IN THE LOBBY

NON-FICTION

• The best American magazine writing 2017 (Sid Holt, ed.)
• Agrawal, Roma - Built: the hidden stories behind our structures
• Aronson, Josh - Orchestra of exiles: the story of Bronislaw Huberman, the Israel Philharmonic, and the one thousand Jews he saved from Nazi horrors
• Barnet, Andrea - Visionary women: how Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters changed our world
• Benson, Michael - Space odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the making of a masterpiece
• Brusatte, Stephen - The rise and fall of the dinosaurs: a new history of a lost world
• Chabon, Michael - Pops: fatherhood in pieces
• Chozick, Amy - Chasing Hillary: ten years, two presidential campaigns, and one intact glass ceiling
• Cohen, Warren I. - A nation like all others: a brief history of American foreign relations
• Crespino, Joseph - Atticus Finch: the biography: Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
• Damasio, Antonio R. - The strange order of things: life, feeling, and the making of cultures
• Doherty, Thomas Patrick - Show trial: Hollywood, HUAC, and the birth of the blacklist
• Duberman, Martin B. - The rest of it: hustlers, cocaine, depression, and then some, 1976-1988
• Easterbrook, Gregg - It's better than it looks: reasons for optimism in an age of fear
• Eisner, Mark - Neruda: the poet's calling
• Eizenstat, Stuart - President Carter: the White House years
• Fara, Patricia - A lab of one's own: science and suffrage in the first World War
• Farrow, Ronan - War on peace: the end of diplomacy and the decline of American influence
• Fernholz, Tim - Rocket billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the new space race
• Forsyth, Mark - A short history of drunkenness: how, why, where, and when humankind has gotten merry from the stone age to the present
• Frieda, Leonie - Francis I: the maker of modern France
• Greenblatt, Stephen - Tyrant: Shakespeare on politics
• Hampl, Patricia - The art of the wasted day
• Haskel, Jonathan - Capitalism without capital: the rise of the intangible economy
• Heinrich, Bernd - A naturalist at large: the best essays of Bernd Heinrich
• Hewitt, Catherine - Renoir's dancer: the secret life of Suzanne Valadon
• Hilburn, Robert - Paul Simon: the life
• Huang, Yunte - Inseparable: the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history
• Hurston, Zora Neale - Barracoon: the story of the last "black cargo"
• Itzkoff, Dave - Robin
• Jelley, Jane - Traces of Vermeer
• Johnson, Alex - A book of book lists
• Johnson, Kirk W. - The feather thief: beauty, obsession, and the natural history heist of the century
• Kells, Stuart - The library: a catalogue of wonders
• King, Gilbert - Beneath a ruthless sun: a true story of violence, race, and justice lost and found
• Knausgård, Karl Ove - Spring (translated from the Norwegian)
• Kurlansky, Mark - Milk!: a 10,000-year food fracas
• Leadon, Fran - Broadway: a history of New York City in thirteen miles
• Leonhard, Jörn - Pandora's box: a history of the First World War (translated from the German)
• Lloyd Webber, Andrew - Unmasked
• Margolick, David - The Promise and the dream: the untold story of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy (foreword by Douglas Brinkley)
• McNamara, Eileen - Eunice: the Kennedy who changed the world
• Murphy, M. Lynne - The prodigal tongue: the love-hate relationship between American and British English
• O'Toole, Patricia - The moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the world he made
• Olina, Giovanni Pietro - Pasta for nightingales: a 17th-century handbook of bird-care and folklore (translated from the Italian; foreword by Helen MacDonald)
• Seierstad, Åsne - Two sisters: a father, his daughters, and their journey into the Syrian jihad
• Skidmore, Chris - Richard III: England's most controversial king
• Snyder, Timothy - The road to unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
• Thompson, Laura - Agatha Christie: a mysterious life
• Tremain, Rose - Rosie: scenes from a vanished life
• Vollmann, William T. - No immediate danger
• Weiss, Elaine F. - The woman's hour: the great fight to win the vote
• Winchester, Simon - The perfectionists: how precision engineers created the modern world

