IN THE LOBBY

NON-FICTION

• Alter, Robert - The art of Bible translation 
• Burke, Carolyn - Foursome: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury
• Busch, Akiko - How to disappear: notes on invisibility in a time of transparency
• Cassidy, Tina - Mr. President, how long must we wait?: Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the fight for the right to vote 
• Grandin, Greg - The end of the myth: from the frontier to the wall in the mind of America 
• Higginbotham, Adam - Midnight in Chernobyl: the untold story of the world's greatest nuclear disaster
• Immerwahr, Daniel - How to hide an empire: a history of the greater United States 
• Johnson, Alex - Shelf life: writers on books and reading 
• Kan, Karoline - Under red skies: three generations of life, loss, and hope in China
• Kotlowitz, Alex - An American summer: love and death in Chicago
• Lopez, Barry Holstun - Horizon
• Marqusee, Mike - Definable traces in the atmosphere: selected writings 
• McColl, Sarah - Joy enough: a memoir/
• McGilligan, Patrick - Funny man: Mel Brooks 
• Metzl, Jonathan - Dying of whiteness: how the politics of racial resentment is killing America's heartland 
• Miller, Lucasta - L. E. L.: the lost life and scandalous death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the celebrated "female Byron" 
• Mizrahi, Isaac - IM: a memoir 
• Olson, Lynne - Madame Fourcade's secret war: the daring young woman who led France's largest spy network against Hitler (ebook available)
• Paternostro, Silvana - Solitude & company: the life of Gabriel Garcia Marquez told with help from his friends, family, fans, arguers, fellow pranksters, drunks, and a few respectable souls
• Rannells, Andrew - Too much is not enough: a memoir of fumbling toward adulthood
• Ratliff, Evan - The mastermind: drugs, empire, murder, betrayal 
• Robertson, Cara - The trial of Lizzie Borden: a true story 
• Rubin, Gretchen - Outer order, inner calm: declutter & organize to make more room for happiness
• Ryan, Hugh - When Brooklyn was queer
• Samaha, Albert - Never ran, never will: boyhood and football in a changing American inner city (winner of a 2018 New York City Book Award)
• Taylor, Yuval - Zora and Langston: a story of friendship and betrayal 
• Thomas, Evan - First: Sandra Day O'Connor
• Tuten, Frederic - My young life: a memoir, 1944-1964; the Bronx, Manhattan, Mexico, Syracuse, Alphabet City
• Waal, F. B. M. de - Mama's last hug: animal emotions and what they tell us about ourselves (ebook available)
• Wallace-Wells, David - The uninhabitable earth: life after warming
• Wang, Esmé Weijun - The collected schizophrenias: essays 
• Ward, Vicky - Kushner, Inc.: greed, ambition, corruption: the extraordinary story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump
• Wilkinson, Josephine - Louis XIV: the power and the glory 
• Woodfox, Albert - Solitary: unbroken by four decades in solitary confinement: my story of transformation and hope

FICTION

• Davis, Kathryn - The silk road: a novel 
• Eggers, Dave - The parade: a novel
• Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - Little boy
• Heller, Peter - The river: a novel
• Hustvedt, Siri - Memories of the future: a novel
• Kerangal, Maylis de - The cook 
• Khalifah, Khalid - Death is hard work
• Lalami, Laila - The other Americans
• Lanchester, John - The wall: a novel
• Lapidos, Juliet - Talent: a novel 
• Lebedev, Sergei - The goose Fritz 
• Letts, Elizabeth - Finding Dorothy: a novel
• Loigman, Lynda Cohen - The wartime sisters
• Mascarenhas, Kate - Psychology of time travel: a novel
• Mendelsund, Peter - Same same
• Moore, Wayétu - She would be king: a novel
• Newman, Sandra - The heavens: a novel
• Oyeyemi, Helen - Gingerbread (ebook available)
• Peck, Dale - Night soil
• Plath, Sylvia - Mary Ventura and the ninth kingdom: a story
• Readman, Angela - Something like breathing
• Rum, Etaf - A woman is no man: a novel
• Scibona, Salvatore - The volunteer
• See, Lisa - The island of sea women: a novel 
• Serpell, Namwali - The old drift: a novel
• Shields, Sharma - The Cassandra: a novel 
• Verble, Margaret - Cherokee America
• See more recent fiction arrivals—including new translations, reprints, and more—in the stacks below.

