To see many more books processed since the Library reopened, be sure to check the lists for November, October, September and August.  Also see the seventh installment of In Case You Missed It, featuring noteworthy books that you may have missed.

IN THE LOBBY

NONFICTION

• Alpers, Svetlana - Walker Evans: starting from scratch
• Bainbridge, David - How zoologists organize things: the art of classification
• Caesar, Ed - The moth and the mountain: a true story of love, war, and Everest
• Christakis, Nicholas A. - Apollo's arrow: the profound and enduring impact of coronavirus on the way we live (ebook available)
• Clark, Peter - Churchill's Britain: from the Antrim coast to the Isle of Wight
• Davies, Kevin - Editing humanity: the CRISPR revolution and the new era of genome editing
• Deresiewicz, William - The death of the artist: how creators are struggling to survive in the age of billionaires and big tech
• Dillon, Brian, - Suppose a sentence (ebook available) 
• Douglas, Ed - Himalaya: a human history
• Emanuel, Ezekiel J. - Which country has the world's best health care?
• Eyman, Scott - Cary Grant: a brilliant disguise
• Feuer, Alan,- El Jefe: the stalking of Chapo Guzm_n
• Gabler, Neal - Catching the wind: Edward Kennedy and the liberal hour
• Garnier, Philippe - Scoundrels & spitballers: writers and Hollywood in the 1930s
• Godfrey-Smith, Peter - Metazoa: animal life and the birth of the mind
• Goodings, Lennie - A bite of the apple: a life with books, writers and Virago
• Holladay, Hilary - The power of Adrienne Rich: a biography
• Kreitner, Richard - Break it up: secession, division, and the secret history of America's imperfect union
• MacMillan, Margaret - War: how conflict shaped us
• Mars, Roman - The 99% invisible city: a field guide to the hidden world of everyday design
• Nadler, Steven M., - Think least of death: Spinoza on how to live and how to die
• Obama, Barack - A promised land (ebook and audiobook download available)
• Payne, Les - The dead are arising: the life of Malcolm X
• Puchner, Martin - The language of thieves: my family's obsession with a secret code the Nazis tried to eliminate
• Ricks, Thomas E. - First principles: what America's founders learned from the Greeks and Romans and how that shaped our country
• Sante, Luc - Maybe the people would be the times
• Sedaris, David - The best of me (audiobook download available) 
• Tate, Christie - Group: how one therapist and a circle of strangers saved my life
• Taub, Jennifer - Big dirty money: the shocking injustice and unseen cost of white collar crime
• Walker, Jerald - How to make a slave and other essays
• Wilkinson, Toby A. H. - A world beneath the sands: the golden age of Egyptology
• Winspear, Jacqueline - This time next year we'll be laughing: a memoir (ebook available)
• Witt, John Fabian - American contagions: epidemics and the law from Smallpox to Covid-19
• Wolkoff, Stephanie Winston - Melania and me: the rise and fall of my friendship with the First Lady
• Wragg Sykes, Rebecca - Kindred: Neanderthal life, love, death and art

FICTION

• Amis, Martin - Inside story: a novel (ebook available)
• Baxter, Charles - The sun collective: a novel (ebook available)
• Bradford, Barbara Taylor - In the lion's den
• Coelho, Paulo - The archer: a novel
• Danforth, Emily M. - Plain bad heroines: a novel
• DeLillo, Don - The silence: a novel (ebook available)
• Evans, Danielle - The office of historical corrections: a novella and stories
• Flagg, Fannie - The wonder boy of Whistle Stop: a novel
• Gilligan, Ruth - The butchers' blessing
• Hall, Meredith - Beneficence: a novel
• Hensher, Philip - A small revolution in Germany
• Joyce, Rachel - Miss Benson's beetle: a novel
• Littell, Robert - Comrade Koba: a novel
• Matsuda, Aoko - Where the wild ladies are
• Moss, Sarah - Summerwater
• Pancake, Breece D'J, - The collected Breece D'J Pancake: stories, fragments, letters
• Russell, Karen - Sleep donation
• Shibli, Adania - Minor detail
• Von Ziegesar, Cecily - Cobble Hill: a novel
• Walter, Jess - The cold millions: a novel (ebook available)
• Washington, Bryan - Memorial: a novel (ebook available)
• Yang, Susie - White ivy: a novel

MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION

• Archer, Jeffrey - Hidden in plain sight
• Beaton, M. C. - Hot to trot*
• Bradby, Tom - Double agent
• Brody, Frances - Murder is in the air*
• Bruen, Ken - A Galway epiphany
• Cameron, Julie - Only truth: a novel of suspense
• Chambers, Christopher - Scavenger: a mystery
• Child, Lee - The sentinel (ebook available)
• Colt, Peter - Back Bay blues
• Connelly, Michael - The law of innocence (ebook available)
• Connolly, John - The dirty South
• Donlea, Charlie - The suicide house
• Eriksson, Kjell - The night of the fire: a mystery
• Evanovich, Janet - Fortune and glory: a Stephanie Plum novel
• Freeman, Brian - Funeral for a friend
• French, Nicci - House of correction: a novel *
• Hand, Elizabeth - The book of lamps and banners: a novel
• Hart, Matthew - The Russian pink: a novel
• Horowitz, Anthony - Moonflower murders: a novel (ebook available)
• Lethem, Jonathan - The arrest: a novel (ebook available)
• Maldonado, Isabella - The cipher
• McGarrity, Michael - Head wounds
• Nesbo, Jo - The kingdom (ebook available)
• Osman, Richard - The Thursday murder club* (ebook available)
• Perry, Anne - A Christmas resolution: a novel *
• Taylor, Andrew - The last protector *
• Truss, Lynne - Murder by milk bottle*
• Unger, Lisa - Confessions on the 7:45
• Upson, Nicola - The secrets of winter*
• Woods, Stuart - Shakeup
• Yokoyama, Hideo - Prefecture D: four novellas

STORY COLLECTIONS

• Archer, Jeffrey - The short, the long and the tall: short stories
• Canxue - I live in the slums: stories
• Gifford, Barry - Roy's world: stories 1973-2020
• Guibert, Herve - Written in invisible ink: selected stories
• Hazzard, Shirley - Collected stories (ebook available)
• Krauss, Nicole - To be a man: stories (ebook available)
• Sittenfeld, Curtis - Help yourself: stories

POETRY

• Atwood, Margaret - Dearly: new poems
• Dumas, Henry - Knees of a natural man: the selected poetry of Henry Dumas
• Gay, Ross - Be holding: a poem
• Kenyon, Jane - The best poems of Jane Kenyon
• Monroe, Melissa - Medusa Beach: and other poems
• Piercy, Marge - On the way out, turn off the light: poems
• Stone, Ruth - The essential Ruth Stone
• Taylor, Henry - This tilted world is where I live: new and selected poems, 1962-2020
• African American poetry: 250 years of struggle & song (Kevin Young, ed.)
• When the light of the world was subdued, our songs came through: a Norton anthology of Native nations poetry (Joy Harjo, et al. eds.)

BOOK COMMITTEE

• Daniels, Gilda R. - Uncounted: the crisis of voter suppression in America
• Fallon, Katie. - Vulture: the private life of an unloved bird
• Gregory, Tim - Meteorite: how stones from outer space made our world
• Kurlansky, Mark. - Salmon: a fish, the earth, and the history of their common fate
• Mondschein, Ken. - On time: a history of Western timekeeping
• The age of Hiroshima (Michael D. Gordin and G. John Ikenberry, eds.)
• The Oxford illustrated history of the world (Felipe Fernández-Armesto, ed.)

IN THE STACKS

LITERATURE & ESSAYS

• Brooks, Peter - Balzac's lives 843 B
• Carby, Hazel V. - Reconstructing womanhood: the emergence of the Afro-American woman novelist 823.08 C
• Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore - The works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson 820.81 D
• Duras, Marguerite - Suspended passion: interviews with Leopoldina Pallotta della Torre 848 D
• Headley, Maria Dahvana - Beowulf: a new translation 821 H
• Major, Clarence - The essential Clarence Major: prose & poetry 820.81 M
• Peeples, Scott - The man of the crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the city 92 P743 P
• Porter, Dorothy, ed. - Early Negro writing, 1760-1837 820.8 E
• Stout, Janis P. - Cather among the moderns 823 C