FICTION

• Andrews, Mary Kay - The high tide club
• Bonert, Kenneth - The Mandela plot
• Broder, Melissa - The pisces: a novel
• Buckley, Christopher - The judge hunter
• Darznik, Jasmin - Song of a captive bird: a novel
• Deaver, Jeffery - The cutting edge: a Lincoln Rhyme novel
• Deveraux, Jude - As you wish
• Dolnick, Ben - The ghost notebooks
• Flanagan, Richard - First person
• Genova, Lisa - Every note played: a novel
• Goldammer, Frank - The air raid killer: the first case of Max Heller, Dresden detective
• Hensher, Philip - The friendly ones
• Heti, Sheila - Motherhood
• Huston, Allegra - Say my name: a novel
• John, David - Star of the North: a novel
• Juska, Elise - If we had known
• Kardos, Michael - Bluff: a novel
• Kauffman, Rebecca - The gunners: a novel
• King, Stephen - The outsider: a novel
• Kushner, Rachel - The Mars room: a novel (ebook available)
• Lewis, Phillip - The Barrowfields: a novel
• MacKenzie, Ian - Feast days: a novel
• Malaparte, Curzio - The Kremlin ball: material for a novel (translated from the Italian; New York Review Books)
• McAllister, Tom - How to be safe: a novel
• McCauley, Stephen - My ex-life
• McLain, Paula - Love and ruin: a novel
• Miles, Jonathan - Anatomy of a miracle: the true story of a paralyzed veteran, a Mississippi convenience store, a Vatican investigation, and the spectacular perils of grace
• Ondaatje, Michael - Warlight (ebook available)
• Ortese, Anna Maria - Neapolitan chronicles (translated from the Italian)
• Pears, Tim - The wanderers: a novel
• Poeppel, Amy - Limelight: a novel
• Roberts, Nora - Shelter in place
• Rollins, James - The demon crown
• Sackville, Amy - Painter to the king
• Schulman, Audrey - Theory of bastards
• Shriver, Lionel - Property: stories between two novellas
• Simsion, Graeme C. - Two steps forward: a novel
• Stahl, Lauren - The devil's song: a novel
• Thayil, Jeet - The book of chocolate saints
• Tillman, Lynne - Men and apparitions: a novel
• Van der Vliet Oloomi, Azareen - Call me Zebra
• Weldon, Fay - Death of a she devil

MYSTERIES

• Atkins, Ace - Robert B. Parker's old black magic
• Bell, Ted - Overkill
• Boyle, William - The lonely witness: a novel
• Brett, Simon - The liar in the library*
• Bussi, Michel - Time is a killer (translated from the French)
• Clark, Mary Higgins - I've got my eyes on you: a novel
• Coulter, Catherine - The sixth day
• Ellory, Roger Jon - The devil and the river: a thriller
• Estleman, Loren D. - Black and white ball: an Amos Walker novel
• Fluke, Joanne - Raspberry danish murder
• Fowler, Christopher - Hall of mirrors*
• Fredericks, Mariah - A death of no importance
• Goldhammer, Frank - The air raid killers: the first case of Max Heller, Dresden detective (translated from the German)
• Gray, Alex - Only the dead can tell
• Griffiths, Elly - The dark angel
• Holt, Anne - In dust and ashes (translated from the Norwegian)
• Howe, K. J. - Skyjack: a Thea Paris novel
• Israel, Steve - Big guns: a novel
• Jewell, Lisa - Then she was gone: a novel
• Koryta, Michael - How it happened
• Mackay, Malcolm - For those who know the ending: a novel
• Malliet, G. M. - In Prior's wood: a Max Tudor mystery
• Marsh, Ngaio - Money in the morgue*
• McGowan, Claire - The killing house
• Molloy, Aimee - The perfect mother: a novel
• Morrison, Blake - The executor*
• Nakamura, Fuminori - Cult X (translated from the Japanese)
• Parks, Brad - Closer than you know: a novel
• Perry, Anne - Twenty-one days: a Daniel Pitt novel*
• Pettus, Charlton - Exit strategy: a novel
• Quick, Amanda - The other lady vanishes
• Ramsay, Caro - The suffering of strangers*
• Redhill, Michael - Bellevue Square: a novel
• Tapper, Jake - The hellfire club
• Thompson, Victoria - Murder on Union Square: a gaslight mystery
• Unsworth, Cathi - That old black magic*
• Vargas, Fred - The accordionist (translated from the French)
• Yocum, Robin - A perfect shot: a novel

