IN THE LOBBY

NONFICTION

• Ali, Wajahat - Go back to where you came from: and other helpful recommendations on how to become American
• Baer de Perignon, Pauline - The vanished collection (translated from the French)
• Chaffin, Tom - Odyssey: young Charles Darwin, the Beagle, and the voyage that changed the world
• Curtis, James - Buster Keaton: a filmmaker's life
• Duncan, Dennis - Index, a history of the: a bookish adventure from medieval manuscripts to the digital age
• Epstein, Mark - The Zen of therapy: uncovering a hidden kindness in life (ebook available)
• Fisher, Carl Erik - The urge: our history of addiction
• Gaines, James R. - The fifties: an underground history
• Hari, Johann - Stolen focus: why you can't pay attention--and how to think deeply again
• Higgins, Jackie - Sentient: how animals illuminate the wonder of our human senses
• Hirshman, Linda R. - The color of abolition: how a printer, a prophet, and a contessa moved a nation
• Howard, Hugh - Architects of an American landscape: Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the reimagining of Americas public and private spaces
• James, Kendra - Admissions: a memoir of surviving boarding school
• Kipnis, Laura - Love in the time of contagion: a diagnosis
• Klosterman, Chuck - The nineties (ebook available)
• Lanctot, Neil - The approaching storm: Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams, and their clash over America's future
• Leonard, Christopher - The lords of easy money: how the Federal Reserve broke the American economy
• Mchangama, Jacob - Free speech: a history from Socrates to social media
• Perry, Imani - South to America: a journey below the Mason-Dixon to understand the soul of a nation (ebook available)
• Riggs, Christina - Treasured: how Tutankhamun shaped a century
• Schur, Michael - How to be perfect: the correct answer to every moral question (ebook available)
• Schweizer, Peter - Red-handed: how American elites get rich helping China win
• Shields, Charles J. - Lorraine Hansberry: the life behind A raisin in the sun
• Stavrakopoulou, Francesca - God: an anatomy (ebook available)
• Sullivan, Rosemary - The betrayal of Anne Frank: a cold case investigation
• Thompson, Erin L. - Smashing statues: the rise and fall of America's public monuments
• Thompson, Laura - Heiresses: the lives of the million dollar babies
• Tinniswood, Adrian - Noble ambitions: the fall and rise of the English country house after World War II

​FICTION

• Bánffy, Miklós - The remarkable Mrs Anderson (translated from the Hungarian)
• Birdsong, Destiny O - Nobody's magic
• Conroe, Sean Thor - Fuccboi: a novel
• Darznik, Jasmin - The bohemians: a novel
• Davis, Fiona - The magnolia palace: a novel
• Doyle, Roddy - Life without children: stories
• Durastanti, Claudia - Strangers I know
• Gala, Marcial - Call me Cassandra (translated from the Spanish)
• Hadley, Tessa - Free love: a novel (ebook and audiobook available)
• Haigh, Jennifer - Mercy Street: a novel (ebook available)
• Hamilton, Hugo - The pages
• Hawley, Noah - Anthem: a novel
• Henkel, Calla - Other people's clothes: a novel
• Heti, Sheila, - Pure colour (ebook available)
• James, Marlon - Moon witch, spider king
• Jen, Gish - Thank you, Mr. Nixon: stories
• Jonas, Julia May - Vladimir: a novel (ebook available)
• Kaplan, Johanna - Loss of memory is only temporary: stories
• Kukafka, Danya - Notes on an execution: a novel
• Larkin, Allie - The people we keep
• Liardet, Frances - Think of me
• Lipstein, Andrew - Last resort
• Liu, Xinwu - The wedding party (translated from the Mandarin)
• MacLaverty, Bernard - Blank pages: and other stories
• Manguso, Sarah - Very cold people: a novel
• Maren, Mesha - Perpetual West
• Morrison, Toni - Recitatif: a story
• Nagamatsu, Sequoia - How high we go in the dark: a novel
• Otsuka, Julie - The swimmers (ebook available)
• Pataki, Allison - The magnificent lives of Marjorie Post: a novel
• Petterson, Per - Men in my situation: a novel (translated from the Norwegian)
• Pitoniak, Anna - Our American friend: a novel (ebook available)
• Sanchez, David - All day is a long time
• Savas, Aysegül - White on white
• Skenandore, Amanda - The second life of Mirielle West
• Slocumb, Brendan - The violin conspiracy
• Stamm, Peter - It's getting dark: stories (translated from the German)
• Stamm, Peter - The sweet indifference of the world (translated from the German) (ebook available)
• Tokarczuk, Olga - The books of Jacob: or, A fantastic journey across seven borders, five languages, and three major religions, not counting the minor sects. Told by the dead, supplemented by the author, drawing from a range of books, and aided by imagination, the which being the greatest natural gift of any person. That the wise might have it for a record, that my compatriots reflect, laypersons gain some understanding, and melancholy souls obtain some slight enjoyment (translated from the Polish) (ebook available)
• Wallace, Carol - Our kind of people
• White, Edmund - A previous life: another posthumous novel (ebook available)
• Wright Faladé, David - Black cloud rising: a novel (ebook available)
• Wu, Kyle Lucia - Win me something
• Zambra, Alejandro - Chilean poet: a novel (translated from the Spanish)

