IN THE LOBBY

NONFICTION

• Bakewell, Sarah - At the existentialist café: freedom, being, and apricot cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and others
• Barber, Emily - London
• Bates, Stephen - Royalty Inc.: Britain's best-known brand
• Bell-Scott, Patricia - The firebrand and the First Lady: portrait of a friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the struggle for social justice
• Charb - Open letter on blasphemy, Islamophobia, and the true enemies of free expression (foreword by Adam Gopnik)
• Desmond, Matthew - Evicted: poverty and profit in the American city (e-book available)
• Dickson, Andrew - Worlds elsewhere: journeys around Shakespeare's globe
• Dillard, Annie - The abundance: narrative essays old and new (foreword by Geoff Dyer)
• Fang, Lizhi - The most wanted man in China: my journey from scientist to enemy of the state (translated from the Chinese by Perry Link)
• Fitzpatrick, Ellen F. - The highest glass ceiling: women's quest for the American presidency
• Grayling, A. C. - The age of genius: the seventeenth century and the birth of the modern mind
• Grey, Joel - Master of ceremonies: a memoir
• Hoskyns, Barney - Small town talk: Bob Dylan, the Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and friends in the wild years of Woodstock
• Judah, Ben - This is London: life and death in the world city
• Kalb, Claudia - Andy Warhol was a hoarder: inside the minds of history's great personalities
• Klebold, Sue - A mother's reckoning: living in the aftermath of tragedy
• Laing, Olivia - The lonely city : adventures in the art of being alone
• Priess, David - The President's book of secrets: the untold story of intelligence briefings to America's presidents from Kennedy to Obama (foreword by George H.W. Bush)
• Roiphe, Katie - The violet hour: great writers at the end (e-book available)
• Rovelli, Carlo - Seven brief lessons on physics Carlo Rovelli (translated from the Italian by Simon Carnell)
• Showalter, Elaine - The civil wars of Julia Ward Howe: a biography
• Strathern, Paul - The Medici: power, money, and ambition in the Italian Renaissance
• Traister, Rebecca - All the single ladies: unmarried women and the rise of an independent nation
• Traub, James - John Quincy Adams: militant spirit
• Viertel, Jack - The secret life of the American musical: how Broadway shows are built
• Wilson, Edward O. - Half-earth: our planet's fight for life

FICTION

• Barbery, Muriel - The life of elves Muriel Barbery (translated from the French by Alison Anderson)
• Baume, Sara - Spill simmer falter wither 
• Behrens, Peter - Carry me
• Berlinski, Mischa - Peacekeeping
• Chevalier, Tracy - At the edge of the orchard 
• Fishman, Boris - Don't let my baby do rodeo
• Forster, Margaret - How to measure a cow
• Gable, Michelle - I'll see you in Paris
• Han, Kang - Human acts (translated from the Korean and introduced by Deborah Smith)
• Harrison, Jim - The ancient minstrel
• Higashino, Keigo - A midsummer's equation (translated from the Japanese by Alexander O. Smith)
• Jackson, Joshilyn - The opposite of everyone
• Kay, Francesca - The long room
• Lawhon, Ariel - Flight of dreams
• Lee, Jonathan - High dive (ebook available)
• Leyner, Mark - Gone with the mind
• Littlefield, Sophie - The guilty one
• McGuire, Ian - The North water
• McKeon, Belinda - Tender 
• Maynard, Joyce - Under the influence
• Mendelsohn, Jane - Burning down the house
• Morrall, Clare - When the floods came
• Pataki, Allison - Sisi: empress on her own
• Read, Piers Paul - Scarpia 
• Rebeck, Theresa - I'm glad about you 
• Sorrentino, Christopher - The fugitives 
• Spiotta, Dana - Innocents and others
• Sweeney, Cynthia D'Aprix - The nest
• Wagner, Bruce - I met someone
• Warlick, Ashley - The arrangement
• Wilson, Sari - Girl through glass