* Indicates a British mystery

SHORT STORIES

• Clarke, Brock - The price of the haircut
• Johnson, Charles - Night hawks: stories
• Murnane, Gerald - Stream system: the collected short fiction
• Tolstaya, Tatyana - Aetherial worlds: stories
• Trevor, William - Last stories (ebook available)
• Wideman, John Edgar - American histories: stories

POETRY

• Feinstein, Elaine - The clinic, memory: new and selected poems
• Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - Ferlinghetti's greatest poems
• García Lorca, Federico - Poet in Spain
• Johnson, Denis - The man among the seals; &, Inner weather (his first two books of poems)
• Kooser, Ted - Kindest regards: new and selected poems
• Moten, Fred - The little edges
• Murray, Joan - Drafts, fragments, and poems: the complete poetry (preface by John Ashbery)
• Persian love poetry  (Vestta Sarkhosh Curtis and Sheila R. Canby)
• Smith, Tracy K. - Wade in the water: poems

Book Committee Recommendations

• Alagbé, Yvan - Yellow negroes and other imaginary creatures
• Brown, Susan - Scraps: fashion, textiles, and creative reuse
• Costa, James T. - Darwin's backyard: how small experiments led to a big theory
• Eubanks, Virginia - Automating inequality: how high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor
• Gerges, Fawaz A. - Making the Arab world: Nasser, Qutb, and the clash that shaped the Middle East
• Gessen, Masha - Never remember: searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia
• McKenna, Maryn - Big chicken: the incredible story of how antibiotics created modern agriculture and changed the way the world eats
• Roth, Alisa - Insane: America's criminal treatment of mental illness
• Sher, Antony - Year of the mad king: the Lear diaries
• Stone, Daniel - The food explorer: the true adventures of the globe-trotting botanist who transformed what America eats
• Whistler, Catherine - Raphael: the drawings

IN THE STACKS

LITERATURE

• Bloom, Harold - Lear: the great image of authority 822.33 C
• Burnside, John - On Henry Miller, or, How to be an anarchist 823 M
• Conversations with Joan Didion 823 D
• MacCabe, Colin - Perpetual carnival: essays on film and literature 809 M
• Nathan, John - Soseki: modern Japan's greatest novelist 895.6 N
• Samway, Patrick H. - Flannery O'Connor and Robert Giroux: a publishing partnership 920 S1939 F

FICTION

• Murnane, Gerald - A million windows F M
• Ortese, Anna Maria - The iguana (translated from the Italian by Henry Martin) F O
• Schulz, Bruno, - Collected stories (newly translated from the Polish by Madeline G. Levine)  F S
• Silver bullets: classic werewolf stories (Eleanor Dobson, ed.; w/ H.C. Andersen, Kipling, Yeats, Saki, more) F S
• Tillman, Lynne - The complete Madame Realism and other stories 828 T
• Tozzi, Federigo - Love in vain: selected stories of Federigo Tozzi (translated from the Italian by Minna Proctor) F T
• Weinzweig, Helen - Basic black with pearls (New York Review Books; first published 1980) F W

POETRY

• Derricotte, Toi - The undertaker's daughter 821 D
• Longley, Michael - The weather in Japan 821 L
• Orr, Gregory - A primer for poets & readers of poetry 808.1 O

LETTERS

• 2 prospectors: the letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark (Chad Hammett, ed.) 920 S5477 T
• The Times great letters: a century of notable correspondence (James Owen, ed.) 070.4 T
• The luck of friendship: the letters of Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin (Peggy Fox & Thomas Keith, eds.)  920 W7276 L

ANTIQUITY

• The Oxford dictionary of late Antiquity (2 volumes) (OIiver Nicholson, ed.) HBR 930 O
• Dickey, Eleanor - Learning Latin the ancient way: Latin textbooks from the ancient world 478 D
• Rogerson, Barnaby - In search of ancient North Africa: a history in six lives 939.7 R

The Library now offers access to the complete online Loeb Classical Library. 

