While the Library is closed in response to COVID-19, we are still reading book reviews, looking at publisher lists, and receiving member requests. The work of buidling our collection never stops. What we have listed below are books that are "in the pipeline" and will someday be received, processed, and become a part of our collection. To place holds, log in to our website, and click on the linked titles below. You will be taken to our online catalog; once there, click the Request button over the search bar. Or you may send an email to requests@nysoclib.org to have books below placed on your holds list. Members have a lot of good reading to look forward to when we re-open. You can read the Library's COVID-19 response here. 

Of course, our Cloud Library e-book collection never closes. To browse our e-book collection, click here. 

FICTION

• Ackerman, Elliot - Red Dress in Black and White
• Alvarez, Carlos Manuel - Fallen Angel
• Alvarez, Julie - Afterlife (ebook available)
• Azar, Shokoofeh - The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree (translated from the Persian; Shortlisted or the 2020 International Booker Prize
• Barba, Andres - Luminous Republic
• Barba, Andres - Such Small Hands
• Barbery, Muriel - Strange Country
• Barry, Sebastian - Thousand Moons (ebook available)
• Brion, Marcel - Waystations of the Deep Night (first published 1942, translated from the French)
• Brod, Max - Tycho Brahe's Path To God (originally published 1915; translated from the German)
• Chekhov, Anton - Fifty-Two Stories (translation By Pevear, Richard And Volokhonsky, Larissa)
• Christie, Michael - Greenwood
• Cmara, Gabriela Cabezn - Adventures of China Iron (translated from the Spanish; International Booker Prize 2020 Longlist)
• Feldman, Ellen - Paris Never Leaves You
• Fenwick, E. - Secresy: Or, the Ruin On the Rock (1795 Gothic, Epistolary Novel)
• Ferrante, Elena - The Lying Life of Adults (Postponed To September 2020)
• Gage, Amity - Sea Wife
• Godwin, Gail - Old Lovegood Girls
• Gould, Emily - Perfect Tunes
• Hornby, Gill - Miss Austen: a Novel
• Irwin, Robert, - My Life Is Like a Fairy Tale
• James, Rebecca - Woman in the Mirror
• Jedrowski, Tomasz - Swimming in the Dark
• Jiles, Paulette - Simon the Fiddler (ebook available)
• Kaufman, Charlie - Antkind (debut novel from screenwriter of Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
• Kidd, Sue Monk - The Book of Longings
• Klima, Ladislav - Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch: a Grotesque Romanetton (novel by Czech philosopher (1878-1928))
• L'engle, Madeleine - Moment of Tenderness (stories)
• Lacey, Catherine - Pew
• Lansdale, Joe R. - Jane Goes North
• Mahfuz, Najib, - The Quarter (previously unpublished stories by Nobel Prize winner)
• Mason, Daniel - A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories
• Mathieu, Nichols - And their Children after Them (Winner of the 2018 Prix Goncourt)
• Mccreight, Kimberly - Good Marriage: a novel
• McGuire, Ian - The Abstainer (historical novel, described as "part Cormac McCarthy and part Raymond Chandler")
• Millet, Lydia - A Children's Bible
• Mitchell, David - Utopia Avenue
• Mossfegh, Ottessa - Death in Her Hands
• Mukherjee, Abir - Death in the East
• Neuman, Andres - Fracture
• Oates, Joyce Carol - Night Sleep Death Stars
• Park, Linda Sue - Prairie Lotus
• Perry, Sarah - After Me Comes the Flood
• Quinonez, Ernesto - Taina
• Rijneveld, Marieke Lucas - Discomfort of Evening (translated from the Dutch; shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize)
• Saavedra, Carola - Blue Flowers
• Schweblin, Samantha - Little Eyes
• Scott, Rion Amilcar - Insurrections
• Shriver, Lionel - The Motion of the Body in Space
• Sittenfeld, Curtis - Rodham
• Sofer, Dalia - Man of My Time
• Straub, Emma - All Adults Here
• Swift, Graham - Here We Are
• Taubes, Susan - Divorcing (New York Review Books Classics)
• Trollope, Joanna - Mum and Dad
• Von Kleist, Heinrich - Michael Kohlhaas (translated By Michael Hofmann)
• Weiner, Jennifer - Big Summer
• Weir, Alison - Katheryn Howard, the Scandalous Queen
• Wingate, Lisa - The Book of Lost Friends
• Wright, Lawrence - The End of October (ebook available)
• Zhang, C. Pam - How Much of These Hills Is Gold

