IN THE LOBBY

NONFICTION

• Abrams, Dan - Theodore Roosevelt for the defense: the courtroom battle to save his legacy 
• Alberta, Tim - American carnage: on the front lines of the Republican civil war and the rise of President Trump 
• Aronson, Louise - Elderhood: redefining aging, transforming medicine, reimagining life 
• Benfey, Christopher E. G. - If: the untold story of Kipling's American years
• Boochani, Behrouz - No friend but the mountains: writing from Manus Prison (translated from the Persian)
• Brinkley, Douglas - American moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the great space race
• Burt, Stephanie - Don't read poetry: a book about how to read poems
• Cohan, William D - Four friends: promising lives cut short 
• Cottom, Tressie McMillan - Thick: and other essays 
• Cumming, Laura - On chapel sands: my mother and other missing persons
• Day, Daniel R - Dapper Dan: made in Harlem: a memoir
• De Courcy, Anne - Chanel's Riviera: life, love and struggle for survival on the Côte d'Azur, 1930-1944
• Eichhorn, Kate - The end of forgetting: growing up with social media
• Ellis, Helen - Southern Lady Code: essays
• Epstein, Joseph - Charm: the elusive enchantment
• Fairweather, Jack - The volunteer: one man, an underground army, and the secret mission to destroy Auschwitz
• Fishman, Charles - One giant leap: the impossible mission that flew us to the Moon
• Gillon, Steven M - America's reluctant prince: the life of John F. Kennedy Jr. 
• Greene, Jayson - Once more we saw stars
• Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd - Sisters and rebels: a struggle for the soul of America
• Hulse, Carl - Confirmation bias: inside Washington's war over the Supreme Court, from Scalia's death to Justice Kavanaugh
• Kean, Sam - The bastard brigade: the true story of the renegade scientists and spies who sabotaged the Nazi atomic bomb
• Kranish, Michael - The world's fastest man: the extraordinary life of cyclist Major Taylor, America's first Black sports hero 
• Le Clézio, J.-M. G - Mydriasis: followed by to the icebergs 
• Lewis, Ben - The last Leonardo: the secret lives of the world's most expensive painting
• Nafisi, Azar - That other world: Nabokov and the puzzle of exile 
• Nussbaum, Emily - I like to watch: arguing my way through the TV revolution
• Olsson, Karen - The Weil conjectures: on math and the pursuit of the unknown 
• Parker, Geoffrey - Emperor: a new life of Charles V 
• Pine, Emilie - Notes to self: essays 
• Polchin, James - Indecent advances: a hidden history of true crime and prejudice before Stonewall
• Renkl, Margaret - Late migrations: a natural history of love and loss 
• Sardy, Marin - The edge of every day: sketches of schizophrenia
• Segal, Lore Groszmann - The journal I did not keep: new and selected writing 
• Selig, Bud - For the good of the game: the inside story of the surprising and dramatic transformation of Major League Baseball 
• Stapleton, Susannah - The adventures of Maud West, lady detective: secrets and lies in the golden age of crime
• Steinke, Darcey - Flash count diary: menopause and the vindication of natural life 
• Wehle, Kim - How to read the Constitution and why 
• Wolff, Michael - Siege: Trump under fire

