IN THE LOBBY

Archived Lists

NON-FICTION

• Awdish, Rana - In shock :my journey from death to recovery and the redemptive power of hope
• Beard, Mary, - How do we look? :the eye of faith
• Cantú, Francisco - The line becomes a river
• Friedman, Andrew - Chefs, drugs and rock & roll :how food lovers, free spirits, misfits and wanderers created a new American profession
• Isikoff, Michael - Russian roulette :the inside story of Putin's war on America and the election of Donald Trump
• Knapp, Cheston - Up up, down down :essays
• Lake, Roseann - Leftover in China :the women shaping the world's next superpower
• Mamet, David - Chicago :a novel
• Manguel, Alberto - Packing my library :an elegy and ten digressions
• McNamara, Michelle - I'll be gone in the dark :one woman's obsessive search for the Golden State Killer (introduction by Gillian Flynn)
• Mounk, Yascha - The people vs. democracy :why our freedom is in danger and how to save it
• Roberts, David - Limits of the known
• Ronald, Susan - A dangerous woman :American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator :the life of Florence Gould
• Vargas Llosa, Mario - Sabers and utopias :visions of Latin America (translated from the Spanish)
• Westover, Tara - Educated :a memoir
• Young, Matt - Eat the apple :a memoir

FICTION

• Aliu, Xhenet - Brass 
• Boast, Will - Daphne
• Carey, Peter - A long way from home
• Chakraborty, S. A. - The city of brass
• Coster, Naima - Halsey Street
• Crace, Jim - The melody
• Crook, Elizabeth - The which way tree
• Emezi, Akwaeke - Freshwater
• Halpern, Sue - Summer hours at the robbers library :a novel
• Kothari, Falguni - My last love story
• Smith, Gregory Blake - The maze at Windermere
• Stauffer, Amanda - Match made in Manhattan
• Steavenson, Wendell - Paris metro
• Vargas Llosa, Mario - The neighborhood (translated from the Spanish)

MYSTERIES

• Alexander, Tasha - Death in St. Petersburg :a Lady Emily mystery
• Anderson, Kent - Green sun
• Bonner, Hilary - Deadly dance :a David Vogel mystery*
• Bowen, Rhys - The Tuscan child*
• Boyce, Trudy Nan - The policeman's daughter
• Cavanagh, Steve - The plea
• Copenhaver, John - Dodging and burning :a mystery
• Cussler, Clive - The rising sea :a novel from the NUMA files
• Fielding, Joy - The bad daughter
• George, Elizabeth- The punishment she deserves* (ebook available)
• Hart, John - The hush
• Howard, Catherine Ryan - The liar's girl
• Jacobs, Nova - The last equation of Isaac Severy :a novel in clues
• Kent, Christobel - The day she disappeared*
• Leon, Donna - The temptation of forgiveness (ebook available)
• Margolin, Phillip - The third victim
• Maurensig, Paolo - Theory of shadows (translated from the Italian)
• Michelet, Jon - The frozen woman (translated from the Norwegian)
• Oliveira, Robin - Winter sisters
• Parks, Alan - Bloody January*
• Perry, Karen - Girl unknown
• Rhodes, Kate - Hell Bay*
• Rosenberg, Joel C. - The Kremlin conspiracy
• Welsh, Louise - No dominion*
• Wiebe, Sam - Cut you down 

* Indicates a British mystery

SHORT STORIES

• Coover, Robert - Going for a beer :selected short fictions
• Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer - At the end of the century

POETRY

• Matambo, Bernard Farai - Stray
• Reynek, Bohuslav - The well at morning :selected poems and graphic artworks, 1925-1971
• Schultz, Philip - Luxury

More poetry books below.

BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

• Rae, Noel - The great stain: witnessing American slavery
• Ryan, Michael J. - A taste for the beautiful: the evolution of attraction
• Whitaker, Mark - Smoketown: the untold story of the other great Black Renaissance

IN THE STACKS

LITERATURE

• Austen, Jane - Teenage writings 823 A
• Berthoud, Jacques - Joseph Conrad: the major phase 823 C
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott - Last kiss (miscellaneous writings: poems, journalism, diaries, more) 828 F
• Hayes, Kevin J. - Herman Melville (Reaktion Critical Lives) 823 M
• Levine, George - Reading Thomas Hardy  823 H
• Mason, David - Voices, places: essays 824 M
• Murray, Albert - Collected novels & poems 820.81 M
• Olster, Stacey Michele - The Cambridge introduction to contemporary American fiction 823.09 O
• Shepard, Stephen B. - A literary journey to Jewish identity: re-reading Bellow, Roth, Malamud, Ozick, and other great Jewish writers 820.9 S
• The tales of Ise (Penguin Classics; 8th -12th from the Japanese: foreword by Donald Keene) 895.6 I
• Thorson, Robert M. - The boatman: Henry David Thoreau's river years 828.09 T

