IN THE LOBBY

NONFICTION

• Aleksievich, Svetlana - Secondhand time: the last of the Soviets (translated from the Russian by Bela Shayevich)
• Baecque, Antoine de - Éric Rohmer: a biography (translated from the French by Steven Rendall and Lisa Neal)
• Bascomb, Neal - The winter fortress: the epic mission to sabotage Hitler's atomic bomb
• Bingham, Clara - Witness to the revolution: radicals, resisters, vets, hippies, and the year America lost its mind and found its soul
• Blume, Lesley M. M. - Everybody behaves badly: the true story behind Hemingway's masterpiece The Sun Also Rises
• Boyles, Denis - Everything explained that is explainable: on the creation of the Encyclopedia Britannica's celebrated eleventh edition, 1910-1911
• Brill, Alida - Dear Princess Grace, dear Betty: the memoir of a romantic feminist
• Connors, Joanna - I will find you: a reporter investigates the life of the man who raped her
• Cook, Barbara - Then and now: a memoir
• Daughan, George C. - Revolution on the Hudson: New York City and the Hudson River Valley in the American War of Independence
• De Pury, Simon - The auctioneer: adventures in the art trade
• Faludi, Susan - In the darkroom (ebook available)
• Foster, Charles - Being a beast: adventures across the species divide
• Frazier, Ian - Hogs wild: selected reporting pieces
• Gaiman, Neil - The view from the cheap seats: selected nonfiction
• Garton Ash, Timothy - Free speech: ten principles for a connected world
• Graetz, Michael J. - The Burger Court and the rise of the judicial right
• Hamilton, Nigel - Commander in chief: FDR's battle with Churchill, 1943
• Jenner, Greg - A million years in a day: a curious history of everyday life from the Stone Age to the phone age
• Junger, Sebastian - Tribe: on homecoming and belonging
• Kendall, Joshua C. - First dads: parenting and politics from George Washington to Barack Obama
• Kramer, Peter D. - Ordinarily well: the case for antidepressants
• Leamer, Laurence - The lynching: the epic courtroom battle that brought down the Klan
• Lerner, Betsy - The bridge ladies: a memoir
• Livingstone, Natalie - The mistresses of Cliveden: three centuries of scandal, power, and intrigue in an English stately home
• Lubow, Arthur - Diane Arbus: portrait of a photographer
• Mukherjee, Siddhartha - The gene: an intimate history (ebook available)
• Nicolson, Juliet - A house full of daughters: a memoir of seven generations
• Richardson, Robert D. - Nearer the heart's desire: poets of the Rubaiyat: a dual biography of Omar Khayyam and Edward FitzGerald
• Roach, Mary - Grunt: the curious science of humans at war
• Ross, Fiona - Dining with the famous and infamous
• Sands, Philippe - East West Street: on the origins of "genocide" and "crimes against humanity"
• Soocher, Stan - Baby you're a rich man: suing the Beatles for fun & profit
• Stewart, Alison - Junk: digging through America's love affair with stuff
• Teffi, N. A.  - Memories: from Moscow to the Black Sea (translated from the Russian by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, Anne-Marie Jackson, and Irina Steinberg) (ebook available)
• Vanderbilt, Tom - You may also like: taste in an age of endless choice
• Weston, J. Kael - The mirror test: America at war in Iraq and Afghanistan
• Yalof, Ina L. - Food and the city: New York's professional chefs, restaurateurs, line cooks, street vendors, and purveyors talk about what they do and why they do it