FICTION

• Alger, Cristina - Girls like us 
• Armstrong, Kelley - Wherever she goes
• Beagin, Jen - Vacuum in the dark: a novel
• Brodesser-Akner, Taffy - Fleishman is in trouble: a novel (ebook available)
• Chung, Catherine - The tenth muse: a novel 
• Clark, Clare - In the full light of the sun 
• Clark, Martin - The substitution order
• Di Pietrantonio, Donatella - A girl returned 
• Ganeshram, Ramin - The general's cook: a novel 
• Gelman, Laurie - You've been volunteered: a class mom novel 
• Ginder, Grant - Honestly, we meant well 
• Grant, Linda - A stranger city 
• Grossman, Vasilii - Stalingrad (translated from the Russian)
• Grunwald, Lisa - Time after time: a novel 
• Habila, Helon - Travelers: a novel 
• Henry, Patti Callahan - The favorite daughter 
• Holsinger, Bruce W - The gifted school: a novel
• Keane, Mary Beth - Ask again, yes: a novel
• Khuri, Ilyas - Children of the ghetto: my name is Adam (translated from the Arabic)
• Levrero, Mario - Empty words
• Lombardo, Claire - The most fun we ever had 
• Mackintosh, Clare - After the end 
• Marlantes, Karl - Deep river: a novel 
• McCall Smith, Alexander - The second-worst restaurant in France 
• Mishima, Yukio - Star (translated from the Japanese)
• Moore, Meg Mitchell - The islanders: a novel 
• Murphy, Timothy - Correspondents: a novel 
• Musso, Guillaume - The reunion: a novel 
• Nicholls, David - Sweet sorrow
• Norman, Howard A - The ghost clause 
• Oates, Joyce Carol - My life as a rat: a novel 
• Rezzori, Gregor von - Abel and Cain (translated from the German)
• Roberts, Nora - Under currents 
• Shafak, Elif - 10 minutes 38 seconds in this strange world (translated from the Turkish)
• Simsion, Graeme C - The Rosie result 
• Thayer, Nancy - Surfside sisters 
• Whitehead, Colson - The Nickel boys: a novel (ebook available)
• Whitehead, Joshua - Jonny Appleseed: a novel 

See more recent fiction arrivals below shelved in our stacks.

MYSTERIES

• Atkins, Ace - The shameless
• Atkinson, Kate - Big sky* (ebook available)
• Baldacci, David - One good deed 
• Brett, Simon - The killer in the choir*
• Edvardsson, M. T - A nearly normal family (translated from the Swedish)
• Gates, Eva - Something read something dead: a lighthouse library mystery 
• Gordon, David - The hard stuff: a novel 
• James, Peter - Dead at first sight*
• Kutscher, Volker - The fatherland files (translated from the German)
• Lippman, Laura - Lady in the lake: a novel (ebook available)
• Lovesey, Peter - Killing with confetti: a Peter Diamond investigation 
• Martin, Andrew - The winker*
• Masterman, Becky - We were killers once: a thriller
• McKinty, Adrian - The chain*
• Mina, Denise - Conviction*
• Nesbø, Jo - Knife (translated from the Norwegian)
• Nickson, Chris - The leaden heart 
• Rozan, S. J - Paper son 
• Sansom, Ian - The Sussex murder*
• Scott, J. Todd - This side of night 
• Shaber, Sarah R - Louise's crossing 
• Shimada, Soji - Murder in the crooked house (translated from the Japanese)
• Silva, Daniel - The new girl: a novel (ebook available)
• Thor, Brad - Backlash: a thriller 
• * indicates a British mystery

SHORT STORIES

• A people's future of the United States: speculative fiction from 25 extraordinary writers (Victor LaValle & John Joseph Adams, eds.)
• Evenson, Brian - Song for the unraveling of the world: stories 
• Orner, Peter - Maggie Brown & others 
• Osipov, Maksim - Rock, paper, scissors: and other stories 

POETRY

• Dunmore, Helen - Counting backwards: poems 1975-2017 
• Orr, Gregory - The last love poem I will ever write: poems 
• Simic, Charles - Come closer and listen: new poems
• Tate, James - The government lake: last poems

BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

• Fifield, Anna - The great successor: the divinely perfect destiny of brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un
• Merlan, Anna - Republic of lies: American conspiracy theorists and their surprising rise to power
• Nicholas, Tom - VC: an American history
• Rae, Casey - William S. Burroughs & the cult of rock 'n' roll 

IN THE STACKS

LITERATURE & ESSAYS

• Congdon, Brad - Leading with the chin: writing American masculinities in Esquire, 1960-1989  820.9 C
• Fisher, Mark - K-punk: the collected and unpublished writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016) 824 F
• Gallagher, Noelle - Itch, clap, pox: venereal disease in the eighteenth-century imagination 820.9 G
• Luo, Guanzhong - The romance of the three kingdoms (14th century Chinese epic; Penguin Classics) 895.1 L
• Roy, Arundhati - My seditious heart: collected non-fiction 824 R
• Scharnhorst, Gary - The life of Mark Twain: the early years, 1835-1871 & the middle years, 1871-1891  92 T9694 S
• Wright, T. R - Hardy and his readers 823 H

