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IN THE LOBBY

BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

• Grant, Thomas - Court number one: the Old Bailey trials that defined modern Britain
• Kermani, Navid - Along the trenches: a journey through Eastern Europe to Isfahan
• Black British history: new perspectives (Hakim Adi, ed.)

FICTION

• Buckley, Jonathan - The great concert of the night
• Cain, Amina - Indelicacy (ebook available)
• Eliasberg, Jan - Hannah's war: a novel
• Enright, Anne - Actress: a novel
• Erdrich, Louise - The night watchman: a novel (ebook available)
• Fowler, Therese - A good neighborhood
• Johnston, Scott - Campusland
• Kadare, Ismail - The doll: a portrait of my mother
• King, Lily - Writers & lovers: a novel (ebook available)
• MacInnes, Martin - Gathering evidence
• Mantel, Hilary - The mirror & the light (ebook available)
• McBride, Eimear - Strange hotel
• McBride, James - Deacon King Kong (ebook available)
• Rein, Heinz - Berlin finale
• Schaitkin, Alexis - Saint X
• Stuart, Douglas, - Shuggie Bain: a novel
• Szabo, Magda - Abigail (translated from the Hungarian; NYRB Classics) (ebook available)
• Vermes, Timur - The hungry and the fat
• Wayne, Teddy - Apartment: a novel

More recent fiction arrivals in the stacks section below. 

MYSTERIES

• Adler-Olsen, Jussi - Victim 2117: a Department Q novel
• Berry, Steve - The Warsaw protocol
• Bouman, Tom - The bramble and the rose: a Henry Farrell novel
• Box, C. J. - Long range
• Boyle, William - City of margins: a novel
• Downing, Samantha - My lovely wife
• Gardiner, Meg - The dark corners of the night
• Hendricks, Greer - You are not alone
• Kent, Serena - Death in Avignon: a Penelope Kite novel *
• Lawton, John - Hammer to fall *
• MacNeal, Susan Elia - The king's justice
• Margolin, Phillip - A reasonable doubt
• May, James L. - The body outside the Kremlin: a novel
• McMahon, John - The evil men do
• Mullen, Caitlin - Please see us
• Petrie, Nicholas - The wild one
• Quartey, Kwei - The missing American
• Swanson, Peter - Eight perfect murders: a novel
• Tudor, C. J. - The other people: a novel*

* indicates a British mystery

NONFICTION

• Achorn, Edward - Every drop of blood: the momentous second inauguration of Abraham Lincoln
• Alter, Charlotte - The ones we've been waiting for: how a new generation of leaders will transform America
• Coe, Alexis - You never forget your first: a biography of George Washington
• Cohen, Adam - Supreme inequality: the Supreme Court's fifty-year battle for a more unjust America
• De Kretser, Michelle - On Shirley Hazzard
• De Rogatis, Tiziana - Elena Ferrante's key words
• Dial, Roman - The adventurer's son: a memoir
• Douthat, Ross Gregory - The decadent society: how we became the victims of our own success
• Ellsworth, Scott - The world beneath their feet: mountaineering, madness, and the deadly race to summit the Himalayas
• Enrich, David - Dark towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an epic trail of destruction
• Fremont, Helen - The escape artist
• Genet, Jean - Criminal child: selected essays (New York Review Books Classics)
• Goldfarb, Bruce - 18 tiny deaths: the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
• Hochschild, Adam - Rebel Cinderella: from rags to riches to radical, the epic journey of Rose Pastor Stokes (ebook available)
• Hong, Cathy Park - Minor feelings: an Asian American reckoning
• Jaccarino, Mike - America's last great newspaper war: the death of print in a two-tabloid town
• Katchor, Ben - The dairy restaurant
• Kucharski, Adam - The rules of contagion: why things spread - and why they stop
• Larson, Erik - The splendid and the vile: a saga of Churchill, family, and defiance during the blitz (ebook available)
• Moore, Honor - Our revolution: a mother and daughter at midcentury
• Norman, Alexander - The Dalai Lama: an extraordinary life
• Norton, Mary Beth. - 1774: the long year of revolution
• Roberts, Sophy - The lost pianos of Siberia: in search of Russia's remarkable survivors
• Roiphe, Katie - The power notebooks
• Shapiro, James - Shakespeare in a divided America: what his plays tell us about our past and future
• Solnit, Rebecca - Recollections of my nonexistence

