IN THE LOBBY

NONFICTION

• Adler, Eric - The battle of the classics: how a nineteenth-century debate can save the humanities today
• Amiel, Barbara - Friends & enemies: a life in Vogue, prison, & Park Avenue
• Amore, Anthony M. - The woman who stole Vermeer: the true story of Rose Dugdale and the Russborough House art heist
• Beauty and the good: recovering the classical tradition from Plato to Duns Scotus (Alice Ramos, ed.)
• Byrne, Gabriel - Walking with ghosts: a memoir (ebook available)
• Fiorani, Francesca - The shadow drawing: how science taught Leonardo how to paint
• Gray, John - Feline philosophy: cats and the meaning of life
• Jentleson, Adam - Kill switch: the rise of the modern Senate and the crippling of American democracy
• Knausgaard, Karl Ove - In the land of the cyclops: essays (translated from the Norwegian)
• Lacey, Robert - Battle of brothers: William and Harry—the inside story of a family in tumult
• Ladd, Brian - The streets of Europe: the sights, sounds, and smells that shaped its great cities
• Maçães, Bruno - History has begun: the birth of a new America
• May, Katherine - Wintering: the power of rest and retreat in difficult times (ebook available)
• Mitenbuler, Reid - Wild minds: the artists and rivalries that inspired the golden age of animation
• Monroe, Marilyn - Marilyn Monroe: the last interview and other conversations
• Nezhukumatathil, Aimee - World of wonders: in praise of fireflies, whale sharks, and other astonishments
• Nimura, Janice P. - The doctors Blackwell: how two pioneering sisters brought medicine to women--and women to medicine
• Oluo, Ijeoma - Mediocre: the dangerous legacy of white male America
• The Oxford book of theatrical anecdotes (Gyles Brandreth, editor)
• Richardson, Heather Cox - How the South won the Civil War: oligarchy, democracy, and the continuing fight for the soul of America
• Rosen, Gary A. - Adventures of a jazz age lawyer: Nathan Burkan and the making of American popular culture
• Ruffin, Amber - You'll never believe what happened to Lacey: crazy stories about racism
• Saunders, George - A swim in a pond in the rain: in which four Russians give a master class on writing, reading, and life (ebook available)
• Selingo, Jeffrey J. - Who gets in and why: a year inside college admissions
• Sellers, Bakari - My vanishing country: a memoir
• Swafford, Jan - Mozart: the reign of love
• Troy, Tevi - Fight house: rivalries in the White House from Truman to Trump
• Vanderbilt, Tom - Beginners: the joy and transformative power of lifelong learning
• Winchester, Simon - Land: how the hunger for ownership shaped the modern world

FICTION

• Anthony, Jessica - Enter the aardvark
• Askaripour, Mateo - Black buck
• Basu, Diksha - Destination wedding: a novel
• Buxton, Kira Jane - Hollow kingdom: a novel
• Byrd, Max - Pont Neuf: a novel
• Davies, Peter Ho - A lie someone told you about yourself (ebook available)
• Evers, Stuart - The blind light: a novel
• Gosling, Victoria - Before the ruins: a novel
• Gross, Max - The lost shtetl : a novel
• Gurganus, Allan - The uncollected stories of Allan Gurganus (ebook available)
• Harmel, Kristin - The book of lost names
• Harwicz, Ariana - Die, my love
• Jones, Robert - The prophets: a novel (ebook available)
• Machado de Assis, - Posthumous memoirs of Bras Cubas: a novel (translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin
  Patterson) (ebook available)
• Marcom, Micheline Aharonian - The new American
• McLaughlin, Danielle - The art of falling: a novel
• Morelli, Laura - The night portrait: a novel of World War II and Da Vinci's Italy
• Morselli, Guido - Dissipatio H.G. = The vanishing (translated from the Italian)
• Randall, Alice - Black Bottom saints: a novel
• Roberts, Nora - The awakening
• Schwab, Victoria - The invisible life of Addie LaRue
• Shiga, Naoya - Reconciliation (translated from the Japanese)
• Smith, Katy Simpson - The everlasting: a novel
• Summers, Chelsea G. - A certain hunger: a novel
• Watson, Rebecca - Little scratch: a novel
• Wicomb, Zoë - Still life
• Williams, Eley - The liar's dictionary: a novel (ebook available)
• Shearman, Robert - We all hear stories in the dark