MYSTERIES

• Abramowitz, Adam - A town called Malice
• Berry, Steve - The Malta exchange
• Blædel, Sara - Her father's secret
• Box, C. J. - Wolf pack: a Joe Pickett novel 
• Boyle, William - A friend is a gift you give yourself: a novel (ebook available)
• Coben, Harlan - Run away
• Edwards, Martin - Gallows court*
• Fairstein, Linda A. - Blood oath
• Giordano, Mario - Auntie Poldi and the vineyards of Etna 
• Goodman, Carol - The night visitors: a novel
• Griffiths, Elly - The stranger diaries*
• Iles, Greg - Cemetery Road: a novel
• Kent, Serena - Death in Provence: a novel *
• Lansdale, Joe R. - The elephant of surprise
• Mahmood, Imran - You don't know me*
• Margolin, Phillip - The perfect alibi
• McMahon, John - The good detective
• Michaelides, Alex - The silent patient
• Mukherjee, Abir - Smoke and ashes: a novel *
• Parks, Alan - February's son*
• Patterson, James - The chef
• Pattison, Eliot - Bones of the earth
• Quirk, Matthew - The night agent: a novel 
• Reich, Christopher - Crown jewel 
• Rosenfelt, David - Black and blue 
• Swanson, Peter - Before she knew him: a novel
• Swinson, David - Trigger
• Willocks, Tim - Memo from Turner 
• Winspear, Jacqueline - The American agent* (ebook available)
• Woods, Stuart - Wild card
• * Indicates a British mystery.

SHORT STORIES

• Found in translation: 100 of the finest short stories ever translated (selected by Frank Wynne)
• Hempel, Amy - Sing to it: new stories
• Means, David - Instructions for a funeral: stories

POETRY

• Martinson, Harry - Chickweed wintergreen: selected poems
• Montgomery, James E. - Loss sings 
• Ovid - Ovid's heroines (translated by Clare Pollard)

BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

• Queer Africa: selected stories (Makhosazana Xaba and Karen Martin, eds.)
• Akbarnia, Ladan - The Islamic world: a history in objects
• Berwald, Juli - Spineless: the science of jellyfish and the art of growing a backbone
• Brown, Kate - Manual for survival: a Chernobyl guide to the future
• Clark, Tim - Monopoli Blues
• Dante Alighieri - Hell: Dante's Divine trilogy ("decorated & Englished in prosaic verse by Alasdair Gray) 
• Garfield, Simon - In miniature: how small things illuminate the world
• Howard, Joan E. - We met in Paris: Grace Frick and her life with Marguerite Yourcenar
• Keevak, Michael - Becoming yellow: a short history of racial thinking
• McCraw, David Edward - Truth in our Times: inside the fight for press freedom in the age of alternative facts
• Miranda, Deborah A - Bad indians: a tribal memoir
• Ogden, Jack - Diamonds: an early history of the king of gems

IN THE STACKS

LITERATURE, CRITICISM, ESSAYS

• A concise companion to modernism (David Bradshaw, ed.) 820.9 C
• Chap-books of the eighteenth century: with facsimiles (notes and introduction by John Ashton) 820.8 C
• Hull, Christopher - Our man down in Havana: the story behind Graham Greene's Cold War spy novel 823 G
• Leighton, Angela - Hearing things: the work of sound in literature  801 L
• Runcie, Charlotte - Salt on your tongue: women and the sea 809 R
• Shields, David - The trouble with men: reflections on sex, love, marriage, porn, and power 824 S
• Trilling, Lionel - Life in culture: selected letters of Lionel Trilling 823.09 T