FICTION

• Brod, Max - Tycho Brahe's path to God: a novel F B
• De Jong, Dola - The tree and the vine (translated from the Dutch)F D
• Ekwensi, Cyprian - People of the city (acclaimed 1954 novel republished by New York Review by Nigerian author) F E
• Forrest, Leon - Two wings to veil my face F F
• Grzegorzewska, Wioletta - Accommodations (translated from the Polish) F G
• Lynch, Paul - The black snow: a novel F L
• Nakhjavani, Nakhjavani - The woman who read too much: a novel F N
• Quiñonez, Ernesto - Taína F Q
• Yerby, Frank - The short stories of Frank Yerby F Y

POETRY

• Berryman, John - The selected letters of John Berryman 92 B5375 B
• Clark, Heather L. - Red comet: the short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath 92 P7168 C
• Goldbarth, Albert - To be read in 500 years: poems 821 G
• Scotellaro, Rocco - The dawn is always new: selected poetry of Rocco Scotellaro 851 S
• Shakespeare, William - All the sonnets of Shakespeare 822.33 S
• Tomlinson, Charles - Swimming Chenango Lake: selected poems 821 T
• Whitman, Walt - Every hour, every atom: a collection of Walt Whitman's early notebooks & fragments 820.81 W
• Shadowed dreams: women's poetry of the Harlem Renaissanc (Maureen Honey, ed.)821.08 S

BOOKS & READING

• Latham, Martin - Bookseller's tale 010 L
• Mendelsund, Peter - The look of the book: jackets, covers, & art at the edges of literature 741.64 M
• Rosenbloom, Megan - Dark archives: a librarian's investigation into the science and history of books bound in human skin 002 R

ART

• Bacon, Francis - Francis Bacon: in conversation with Michel Archimbaud759.2 B
• Ferris, Toby - Short life in a strange world: birth to death in 42 panels 759.9 B
• Gardner, James - The Louvre: the many lives of the world's most famous museum 708.4 G
• Harvey, Eleanor Jones - Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: art, nature, and culture 709.73 H
• Monahan, Anne - Horace Pippin: American modern 759.1 P
• Salmen, Brigitte - Marianne von Werefkin 759.7 W
• Souhami, Diana - No modernism without lesbians 706.9 S
• Spear, Richard E. - Caravaggio's 'Cardsharps' on trial: Thwaytes v. Sotheby's 759.5 C
• Boston's Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent (Nathaniel Silver, ed.)759.1 S
• Making the Met, 1870-2020 (Andrea Bayer with Laura D. Core, eds.)708.1 M

ARCHITECTURE

• Abrams, Janet - Daddy wouldn't buy me a Bauhaus: profiles in architecture & design 704 A
• Brittain-Catlin, Timothy - The Edwardians and their houses: the new life of old England 720.942 B
• White, Samuel G. - Stanford White in detail 720.973 W
• Eileen Gray (designer & architect, 1878-1976 (Cloé Pitiot and Nina Stritzler-Levine, eds.; Bard exhibition) 745 G

NEW YORK

• Boyarin, Jonathan - Yeshiva days: learning on the Lower East Side 305.86 B
• Dann, Kevin T. - Enchanted New York: a journey along Broadway through Manhattan's magical past 974.71 D
• Ferri, Jessica - Silent cities: New York: hidden histories of the region's cemeteries 974.71 F
• Spady, Matthew - The neighborhood Manhattan forgot: Audubon Park and the families who shaped it 974.71 S

PERFORMING ARTS

• Brecht, Bertolt - Bertolt Brecht's refugee conversations 832 B
• Lazar, David - Celeste Holm syndrome: on character actors from Hollywood's golden age 791.4 L
• Riedel, Michael - Singular sensation: the triumph of Broadway 792.0973 R
• Smarsh, Sarah - She come by it natural: Dolly Parton and the women who lived her songs 780.973 S
• Tunbridge, Laura - Beethoven: a life in nine pieces 92 B4154 T

WALKING

• Andrews, Kerri - Wanderers: a history of women walking 796.51 A
• Beaumont, Matthew - The walker: on finding and losing yourself in the modern city 820.9 B
• Ekelund, Torbjørn - In praise of paths: walking through time and nature 796.51 E