MYSTERIES

• Barbieri, Maggie - Lie in plain sight
• Barclay, Linwood - Far from true: a Promise Falls novel
• Barron, Stephanie - Jane and the Waterloo map: being a Jane Austen mystery 
• Beaton, M. C. - Death of a nurse
• Bjørk, Samuel - I'm traveling alone (translated from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund)
• Bowen, Rhys - Time of fog and fire
• Box, C. J. - Off the grid: a Joe Pickett novel
• Boyce, Trudy Nan - Out of the blues
• Brady, Conor - The eloquence of the dead 
• Brett, Simon - The killing in the café*
• Brundage, Elizabeth - All things cease to appear
• Bude, John - Death on the Riviera (1952, British Library Crime Classics; introduction by Martin Edwards)*
• Camilleri, Andrea - Montalbano's first case: and other stories (translated from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli)
• Carter, Maureen - Next of kin*
• Coben, Harlan - Fool me once (ebook available)
• Cussler, Clive - The gangster
• de Beauvoir, Jeannette - Deadly jewels
• Deaver, Jeffery - The steel kiss: a Lincoln Rhyme novel
• Dunmore, Helen - Exposure*
• Edmondson, Elizabeth - A question of inheritance*
• Eskens, Allen - The life we bury
• Estleman, Loren D. - Desperate Detroit: and stories of other dire places
• Fitzsimmons, Matthew - The short drop
• Flanagan, Joe - Lesser evils
• Flanders, Judith - A bed of scorpions*
• Fluke, Joanne - Wedding cake murder
• Freeman, Brian - Goodbye to the dead
• Geni, Abby - The lightkeepers
• Gregson, J. M. - Backhand smash *
• Griffiths, Elly - The woman in blue
• Handler, David - The Lavender Lane lothario: a Berger and Mitry mystery
• Harris, C. S. - When falcons fall: a Sebastian St. Cyr mystery
• Hodgson, Antonia - The last confession of Thomas Hawkins*
• Ison, Graham - Hardcastle's collector*
• Jance, Judith A. - Clawback: an Ali Reynolds novel 
• Kaaberbøl, Lene - The considerate killer (translated from the Danish by Elisabeth Dyssegaard)
• Kasasian, M. R. C.  - Death descends on Saturn Villa*
• Laukkanen, Owen - The watcher in the wall: a Stevens and Windermere novel
• Lawton, John - The unfortunate Englishman: a Joe Wilderness novel
• Leon, Donna - The waters of eternal youth (ebook available)
• Lutz, Lisa. - The passenger
• McKinty, Adrian - Rain dogs 
• Novey, Idra - Ways to disappear
• Parker, T. Jefferson - Crazy blood
• Paul, Bart - Cheatgrass
• Pauw, Marion - Girl in the dark
• Pavone, Chris - The travelers
• Perry, Anne - Treachery at Lancaster Gate: a Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel*
• Persson, Leif G. W. - Linda, as in the Linda murder: an Evert Bäckström novel (translated from the Swedish by Neil Smith)
• Scott, Manda - Into the fire*
• Serpents in Eden: countryside crimes (British Library Crime Classics, edited by Martin Edwards)*
• Stacey, Lyndon - Nothing but lies: a Daniel Whelan mystery*
• Steiner, Peter - The capitalist
• Todd, Charles - No shred of evidence
• Turnbull, Peter - In vino veritas*

* Indicates a British mystery

POETRY

• Carter, Angela - Unicorn : the poetry of Angela Carter (with an essay by Rosemary Hill)
• Howe, Sarah - Loop of jade 
• Levis, Larry - The darkening trapeze: last poems (David St. John, ed.)
• Newman, Amy - On this day in poetry history: poems

More poetry below "in the stacks." 

SHORT STORIES

• Bass, Rick - For a little while: new and selected stories
• Binchy, Maeve - A few of the girls
• Heyman, Arlene - Scary old sex
• Jackson, Greg - Prodigals
• Majka, Sara - Cities I've never lived in: stories
• Oyeyemi, Helen - What is not yours is not yours: stories
• Weldon, Fay. - Mischief
• Wink, Callan. - Dog run moon : stories Callan Wink.

BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

• Cherry, Bruce - They didn't want to die virgins: sex and morale in the British Army on the Western Front, 1914-1918
• Crabapple, Molly - Drawing blood: a memoir 
• Halliday, Tim - The book of frogs: a life-size guide to six hundred species from around the world 
• Lewis, Jeremy - David Astor: a life in print
• Qashu, Sayed - Native: dispatches from an Israeli-Palestinian life (translated from the Hebrew by Ralph Mandel)
• Spero, Josh - Second hand stories
• Šteger, Aleš - Berlin (translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry, Aljaž Kovac, and Forrest Gander)

IN THE STACKS

LITERATURE

• García Márquez, Gabriel - The last interview and other conversations (edited and with an introduction by David Streitfeld) 863 G
• Jenkyns, Richard - Classical literature: an epic journey from Homer to Virgil and beyond 880.9 J
• Nooteboom, Cees - Self-portrait of an other: dreams of the island and the old city 839.31 N OVERSIZE
• Rioux, Anne Boyd - Constance Fenimore Woolson: portrait of a lady novelist 92 W916 R
• Faris al-Shidyaq - Leg over leg (2 volumes, translated from the Arabic) 892.7 S
• Stach, Reiner - Is that Kafka?: 99 finds 92 K114 S
• Wilson, Kim - At home with Jane Austen  92 A933 W

FICTION

• Andresen, Frederick R. - The lady with an ostrich-feather fan: the story of the Yusupov Rembrandts F A
• Gardner, Diana - The woman novelist and other stories (originally published in 1946; Persephone reissue) F G
• Plenzdorf, Ulrich - The new sorrows of young W. (translated from the German) F P
• Queirós, Eça de - The yellow sofa (New Directions Classics; translated from the Portugese) F Q
• Suter, Martin - The last Weynfeldt (2008, translated from the German) F S

POETRY

• Abani, Chris - Sanctificum 821 A
• Lewis, C. S. - The collected poems of C.S. Lewis: a critical edition 821 L
• Marino, Giambattista  - The massacre of the innocents (translated from the Italian) 851 M
• The Penguin book of Russian poetry 891.71 P
• Svoboda, Terese - Anything that burns you: a portrait of Lola Ridge, radical poet 92 R54458 S

MURTY CLASSICAL LIBRARY OF INDIA (Harvard University Press)

• Allasani Peddana - The story of Manu 894.8 A
• Bullhe Shah - Sufi Lyrics 891.5 B
• Suradasa - Sur's Ocean: poems from the early tradition 891.2 S
• Therigatha: poems of the first Buddhist women 891.2 T

PHILOSOPHY

• Beauvoir, Simone de - The ethics of ambiguity 170 B
• Danto, Arthur C. - Nietzsche as philosopher 193 D
• Freedom in the modern world: Jacques Maritain, Yves R. Simon, Mortimer J. Adler (Martin D. Torre, ed.) 123 F

MYTHS & LEGENDS

• Crump, Martha L. - Eye of newt and toe of frog, adder's fork and lizard's leg: the lore and mythology of amphibians and reptiles 598.1 C
• Curtis, Vesta Sarkhosh - Persian myths 299.23 C
• Hunt, Edward Proctor - The origin myth of Acoma Pueblo 299.7 H
• McCall, Henrietta - Mesopotamian myths 299.219 M

ART

• Burns, Thea - The art of the pastel 741.1 B
• King, David - Russian revolutionary posters: from civil war to socialist realism, from Bolshevism to the end of Stalin 741.7 K OVERSIZE
• Partners in design: Alfred H. Barr Jr. and Philip Johnson 745.4 P
• Taylor, Paul - Condition: the ageing of art  704 T
• Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth - Vigée Le Brun 759.4 V
• Ward, Terence - The guardian of mercy: how an extraordinary painting by Caravaggio changed an ordinary life today  759.5 C
• Zöllner, Frank - Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519: the complete paintings and drawings  709.2 L OVERSIZE

BOOKS & READING

• Ballard, Terry - 50 specialty libraries of New York City: from botany to magic 026 B
• Craig, Patricia - Bookworm: a memoir of childhood reading 028.5 C
• Wroth, Lawrence C. - Lawrence C. Wroth's Notes for Bibliophiles in the New York Herald-Tribune, 1937-1947 010 W

