If you don’t know about it already, there is a GoodReads group dedicated to NYRB Classics (see here). I’m a moderator, and I’ve done a lot of work to ensure there is a thread dedicated to each and every book, and I continue to work to keep track of forthcoming releases (see my list here).
The most active portion of the group, though is the book club. Members select a book each month and then discuss it. Sometimes there is a lot of discussion, and sometimes things dry up, as tends to be the case with these things. I know that we’d love to have more interested readers come aboard and share their thoughts and engage with the books!
This month, the group is reading one of my favorite releases of the year, indeed, one of my favorite NYRB Classics releases ever: Ronald Blythe’s Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village. Here is the main thread, and here is the NYRB Classics blurb:
Woven from the words of the inhabitants of a small Suffolk village in the 1960s, Akenfield is a masterpiece of twentieth-century English literature, a scrupulously observed and deeply affecting portrait of a place and people and a now vanished way of life. Ronald Blythe’s wonderful book raises enduring questions about the relations between memory and modernity, nature and human nature, silence and speech.
Come, interact, enjoy some good books with some good company! We don’t know what next month’s book will be, but I’ll do my best to keep folks here in the know.
Hey Trevor,
Congrats on a worthwhile and exciting project. The NYRB Classics publishes more, consistently excellent literature than any other publisher that I know. Two of my favorites from NYRB Classics are mentioned in my Banned Books Week post for Houston’s Brazos Bookstore:
http://www.brazosbookstore.com/articles/book-lists/freedom-tell-stories-banned-books-week-manifesto
Your October selection indeed looks excellent!
Lori