FICTION

• Agualusa, José Eduardo - A general theory of oblivion/ José Eduardo Agualusa (translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn)
• Audin, Michèle - One hundred twenty-one days (translated from the French by Christiana Hills)
• Backman, Fredrik - Britt-Marie was here: a novel (translated from the Swedish by Henning Koch)
• Baker, Jo - A country road, a tree
• Barton, Emily - The book of Esther
• Beauregard, Mark - The whale: a love story
• Beverly-Whittemore, Miranda - June: a novel
• Bradford, Barbara Taylor - The Cavendon luck
• Busquets, Milena - This too shall pass (translated from the Spanish by Valerie Miles)
• Cline, Emma - The girls (ebook available)
• Coonts, Stephen - Liberty's last stand
• Cronin, Justin - The city of mirrors
• Danler, Stephanie - Sweetbitter (ebook available)
• De Botton, Alain - The course of love
• De Muriel, Oscar - The strings of murder
• Doiron, Paul - Widowmaker
• Evanovich, Janet - The pursuit
• Frank, Dorothea Benton - All summer long
• Greene, Thomas Christopher - If I forget you
• Gyasi, Yaa - Homegoing
• Hawley, Noah - Before the fall (ebook available)
• Hilderbrand, Elin - Here's to us
• Hooper, Kim - People who knew me
• Kazan, Philip - The painter of souls
• Latiolais, Michelle - She: fiction
• MacManus, James - Midnight in Berlin
• Mosley, Walter - Charcoal Joe: an Easy Rawlins mystery
• Mwanza Mujila, Fiston - Tram 83 (translated from the French by Roland Glasser)
• Norwich, William D. - My Mrs. Brown
• O'Connor, Stephen - Thomas Jefferson dreams of Sally Hemings
• Pérez-Reverte, Arturo - What we become (translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor and Lorenza García)
• Porter, Max - Grief is the thing with feathers: a novel
• Proulx, Annie - Barkskins
• Rees, Tracy - Amy Snow
• Rowley, Steven - Lily and the octopus
• Schine, Cathleen - They may not mean to, but they do (ebook available)
• Stradal, J. Ryan - Kitchens of the great Midwest
• Straub, Emma. - Modern lovers (ebook available)
• Swinson, David - The second girl
• Terrell, Whitney - The good lieutenant
• Thayer, Nancy - The island house
• Thompson, Jean - She poured out her heart
• Tulathimutte, Tony - Private citizens
• Tyler, Anne - Vinegar girl: the taming of the shrew retold (ebook available) 
• Unger, Lisa - Ink and bone
• Vyleta, Dan - Smoke: a novel
• Yehoshua, Abraham B. - The extra (translated from the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman)

MYSTERIES

• Bain, Donald - Margaret Truman's Deadly medicine: a capital crimes novel
• Barrett, Lorna - Title wave
• Bell, David - Since she went away
• Bilal, Parker - City of jackals
• Billingham, Mark - Die of shame*
• Black, Cara - Murder on the quai
• Corby, Gary - The singer from Memphis
• Craven, Michael - The detective & the Chinese high-fin: a John Darvelle mystery
• Dugoni, Robert - In the clearing
• Farrow, John - Seven days dead: the storm murders trilogy
• Grecian, Alex - Lost and gone forever: a novel of Scotland Yard's Murder Squad*
• Hannah, Sophie - A game for all the family Sophie Hannah.
• Harvey, Michael T. - Brighton
• Housewright, David - Stealing the Countess
• King, Stephen - End of watch
• Knopf, Chris - Back lash
• Krugler, David F. - The dead don't bleed
• McKenzie, C. B. - Burn what will burn
• Patterson, James - 15th affair
• Runcie, James - Sidney Chambers and the dangers of temptation*
• Sallis, James - Willnot
• Seay, Martin - The mirror thief
• Slovo, Gillian - Ten days*
• Walker, Martin - Fatal pursuit: a Bruno, chief of police novel
• Wilson, Robert - Stealing people*
• Wohlsdorf, Gina - Security
• Woods, Stuart - Dishonorable intentions

* Indicates a British mystery

SHORT STORIES

• Bennett, Claire-Louise - Pond
• Sachs, Adam Ehrlich - Inherited disorders: stories, parables & problems

BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

• Bell, David Avrom - Shadows of revolution: reflections on France, past and present
• Collett, Derek - His own executioner: the life of Nigel Balchin
• Glenny, Misha - Nemesis: one man and the battle for Rio
• Gluck, Mary - The invisible Jewish Budapest: metropolitan culture at the fin de siècle
• Jacobs, Lawrence R. - Fed power: how finance wins
• Kverneland, Steffen - Munch (graphic novel; translated from the Norwegian)
• Osto, Douglas - Altered states: Buddhism and psychedelic spirituality in America