MYSTERY & CRIME FICTION

• Abdullah, Kia - Take it back *
• Atkins, Ace - Robert B. Parker's Someone to watch over me
• Baer, William - New Jersey noir. a novel
• Baldacci, David - Daylight: an Atlee Pine thriller
• Barde-Cabucon, Olivier - The inspector of strange and unexplained deaths
• Benedict, Marie - The mystery of Mrs. Christie: a novel*
• Clark, Mary Higgins - Piece of my heart
• Dahl, Kjell Ola - Sister (translated from the Norwegian)
• Edogawa, Ranpo - The black lizard ; and, Beast in the shadows (translated from the Japanese)
• Fellowes, Jessica - The Mitford scandal *
• Fellowes, Jessica - The Mitford trial *
• Foster, Sara - The hidden hours*
• Franklin, Ariana - Death and the maiden *
• Gardner, Lisa - Before she disappeared: a novel
• Gordon, W. C. - The detective next door: a novel
• Hambly, Barbara - House of the patriarch
• Harris, Robert - V2: a novel of World War II (ebook available)
• Kirk, Lucy - The poison factory: Operation Kamera
• March, Nev - Murder in old Bombay
• McDonnell, Caimh - The quiet man
• Nugent, Liz - Little cruelties
• O'Donnell, Paraic - The house on Vesper Sands*
• Parris, S. J. - The dead of winter: three Giordano Bruno novellas
• Pinter, Jason - A stranger at the door
• Quartey, Kwei - Sleep well, my lady
• Roslund, Anders - Knock knock (translated from the Swedish)
  (ebook available)
• Taylor, Sarah Stewart - The mountains wild
• Tursten, Helene - Snowdrift (translated from the Swedish) (ebook available)
• Yokomizo, Seishi - The Inugami curse (translated from the Japanese)

*indicates a British mystery

BOOK COMMITTEE - RECOMMENDATIONS

• Holmes, Rachel. - Sylvia Pankhurst: natural born rebel
• Leakey, Meave G. - The sediments of time: my lifelong search for the past
• MacDonald, Margaret F. - The woman in white: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler
• Matzko, Paul - The radio right: how a band of broadcasters took on the federal government and built the modern conservative movement
• Micklethwait, John - The wake-up call: why the pandemic has exposed the weakness of the West, and how to fix it
• Pattison, Kermit - Fossil men: the quest for the oldest skeleton and the origins of humankind
• Scalia, Antonin - The essential Scalia: on the Constitution, the courts, and the rule of law
• Thomas, William G. - A question of freedom: the families who challenged slavery from the nation's founding to the Civil War
• Wang, Dewei - Why fiction matters in contemporary China

POETRY

• Armantrout, Rae - Conjure
• Boland, Eavan - The historians: poems
• Chang, Victoria - Obit: poems
• Choi, Don Mee - DMZ colony
• Giovanni, Nikki - Make me rain: poems & prose
• Morgan, Edwin - Centenary: selected poems
• Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich - Selected poetry
• Riley, Denise - Selected poems: 1976-2016
• Som, Brandon - The tribute horse

IN THE STACKS

LITERATURE

• Carey, John - The violent effigy: a study of Dickens' imagination 823 D
• Ellison, Ralph - Conversations with Ralph Ellison 823 E
• Howard, Richard - RH [loves] HJ and other American writers 821 H
• Johnson, Claudia L. - 30 great myths about Jane Austen 823 A
• Merton, Egon Stephen - Science and imagination in Sir Thomas Browne. 828.09 B
• Rollyson, Carl E. - The life of William Faulkner (2 vol. biography) 92 F2633 R
• Shaw, Michael - A friendship in letters: Robert Louis Stevenson & J.M. Barrie 920 S539 F
• Wilde, Oscar - The short stories of Oscar Wilde: an annotated selection 823 W
• The Hedgehog review reader: two decades of critical reflections on contemporary culture 824.05 H

POETRY

• Hinton, David - Awakened cosmos: the mind of classical Chinese poetry 895.1 H
• Maguire, Matthew William - Carnal spirit: the revolutions of Charles Péguy 840.81 P
• Stevenson, Anne - Correspondences: a family history in letters 821 S
• The book of Taliesin: poems of warfare and praise in an enchanted Britain (14th-century Welsh text, first complete translation in 100 years) 891.6 B