FICTION

• Dale, Alan - A marriage below zero (annnotated ed., first published, 1889, first English-language novel portraying homosexual relationship) F D
• Del Amo, Jean-Baptiste - Animalia (translated from the French) (translated from the French) F D
• Fernández Mallo, Agustín - The Nocilla trilogy (translated from the Spanish) (translated from the Spanish) F F
• Leonard, Elmore - Westerns (Library of America) F L
• Stevens, Francis - The heads of Cerberus (Modern Library Torchbearers; originally published 1919) F S
• Zangwill, Edith Ayrton - The call (women suffrage novel, first published 1924; Persephone Press, F Z

POETRY

• Berkson, Bill - A Frank O'Hara notebook 920 B5128 F
• Franklin, Jennifer - Looming 821 F
• Jones, David - Dai Greatcoat: a self-portrait of David Jones in his letters (author of In Parenthesis) 92 J7673 J
• Seuss, Diane - Still life with two dead peacocks and a girl: poems  821 S

BOOKS & READING

• Faber, Toby - Faber & Faber: the untold story 070.5 F
• Marcus, Leonard S. - The ABC of It: why children's books matter 028.5 M

ART

• Book of beasts: the bestiary in the medieval world (Elizabeth Morrison, ed; Getty Museum) 704.94 B
• Peacock in the desert: the royal arts of Jodhpur, India (Angma D. Jhala) 709.54 P
• Ferber, Linda S - The American Pre-Raphaelites: radical realists  759.1 F
• Holzer, Harold - Monument man: the life and art of Daniel Chester French 730.92 F
• May, Jessica - N.C. Wyeth: new perspectives 759.1 W
• Nochlin, Linda - Representing women  704.942 N

PERFORMING ARTS

• Hoberman, J. - Make my day: movie culture in the age of Reagan 791.4 H
• Jackson, Lee - Palaces of pleasure: from music halls to the seaside to football, how the Victorians invented mass entertainment 790 J
• Meacham, Jon - Songs of America: patriotism, protest, and the music that made a nation 780.973 M
• Preger-Simon, Marianne - Dancing with Merce Cunningham 792.8 P

ANTIQUITY

• Dunn, Daisy - In the shadow of Vesuvius: a life of Pliny 875.2 D
• Hessler, Peter - The buried: an archaeology of the Egyptian revolution  962 H
• Sassi, Maria Michela - The beginnings of philosophy in Greece 182 S
• Traina, Giusto - 428 AD: an ordinary year at the end of the Roman Empire 937 T
• The Loeb Classical Library digital edition is available to members. See the Electronic Resources page on our website.

HISTORY

• Gilburd, Eleonory - To see Paris and die: the Soviet lives of western culture  947.085 G
• Gimson, Andrew - Gimson's prime ministers: brief lives from Walpole to May  942 G
• Green, Toby - A fistful of shells: West Africa from the rise of the slave trade to the age of revolution 966 G
• Hitchins, Keith - A concise history of Romania  949.8 H
• Mack, Jeremy R - Phantoms of the Hotel Meurice: a guide to the Holocaust in Paris 944.081 M
• Martelle, Scott - William Walker's wars: how one man's private American army tried to conquer Mexico, Nicaragua, and Honduras 972.8 M
• Merritt, Keri Leigh - Masterless men: poor whites and slavery in the antebellum South 975 M
• Starn, Orin - The shining path: love, madness, and revolution in the Andes 985 S

INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

• Grafton, Anthony - Forgers and critics: creativity and duplicity in western scholarship  001 G
• Sand, Shlomo - The end of the French intellectual: from Zola to Houellebecq 944 S

ANTHROPOLOGY

• Engelke, Matthew - How to think like an anthropologist 572 E
• Eriksen, Thomas Hylland - A history of anthropology  572 E
• Price, David H. - Cold War anthropology: the CIA, the Pentagon, and the growth of dual use anthropology 301.15 P

ESOTERICISM & PARANORMAL

• Hermetica: the Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a new English translation, with notes and introduction (1995 translation by Brian P. Copenhaver) 133 H
• Kirk, Robert - The secret commonwealth of elves, fauns, and fairies (New York Review Books) 133 K