IN THE STACKS

LITERATURE

• Belknap, Robert L. - Plots 808.3 B
• Birns, Nicholas - Contemporary Australian literature: a world not yet dead 820.9 B
• Clarke, Norma - Brothers of the quill: Oliver Goldsmith in Grub street 828.09 G
• The Complete Review guide to contemporary world fiction Ref. 809.3 C
• Doniger, Wendy - Redeeming the Kamasutra 891.2 D
• Geltner, Ted - Blood, bone, and marrow: a biography of Harry Crews 92 C9277 G
• Parks, Tim - Life and work: writers, readers, and the conversations between them 809.3 P
• Shelden, Michael - Melville in love: the secret life of Herman Melville and the muse of Moby-Dick 92 M531 S

FICTION

• Fallada, Hans - Iron Gustav: a Berlin family chronicle (translated from the German) F F
• Fantastic women: 18 tales of the surreal and the sublime from Tin House  (Rob Spillman, ed.) F F
• Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich - The same old story (translated from the Russian) F G
• Ollikainen, Aki - White hunger (translated from the Finnish) F O
• Sebastian, Mihail - For two thousand years (Penguin Modern Classics; translated from the Romanian) F S
• Simenon, Georges - The Mahé circle (romans dur; first English translation) F S

POETRY

• Berryman, John - The dream songs 821 B
• Chaos of the night: women's poetry and verse of the Second World War (Catherine W. Reilly,ed.) 821.08 C
• Lerner, Ben - The hatred of poetry 808.1 L
• Millay, Edna St. Vincent - Selected poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Yale U. Press annotated edition) 821 M
• Schiff, Robyn - Revolver: poems 821 S
• Wright, Franz - Leave me hidden: poems  821 W

LANGUAGE

• Garner, Bryan A. - The Chicago guide to grammar, usage, and punctuation HBR 425 G
• Gowers, Rebecca - Horrible words: a guide to the misuse of English 428.3 G
• Patty, Ann - Living with a dead language: my romance with Latin 470 P

BOOKS & READING

• Brown, Matthew Pentland - The pilgrim and the bee: reading rituals and book culture in early New England  028 B
• The Oxford critical and cultural history of modernist magazines. Volume 1: Britain and Ireland 1880-1955 050 L
• Rose, Mark - Authors in court: scenes from the theater of copyright  655.6 R

ART

• Ballantyne, Andrew - John Ruskin (Reaktion Critical Lives) 92 R9564 B
• Barolsky, Paul - Ovid and the metamorphoses of modern art from Botticelli to Picasso 704.94 B
• Jean Dubuffet: Anticultural positions (Acquavella Galleries, New York) 759.4 D
• Jenkins, Tiffany - Keeping their marbles: how the treasures of the past ended up in museums... and why they should stay there  069 J
• Lubin, David M. - Grand illusions: American art and the First World War  709.73 L
• Van Gogh's bedrooms (Gloria Groom, ed.; Art Institute of Chicago) 759.9 G
• Women of abstract expressionism (Joan Marter, ed.) 759.1 W

PHILOSOPHY

• Lewis, Peter - Arthur Schopenhauer (Reaktion Critical Lives) 92 S373 L
• Magee, Bryan - Ultimate questions  190 M

BIOGRAPHY

• Anderson, Benedict R. O'G. - A life beyond boundaries 92 A5453 A
• Canfield, Michael R. - Theodore Roosevelt in the field 92 R7816 C
• Fontana, Biancamaria - Germaine de Staël: a political portrait 92 S778 F
• Herwig, Malte Christian Walter - The woman who says no: François Gilot on her life with and without Picasso : rebel, muse, artist  92 G4889 H
• Rosen, Jeffrey - Louis D. Brandeis: American prophet 92 B8176 R
• Shafer, David A. - Antonin Artaud (Reaktion Critical Lives) 92 A785 S

PERFORMING ARTS

• Gioia, Ted - How to listen to jazz 780.973 G
• Lebo, Harlan - Citizen Kane: a filmmaker's journey 791.4 L
• Mekas, Jonas - Movie journal: the rise of the new American cinema, 1959-1971 791.4 M
• Powell, John - Why you love music: from Mozart to Metallica : the emotional power of beautiful sounds 780.1 P
• Rathey, Markus - Bach's major vocal works: music, drama, liturgy 783.3 R