FICTION

• Baron, Alexander - Strip Jack naked (sequel to The Lowlife, 1966) F B
• Brion, Marcel - Waystations of the deep night F B
• Danishvar, Simin - Savushun: a novel about modern Iran F D
• Filipowicz, Kornel - The memoir of an anti-hero F F
• Gaines, Ernest J. - Bloodline (five stories that take place in the cane fields, sharecroppers' shacks, and decaying plantation houses of Louisiana) F G
• Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan - Carmilla (1871; edited and introduced by Carmen Maria Machado) F L
• Mabanckou, Alain - Broken glass F M
• Matute, Ana María, - The island (1959; translated from the Spanish; Penguin Modern Classics) F M
• Tales of two planets: stories of climate change and inequality in a divided world (John Freeman, ed. w/ Danticat, Atwood, Groff, many more) 808.8 T

ART

• Auricchio, Laura - Adelade Labille-Guiard: artist in the age of revolution (Getty Museum) 759.4 L
• Barron, Stephanie - Degenerate art: the fate of the avant-garde in Nazi Germany 709.43 D
• Dwyer Modestini, Dianne - Masterpieces: based on a manuscript by Mario Modestini (conservation & restoration) 706.9 D
• Koetzle, Hans-Michael - László Moholy-Nagy 709.2 M
• Patterson, Jody - Modernism for the masses: painters, politics, and public murals in 1930s New York 709.7471 P
• Perl, Jed - Calder: the conquest of space: the later years: 1940-1976 730.92 C

ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN & DECORATIVE ART

• Barry, Fabio - Painting in stone: architecture and the poetics of marble from antiquity to the enlightenment 720 B
• Marchand, Suzanne L. - Porcelain: a history from the heart of Europe 338.4 M
• Sharr, Adam - Modern architecture: a very short introduction 724 S
• Yarrow, Thomas - Architects: portraits of a practice 720 Y
• Frock consciousness: writing about clothes from the London review of books. 746.92 F

HISTORY

• Carby, Hazel V. - Imperial intimacies: a tale of two islands 920 C262 C
• Cervantes, Fernando - Conquistadores 970 C
• Drozdiak, William - The last president of Europe: Emmanuel Macron's race to revive France and save the world 944.092 D
• Ethridge, Robbie Franklyn - From Chicaza to Chickasaw: the European invasion and the transformation of the Mississippian world, 1540-1715 976 E
• Harper, T. N. - Underground Asia: global revolutionaries and the assault on empire 950 H
• Hone, Joseph - The paper chase: the printer, the spymaster, and the hunt for the rebel pamphleteers (18th century Britain) 942.06 H
• Kamdar, Mira - India in the 21st century 954 K
• Kraut, Julia Rose - Threat of dissent: a history of ideological exclusion and deportation in the United States 342.73 K
• Ovenden, Richard - Burning the books: a history of the deliberate destruction of knowledge 001 O
• Puleo, Stephen - Voyage of mercy: the USS Jamestown, the Irish famine, and the remarkable story of America's first humanitarian mission 327.73 P
• Smith, Helmut Walser - Germany, a nation in its time: before, during, and after Nationalism, 1500-2000 943 S
• Stansky, Peter - Twenty years on: views and reviews of modern Britain 942.085 S
• Royal bodies: writing about the Windsors from the London review of books. 920 W766 R

AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY

• Anderson, Devery S. - Emmett Till: the murder that shocked the world and propelled the civil rights movement 364.1 A
• Baumgartner, Alice, - South to freedom: runaway slaves to Mexico and the road to the Civil War 326 B
• Bonner, Christopher James. - Remaking the Republic: Black politics and the creation of American citizenship 323.1 B
• Cahill, Cathleen D. - Recasting the vote: how women of color transformed the suffrage movement 324.3 C
• Marable, Manning, - W.E.B. Du Bois: Black radical democrat 92 D8166 M
• Parker, Alison M. - Unceasing militant: the life of Mary Church Terrell 92 T3254 P
• Shakur, Assata. - Assata: an autobiography 92 S527 S
• Trotter, Joe William, - Workers on arrival: Black labor in the making of America 331.6 T
• VanderVelde, Lea. - Redemption songs: suing for freedom before Dred Scott 326 V
• West, E. James. - Ebony magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: popular Black history in postwar America 050 E
• As if she were free: a collective biography of women and emancipation in the Americas (Erica L. Ball, et al., eds.) 326 A

See the Library’s Black History Month blog post for a lengthy list of recent arrivals on African American history, literature, culture, etc. 