PERFORMING ARTS

• Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976: pictures from a life: a pictorial biography 780.92 B
• Lou Reed: the last interview and other conversations 780.921 R
• Gilbert, David W. - The product of our souls: ragtime, race, and the birth of the Manhattan musical marketplace 780.973 G
• Light, Alan - What happened, Miss Simone?: a biography 92 S5985 L

DRAMA

• The best 10-minute plays (2012, 2013, 2014) 808.82 B
• Schnitzler, Arthur - Four major plays 832 S
• Stoppard, Tom - The hard problem 822 S
• Wilde, Oscar - The annotated Importance of being earnest 822 W

BIOGRAPHY

• Curry, Anne - Henry V: from playboy prince to warrior king 92 H5215 C
• Egan, Timothy - The immortal Irishman: the Irish revolutionary who became an American hero 92 M4827 E
• Johnson, R. W. - Look back in laughter: Oxford's postwar golden age 92 J6859 J
• Levine, Robert S. - The Lives of Frederick Douglass 92 D7374 L
• Mankell, Henning - Quicksand: what it means to be a human being 92 M278 M
• Pennoyer, Robert M. - As it was: a memoir 92 P415 P
• Sichel, Peter M. F. - The secrets of my life: vintner, prisoner, soldier, spy 92 S565 S

HISTORY

• Anderson, Terry H. - The pursuit of fairness: a history of affirmative action 323.1 A
• Baumer, Christoph - The history of Central Asia (Vol. 1: The age of the Steppe Warriors & Vol. 2: The age of the Silk Roads) 958 B OVERSIZE
• Coss, Stephen - The fever of 1721: the epidemic that revolutionized medicine and American politics 973.2 C
• Leonard, Thomas C. - Illiberal reformers: race, eugenics, and American economics in the Progressive era 330.973 L
• Magoffin, Susan Shelby - Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico: the diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847 92 M211 M
• McGirr, Lisa - The war on alcohol: Prohibition and the rise of the American state 363.4 M
• O'Donnell, Patrick K. - Washington's immortals: the untold story of an elite regiment who changed the course of the revolution 973.33 O
• Smele, Jon - The "Russian" Civil Wars, 1916-1926: ten years that shook the world 947.084 S
• Wilson, Peter H. - Heart of Europe: a history of the Holy Roman Empire 943 W

WORLD WAR ll

• Barr, Niall - Eisenhower's armies: the American-British alliance during World War II 940.532 B
• Best, S. Payne - The Venlo incident: a true story of double-dealing, captivity, and a murderous Nazi plot 940.5485 B
• Dimbleby, Jonathan - The Battle of the Atlantic: how the allies won the war 940.542 D
• Jones, Michael K. - After Hitler: the last ten days of World War II in Europe 940.53 J
• Ocker, Christa Holder - Auf wiedersehen: World War II through the eyes of a German girl 92 O168 O

THE MIDDLE EAST

• Ansari, Ali M. - Iran: a very short introduction 955 A
• Osman, Tarek - Islamism: what it means for the Middle East and the world 297.272 O

NATURE & CONSERVATION

• Brinkley, Douglas - Rightful heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the land of America 973.917 B 
• Fry, Carolyn - The plant hunters: the adventures of the world's greatest botanical explorers 580 F OVERSIZE
• Oates, M. R. - In pursuit of butterflies: a fifty-year affair 595.78 O
• Sellars, Richard West - Preserving nature in the national parks: a history 333.7 S

NEW YORK

• Anderson, Alexander - Alexander Anderson's New York City diary, 1793 to 1799 (2 volumes) 92 A5451 A OVERSIZE
• Butterworth, Bill - The forty deuce: the Times Square photographs of Bill Butterworth, 1983-1984 779 B
• New York, a literary companion 974.71 N
• Sultan, Tim - Sunny's nights: lost and found at a bar on the edge of the world 917.471 S

AUDIO

• Forster, E. M. - Howards End Lobby Audio-CD F
• Sayers, Dorothy L. - Unnatural death Audio-CD S
• Stead, Christina - The man who loved children Lobby Audio-CD S
• Twain, Mark - Mark Twain collected stories, Audio-CD T