IN THE LOBBY

NONFICTION

• Applewhite, Ashton - This chair rocks: a manifesto against ageism
• Behr, Edward - The food & wine of France: eating and drinking from Champagne to Provence
• Byrne, Gary J. - Crisis of character: a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
• Cohen, Richard - How to write like Tolstoy: a journey into the minds of our greatest writers
• Cooper, Elisha - Falling: a daughter, a father, and a journey back
• Daley, David - Ratf**ked: the true story behind the secret plan to steal America's democracy
• Ehrenreich, Ben - The way to the spring: life and death in Palestine
• Hamilton, Mary - Trials of the earth: the true story of a pioneer woman
• Hirshey, Gerri - Not pretty enough: the unlikely triumph of Helen Gurley Brown
• Hutchinson, Robert - The audacious crimes of Colonel Blood: the spy who stole the crown jewels and became the king's secret agent
• Leve, Ariel - An abbreviated life: a memoir
• Matar, Hisham - The return: fathers, sons, and the land in between
• Ozick, Cynthia - Critics, monsters, fanatics, and other literary essays (ebook available)
• Parker, Peter - Housman country: into the heart of England
• Riskin, Jessica - The restless clock: a history of the centuries-long argument over what makes living things tick
• Seligman, Scott D. - Tong wars: the untold story of vice, money, and murder in New York's Chinatown
• Smith, Jean Edward - Bush
• Smith, Lee - Dimestore
• Stein, Judith E. - Eye of the sixties: Richard Bellamy and the transformation of modern art
• Summerscale, Kate - The wicked boy: the mystery of a Victorian child murderer
• Talese, Gay - The voyeur's motel
• Trillin, Calvin - Jackson, 1964: and other dispatches from fifty years of reporting on race in America
• Tye, Larry - Bobby Kennedy: the making of a liberal icon
• Tynan, Tracy - Wear and tear: the threads of my life
• Vincent, Isabel - Dinner with Edward: the story of a remarkable friendship

FICTION

• Abdel Aziz, Basma -The queue: a novel (translated from the Arabic)
• Adams, Alice - Invincible summer
• Ahrnstedt, Simona - All in (translated from the Swedish)
• Alam, Rumaan - Rich and pretty/ Rumaan Alam
• Anam, Tahmima - The bones of grace
• Ball, Jesse - How to set a fire and why
• Burton, Jessie - The muse
• Cannon, Joanna - The trouble with goats and sheep
• Close, Jennifer - The hopefuls
• Dennis-Benn, Nicole - Here comes the sun
• Deón, Natashia - Grace
• Eggers, Dave - Heroes of the frontier
• Ephron, Delia - Siracusa (ebook available)
• Eteraz, Ali - Native believer
• Fagan, Jenni - The sunlight pilgrims
• Fellowes, Julian - Belgravia (ebook available) 
• Giffin, Emily - First comes love
• Levy, Deborah - Hot milk (ebook available)
• McMillan, Terry - I almost forgot about you
• Nadler, Stuart - The inseparables
• O'Farrell, Maggie - This must be the place
• Rodoreda, Mercè- War, so much war (translated from the Catalan)
• Rosenheim, Andrew - The accidental agent: a Jimmy Nessheim novel
• Rosoff, Meg - Jonathan unleashed
• Spiegelman, Peter - Dr. Knox
• Spufford, Francis - Golden Hill
• Stibbe, Nina - Paradise Lodge
• Tripp, Dawn Clifton - Georgia: a novel of Georgia O'Keeffe
• Valdés, Zoé - The weeping woman (translated from the Spanish)
• Watson, Larry - As good as gone
• Weisberger, Lauren - The singles game
• Winters, Ben H. - Underground airlines