FICTION

• Heinesen, William - The black cauldron (first published in Denmark in 1949) F H
• Hoffmann, Yoel - Curriculum vitae (New Directions; translated from the Hebrew) F H
• Hrabal, Bohumil - Murder ballads and other legends (acclaimed 1960s Czech prose) F H
• James, Darius - Negrophobia: an urban parable (New York Review Books Classics) F J
• Matsumoto, Seicho - A quiet place (Bitter Lemon press; Japanese crime fiction first published in 1975) F M
• Petry, Ann - The street; The narrows; and other writings (Library of America collection) F P

POETRY

• Twenty-four lays from the French Middle Ages (Glyn S. Burgess and Leslie C. Brook, translators) 841 T
• Two American poets: Wallace Stevens & William Carlos Williams (from the collection of Alan M. Klein, Grolier Club catalog) 821.09 T
• Catullus, Gaius Valerius - The books of Catullus (Simon Smith, translator and editor) 874.2 C
• Larkin, Philip - Letters home: 1936-1977 92 L3246 L
• Limón, Ada - Bright dead things: poems 821 L

BOOKS & READING

• Davis, Margaret L - The lost Gutenberg: the astounding story of one book's five-hundred-year odyssey 093 D
• Lee, R. Alton - Publisher for the masses, Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (Little Blue Books) 92 H1595 L
• Louis, William Roger - Indispensable reading: 1,001 books from The Arabian Nights to Zola  Ref. 028 L

ART

• Blunt, Anthony - Artistic theory in Italy, 1450-1600 759.5 B
• Burchfield, Charles - Heat waves in a swamp: the paintings of Charles Burchfield 759.1 B
• Currey, Mason - Daily rituals: women at work 709.2 C
• Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney - American art pottery: the Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection 738 F
• Hayes, Jeffreen M - Augusta Savage: Renaissance woman 730.92 S
• Morton, Mary G. - Corot: women  759.4 C

ARCHITECTURE

• Architect: the work of the Pritzker Prize laureates in their own words (Ruth Peltason annd Grave Ong-Yan, eds.) 720 A
• Laubier, Guillaume de - Sacred spaces: the awe-inspiring architecture of churches and cathedrals 726.6 L
• Lees-Milne, James - Another self  720.92 L

PERFORMING ARTS

• Merce Cunningham: co:mm:on ti:me (Fionn Meade and Joan Rothfuss, eds.) 792.8 M
• Gebhardt, Nicholas - Vaudeville melodies: popular musicians and mass entertainment in American culture, 1870-1929  792.2 G
• Kawin, Bruce F. - Faulkner and film 822.09 F
• Steichen, James - Balanchine and Kirstein's American enterprise 792.8 S

ANTIQUITY

• Barrington atlas of the Greek and Roman world: map-by-map directory (Richard A. Talbert, ed.) HBR 912 B OVERSIZE
• Montserrat, Dominic - Akhenaten: history, fantasy, and ancient Egypt 932 M
• Strauss, Barry S - Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine 937.06 S
• Thucydides - How to think about war: an ancient guide to foreign policy : speeches from The history of the Peloponnesian War  888.2 T
• The Loeb Classical Library digital edition is now available to members. See the Electronic Resources page on our website.

HISTORY

• Buller, E. Amy - Darkness over Germany: a warning from history 943.085 B
• Case, Holly - The age of questions: or, A first attempt at an aggregate history of the Eastern, social, woman, American, Jewish, Polish, bullion, tuberculosis, and many other questions over the nineteenth century, and beyond 940.28 C
• Hanebrink, Paul A. - A specter haunting Europe: the myth of Judeo-Bolshevism 305.86 H
• James, Jamie - Pagan light: dreams of freedom and beauty in Capri 945.7 J
• Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E. - They were her property: white women as slave owners in the American South 975 J
• Mühlhahn, Klaus - Making China modern: from the Great Qing to Xi Jinping 951 M
• Oliver, Neil - The story of the British Isles in 100 places  942 O
• Sarris, Peter - Byzantium: a very short introduction 979.5 S
• Woodhouse, C. M. - The struggle for Greece, 1941-1949 949.5 W

