IN THE LOBBY

NONFICTION

• Why I like this story (Jackson R. Bryer; contributors include Julia Alvarez, Andrea Barrett, Richard Bausch, Ann Beattie, Andre Dubus, William H. Gass, Julia Glass, Alice McDermott,  Annie Proulx, more)
• Ackerman, Elliot - Places and names: on war, revolution, and returning 
• Aguirre, Anthony - Cosmological Koans: a journey to the heart of physical reality
• Ahlenberg, Janis - Leave the lights on when you go: a memoir 
• Allen, Samantha - Real queer America: LGBT stories from red states
• Boase, Tessa - Mrs Pankhurst's purple feather: fashion, fury and feminism - women's fight for change
• Cone, David- Full count: the education of a pitcher
• Conforth, Bruce M. - Up jumped the devil: the real life of Robert Johnson 
• Connell, John - The farmer's son: calving season on a family farm 
• Hemon, Aleksandar - My parents: an introduction & This does not belong to you (two memoirs)
• Hirshman, Linda R. - Reckoning: the epic battle against sexual abuse and harassment 
• Johnson, Lauren - The shadow king: the life and death of Henry VI
• Knausgård, Karl Ove - So much longing in so little space: the art of Edvard Munch (translated from the Norwegian)
• Knott, Sarah - Mother is a verb: an unconventional history
• Lynskey, Dorian - The ministry of truth: a biography of George Orwell's 1984
• Macfarlane, Robert - Underland: a deep time journey 
• Martin, Peter - The dictionary wars: the American fight over the English language 
• Matzen, Robert, - Dutch girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II 
• McChrystal, Stanley A. - Leaders: myth and reality
• McKibben, Bill - Falter: has the human game begun to play itself out? 
• Mehta, Suketu - This land is our land: an immigrant's manifesto
• Orton, Erik - Seven at sea: why a New York City family cast off convention for a life-changing year on a sailboat 
• Rose, Sarah - D-Day girls: the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II 
• Satow, Julie - The Plaza: the secret life of America's most famous hotel 
• Saxton, Martha. - The widow Washington: the life of Mary Washington
• Schjeldahl, Peter - Hot, cold, heavy, light: 100 art writings, 1988-2018 
• Sciutto, Jim - The shadow war: inside Russia's and China's secret operations to defeat America
• Serge, Victor - Notebooks: 1936-1947 (translated from the French)
• Shnayerson, Michael - Boom: mad money, mega dealers, and the rise of contemporary art 
• Stern, Howard - Howard Stern comes again 
• Stone, Robert - Chasing the moon: the people, the politics, and the promise that launched America into the space age
• Taraborrelli, J. Randy.- The Kennedy heirs: John, Caroline, and the new generation; a legacy of triumph and tragedy 
• Webber, Michael E. - Power trip: the story of energy 
• Wheelis, Joan - The known, the secret, the forgotten: a memoir 
• Will, George F. - The conservative sensibility

FICTION

• Acampora, Lauren - The paper wasp: a novel 
• Baker, Jo - The body lies
• Barenbaum, Rachel. - A bend in the stars 
• Bourdeaut, Olivier - Waiting for Bojangles: a novel (translated from the French)
• Collins, Sara - The confessions of Frannie Langton: a novel
• Correa, Armando Lucas - The daughter's tale: a novel (translated from the Spanish)
• Crouch, Blake - Recursion: a novel
• Cusset, Catherine - Life of David Hockney: a novel (translated from the French)
• Dennis-Benn, Nicole - Patsy: a novel
• Dugoni, Robert - The extraordinary life of Sam Hell: a novel
• Fremantle, Elizabeth - The poison bed 
• Gilbert, Elizabeth - City of girls (ebook available)
• Gordon, John R. - Drapetomania, or, The narrative of Cyrus Tyler & Abednego Tyler, lovers: a novel 
• Green, Jane - The friends we keep 
• Haddon, Mark - The porpoise: a novel
• Haynes, Natalie - A thousand ships 
• Hickey, Christine Dwyer - The narrow land 
• Hilderbrand, Elin - Summer of '69 
• Kane, Jessica Francis - Rules for visiting
• Koch, Herman - The ditch: a novel (translated from the Dutch)
• Kwok, Jean - Searching for Sylvie Lee: a novel 
• Mason, Timothy - The Darwin affair: a novel 
• Menasse, Robert - The capital (translated from the German)
• Murnane, Gerald - Tamarisk row 
• Olmi, Véronique - Bakhita: a novel of the Saint of Sudan (translated from the French)
• Parini, Jay - The Damascus road: a novel of Saint Paul
• Peterson, Holly - It's hot in the Hamptons: a novel 
• Pitoniak, Anna - Necessary people: a novel
• Ryan, Jennifer - The spies of Shilling Lane: a novel
• Sartori, Giacomo - I am God (translated from the Italian)
• Smith, Dominic - The electric hotel 
• Vuong, Ocean - On earth we're briefly gorgeous: a novel 
• Walker, Caroline Louise- Man of the year
• Weiner, Jennifer - Mrs. Everything: a novel 
• Wilk, Elvia - Oval 
• Winterson, Jeanette - Frankissstein: a love story 
• See more recent fiction arrivals in the stacks section below.