POETRY

• Forche, Carolyn - In the lateness of the world
• Hirsch, Edward - Stranger by night: poems
• Momaday, N. Scott - The death of sitting bear: new and selected poems

STORY COLLECTIONS

• Flattery, Nicole - Show them a good time: short stories
• Jimenez, Claire - Staten Island stories (New York City Book Awards winner!)
• Moore, Lorrie - Collected stories

IN THE STACKS

FINE & PERFORMING ARTS 

• Bloom, Ken - The American songbook: the singers, the songwriters, and the songs
• Burford, Mark - Mahalia Jackson: and the black gospel field
• Cole, Michael Wayne - Sofonisba's lesson: a Renaissance artist and her work
• Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. - The Arts and Crafts of India and Ceylon
• Duchamp-Villon, Raymond - Raymond Duchamp-Villon, 1876-1918.
• Violette, Zachary J. - The decorated tenement: how immigrant builders and architects transformed the slum in the Gilded Age
• Wrbican, Matt - A is for Archive: Warhol's world from A to Z

FICTION, LITERATURE, ESSAYS, POETRY, JOURNALISM

• Ackmann, Martha - These fevered days: ten pivotal moments in the making of Emily Dickinson
• Bellerby, Frances - The first-known and other poems
• Brown, Frank London - Trumbull Park (1959; republished by Northeastern Library of Black Literature)
• Burroughs, Edgar Rice - The girl from Hollywood (1923; LARB Classics)
• Chraïbi, Driss - The simple past (NYRB Classics; translated from the French by Hugh A. Harter)
• De Grazia, Sebastian - A country with no name: tales from the Constitution
• Doyle, Brian - Mink river: a novel
• Doyle, Brian - The Plover
• Gorton, Stephanie - Citizen reporters: S. S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the magazine that rewrote America
• Jorgensen, Paul A. - William Shakespeare: the tragedies
• Martin Du Gard, Roger - Notes on Andre Gide
• Rodden, John - Becoming George Orwell: life and letters, legend and legacy
• Savoy, Willard W. - Alien land (acclaimed 1949 novel republished by Northeastern Library of Black Literature)
• Shalamov, Varlam - Sketches of the criminal world: further Kolyma stories (translated from the Russian by Donald Rayfield)
• Thompson, Clifford - What it is: race, family, and one thinking Black man's blues
• Verble, Margaret - Maud's line (Finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
• Promethean horrors: classic tales of mad science (Xavier Aldana Reyes, ed.; British Library)
• Willa Cather review (new periodical in the Members' Room)

BIOGRAPHY

• Cockshut, A. O. J. - Truth to life: the art of biography in the nineteenth century
• Fingeroth, Danny - A marvelous life: the amazing story of Stan Lee
• Gallay, Alan - Walter Ralegh: architect of empire
• Graves, Robert - Storm centres of the Near East: personal memories, 1879-1929
• Greig, Cicely - Ivy Compton-Burnett: a memoir
• Locke, Tembi - From scratch: a memoir of love, Sicily, and finding home
• Neumann, Ariana - When time stopped: a memoir of my father's war and what remains
• O'Brady, Colin - The impossible first: from fire to ice--crossing Antarctica alone
• Sattouf, Riad - The Arab of the future. a graphic memoir: a childhood in the Middle East (1987-1992)
• Wood, Dorothy MacDowell - Commodore Vanderbilt and his family: a biographical account of the descendants of Cornelius and Sophia Johnson Vanderbilt