WAR

• Civil War medicine: a surgeon's diary  (Robert D. Hicks, ed.) 973.77 C
• Aleksievich, Svetlana - Last witnesses: an oral history of the children of World War II 940.5316 A
• Hayner, Priscilla B. - The peacemaker's paradox: pursuing justice in the shadow of conflict 303.6 H
• Ryan, Cornelius - The longest day ; A bridge too far ; other World War II writings (Library of America) 940.542 R

BIOGRAPHY

• Gorbach, Julien - The notorious Ben Hecht: iconoclastic writer and militant Zionist 92 H4475 G
• Hogan, Michael J. - The afterlife of John Fitzgerald Kennedy: a biography 92 K3547 H
• Lavelle, Ryan - Cnut: the North Sea King 92 C2345 L
• Selman, Linda - The inadvertent researcher: a New York story 92 S4683 S
• Taliaferro, John - Grinnell: America's environmental pioneer and his restless drive to save the West 92 G8660 T

SCIENCE

• Crease, Robert P. - The workshop and the world: what ten thinkers can teach us about science and authority 501 C
• Gibson, Susannah - The spirit of inquiry: how one extraordinary society shaped modern science 506 G
• Tinniswood, Adrian - The Royal Society: and the invention of modern science 506 T

PHILOSOPHY

• Browning, Gary K. - Why Iris Murdoch matters: making sense of experience in modern times 171 B
• Rée, Jonathan - Witcraft: the invention of philosophy in English 190 R
• Stroumsa, Sarah - Maimonides in his world: portrait of a Mediterranean thinker 181.3 S

PSYCHOLOGY

• Fernández-Armesto, Felipe - Out of our minds: what we think and how we came to think it  153 F
• Noll, Richard - The Jung cult: origins of a charismatic movement 150 N
• Poskett, James - Materials of the mind: phrenology, race, and the global history of science, 1815-1920 139 P

STONEWALL

• Love and resistance: out of the closet into the Stonewall era (from the New York Public Library Archives; intro by Roxane Gay) 306.76 L
• Halkitis, Perry N. - Out in time: the public lives of gay men from Stonewall to the queer generation 306.76 H
• Stein, Marc - The Stonewall Riots: a documentary history 306.76 S

TRAVEL & EXPLORATION

• Gran, Tryggve - The Norwegian with Scott: Tryggve Gran's Antarctic diary, 1910-1913 919.9 G
• Holmes, Lowell D. - Treasured islands: cruising the South Seas with Robert Louis Stevenson 828 H
• Wilkinson, Isambard - Travels in a Dervish cloak 915.4 W

EDUCATION

• Faedda, Barbara - From Da Ponte to the Casa Italiana: a brief history of Italian studies at Columbia University 378 F
• Geiger, Roger L. - American higher education since World War II: a history 378 G
• Sexton, John Edward - Standing for reason: the university in a dogmatic age 378 S

NEW YORK

• Alofsin, Anthony - Wright and New York: the making of America's architect 720.92 W
• McConnell, Virginia A. - The belle of Bedford Avenue: the sensational Brooks-Burns murder in turn-of-the-century New York 364.1 M

RELIGION

• The way of a pilgrim: candid tales of a wanderer to his spiritual father (Penguin Classics; translated from the Russian) 248 W
• Beal, Timothy K - Religion in America: a very short introduction 200 B
• McHugo, John - A concise history of Sunnis & Shi'is 297.8 M
• Wexler, Jay - Our non-Christian nation: how atheists, Satanists, pagans, and others are demanding their rightful place in public life 322.1 W

RECENT ARRIVALS FOR LABOR DAY

• The Chinese and the iron road: building the transcontinental railroad (Gordon H. Chang and Shelley Fisher Fishkin, eds.)331.6 C
• Carew, Anthony - American labour's cold war abroad: from deep freeze to détente, 1945-1970 331.88 C
• Cohen, Josh - Not working: why we have to stop 155 C
• Smith, Molly - Revolting prostitutes: the fight for sex workers' rights 306.7 S
• Strang, Dean A. - Keep the wretches in order: America's biggest mass trial, the rise of the Justice Department, and the fall of the IWW 331.8 S
• Yeung, Bernice - In a day's work: the fight to end sexual violence against America's most vulnerable workers 331.6 Y