MYSTERIES

• Adler, Elizabeth - The charmers
• Atkins, Ace - The innocents
• Booth, Claire - The Branson beauty
• Brackmann, Lisa - Go-between
• Cumming, Charles - A divided spy*
• Davis, Lindsey - The graveyard of the Hesperides
• Downie, Ruth - Vita brevis: a crime novel of the Roman Empire
• Fairstein, Linda A. - Killer look
• Finder, Joseph - Guilty minds (ebook available)
• Flanery, Patrick - I am no one
• Gentill, Sulari - A few right thinking men: a Rowland Sinclair mystery
• Gerlis, Alex - The best of our spies
• Gregorio, Michael - Think wolf: a Sebastiano Cangio thriller
• Hambly, Barbara - Drinking gourd: a Benjamin January mystery
• Jewish noir (edited by Kenneth Wishnia)
• Lawson, Michael - House revenge
• Levine, Laura - Murder has nine lives
• Limon, Martin - Ping-pong heart
• Lovesey, Peter - Another one goes tonight: a Peter Diamond investigation* (ebook available)
• McCauley, Terrence - A murder of crowsy
• Miranda, Megan - All the missing girls
• Moliner, Sara - The whispering city
• Muller, Marcia - Someone always knows
• Nakamura, Fuminori - The kingdom (translated from the Japanese)
• Pearce, Michael - The women of the Souk: a Mamur Zapt mystery
• Reid, Iain - I'm thinking of ending things
• Robertson, Michael - The Baker Street jurors*
• Rosenfelt, David - Outfoxed
• Schepp, Emelie - Marked for life
• Sharp, Zoë - Absence of light: a Charlie Fox thriller
• Silva, Daniel - The black widow (ebook available)
• Spencer, Sally - Death in disguise: a Monika Paniatowski mystery*
• Steiner, Susie - Missing, presumed
• Stevens, Stuart - The innocent have nothing to fear
• Thomas, Kara - The darkest corners
• Verdon, John - Wolf Lake: a novel
• Walker, Wendy - All is not forgotten
• Ware, Ruth - The woman in cabin 10 (ebook available)
• Wignall, Kevin - The traitor's story

* Indicates a British mystery

SHORT STORIES

• Hensher, Philip - Tales of persuasion
• McCall Smith, Alexander - Chance developments
• Noyes, Anna - Goodnight, beautiful women: stories
• Williams, Joy - Ninety-nine stories of God

POETRY

• Harrison, Jim - Dead man's float
• Levin, Phillis - Mr. Memory & other poems
• Morgan, J. O. - Interference pattern

BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

• Baxter, Glen - Almost completely Baxter: new and selected blurtings
• Gannon, Angela - St Kilda: the last and outmost isle
• Meersch, Maxence van der - Invasion 14
• Winton, Tim - Island home: a landscape memoir

IN THE STACKS

LITERATURE

• Burack-Weiss, Ann - The lioness in winter: writing an old woman's life 809 B
• DeFanti, Charles - The wages of expectation: a biography of Edward Dahlberg 92 D1313 D
• Gessner, David - All the wild that remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West 917.8 G
• Hawksley, Lucinda - Charles Dickens and his circle 920 H3955 C
• Hayes, Kevin J - Edgar Allan Poe (Reaktion Critical Lives 828.09 P
• Poole, Adrian - Tragedy: a very short introduction 809.2 P
• The making of the American essay (edited and introduced by John D'Agata) 824.08 M
• Vallejo, César - Selected writings of César Vallejo 820.81 V

FICTION

• Bardin, John Franklin - The deadly percheron  (1946 cult classic crime novel) F B
• Biller, Maxim - Inside the head of Bruno Schulz (translated from the German, with two stories by Bruno Schulz) F B
• Blecher, Max - Adventures in immediate irreality (translated from the Romanian) F B
• Bloy, Lén - Sweating blood (translated from the French) F B
• Bourdouxhe, Madeleine - Marie (translated from the French) F B
• Bove, Emmanuel - A Raskolnikoff (translated from the French) F B
• Gallant, Mavis - A fairly good time: with Green water, green sky F G
• Levy, Deborah - Beautiful mutants and Swallowing geography: two early novels F L
• Russell, Ray - The case against Satan (Penguin Classics; 1962 horror) F R
• Willeford, Charles Ray - The difference (1971 western from noir author) F W