ART

• Medusa's menagerie: Otto Marseus van Schrieck and the scholars (Gero Seelig, ed.) 759.9 S
• Nochlin, Linda - Misère: the visual representation of misery in the 19th century 704.92 N
• Pollock, Griselda - Charlotte Salomon and the theatre of memory 759.3 S
• Stevenson, Jane - Baroque between the wars: alternative style in the arts, 1918-1939 709.04 S
• Tsuda, Noritake - A history of Japanese art: from prehistory to the Taisho period: a comprehensive guide to the temples, museums and art treasures of Japan 709.52 T

PHOTOGRAPHY

• Bosworth, Patricia - Dreamer with a thousand thrills: Tom Palumbo, the rediscovered photographs 779 P OVERSIZE
• Brassaï, - Brassaï (major 2018 exhibition) 779 B
• Dyer, Geoff - The street philosophy of Garry Winogrand 779 W

TRAVEL & EXPLORATION

• Childs, Craig- Atlas of a lost world: travels in ice age America 970.1 C
• Hazan, Éric - A walk through Paris 914.436 H
• Larson, Edward J. - To the edges of the Earth: 1909, the race for the three poles, and the climax of the age of exploration 910.9 L

NEW YORK

• New architecture New York (Pavel Bendov, ed.) 720.973 N
• Horn, Stacy - Damnation Island: poor, sick, mad & criminal in 19th-century New York 362.2 H
• Mottel, Syeus - Charas: the improbable dome builders (early 1970s: Buckminster Fuller & Lower East street street gangs) 720.973 M

PHILOSOPHY

• Arendt, Hannah - Thinking without a banister: essays in understanding, 1953-1975 191 A
• Van Zuylen, Marina - The plenitude of distraction 153 V

BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR

• Larman, Alexander - Byron's women 920 L3248 B
• Ngugi wa Thiong'o - Wrestling with the devil: a prison memoir 92 N5763 N
• Schwartz, Mimi - When history is personal 92 S39988 S
• Sklaroff, Lauren Rebecca - Red hot mama: the life of Sophie Tucker 92 T894 S
• Targoff, Ramie - Renaissance woman: the life of Vittoria Colonna 92 C719 T
• Tate, Sheila - Lady in red: an intimate portrait of Nancy Reagan 92 R2877 T

HISTORY

• Visitors to Versailles: from Louis XIV to the French Revolution (The Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibiton catalog) 944.03 V OVERSIZE
• Herman, Arthur - 1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the birth of the new world disorder 940.3 H
• Rees, John - The Leveller Revolution: radical political organisation in England, 1640-1650 942.06 R
• Shore, Marci - The Ukrainian night: an intimate history of revolution 947.7 S
• Symonds, Craig L. - World War II at sea: a global history 940.545 S
• Williams, Thomas J. T. - Viking Britain: an exploration 942.01 W
• Wright, Lawrence - God save Texas: a journey into the soul of the Lone Star State 917.64 W

ESPIONAGE & INTELLIGENCE

• Bingham, Charlotte - MI5 and me: a coronet among the spooks 92 B6134 B
• Khalili, Laleh - Time in the shadows: confinement in counterinsurgencies 355 K

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Blinder, Alan S. - Advice and dissent: why America suffers when economics and politics collide 330.973 B
• Califano, Joseph A. - Our damaged democracy: we the people must act 320.9 C
• Vidal, Gore - I told you so: Gore Vidal talks politics: interviews with Jon Wiener 828 V