ANTIQUITY

• Barrett, Anthony - Rome is burning: Nero and the fire that ended a dynasty 937.06 B
• Stothard, Peter - The last assassin: the hunt for the killers of Julius Caesar 937.02 S

BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS

• Babur - The Babur nama (newly translated and annotated by Annette Susannah Beveridge; introduction by William Dalrymple) 92 B112 B
• Brody, Leslie - Sometimes you have to lie: the life and times of Louise Fitzhugh, renegade author of Harriet the spy 92 F556 B
• Crane, Ben - Blood ties: a story of falconry and fatherhood 92 C89112 C
• Leahy, Christopher J. - President without a party: the life of John Tyler 92 T9824 L
• Margolin, Julius - Journey into the land of the Zeks and back: a memoir of the Gulag 365 M
• Mansel, Philip - King of the world: the life of Louis XIV 92 L888 M
• Zarnow, Leandra Ruth - Battling Bella: the protest politics of Bella Abzug 92 A1674 Z

WOMEN'S STUDIES

• Beck, Koa - White feminism: from the suffragettes to influencers and who they leave behind 305.4 B
• Delap, Lucy - Feminisms: a global history 305.4 D
• Hilton, Lisa - Sex and the city of ladies: rewriting history with Cleopatra, Lucrezia Borgia and Catherine the Great 305.4 H
• Lamb, Christina - Our bodies, their battlefield: what war does to women 364.1 L

SEXUALITY & GENDER

• Bakker, Alex - Others of my kind: transatlantic transgender histories 306.76 B
• Davis, Lisa - Tomboy: the surprising history and future of girls who dare to be different 305.4 D
• Four in a bed: writing about sex from the London review of books 306.7 F
• The Stonewall generation: LGBT elders on sex, activism, and aging 306.76 S

NEW YORK

• Coté, Andrew - Honey and venom: confessions of an urban beekeeper 638 C
• Harris, John - The last slave ships: New York and the end of the middle passage 326 H
• Papson, Don - Secret lives of the Underground Railroad in New York City: Sydney Howard Gay, Louis Napoleon and the Record of fugitives 974.71 P
• Sernett, Milton C. - North star country: upstate New York and the crusade for African American freedom 973.71 S

PHILOSOPHY

• Buehrens, John A. - Conflagration: how the Transcendentalists sparked the American struggle for racial, gender, and social justice 140 B
• Gaukroger, Stephen - French philosophy: a very short introduction 194 G
• Mo, Di - The essential Mòzi: ethical, political, and dialectical writings 181 M

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Hoffman, Carl - Liar's circus: a strange and terrifying journey into the upside-down world of Trump's MAGA rallies 973.933 H
• Miller-Idriss, Cynthia - Hate in the homeland: the new global far right 322.4 M
• Morone, James A. - Republic of wrath: how American politics turned tribal 324.273 M

CHINA

• Dapiran, Antony - City on fire: the fight for Hong Kong 951.2 D
• Mitter, Rana - China's good war: how World War II is shaping a new nationalism 320.9 M
• Strittmatter, Kai - We have been harmonized: life in China's surveillance state 323.4 S
• Sinomania: writing about China from the London review of books 915.1 S

RELIGION

• Cohen, Charles L. - The Abrahamic religions: a very short introduction 201 C
• Recalcati, Massimo - The night in Gethsemane: on solitude and betrayal (Europa Editions; translated by Ann Goldstein) 232 R
• Stavans, Ilan - Popol vuh: a retelling 299.7 S
• Tardieu, Michel - Manichaeism 299.9 T

SCIENCE

• Barrett, Lisa Feldman - Seven and a half lessons about the brain 612.8 B
• Subramanian, Samanth - A dominant character: the radical science and restless politics of J. B. S. Haldane 92 H1582 S
• Thiers, Barbara M. - Herbarium: the quest to preserve & classify the world's plants 580.7 T
• Wilson, Edward O. - Tales from the ant world 595.7 W

TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION

• Arsenault, Kerri - Mill town: reckoning with what remains (Maine) 974.1 A
• Ash, Lamorna - Dark, salt, clear: life in a Cornish fishing village 942.3 A
• Pitzer, Andrea - Icebound: shipwrecked at the edge of the world 919.8 P
• Walsh, Declan - The nine lives of Pakistan: dispatches from a precarious state 954.9 W

MEXICO

• Knight, Alan - Mexico: from the beginning to the Spanish Conquest 972 K
• Knight, Alan - Mexico: the colonial era 972 K
• Rivera Garza, Cristina - Grieving: dispatches from a wounded country 972 R