*more fiction below

​MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION

• Bartz, Andrea - The herd: a novel
• Beaton, M.C. - Death of a green-eyed monster: a Hamish Macbeth murder mystery*
• Brazier, Eliza Jane - Good rich people
• Clements, Oliver - The queen's men*
• Cosimano, Elle - Finlay Donovan knocks 'em dead
• Cross, A.J. - A dark, divided self
• Darnielle, John - Devil house (ebook available)
• Finlay, Alex - Every last fear
• Foley, Lucy - The Paris apartment: a novel (ebook available)
• Gigl, Robyn - Survivor's guilt
• Gudenkauf, Heather - The overnight guest
• Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia - Dying fall*
• Hawkins, Rachel - Reckless girls
• Hurwitz, Gregg Andrew - Dark horse
• Ide, Joe - The goodbye coast: a Philip Marlowe novel
• Jurczyk, Eva - The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections: a novel (ebook available)
• Kellerman, Jonathan - City of the dead
• Lovesey, Peter - Reader, I buried them: and other stories*
• Lutz, Lisa - The accomplice: a novel
• McCall Smith, Alexander, - Love in the time of Bertie
• Patterson, James - The horsewoman: a novel
• Preston, Douglas J. - Diablo Mesa
• Qiu, Xiaolong - The shadow of the empire
• Robb, J.D. - Abandoned in death
• Rosenfeldt, Hans - Cry wolf: a novel (translated from the Swedish)
• Todd, Charles - A game of fear (ebook available)
• Truss, Lynne - Psycho by the sea*
• Vidich, Paul - The matchmaker: a spy in Berlin
• Willberg, T.A. - Marion Lane and the deadly rose

POETRY

• Gervitz, Gloria - Migrations: poem, 1976-2020

BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

• Byler, Darren - In the camps: China's high-tech penal colony
• Cassino, Dan - Gender threat: American masculinity in the face of change
• Johns, Jasper - Jasper Johns: mindmirror
• Manion, Jen - Female husbands: a trans history
• Mulder, Nicholas - The economic weapon: the rise of sanctions as a tool of modern war
• Zeldovich, Lina - The other dark matter: the science and business of turning waste into wealth and health
• Speak, bird, speak again: Palestinian Arab folktales

​IN THE STACKS

LITERATURE & POETRY

• Clifton, Lucille - Generations: a memoir 92 C63895 C
• Fernald, Anne E. - Virginia Woolf: feminism and the reader 823 W
• Hall, Anne - Angela Thirkell: a writer's life 92 T446 H
• Jameson, Fredric - Sartre: the origins of a style 848.09 S
• Lord, Albert Bates - The singer of tales 809.1 L
• Marullo, Thomas Gaiton - Fyodor Dostoevsky: in the beginning, 1821-1845: a life in letters, memoirs, and criticism 92 D725 M
• Marullo, Thomas Gaiton - Fyodor Dostoevsky: the gathering storm (1846-1847): a life in letters, memoirs, and criticism 92 D725 M
• Neumann, Peter - Jena 1800: the republic of free spirits (translated from the German by Shelley Frisch) 830.9 N

FICTION

• Carter, Charlotte - Rhode Island red: a Nanette Hayes mystery F C
• Comyns, Barbara - The house of dolls (author of Our Spoons Came from Woolworths) F C
• Giono, Jean - The open road F G
• Mackin, Jeanne - The last collection: a novel of Elsa Schiaparelli and Coco Chanel F M
• Rice, Craig - Eight faces at three (Penzler American Mystery Classics series) F R
• Sansal, Boualem - 2084: the end of the world (Europa Editions; Winner French Academy Grand Prix) F S
• Tagore, Rabindranath - Selected short stories (translated from the Bengali) F T
• Tynyanov, Yury - The death of Vazir-Mukhtar (Columbia U. Russian Library series; first published 1927 ) F T
• Zamyatin, Yevgeny - We (first published 1924; translated from the Russian; foreword by Masha Gessen; dystopian novel that inspired Orwell's 1984) F Z

BOOKS & READING

• Doyle, Rob - Autobibliography 028 D
• Penzler, Otto - Mysterious obsession: memoirs of a compulsive collector Otto Penzler 010 P
• Roberts, Geoffrey - Stalin's library: a dictator and his books 92 S7826 R

LANGUAGE

• Kay, Billy - Scots: the mither tongue 427 K
• Kobliner, Shirley - So to speak: 11,000 expressions that'll knock your socks off 428.3 K
• Salomone, Rosemary C. - The rise of English: global politics and the power of language 306.4 S
• Tsu, Jing - Kingdom of characters: the language revolution that made China modern 495 T