MYSTERIES

• Billingham, Mark - Their little secret*
• Black, Cara - Murder in Bel-Air 
• Bourland, Barbara - Fake like me
• Brown, Rita Mae - Whiskers in the dark: a Mrs. Murphy mystery
• Ciment, Jill - The body in question: a novel 
• Cleveland, Karen - Keep you close: a novel
• Ellroy, James - This storm: a novel 
• Herron, Mick - Joe Country*
• Horowitz, Anthony - The sentence is death: a novel* (ebook available)
• Miranda, Megan - The last house guest: a novel 
• Padura, Leonardo - Grab a snake by the tail (translated from the Spanish)
• Persson Giolito, Malin - Beyond all reasonable doubt: a novel (translated from the Swedish)
• Turnbull, Peter - Cold wrath* 
• Walker, Martin - The body in the castle well: a Bruno, chief of police novel (ebook available)
• Woods, Stuart - Skin game 

* indicates a British mystery

SHORT STORIES

• New daughters of Africa: an international anthology of writing by women of African descent (Margaret Busby, ed.)
• Draughon, Stefan - The block

POETRY

• Reines, Ariana - A sand book
• Scenters-Zapico, Natalie - Lima: limón 

BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

• Abe, Naoko - The sakura obsession: the incredible story of the plant hunter who saved Japan's cherry blossoms 
• Collins, Ronald K. L. - The People v. Ferlinghetti: the fight to publish Allen Ginsberg's "Howl"
• Fryd, Vivien Green - Against our will: sexual trauma in American art since 1970
• Galeotti, Mark - The Vory: Russia's super mafia 
• Ginsburg, Tom - How to save a constitutional democracy 
• Oneill, Therese - Ungovernable: the Victorian parent's guide to raising flawless children 
• Sunkara, Bhaskar - The socialist manifesto: the case for radical politics in an era of extreme inequality

IN THE STACKS

LITERATURE, BELLES LETTRES, ESSAYS

• The milk bowl of feathers: essential surrealist writings (Mary Ann Caws, ed.) 840.8 C
• The Oxford history of life-writing (vols. 1 - 2) 808 O
• The Pioneer Valley reader: prose and poetry from New England's heartland (James C. O'Connell, ed.) 820.9 P
• Berrong, Richard M. - Pierre Loti (Reaktion Press Critical Lives) 92 L883 B
• Ensler, Eve - The apology  828 E
• Johnson, Samuel - Samuel Johnson (anthology edited by David Womersley, ed.) 828 J
• Pajak, Frederik - Uncertain manifesto (translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith; New York Review Books) 848 P
• Robbins, Michael - Equipment for living: on poetry and pop music 824 R

FICTION

• Ch'ae, Man-sik - Sunset: a Ch'ae Manshik reader (short stories by Korean writer, 1920s - 1940s) 895 C
• Moor, Margriet de - Sleepless night (translated from Dutch by David Doherty) F M
• Okada, John - No-no boy (Classics of Asian American literature, U. of Washington Press; originally published 1957) F O
• Rodoreda, Mercè - In Diamond Square (translated from Catalan by Peter Bush, Virago Press) F R
• Tokarczuk, Olga - Primeval and other times ( translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) F T

POETRY

• Burns, Robert - The best laid schemes: selected poetry and prose of Robert Burns 821 B
• Fondane, Benjamin - Benjamin Fondane's Ulysses: bilingual edition  841 F
• Gilbert, Sandra M. - Judgment day: poems  821 G
• Ramey, Lauri - A history of African American poetry 821.09 R