PHOTOGRAPHY

• Bair, Nadya - The decisive network: Magnum Photos and the postwar image market 770 M
• Bouveresse, Clara - Femmes à l'oeuvre, femmes à l'épreuve : unretouched women : Eve Arnold, Abigail Heyman, Susan Meiselas 779 B
• Meister, Sarah Hermanson - Dorothea Lange: words & pictures 779 L
• To make their own way in the world: the enduring legacy of the Zealy daguerreotypes(Ilisa Barbash, et al., eds.) 770 Z

BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS

• Adjmi, David - Lot six: a memoir 92 A236 A
• Berg, Elizabeth - I'll be seeing you: a memoir 92 B4932 B (ebook available)
• Carpenter, David - Henry III: the rise to power and personal rule, 1207-1258 92 H5213 C
• Leerhsen, Charles - Butch Cassidy: the true story of an American outlaw 92 C3452 L
• Mikorenda, Jerry - America's first freedom rider: Elizabeth Jennings, Chester A. Arthur, and the early fight for civil rights 92 G7386 M
• Haw, Richard - Engineering America: the life and times of John A. Roebling 92 R7714 H
• Nyad, Diana - Find a way 92 N993 N
• Oppen, Mary - Meaning a life: an autobiography 92 O621 O
• Salmon, Peter - An event, perhaps: a biography of Jacques Derrida 92 D4384 S
• Schechter, Patricia Ann - Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American reform, 1880-1930 92 W4548 S
• Chickens, gin, and a Maine friendship: the correspondence of E.B. White and Edmund Ware Smith 920 W5849 C
• Swire, Sasha - Diary of an MP's wife: inside and outside power 92 S9791 S
• Warren, Rosanna - Max Jacob: a life in art and letters 92 J155 W

HISTORY

• Cozzens, Peter - Tecumseh and the prophet: the Shawnee brothers who defied a nation 970.2 T
• De Grazia, Victoria - The perfect fascist: a story of love, power, and morality in Mussolini's Italy 945.09 D
• Harvey, Miles - The king of confidence: a tale of utopian dreamers, frontier schemers, true believers, false prophets, and the murder of an American monarch 92 S8972 H
• Herrin, Judith - Ravenna: capital of empire, crucible of Europe 913.37 H
• Kars, Marjoleine - Blood on the river: a chronicle of mutiny and freedom on the Wild Coast 306.3 K
• Ohler, Norman - The Bohemians: the lovers who led Germany's resistance against the Nazis 943.086 O
• Rady, Martyn C. - The Habsburgs: to rule the world 943.6 R
• Satia, Priya - Time's monster: how history makes history 907 S
• Schendel, Willem van - A history of Bangladesh 954 S
• Seth, Michael J. - A concise history of Korea: from antiquity to the present 951.9 S
• Steiner, Zara - The lights that failed: European international history, 1919-1933 940.5 S
• Vanagaitė, Rūta and Efraim Zurof - Our people: discovering Lithuania's hidden holocaust 940.5315 V
• Wells, Jonathan Daniel - The kidnapping club: Wall street, slavery, and resistance on the eve of the Civil War 974.71 W (ebook available)

ANTIQUITY

• Boin, Douglas - Alaric the Goth: an outsider's history of the fall of Rome 937.06 B
• Hall, Edith - Inventing the barbarian: Greek self-definition through tragedy 882.09 H
• Kulikowski, Michael - The tragedy of empire: from Constantine to the destruction of Roman Italy 937 K
• Seneca, Lucius Annaeus - How to give: an ancient guide to giving and receiving 177 S

WORLD WAR II

• Allport, Alan - Britain at Bay: the epic story of the Second World War, 1938-1941 940.5342 A
• Kovner, Sarah - Prisoners of the empire: inside Japanese POW camps 940.5472 K
• Odachi, Kazuo - Memoirs of a kamikaze: a World War II pilot's inspiring story of survival, honor and reconciliation 940.548 O
• The spirit of the Blitz: home intelligence and British morale, September 1940 - June 1941 (Paul Addison and Jeremy A.
  Crang, eds.) 940.5342 S