ART

• Afro-Atlantic histories (Adriano Pedrosa, et al., eds.) 704 A
• Clark, Timothy - Hokusai: the great picture book of everything 709.52 H
• Dellheim, Charles - Belonging and betrayal: how Jews made the art world modern 709.4 D
• Edugyan, Esi - Out of the sun: on race and storytelling 704 E
• Jenkins, Earnestine - Black artists in America: from the Great Depression to civil rights 709.73 J
• Riding, Jacqueline - Hogarth: life in progress 92 H715 R
• Saint-Phalle, Niki de - Niki de Saint Phalle: structures for life 709.73 S

PERFORMING ARTS

• Eliot, Marc - The Hag: the life, times, and music of Merle Haggard 780.921 H
• Horowitz, Joseph - Dvořák's prophecy: and the vexed fate of Black classical music 780.973 H
• Koszarski, Richard - Keep 'em in the East: Kazan, Kubrick, and the postwar New York film renaissance 791.4 K
• Rose, Tricia - Black noise: rap music and black culture in contemporary America 780.973 R
• Sklar, Robert - Film: an international history of the medium 791.4 S

FASHION

• Bassman, Lillian - Lillian Bassman: women 779 B
• Harrison, Martin - Appearances: fashion photography since 1945 778 H
• Thanhauser, Sofi - Worn: a people's history of clothing 391 T

BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS

• Lantos, Peter L. - Parallel lines (Holocaust memoir, Bergen-Belsen 92 L2964 L
• May, Simon - How to be a refugee: one family's story of exile and belonging 92 M4669 M
• Rein, Richard K. - American urbanist: how William H. Whyte's unconventional wisdom reshaped public life 92 W6285 R
• Ridley, Jane - George V: never a dull moment 92 G3476 R
• Sen, Amartya - Home in the world: a memoir 92 S4742 S
• Thompson, Neal - The first Kennedys: the humble roots of an American dynasty 920 K365 T

ANTIQUITY

• Aeschylus - Aeschylus, the Oresteia: the texts of the plays, ancient backgrounds and responses, criticism (Oliver Taplin and Joshua Billings, eds.) 882.1 A
• Freeman, Philip - Hannibal: Rome's greatest enemy 92 H245 F
• Higgins, Charlotte - Greek myths: a new retelling 292 H

HISTORY

• Beaton, Roderick - The Greeks: a global history 938 B
• Ferrell, Robert H. - Truman and Pendergast 973.918 F
• Gabriele, Matthew - The bright ages: a new history of medieval Europe 940.1 G
• Graff, Garrett M. - Watergate: a new history 973.924 G
• Whyte, Kenneth - The sack of Detroit: General Motors and the end of American enterprise 338.7 W
• Zalc, Claire - Denaturalized: how thousands lost their citizenship and lives in Vichy France 944.081 Z

TRAVEL

• Fidler, Isaac - Observations on professions, literature, manners, and emigration in the United States and Canada, made during a residence there in 1832 (1st published in 1833) 917.3 F
• Fisher, Carly - Easy weekend getaways in the Hudson Valley & Catskills: short breaks from New York City 917.47 F
• Humphreys, Andrew - On the Nile: in the golden age of travel 916.2 H
• Schwarzenbach, Annemarie - All the roads are open: an Afghan journey, 1939-1940 (Seagull library of German literature) 915.8 S
• Schwarzenbach, Annemarie - Death in Persia (Seagull library of German literature) 915.5 S

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

• Brands, Hal - The twilight struggle: what the Cold War teaches us about great-power rivalry today 327.73 B
• Ngai, Mae M. - The Chinese question: the gold rushes and global politics 331.6 N
• Sarotte, M.E. - Not one inch: America, Russia, and the making of post-Cold War stalemate 327.73 S

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Gould, Lewis L. - Four hats in the ring: the 1912 election and the birth of modern American politics 324 G
• Maxwell, Angie - The long southern strategy: how chasing white voters in the South changed American politics 324.273 M
• Post, Jerrold M. - Dangerous charisma: the political psychology of Donald Trump and his followers 973.933 P
• Rorabaugh, W.J. - The real making of the president: Kennedy, Nixon, and the 1960 election 324 R

RACE IN AMERICA

• Boggs, James - Racism and the class struggle: further pages from a black worker's notebook 320.4 B
• Brown-Nagin, Tomiko - Civil rights queen: Constance Baker Motley and the struggle for equality 92 M917 B
• Coates, Laura Gayle - Just pursuit: a black prosecutor's fight for fairness 92 C6518 C
• Hayes, Robin J. - Love for liberation: African independence, Black Power, and a diaspora underground 323.1 H
• Khan-Cullors, Patrisse - An abolitionist's handbook: 12 steps to changing yourself and the world 364.6 K

WOMEN'S STUDIES

• Capetillo, Luisa - A nation of women: an early feminist speaks out (Originally published in Spanish in 1911; Penugin Classics) 305.4 C
• Erickson, Julia - Betrayed by work: women's stories of trauma, healing and hope after being fired 650 E
• Srinivasan, Amia - The right to sex: feminism in the twenty-first century 305.4 S