11/18/stranger-than-fiction-edwin-frank-book-review

A Paris Review interview with him from 2016: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/04/07/what-a-good-book-can-be-an-interview-with-edwin-frank/

A more recent interview, focusing on the NYRB series and his editorship, from ~March 2024:

https://thepointmag.com/dialogue/how-the-story-turns-out/

[Edit] One more interesting interview with a bit more about Frank's background, life, development as a reader, from ~2020:

https://www.literarymatters.org/13-1-habits-of-reading-alissa-valles-and-edwin-frank-in-conversation/

I just discovered nyrb and I have almost $600 worth of books added to my wish list already. When will I get to buy some of them with sales?

He loves Borges and Calvino so I think some of the stuff in that area might work for him (he’ll also be less likely to have already read it). So far I’m looking at Inverted World, Moderan, and The Continuous Karen Mortenhoe (The Unsleeping Eye/Death Watch). What do you guys think? Feel free to suggest something else (even something outside the NYRB list) but those are what I’m debating between now.

Hi all,

Has anyone come across any other noteworthy NYRB westerns besides Warlock and Butcher's Crossing (both phenomenal!)? Or even anything similar in tone? Thanks in advance!

I was perusing nyrb's sci-fi & horror lists, both rather short:

https://www.nyrb.com/collections/classics/science-fiction

https://www.nyrb.com/collections/classics/horror

And Sheckley's someone I've been curious about, though I have a slight worry he may be too "light" and "har-de-ha-ha" for my taste. I've enjoyed Bazzuti's short stories, so figured I'd choose The Stronghold over The Singularity, since Stronghold seems to be the one everyone's trumpeting.

Priest's Inverted World is the other one that caught my eye, but have heard many differing opinions about it.

Any thoughts? Thnx! :)

My nyrb faves so far are: Nightmare Alley & When We Cease to Understand the World.

PS: I confess not every nyrb book has been a hit for me. I actually DNF-ed on Rim of Morning; it was just terrible.

This blew me away and it’s easily a new favorite of mine. Stoner is next on the list but are there any others you recommend?

I'll be in Vegas from the UK later this month, does anyone know of anywhere in the city that sells nyrb classics?

I haven't been able to find any solid info on when the annual NYRB holiday sale is.

Does it normally start around November or December?

Are there any NYRB Classics that are similar to John Williams' Stoner?