WOMEN'S STUDIES

• Manne, Kate - Entitled: how male privilege hurts women 305.3 M
• Saxton, Ruth - The book of old ladies: celebrating women of a certain age in fiction 809 S
• American women's suffrage: voices from the long struggle for the vote 1776-1965(Susan Ware, ed.) 324 A
• Words of fire: an anthology of African-American feminist thought(Beverly Guy-Sheftall,
  ed.) 305.4 W

ACTIVISM & PROTEST

• Davis, Angela Y. - Freedom is a constant struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the foundations of a movement 323.4 D
• Garza, Alicia - The purpose of power: how we come together when we fall apart 301.15 G
• Polgar, Paul J. - Standard-bearers of equality: America's first abolition movement 326 P
• Ransby, Barbara - Making all Black lives matter: reimagining freedom in the twenty-first century 323.1 R
• Fog of war: the Second World War and the civil rights movement(Kevin M. Kruse and Stephen Tuck,
  eds.) 940.5373 F

SOCIOLOGY

• Davis, Mike - Prisoners of the American dream: politics and economy in the history of the US working class 322 D
• Khakpour, Porochista - Brown album: essays on exile and identity 325.2 K
• Lalami, Laila - Conditional citizens: on belonging in America 323.6 L
• Whitby, Andrew - The sum of the people: how the census has shaped nations, from the ancient world to the modern age 312 W
• Yglesias, Matthew - One billion Americans: the case for thinking bigger 312 Y

ECONOMICS

• Glantz, Aaron - Homewreckers: how a gang of Wall Street kingpins, hedge fund magnates, crooked banks, and vulture capitalists suckered millions out of their homes and demolished the American dream 332.7 G
• Goldstein, Jacob - Money: the true story of a made-up thing 332.4 G
• Piketty, Thomas - Capital and ideology 339 P

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Baime, A. J. - Dewey defeats Truman: the 1948 election and the battle for America's soul 324 B
• Douglas, Lawrence - Will he go?: Trump and the looming election meltdown in 2020 973.933 D
• Fawcett, Edmund - Conservatism: the fight for a tradition 320.9 F
• Picciolini, Christian - Breaking hate: confronting the new culture of extremism 322.4 P
• Posner, Eric A. - The demagogue's playbook: the battle for American democracy from the founders to Trump 320.9 P
• Stasavage, David - The decline and rise of democracy: a global history from antiquity to today 321.8 S
• Wolin, Sheldon S. - Fugitive democracy: and other essays 321.8 W

JOURNALISM

• Downie, Leonard - All about the story: news, power, politics, and the Washington post 070 D
• Horne, Gerald - The rise and fall of the Associated Negro Press: Claude Barnett's Pan-African news and the Jim Crow paradox 070.4 H
• Sullivan, Margaret - Ghosting the news: local journalism and the crisis of American democracy 070.13 S

SCIENCE & NATURAL HISTORY

• Dee, Tim - Greenery: journeys in springtime 591.9 D
• Meijer, Eva - Animal languages 591.5 M
• Prothero, Donald R. - The Princeton field guide to prehistoric mammals 569 P OVERSIZE
• Ritchie, Stuart - Science fictions: how fraud, bias, negligence, and hype undermine the search for truth 500 R
• Trouet, Valerie - Tree story: the history of the world written in rings 582 T

FOOD

• Druckman, Charlotte - Women on food 641 W
• Egan, Sophie - How to be a conscious eater: making food choices that are good for you, others, and the planet 613.2 E
• Lorr, Benjamin - The secret life of groceries: the dark miracle of the American supermarket 381 L
• Tipton-Martin, Toni - Jubilee: recipes from two centuries of African American cooking 641.5 T

PARANORMAL

• Gosden, Chris - Magic: a history: from alchemy to witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the present 133.4 G
• Morton, Lisa - Calling the spirits: a history of seances 133.9 M

RELIGION

• Halkin, Hillel - After one-hundred-and-twenty: reflecting on death, mourning, and the afterlife in the Jewish tradition 296.3 H
• Jones, Robert P. - White too long: the legacy of white supremacy in American Christianity 277.3 J
• Weinberger, Eliot - Angels & saints 235 W