HISTORY

• Albert, Edoardo - Warrior: a life of war in Anglo-Saxon Britain
• Chaffin, Tom - Revolutionary brothers: Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the friendship that helped forge two nations
• DuBois, Ellen Carol - Suffrage: women's long battle for the vote
• Flanders, Judith. - A place for everything: the curious history of alphabetical order
• Frank, Richard B. - Tower of skulls: a history of the Asia-Pacific war, July 1937-May 1942
• Fullagar, Kate - The warrior, the voyager and the artist: three lives in an age of empire (18th century)
• Hewitt, Nicholas - Wicked city: the many cultures of Marseille
• Hollars, B. J. - The road south: personal stories of the Freedom Riders
• Horwitz, Gordon J. - In the shadow of death: living outside the gates of Mauthausen
• Howkins, Alun - The death of rural England: a social history of the countryside since 1900
• Knowlton, Christopher - Cattle kingdom: the hidden history of the cowboy West
• Mungello, D. E. - The great encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800
• Parker, Geoffrey - The black scalpel: A Surgeon with the S.O.E.
• Sella, Domenico - Italy in the seventeenth century
• Sonabend, Daniel - We fight fascists: the 43 group and their forgotten battle for post-war Britain
• Steiner, Zara - Britain and the origins of the First World War
• Zabin, Serena R. - The Boston Massacre: a family history
• 1776: a London chronicle or how to divert oneself while losing an empire (Justin Lovill, ed.)

ANTIQUITY

• Euripides - Medea; Hippolytus; Electra; Helen (translated and edited by James Morwood; introduction by Edith Hall; Oxford World's Classics)
• Suetonius - How to be a bad emperor: an ancient guide to truly terrible leaders
• Imperial projections: ancient Rome in modern popular culture (Sandra R. Joshel, et al., eds.)

CULTURES AND PLACES

• Bingham, Jane - The Cotswolds: a cultural history
• Garrett, Martin - The Loire: a cultural history
• Goldstein, Darra - Beyond the north wind: Russia in recipes and lore
• Potts, Jim - The Ionian Islands and Epirus: a cultural history

PHILOSOPHY

• Musonius Rufus, C. - That one should disdain hardships: the teachings of a Roman Stoic
• Spinoza, Benedictus de - Spinoza's ethics (translated by George Eliot ; edited by Clare Carlisle)

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Dionne, E. J., - Code red: how progressives and moderates can unite to save our country
• Forrester, Katrina - In the shadow of justice: postwar liberalism and the remaking of political philosophy
• Lowry, Rich - The case for nationalism: how it made us powerful, united, and free
• Nye, Joseph S. - Do morals matter?: presidents and foreign policy from FDR to Trump
• Paul, Rand - The case against socialism
• Yaffa, Joshua - Between two fires: truth, ambition, and compromise in Putin's Russia

RELIGION

• Doyle, Brian - Leaping: revelations & epiphanies
• Howe, Ben - The immoral majority: why evangelicals chose political power over Christian values
• Hurwitz, Sarah - Here all along: finding meaning, spirituality, and a deeper connection to life--in Judaism (after finally choosing to look there)

SOCIAL SCIENCES

• Aldington, Richard - Frauds
• Boyers, Robert - The tyranny of virtue: identity, the academy, and the hunt for political heresies
• Fernandez, Johanna, - The Young Lords: a radical history (Puerto Rican communitypolitical activists NYC)
• Garrett, Kent - The last negroes at Harvard: the class of 1963 and the eighteen young men who changed Harvard forever
• Karakatsanis, Alec - Usual cruelty: the complicity of lawyers in the criminal injustice system
• Orenstein, Peggy. - Girls & sex: navigating the complicated new landscape
• Posner, Gerald L. - Pharma: greed, lies, and the poisoning of America
• First responders: inside the U.S. strategy for fighting the 2007-2009 global financial crisis (edited by Ben S. Bernanke, Timothy F. Geithner, and Henry M. Paulson, Jr., with J. Nellie Liang)