MYSTERIES / CRIME FICTION

• Blaedel, Sara - Third Sister (book #3 in Family Secrets trilogy)
• Brett, Simon - Clutter Corpse
• Brown, Janelle - Pretty Things
• Casey, Jane - Last Girl (Maeve Kerrigan #3)
• Clark, Marcia - Final Judgment
• Cotterill, Colin - Delightful Life of a Suicide Pilot
• De Angelis, Augusto - Death in a Bookstore: An Inspector De Vincenzi Mystery
• Deaver, Jeffery - The Goodbye Man
• Fredericks, Mariah - Death of An American Beauty: a Mystery
• Garnier, Pascal - C'est La Vie (translated by Jane Aitken)
• Garnier, Pascal - Long Way off (translated by Emily Boyce)
• Gilbert, Anthony - Death in Fancy Dress (British Library Crime Classics)
• Giordano, Mario - Auntie Poldi and the Handsome Antonio
• Harris, C.S. - Who Speaks For the Damned
• Hill, Susan - The Benefit of Hindsight
• Housewright, David - From the Grave: a Mckenzie Novel
• Ignatius, David - Paladin: a Spy Novel
• Kellerman, Jonathan - Half Moon Bay
• Kuhns, Eleanor - Circle of Dead Girls
• Lupica, Mike - Robert B. Parker's Grudge Match
• Mccall Smith, Alexander - The Talented Mr. Varg
• Meyer, Deon - The Last Hunt (Benny Griessel Mysteries Book 7)
• Oldham, Nick - Wildfire (a Henry Christie Mystery)
• Pattison, Eliot - The King's Beast: A Mystery of the American Revolution
• Pinborough, Sarah - Dead To Her
• Pochoda, Ivy - These Women
• Silva, Daniel - The Order
• Spencer-Fleming, Julia - Hid From Our Eyes
• Taylor, Andrew - Last Protector
• Thompson, Victoria - Murder On Pleasant Avenue ((A Gaslight Mystery Book)
• White, Kate - Have You Seen Me?: a novel of suspense

LITERATURE, POETRY, ESSAYS, BELLES LETTRES

• Abdolmalekian, Garous - Lean Against This Late Hour (poems, translated from the Persian)
• Awkward-Rich, Cameron - Dispatch
• Bate, Jonathan - Radical Wordsworth
• Booth, Francis - Amongst those Left: the British Experimental Novel, 1940-1980
• Brand, Emily - Fall of the House of Byron
• Carey, John - Little History of Poetry
• Chen, Amy Hildreth - Placing Papers:The American Literart Archives Market
• Conde, Maryse - Journey of a Caribbean Writer
• Conversations With Allen Ginsberg
• Duras, Marguerite - Suspended Passion: Interviews
• Foldenyi, F. Laszlo, 1952- - Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts Into Tears
• Gbler, Carlo - Aesops Fables: the Cruelty of the Gods
• Glaude, Eddie S. - Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons For Our Own
• Goodings, Lennie - Bite of the Apple: a Life with Books, Writers and Virago
• Greenberg, Samuel - Poems From the Greenberg Manuscripts
• Jackson, John Brinckerhoff - Landscapes: Selected Writings
• Kennedy, Kate & Hermione Lee, editors - Lives of Houses (essays on houses of writers, artists, composers, and politicians of the past)
• Khakpour, Porochista - Brown Album: Essays On Exile and Identity
• Laing, Olivia - Funny Weather: Art in An Emergency
• Lefanu, Sarah - Something of Themselves: Kipling, Kingsley, Conan Doyle and the Anglo-Boer War
• Lippman, Laura - My Life As a Villainess: Essays
• Marcus, Greil - Under the Red White and Blue: Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby
• Mayer,Bernadette - Bernadette Mayer Reader (New Directions; NY School, St. Mark's Poetry Project)
• Nelson, Steffie (Ed.) - Slouching Towards Los Angeles: Living and Writing by Joan Didion’s Light
• O'Brien, Glenn - Intelligence For Dummies: Essays and Other Collected Writings
• Packer, Barbara - Transcendentalists
• Ryan, Kay - Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose (essays, criticism from a Pulitzer Prize winning poet)
• Souhami, Diana - No Modernism Without Lesbians
• Stern, Kimberly - Oscar Wilde
• Sullivan, Hannah - Three Poems
• Taylor, Benjamin - Here We Are: My Friendship With Philip Roth
• Toni Morrison: the Last Interview: and Other Conversations
• Wiman, Christian - Survival Is a Style: Poems