HISTORY

• Bell, Thomas - Kathmandu 954.96 B
• Eire, Carlos M. N. - Reformations: the early modern world, 1450-1650 940.2 E
• Gardner, Mark Lee - Rough Riders: Theodore Roosevelt, his cowboy regiment, and the immortal charge up San Juan Hill 973.89 G
• Hsu, Hua - A floating Chinaman: fantasy and failure across the Pacific  951 H
• McPhee, Peter - Liberty or death: the French Revolution  944.04 M
• Ostrovsky, Arkady - The invention of Russia: from Gorbachev's freedom to Putin's war 947.086 O
• Walsh, Maurice - Bitter freedom: Ireland in a revolutionary world 941.5 W

SOCIOLOGY

• Fass, Paula S. - The end of American childhood: a history of parenting from life on the frontier to the managed child 306.8 F
• Hinton, Elizabeth Kai - From the war on poverty to the war on crime: the making of mass incarceration in America  364 H
• Isenberg, Nancy - White trash: the 400-year untold history of class in America 305.5 I
• Kotkin, Joel - The human city: urbanism for the rest of us 307.76 K
• Weigel, Moira - Labor of love: the invention of dating 306.7 W

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

• Explaining the history of American foreign relations (Frank Costigliola, Michael J. Hogan, eds.)  327.73 E
• Manuel, Anja - This brave new world: India, China and the United States  327.73 M

ESPIONAGE & INTELLIGENCE

• Donohue, Laura K. - The future of foreign intelligence: privacy and surveillance in a digital age 323.4 D
• Hayden, Michael V. - Playing to the edge: American intelligence in the age of terror 327.12 H
• Hayes, Paddy - Queen of spies: Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War spy master 92 P235 H

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Hill, Clint - Five presidents: my extraordinary journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford  351.74 H
• King, Josh - Off script: an advance man's guide to White House stagecraft, campaign spectacle, and political suicide 324 K
• Waldman, Michael - The fight to vote 324 W

ECONOMICS & FINANCE

• Foroohar, Rana - Makers and takers: the rise of finance and the fall of American business 332 F
• Goetzmann, William N. - Money changes everything: how finance made civilization possible 330.9 G
• Sharma, Ruchir - The rise and fall of nations: forces of change in the post-crisis world 330.9 S

FOOD & DRINK

• Caiafa, Frank - The Waldorf Astoria bar book 641.2 C
• Greene, Jeffrey - In pursuit of wild edibles: a forager's tour 641.3 G
• Horowitz, Roger - Kosher USA: how Coke bacame kosher and other tales of modern food 296.6 H
• Wolfe, Linda - The literary gourmet: menus from masterpieces 641.5 W

SCIENCE

• Ball, Philip - Patterns in nature: why the natural world looks the way it does 500 B
• Cobb, Matthew. - Life's greatest secret: the race to crack the genetic code 575.1 C
• Kepler, Johannes - The six-cornered snowflake: a new year's gift 551.5 K
• Rader, Karen A. - Life on display: revolutionizing U.S. museums of science and natural history in the twentieth century 507 R

NEW YORK

• Barnard, Edward Sibley - Central Park trees and landscapes: a guide to New York City's masterpiece 582 B
• Pegues, Corey - Once a cop: the street, the law, two worlds, one man 92 P3764 P
• Rivel, Deborah - Birdwatching in New York City and on Long Island 598.2 R
• Woodsworth, Michael - Battle for Bed-Stuy: the long war on poverty in New York City 307.76 W

TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION

• Banks, Russell - Voyager: travel writings 910.4 B
• Moshenska, Joseph - A stain in the blood: the remarkable voyage of Sir Kenelm Digby 942.06 M
• Shacochis, Bob - Kingdoms in the air: dispatches from the far away 824 S
• Starr, William W. - Whiskey, kilts, and the Loch Ness monster: traveling through Scotland with Boswell and Johnson 914.1 S
• Wilson, William Scott - Walking the Kiso Road: a modern-day exploration of old Japan 952 W

AUDIO

• Chernow, Ron - Alexander Hamilton Lobby Audio-CD 92 H2172 C
• Harman, Claire - Charlotte Brontë;a fiery heart Lobby Audio-CD 92 B8693 H
• Russo, Richard - Everybody's fool Lobby Audio-CD R
• White, E. B. - Here Is New York  Lobby Audio-CD 917.417 W

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