POETRY

• Bogin, Magda - The women troubadours 849.09 B
• Hooker, Jeremy - The cut of the light: poems, 1965-2005 821 H
• Howe, Susan - The midnight 821 H
• Ned O'Gorman: a glance back (Elizabeth Howard, ed.)  92 O354 N
• Péret, Benjamin - The big game (translated from the French) 843 P
• Prynne, J. H. - The white stones 821 P
• Wiman, Christian - Every riven thing 821 W

ART

• Agee, William C. - Modern art in America 1908-68  709.73 A OVERSIZE
• Büttner, Nils - Hieronymus Bosch: visions and nightmares  759.9 B
• Ficacci, Luigi - Giovanni Battista Piranesi: the complete etchings 767 P
• Fried, Michael - After Caravaggio 759.5 C
• Jones, Robert O. - D. Maitland Armstrong: American stained glass master 748 J
• Martin, Agnes - Agnes Martin (2016 Tate Modern exhibition) 759.11 M
• Seghers, Hercules - Hercules Segers 760 S
• Siegel, Katy - Rosalyn Drexler: who does she think she is? 709.73 S

PHILOSOPHY

• Bacon, Francis - The new organon 160 B
• Badiou, Alain - Ethics: an essay on the understanding of evil 170 B
• Posnock, Ross - Renunciation: acts of abandonment by writers, philosophers, and artists 128 P

BIOGRAPHY

• Hardman, John - The life of Louis XVI 92 L8882 H
• Kelly, Aileen - The discovery of chance: the life and thought of Alexander Herzen 92 H5763 K
• Ollard, Richard Lawrence - Pepys and his contemporaries  920 O496 P
• Scanlon, Jennifer - Until there is justice: the life of Anna Arnold Hedgeman 92 H453 S
• Tuszynska, Agata - Family history of fear: a memoir 92 T9653 T

MUSIC

• Binkowski, Carol J - Opening Carnegie Hall: the creation and first performances of America's premier concert stage 780.973 B
• Davis, Mary E. - Erik Satie 780.92 S
• Feldman, Morton - Give my regards to Eighth Street: collected writings of Morton Feldman 780.92 F
• Gleason, Ralph J. - Conversations in jazz: the Ralph J. Gleason interviews 780.973 G

DRAMA

• Hunter, G. K. - English drama 1586-1642: the age of Shakespeare 822.09 H
• Jelinek, Elfriede - Her not all her: on / with Robert Walser (translated from the German by Damion Searls) 832 J
• Shepherd-Barr, Kirsten - Modern drama: a very short introduction 809.2 S

SHAKESPEARE

• Nicholl, Charles - Shakespeare and his contemporaries 920 N611 S
• The Oxford companion to Shakespeare (2nd ed. Michael Dobson, Stanley Wells, eds.) HBR 822.33 D
• Vickers, Brian - The one King Lear 822.33 C

ANTIQUITY

• Dunn, Daisy - Catullus' bedspread: the life of Rome's most erotic poet 874.2 D
• Lahiri, Nayanjot - Finding forgotten cities: how the Indus civilization was discovered 934 L
• Spivey, Nigel Jonathan - The classical world: the foundations of the West and the enduring legacy of antiquity 930 S
• Swetnam-Burland, Molly - Egypt in Italy: visions of Egypt in Roman imperial culture 937.06 S

HISTORY

• Carhart, Thaddeus - Finding Fontainebleau: an American boy in France 944.36 C
• Crowley, Roger - 1453: the holy war for Constantinople and the clash of Islam and the West 949.61 C
• Fitz, Caitlin - Our sister republics: the United States in an age of American revolutions 327.73 F
• Gallagher, Winifred - How the post office created America: a history 383 G
• Huebner, Timothy S. - Liberty and union: the Civil War era and American constitutionalism 973.71 H
• Jha, Prashant - Battles of the new republic: a contemporary history of Nepal 954.96 J
• McAuliffe, Mary - Richmond Barracks 1916: we were there : 77 women of the Easter Rising 941.5 M
• McNamara, Kevin J. - Dreams of a great small nation: the mutinous army that threatened a revolution, destroyed an empire, founded a republic, and remade the map of Europe 943.7 M
• Mostyn, Trevor - Egypt's belle epoque: Cairo and the age of the hedonists 962 M
• Riding, Jacqueline - Jacobites: a new history of the '45 rebellion 941 R
• Warren, Wendy - New England bound: slavery and colonization in early America 974 W