BOOKS & READING

• Cock-Starkey, Claire - A library miscellany 021 C
• Cock-Starkey, Claire - The book lovers' miscellany  002 C
• Kelly, Thomas Forrest - The role of the scroll: an illustrated introduction to scrolls in the Middle Ages 091 K
• Reichman, Amos - Jacques Schiffrin: a publisher in exile, from Pléiade to Pantheon (forewored by Robert O. Paxton) 655.5 R

LEGENDS & FOLKTALES

• Basile, Giambattista - The tale of tales, or, Entertainment for little ones (Neapolitan fairy tales published in 1630s; translated by Nancy L. Canepa; foreword by Jack Zipes) 398.2 B
• Khoury, Najla Jraissaty - Pearls on a branch: oral tales (Arabic folktales, translated from the Arabic by Inea Bushnaq) 398.2 K
• Pitrè, Giuseppe - Catarina the Wise: and other wondrous Sicilian folk and fairy tales (translated and edited by Jack Zipes) 398 P

ART

• Elligott, Michelle - René d'Harnoncourt and the art of installation 707 E
• Hollander, Stacy C. - Securing the shadow: posthumous portraiture in America 704.942 H
• Jones, Jonathan - Sensations: the story of British art from Hogarth to Banksy 709.42 J
• Knelman, Joshua - Hot art: chasing thieves and detectives through the secret world of stolen art 708 K
• Peppiatt, Michael - The existential Englishman: Paris among the artists 944.36 P
• Wieck, Roger S. - The medieval calendar: locating time in the Middle Ages (catalog for Now and Forever: The Art of Medieval Time, at the Morgan Library & Museum) 529 W

PERFORMING ARTS

• Andrey Tarkovsky: life and work : film by film, stills, polaroids & writings (with texts by Jean Paul Sartre & more) 791.4 A
• Companion to Baroque music (Julie Anne Sadie, ed.) 780.9 C
• Eisenstein, Sergei - Beyond the stars (2 volume memoirs) 92 E366 E
• Sills, Bettijane - Broadway, Balanchine & beyond: a memoir 792.8 S

PHOTOGRAPHY

• Allen, Jamie M. - Nathan Lyons: in pursuit of magic 779 L
• Johnston, Frances Benjamin - Frances Benjamin Johnston: the Hampton album  (new MoMA edition) 779 J
• Pinson, Stephen C. - Monumental journey: the daguerreotypes of Girault de Prangey 779 G
• Schaaf, Larry J. - Sun gardens: cyanotypes by Anna Atkins 779 S

ANTIQUITY

• Ancient goddesses: the myths and the evidence (Lucy Goodison and Christine Morris) 291 A
• Bogucki, Peter I. - The barbarians: lost civilizations 936 B
• Clayman, Dee L. - Berenice II and the golden age of Ptolemaic Egypt 92 B488 C
• Dickey, Eleanor - Stories of daily life from the Roman world: extracts from the ancient Colloquia  937 D
• Manning, Joseph Gilbert - The open sea: the economic life of the ancient Mediterranean world from the Iron Age to the rise of Rome  330.9 M
• The Loeb Classical Library digital edition is available to members. See the Electronic Resources page on our website.

HISTORY

• France in the world: a new global history (Patrick Boucheron with Nicolas Delalande, eds.; translated from the French) 944 F
• Women in the American Revolution: gender, politics, and the domestic world (Barbara B. Oberg, ed.) 305.4 W
• Bouverie, Tim - Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the road to war 327.42 B
• Chang, Gordon H. - Ghosts of Gold Mountain: the epic story of the Chinese who built the transcontinental railroad 331.6 C
• Hamilton, Nigel. - War and peace: FDR's final odyssey, D-Day to Yalta, 1943-1945 973.917 H
• Murrin, John M. - Rethinking America: from empire to republic 973 M
• Potter, Jennifer - The Jamestown brides: the story of England's "Maids for Virginia" 975.5 P
• White, Sam - A cold welcome: the Little Ice Age and Europe's encounter with North America 970 W
• Wineapple, Brenda - The impeachers: the trial of Andrew Johnson and the dream of a just nation 973.8 W