FICTION

• Berry, Wendell - Port William novels & stories: the Civil War to World War II (Library of America) F B
• Fontane, Theodor - Cécile (translated from the German) F F
• Jacobsen, Roy - The burnt-out town of miracles (translated from the Norwegian) F J
• Kafka, Franz - Investigations of a dog, and other creatures (new translation by Michael Hofmann) F K
• Sienkiewicz, Henryk - Charcoal sketches, and other tales (translated from the Polish by Adam Zamoyski) F S
• Sokolov, Sasha - Between dog & wolf (translated from the Russian) F S

POETRY

• Celenza, Christopher S. - Petrarch: everywhere a wanderer 851.09 P
• Cocteau, Jean - Grace notes: appogiatures 841 C
• Hammon, Jupiter - The collected works of Jupiter Hammon: poems and essays 820.81 H
• Lost & found: the CUNY poetics document initiative (mulitple series & volumes; includes Olson, HD, O'Hara, Rukeyser, Dorn, Rich, Acker, Hughes, more), 821.09 L
• Symons, Arthur - Selected early poems 821.09 S
• Wells, Colin - Poetry wars: verse and politics in the American Revolution and early republic 821.09 W

SLANG

• Green, Jonathon - Stories of slang: language at its most human 427 G
• Juba to jive: a dictionary of African-American slang (Clarence Major, ed.) 427 J
• Partridge, Eric - Slang to-day and yesterday: with a short historical sketch : and vocabularies of English, American, and Australian slang (published in 1950) 427 P

MYTHOLOGY & FOLKLORE

• The annotated African American folktales (Henry Louis Gates, Jr. & Maria Tatar, eds.) 398 A
• Doniger, Wendy - Siva, the erotic ascetic 294.5 D
• Fry, Stephen - Mythos 292 F

RELIGION

• Epstein, Mark - Going to pieces without falling apart: a Buddhist perspective on wholeness 294 E
• Fredriksen, Paula - Paul: the pagans' apostle 225.92 F
• O'Donohue, John - Walking on the pastures of wonder 210 O

ART

• Burrison, John A. - Global clay: themes in world ceramic traditions 738 B
• Cooke, Lynne - Outliers and American vanguard art 709.73 C
• Gerdts, William H. - Art across America: two centuries of regional painting, 1710-1920 (3 vols.) HBR 759.1 G
• Haskell, Barbara - Grant Wood: American Gothic and other fables 759.1 W
• Langmuir, Erika - Allegory: a closer look 704.94 L
• Parry, Linda - The Victoria and Albert Museum's textile collection: British textiles from 1850 to 1900 745.5 P
• Penny, Nicholas - Pictorial space: a closer look 750.1 P
• Salomon, Charlotte - Life? or Theatre?: a selection of 450 gouaches 759.3 S
• Unruly nature: the landscapes of Théodore Rousseau (Scott Allan and Édouard Kopp, eds.) 759.4 R
• Vlieghe, Hans - Flemish art and architecture, 1585-1700 709.49 V

ARCHITECTURE

• Alberti, Leon Battista - On the art of building in ten books, 720 A
• Handlin, David P. - American architecture 720.973 H
• Pawley, Martin - The strange death of architectural criticism: collected writings 720 P

PHOTOGRAPHY

• A book of photographs from the collection of Sam Wagstaff 779 B
• Helen Levitt: Manhattan transit (subway photographs) 779 L
• Shaw, Jennifer Laurie - Exist otherwise: the life and works of Claude Cahun 770 C

PERFORMING ARTS

• Gaines, Jane - Pink-slipped: what happened to the women in the silent film industries?  791.4 G
• Mauceri, John - Maestros and their music: the art and alchemy of conducting 781.6 M
• Warner, Daniel - Live wires: a history of electronic music 786 W
• Winkler, Kevin - Big deal: Bob Fosse and dance in the American musical 792.8 W

BOOKS & LIBRARIES

• Making books: a guide to creating handcrafted books (London Centre for Book Arts) 686 M
• Purcell, Mark - The country house library 027 P
• Reynolds, Abigail - Lost libraries: Abigail Reynolds' art journey 027 R

BIRDS

• Brooke, Michael - Far from land: the mysterious lives of seabirds 598.2 B
• Snetsinger, Phoebe - Birding on borrowed time 598.2 S
• Unwin, Mike - The enigma of the owl: an illustrated natural history 598.2 U OVERSIZE