WAR & MILITARY HISTORY

• Kurlantzick, Joshua - A great place to have a war: America in Laos and the birth of a military CIA  959.704 K
• Makos, Adam - Spearhead: an American tank gunner, his enemy, and a collision of lives in World War II 940.5412
• Snow, Lalage - War gardens: a journey through conflict in search of calm 303.6 S
• Toler, Pamela D. - Women warriors: an unexpected history 305.4 T

INTELLIGENCE & ESPIONAGE

• Writers under surveillance: the FBI files (JPat Brown, et al., eds.) 363.2 W
• Friedman, Matti - Spies of no country: secret lives at the birth of Israel 327.12 F
• Glass, Charles - They fought alone: the true story of the Starr Brothers, British secret agents in Nazi-occupied France 940.5485 G

BIOGRAPHY

• Bolton, Timothy - Cnut the Great  92 C2345 B
• Flechner, Roy - Saint Patrick retold: the legend and history of Ireland's patron saint  92 P314 F
• Forché, Carolyn - What you have heard is true: a memoir of witness and resistance  92 F6977 F
• Geller, Jay Howard - The Scholems: a story of the German-Jewish bourgeoisie from emancipation to destruction 920 S3683 G
• Goldstein, Jürgen - Georg Forster: voyager, naturalist, revolutionary 92 F7343 G
• Houston, Pam - Deep Creek: finding hope in the high country  92 H84325 H
• Leontis, Artemis - Eva Palmer Sikelianos: a life in ruins  92 P178 L

SCIENCE

• Berman, Bob - Earth-shattering: violent supernovas, galactic explosions, biological mayhem, nuclear meltdowns, and other hazards to life in our universe  523.1 B
• Newman, William R. - Newton the alchemist: science, enigma, and the quest for nature's "secret fire" 540.9 N
• Orzel, Chad - Breakfast with Einstein: the exotic physics of everyday objects 530 O

PHILOSOPHY

• Portraits of Wittgenstein (F.A. Flowers & Ian Ground, eds.) 193 P
• Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas - The western esoteric traditions: a historical introduction 133 G
• Hägglund, Martin - This life: secular faith and spiritual freedom 110 H
• Hardy, Henry - In search of Isaiah Berlin: a literary adventure 192 H

PSYCHOLOGY

• Pauli, Wolfgang - Atom and archetype: the PauliJung letters, 1932-1958 920 P327 A
• Wrangham, Richard W. - The goodness paradox: the strange relationship between virtue and violence in human evolution 155.2 W

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Burke, John P. - Presidential power: theories and dilemmas 353.03 B
• Hanson, Victor Davis - The case for Trump 973.933 H
• Lichtman, Allan J. - The embattled vote in America: from the founding to the present 324 L
• Tomasky, Michael - If we can keep it: how the republic collapsed and how it might be saved 320.9 T

SOCIOLOGY

• Criado-Perez, Caroline - Invisible women: data bias in a world designed for men 305.4 C
• Eberhardt, Jennifer L - Biased: uncovering the hidden prejudice that shapes what we see, think, and do 305.88 E
• Hines, Sally - Is gender fluid?: a primer for the 21st century 306.76 H
• Minian, Ana Raquel - Undocumented lives: the untold story of Mexican migration 305.85 M

TRAVEL

• Blackburn, Julia - Time song: searching for doggerland 913.4 B
• Mayes, Frances - See you in the piazza: new places to discover in Italy 914.5 M
• Zuelow, Eric G. E. - A history of modern tourism  910.9 Z

NEW YORK

• Classical New York: discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham (Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis and Matthew M. McGowan, eds.) 724 C
• Ascher, Kate - New York rising: an illustrated history from the Durst Collection 974.71 A OVERSIZE
• Coppola, Philip Ashforth - One-track mind: drawing the New York subway (2018 NYC Book Award Winner) 729 C
• Lubovich, Wendy - 111 museums in New York that you must not miss 917.471 L

AUDIO

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