SLAVERY

• Glymph, Thavolia - Out of the house of bondage: the transformation of the plantation household 326 G
• Rediker, Marcus - The fearless Benjamin Lay: the Quaker dwarf who became the first revolutionary abolitionist 326 R
• Schermerhorn, Calvin - Unrequited toil: a history of United States slavery 326 S
• Waldstreicher, David - Slavery's constitution: from revolution to ratification 342.73 W

BIOGRAPHY

• Forster, Margaret - Diary of an ordinary schoolgirl 92 F7347 F
• Gorbach, Julien - The notorious Ben Hecht: iconoclastic writer and militant Zionist 92 H4475 G
• Hammond, Thomas - Memoirs on the life and travels of Thomas Hammond, 1748-1775 940.25 H
• O'Harrow, Robert - The Quartermaster: Montgomery C. Meigs : Lincoln's General, master builder of the Union army 92 M5122 O
• Tobia, Jacob - Sissy: a coming-of-gender story  92 T6287 T

CRIME

• Cohen, Rich - The last pirate of New York: a ghost ship, a killer, and the birth of a gangster nation 364 C
• Sisman, Adam - The professor & the parson: a story of desire, deceit and defrocking  364 S
• Willetts, Paul - King Con: the bizarre adventures of the Jazz Age's greatest impostor  364 W

SCIENCE & NATURAL HISTORY

• Guicciardini, Niccolò - Isaac Newton and natural philosophy 92 N5638 G
• Kassinger, Ruth. - Slime: how algae created us, plague us, and just might save us 589.95 K
• Marder, Michael - Dust  551.4 M
• Munson, Richard - Tesla: inventor of the modern 92 T337 M
• Stern, Alan - Chasing new horizons: inside the epic first mission to Pluto  629.4 S
• Thorogood, Chris - Weird plants 580 T

PHILOSOPHY

• The prisoner's dilemma (Cambridge U. Press Classic Philosophical Arguments; Martin Peterson, ed.) 171 P
• McGinnis, Jon - Avicenna 181.5 M
• Rossellini, Ingrid - Know thyself: Western identity from classical Greece to the Renaissance 301 R
• Smith, Justin E. H. - Irrationality: a history of the dark side of reason 160 S

TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION

• Fitz-Simon, Christopher - The most beautiful villages of Ireland 941.5 F
• Gamble, Clarence James - Japan 1908: the adventure of fourteen-year-old Clarence James Gamble 915.2 G
• Winn, Raynor - The salt path (South West Coast Path, Somerset to Dorset) 92 W7762 W

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Isenberg, Nancy - The problem of democracy: the Presidents Adams confront the cult of personality 920 A214 I
• Lepore, Jill - This America: the case for the nation 320.9 L
• Vanden Heuvel, William J. - Hope and history: a memoir of tumultuous times 92 V227 V

ECONOMICS & FINANCE

• Payne, Keith - The broken ladder: how inequality affects the way we think, live, and die 305.5 P
• Pistor, Katharina - The code of capital: how the law creates wealth and inequality 330.1 P
• Sternberg, Joseph C. - The theft of a decade: how the baby boomers stole the millennials' economic future 330.973 S

FOOD & DRINK

• DeSalle, Rob - A natural history of beer  641.2 D
• Katz, Sandor Ellix, - Wild fermentation: the flavor, nutrition, and craft of live-culture foods 641.5 K
• Khan, Yasmin - Zaitoun: recipes from the Palestinian kitchen 641.5 K
• Twitty, Michael - The cooking gene: a journey through African American culinary history in the Old South 641 T

NEW YORK

• New York City: two hundred years in maps from the collection of Mark D. Tomasko 917.471 N
• The Stonewall reader (Penguin Classics/New York Public Library; foreword by Edmund White) 306.76 S
• Brenwall, Cynthia S. - The Central Park: original designs for New York's greatest treasure 712 B
• Hinman, Suzanne - The grandest Madison Square Garden: art, scandal, and architecture in Gilded Age New York 720.973 H

RELIGION

• Barton, John - A history of the Bible: the story of the world's most influential book 220.9 B
• Lacorne, Denis - The limits of tolerance: enlightenment values and religious fanaticism 179 L
• Sorkin, David Jan - The religious Enlightenment: Protestants, Jews, and Catholics from London to Vienna 270.7 S
• Wood, I. N. - The transformation of the Roman West 270.1 W