ART

• Benkemoun, Brigitte - Finding Dora Maar: An Artist, an Address Book, a Life
• Bloom, Jonathan M. - Islamic Art: Past, Present, Future
• Bouveresse, Clara - Femmes a L'oeuvre, Femmes a L'epreuve: Unretouched Women (Catalog of 70s Work by Photographers Eve Arnold, Abigail Heyman and Susan Meiselas)
• Buron, Melissa - James Tissot
• Bussard, Katherine - Life Magazine and the Power of Photography
• Guzzoni, Mariella, 1952- - Vincent's Books: Van Gogh and the Writers Who Inspired Him.
• Huysmans, J.-K. - Modern Art (1883, First English Translation)
• Lagamma, Alisa - Sahel: Art and Empires On the Shores of the Sahara
• Monahan, Anne - Horace Pippin, American Modern
• Museum Of Modern Art - Félix Fénéon: the Anarchist and the Avant-Garde—From Signac To Matisse and Beyond
• Penrose, Anthony - Surrealist Lee Miller
• Perl, Jed - Calder: the Conquest of Space: the Later Years: 1940-1976
• Petitjean, Marc - The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris
• Silver, Nathaniel - Boston's Apollo: John Singer Sargent and Thomas Mckeller
• Verdi, Richard - Poussin As a Painter: From Classicism To Abstraction
• Wojnarowicz, David - David Wojnarowicz: in the Shadow of Forward Motion
• Van Eyck (Maximiliaan Martens, Ed.)

PERFORMING ARTS

• Brendel, Alfred - Lady From Arezzo: My Musical Life and Other Matters
• Craske, Oliver - Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar
• Kamp, David - Sunny Days: the Children's Television Revolution That Changed America

BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIRS

• Allen, Woody - Apropos of Nothing
• Ball, Molly - Pelosi
• Bingham, Sallie - The Silver Swan: in Search of Doris Duke
• Carter, Zachary D. - Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
• Crane, Ben - Blood Ties: a Story of Falconry and Fatherhood
• Danier, Stephanie - Stray: a Memoir
• Ernaux, Annie - A Girls Story (Translated From the French)
• Gaff, Alan - Lou Gerhig
• Gewen, Barry - The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World
• Gopnik, Blake - Warhol (ebook available)
• Harvey, Samantha - Shapeless Unease: a Year of not Sleeping
• Heyman, Stephen - The Planter of Modern Life: Louis Bromfield and the Seeds of a Food Revolution
• Johnson, Betsey - Betsey
• Koh, E. J. - The Magical Language of Others: a Memoir
• Kolker, Robert - Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of An American Family (ebook available)
• Liebovitz, Liel - Stan Lee: a Life in Comics
• Meltzer, Melissa - This Is Big: How the Founder of Weight Watchers Changed the World -- and Me
• Misak, Cheryl - Frank Ramsey: a Sheer Excess of Powers
• Moore, Susannah - Miss Aluminum: a Memoir
• Morris, Jan - Thinking Again
• Reddaway, Peter - Dissidents: a Memoir of Working With the Resistance in Russia, 1960-1990

FOOD

• Buford, Bill - Dirt: Adventures in Lyon As a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking For the Secret of French Cooking
• Egan, Sophie - How To Be a Conscious Eater

HISTORY

• Alexander, Eileen - Love in the Blitz: the Long Lost Letters of a Brilliant Young Woman To Her Beloved On the Front
• Aly, Gotz - Europe Against the Jews, 1880 - 1945
• Bailyn, Bernard - Illuminating History: a Retrospective of Seven Decades
• Bernstein, R. B. - Education of John Adams
• Black, Jeremy, 1955 - Military Strategy: a Global History
• Brown,,Archie - The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War
• Davis, Mike - Set the Night On Fire: L. A. in the Sixties
• Doherty, Maggie - Equivalents: a Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s Revolution
• Edmonds, Chris - No Surrender: The Story of an Ordinary Soldier's Extraordinary Courage in the Face of Evil (WWII)
• Hansen, Valerie - Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began
• Hersh, Seymour M - Killing of Osama Bin Laden
• Johnson, Steven - Enemy of All Mankind: a True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
• Johnson, Walter - Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
• Moore, Wendy - No Man's Land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain's Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I
• Panayi, Panikos - Migrant City: a New History of London
• Polgar, Paul J. - Standard-Bearers of Equality: America's First Abolition Movement
• Puleo, Stephen - Voyage of Mercy: The USS Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America's First Humanitarian Mission
• Raab, Nathan - The Hunt For History: On the Trail of the World's Lost Treasures—from the Letters of Lincoln, Churchill, and Einstein to the Secret Recordings Onboard JFK's Air Force One
• Rady, Martyn - The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
• Redniss, Laura - Oak Flat: a Fight For Sacred Land in the American West
• Reynolds, David - Island Stories: An Unconventional History of Britain
• Robinson, Jane - Ladies Can't Climb Ladders: Early Adventures of Working Women, the Professional Life and the Glass Ceiling
• Samuels, Maurice - Betrayal of the Duchess: The Scandal That Unmade the Bourbon Monarchy and Made France Modern
• Sands, Philippe - The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive
• Saunt, Claudio - Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
• Sedgewick, Augustine - Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug
• Smith, Helmut Walser - Germany: a Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000
• Stout, David - The Kidnap Years: the Astonishing True History of the Forgotten Kidnapping Epidemic That Shook Depression-Era America
• Sutton, Matthew Avery - Double Crossed: the Missionaries Who Spied For the United States During the Second World War
• Todman, Daniel - Britain's War: a New World, 1942-1947
• Turner, John G. - They Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty
• Tye, Larry - Demagogue: the Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe Mccarthy
• Vincent, David - History of Solitude
• Yang, Jia Lynn - One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: the Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965