WAR

• Abzug, Robert H. - Inside the vicious heart: Americans and the liberation of Nazi concentration camps 940.5472 A
• Herman, Arthur - Douglas MacArthur: American warrior 92 M116 H
• McDonough, James L. - William Tecumseh Sherman: in the service of my country : a life 92 S5537 M
• Sandler, Stanley - Segregated skies: all-Black combat squadrons of WW II 940.544 S

LATIN AMERICA

• Barbassa, Juliana - Dancing with the devil in the City of God: Rio de Janeiro on the brink 981 D
• The Paraguay reader: history, culture, politics  (Duke U. Latin America Readers series; Peter Lambert & Andrew Nickson, eds.) 989 P
• Tinker Salas, Miguel - Venezuela: what everyone needs to know 987 T

GARDENS

• Bending, Stephen - Green retreats: women, gardens, and eighteenth-century culture 635 B
• Biggs, Matthew - Lessons from the great gardeners: forty gardening icons & what they teach us 635 B
• Miller, Kristine F. - Almost home: the public landscapes of Gertrude Jekyll 712 M

NATURE

• Hines, Richard - No way but gentlenesse: a memoir of how Kes, my kestrel, changed my life 636.6 H
• Lewis-Stempel, John - The running hare: the secret life of farmland 575.3 L
• Robinson, Andrew - Earth-shattering events: earthquakes, nations, and civilization 551.2 R
• Stokes, M. Dale - The fish in the forest: salmon and the web of life 597 S
• Williams, Terry Tempest - The hour of land: a personal topography of America's national parks 973 W

RELIGION

• The Hebrew Bible: a critical companion (John Barton, ed.) 221.6 H
• Roper, Lyndal - Martin Luther: renegade and prophet  92 L9735 R

SOCIOLOGY

• Anderson, Carol - White rage: the unspoken truth of our racial divide 305.8 A
• Eagleton, Terry - Culture  306.4 E
• Forbes, Scott - A natural history of families 306.8 F
• Hilton, Steve - More human: designing a world where people come first 303.4 H

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

• Knaus, John Kenneth - Beyond Shangri-La: America and Tibet's move into the twenty-first century 951.5 K
• Simms, Brendan - Britain's Europe: a thousand years of conflict and cooperation 327.42 S

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Cowan, Geoffrey - Let the people rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the birth of the presidential primary 973.91 C
• Goldstein, Joel K. - The White House vice presidency: the path to significance, Mondale to Biden  353.03 G
• Strassel, Kimberley A. - The intimidation game: how the Left is silencing free speech  324 S

LAW

• Kyvig, David E. - Explicit and authentic acts: amending the U.S. constitution 1776-2015 with a new afterword 342.73 K
• Race on trial: law and justice in American history (Annette Gordon-Reed, ed.)  342.73 R

NEW YORK

• Carroll, Tamar W. - Mobilizing New York: AIDS, antipoverty, and feminist activism  974.71 C
• Gross, Milt - Milt Gross' New York  741.5 G
• Invisible man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem 779 P
• Jacobs, Jane - Jane Jacobs: the last interview and other conversations 307.76 J
• Lachman, Seymour - Mr. New York: Lew Rudin and his love for the city 92 R915 L
• Rips, Nicolaia - Trying to float: coming of age in the Chelsea Hotel 92 R5937 R

TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION

• Danforth, Loring M. - Crossing the kingdom: portraits of Saudi Arabia 953 D
• Kilvert, Robert Francis - A Wiltshire diary 92 K488 K
• Marsden, Philip - Rising ground: a search for the spirit of place 914.23 M
• Shepherd, Nan - The living mountain  941 S

AUDIO

• Angell, Roger - This old man: all in pieces Lobby Audio-CD 828 A
• Buchan, John - The thirty-nine steps Audio-CD B
• Hawley, Noah - Before the fall Lobby Audio-CD H
• Rovelli, Carlo - Seven brief lessons on physics Lobby Audio-CD 530 R

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