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

• Kaplan, Jerry - Artificial intelligence: what everyone needs to know 001.6 K
• Kemp, Christopher - The lost species: great expeditions in the collections of natural history museums 507 K
• Mendelson, Wallace B. - The science of sleep: what it is, how it works, and why it matters 612.8 M
• Potter, Christopher - The Earth gazers: on seeing ourselves 629.4 P

GARDENS

• Chambers, D. D. C. - The planters of the English landscape garden: botany, trees, and the Georgics 712 C
• Phibbs, John - Place-making: the art of Capability Brown 712 P

BIOGRAPHY

• Andersen, Jens - Astrid Lindgren: the woman behind Pippi Longstocking 92 L746 A
• Hollingsworth, Mary - The Family Medici: the hidden history of the Medici dynasty 920 M489 H
• McFarland, Philip James - John Hay, friend of giants: the man and life connecting Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Henry James, and Theodore Roosevelt 92 H4124 M
• Paul, Joel R. - Without precedent: John Marshall and his times 92 M3683 P
• Sparrow, Jeff - No way but this: in search of Paul Robeson 92 R6532 S
• Wills, Shomari - Black fortunes: the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires 920 W7418 B

SPORTS

• Basketball: great writing about America's game (Library of America; Alexander Wolff, ed.) 796.3 B
• Bloom, Molly - Molly's game: from Hollywood's elite to Wall Street's billionaire boy's club, my high-stakes adventure in the world of underground poker 795.4 B
• Dickson, Paul - Leo Durocher: baseball's prodigal son 92 D9643 D
• Florio, John - One nation under baseball: how the 1960s collided with the National Pastime 796.3 F
• Hilmes, Oliver - Berlin 1936: sixteen days in August  796.4 H

HISTORY

• Abrams, Jeanne E. - First ladies of the republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the creation of an iconic American role 920 A1614 F
• Alexander, Benjamin F. - The New Deal's forest army: how the Civilian Conservation Corps worked 333.7 A
• Åsbrink, Elisabeth - 1947: where now begins 909.82 A
• Bevilacqua, Alexander - The republic of Arabic letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment 297 B
• Captain Cuttle's mailbag: history, folklore & Victorian pedantry from the pages of "Notes & Queries" (Edward Welch, ed.) 050 C
• Chamberlain, Lesley - Arc of utopia: the beautiful story of the Russian Revolution 947.084 C
• Feuchtwanger, E. J. - Hitler, my neighbor: memories of a Jewish childhood, 1929-1939  940.548 F
• Freeman, Joshua Benjamin - Behemoth: a history of the factory and the making of the modern world  338.6 F
• Gingeras, Ryan - Sorrowful shores: violence, ethnicity, and the end of the Ottoman Empire 1912-1923 956 G
• Greene, Jerome A. - American carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890  973.8 G
• Kidd, Thomas S. - American colonial history: clashing cultures and faiths 973.2 K
• McDougall, James - A history of Algeria 965 M

ANTIQUITY

• Doxiadis, Euphrosyne - The mysterious Fayum portraits: faces from ancient Egypt 757 D
• Man, John - Searching for the Amazons: the real warrior women of the ancient world 305.4 M
• Seneca, Lucius Annaeus - How to die: an ancient guide to the end of life 128 S
• Vigderman, Patricia - The real life of the Parthenon 913.3 V

WAR

• Mesnil-Amar, Jacqueline - Maman, what are we called now? (translated from the French; with a new preface by Caroline Moorehead; Persephone Books) 940.5315 M
• Origo, Iris - Chill in the air: an Italian war diary, 1939-1940 940.548 O
• Posner, Patricia - The pharmacist of Auschwitz: the untold story of Victor Capesius 940.5318 P
• Smith, David - William Howe and the American War of Independence 973.34 S

RACE RELATIONS & THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

• Gillon, Steven M. - Separate and unequal: the Kerner Commission and the unraveling of American liberalism 323.1 G
• Theoharis, Jeanne - A more beautiful and terrible history: the uses and misuses of civil rights history 323.1 T
• Turner, James P. - Selma and the Liuzzo murder trials: the first modern civil rights convictions 323.4 T

ANTHROPOLOGY

• Fagan, Brian M. - Fishing: how the sea fed civilization  799.1 F
• Mitchell, Peter - Horse nations: the worldwide impact of the horse on indigenous societies post-1492 636.1 M
• Pool, Gail - Lost among the Baining: adventure, marriage, and other fieldwork 995 P

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Cogan, John F. - The high cost of good intentions: a history of U.S. federal entitlement programs 361.6 C
• Levinson, Sanford - An argument open to all: reading The Federalist in the twenty-first century 342.73 L
• Pincus, Steven C. A. - The heart of the Declaration: the founders' case for an activist government 973.3 P
• Updegrove, Mark K. - The last Republicans: inside the extraordinary relationship between George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush 920 B9783 U