ANTIQUITY

• Clark, Stephen - Plotinus: Myth, Metaphor, and Philosophical Practice
• Stoneman, Richard - Greek Experience of India: From Alexander To the Indo-Greeks

PHILOSOPHY

• Beauvoir, Simone De, 1908-1986. - Diary of a Philosophy Student, Volume 2, 1928-29
• Mazur, Joseph - Clock Mirage: Our Myth of Measured Time
• Ord, Tony - Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
• Zaretsky, Robert - Catherine & Diderot: the Empress, the Philosopher and the Fate of the Enlightenment

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Albright, Madeleine - Hell and Other Destinations
• Bacevich, Andrew - American Conservatism (Library of America collection)
• Baker, Peter - The Man Who Ran Washington: the Life and Times of James A. Baker Iii
• El-Sayed, Abdul - Healing Politics: a Doctor's Journey Into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic
• Feldman, Noah - The Arab Winter
• Frum, David - Trumpocalypse
• Gellman, Barton - Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State
• Hopkins, Benjamin - Ruling the Savage Periphery: Frontier Governance and the Making of the Modern State
• Medvedev, Sergei - The Return of the Russian Leviathan
• Posner, Sarah - Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship At the Altar of Donald Trump

RELIGION

• Abrams, Rebecca - Jewish Journey: 4,000 Years in 22 Objects From the Ashmolean Museum
• Hart, David Bentley - That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation
• Huntington, Eric - Creating the Universe: Depictions of the Cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism
• Kamaly, Hossein - History of Islam in Twenty-One Women
• Park, Benjamin E. - Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier
• Varagur, Krithika - The Call: Inside the Global Saudi Religious Project

SCIENCE & NATURAL HISTORY

• Ackerman, Jennifer - The Bird Way
• Goldfarb, Ben - Eager: the Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
• Jahren, Hope - The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
• Meijer, Eva - Animal Languages: the Secret Conversations of the Living World
• Moore, Donovan - What Stars Are Made Of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
• Purdy, Jedediah - This Land Is Our Land: the Struggle For a New Commonwealth
• Safina, Carl - Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are
• Sibley, David Allen - What It's Like To Be a Bird
• Williams, Wendy - Language of Butterflies: How Thieves, Hoarders, Scientists, and Other Obsessives Unlocked the Secrets of the World's Favorite Insect
• Zabinski, Catherine - Amber Waves: the Extraordinary Biography of Wheat, From Wild Grass To World Megacrop

SOCIAL SCIENCES

• Axelrod, Howard - Stars in Our Pockets: Getting Lost and Sometimes Found in the Digital Age
• Chomsky, Noam; Herman , Edward S. - Manufacturing Consent: the Political Economy of the Mass Media
• Cohen, Anthony - Symbolic Construction of Community
• Early, Bryan R. - Busted Sanctions: Explaining Why Economic Sanctions Fail
• Gevisser, Mark - Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers
• Haff, Stephen - Kid Quixotes: A Group of Students, Their Teacher, and the One-Room School Where Everything Is Possible
• Harper, Lynn Casteel - On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear
• Lalami, Laila - Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
• Mask, Deirdre - Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
• Menkedick, Sarah - Ordinary Insanity: : Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America
• Rips, Michael - Golden Flea: a Story of Obsession and Collecting (chronicle of the Chelsea Flea Market in New York)
• Shi, David E - Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture
• Snowden, Frank M. - Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death To the Present
• Stoller, Matt - Goliath: the 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy
• Wilderson, Frank - Afropessimism ("Unsettling Blend of Memoir and Manifesto" - Kirkus)

TRAVEL & EXPLORATION

• Byron, John - Narrative of the Honourable John Byron, Commodore in a Late Expedition Round the World
• Harris, Susan K. - Mark Twain, the World, and Me: Following the Equator, Then and Now.
• O'Connell, Mark - Notes From An Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back
• Taylor, Stephen - Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail

WRITING

• Larimer, Kevin - Poets and Writers Complete Guide To Being a Writer
• Rubin, Daniel Joshua - 27 Essential Principles of Story: a Writer's Guide To Mastering the Secrets of Storytelling