New Books - November 2018
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Ackroyd, Peter - Dominion: the history of England from the Battle of Waterloo to Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
- Beschloss, Michael R. - Presidents of war
- Blight, David W. - Frederick Douglass: prophet of freedom
- Bunker, Nick - Young Benjamin Franklin: the birth of ingenuity
- Carter, Stephen L. - Invisible: the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster
- Di Spigna, Christian - Founding martyr: the life and death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's lost hero
- Drury, Bob - Valley Forge
- Eichenwald, Kurt - A mind unraveled: a memoir
- Fountain, Ben - Beautiful country burn again: democracy, rebellion, and revolution
- Guha, Ramachandra - Gandhi: the years that changed the world, 1914-1948
- Harrison, Kathryn - On Sunset: a memoir
- Hastings, Max - Vietnam: an epic tragedy, 1945-1975
- Hawking, Stephen - Brief answers to the big questions
- Idle, Eric - Always look on the bright side of life: a sortabiography
- Krug, Nora - Belonging: a German reckons with history and home
- Lamott, Anne - Almost everything: notes on hope
- Laymon, Kiese - Heavy: an American memoir
- Leavy, Jane - The big fella: Babe Ruth and the world he created
- Lesser, Wendy - Jerome Robbins: a life in dance
- Lewis, Michael - The fifth risk (ebook available)
- McAuliffe, Mary Sperling - Paris on the brink: the 1930s Paris of Jean Renoir, Salvador Dali, Simone de Beauvoir, Andre Gide, Sylvia Beach, Leon Blum, and their friends
- Orlean, Susan - The library book (ebook available)
- Ovitz, Michael - Who is Michael Ovitz?: a memoir
- Philbrick, Nathaniel - In the hurricane's eye: the genius of George Washington and the victory at Yorktown
- Ruhl, Sarah - Letters from Max: a book of friendship
- Skaife, Christopher - The Ravenmaster: my life with the ravens at the Tower of London
- Spitz, Bob - Reagan: an American journey
- Stevens, Nell - The Victorian and the romantic: a memoir, a love story, and a friendship across time
- Tinniswood, Adrian - Behind the throne: a domestic history of the British royal household
- Traister, Rebecca - Good and mad: the revolutionary power of women's anger
- Vargas, Jose Antonio - Dear America: notes of an undocumented citizen
- Vuillard, Eric - The order of the day (ebook available) (translated from the French)
- Williams, Paige - The dinosaur artist: obsession, betrayal, and the quest for Earth's ultimate trophy
- Young, Ashleigh - Can you tolerate this?: essays
- Zamoyski, Adam - Napoleon: a life
FICTION
- Ackerman, Elliot - Waiting for Eden
- Berney, Louis - November road: a novel
- Boyd, William - Love is blind: the rapture of Brodie Moncur (ebook available)
- Burns, Anna - Milkman
- Coelho, Paulo - Hippie (translated from the Portuguese)
- Connolly, Cressida - After the party
- Dahl, Kjell Ola - The ice swimmer (translated from the Norwegian)
- Delinsky, Barbara - Fulfillment
- Dubus, Andre - Gone so long: a novel
- Enger, Leif - Virgil Wander
- Fforde, Jasper - Early riser
- Fletcher, Martin - Promised land: a novel of Israel
- Fowler, Therese Anne - A well-behaved woman: a novel of the Vanderbilts
- Giordano, Raphaëlle - Your second life begins when you realize you only have one (translated from the French)
- Hilderbrand, Elin - Winter in paradise: a novel
- Hobson, Brandon - Where the dead sit talking/
- Holliday, Sara - A thousand dances: a novel
- Hughes, Caoilinn - Orchid & the wasp: a novel
- Hunt, Samantha - The seas
- Ide, Joe - Wrecked
- Johnson, Uwe - Anniversaries: from a year in the life of Gesine Cresspahl (2 volumes, New York Review Books, translated from the German)
- King, Stephen - Elevation
- Kingsolver, Barbara - Unsheltered: a novel (ebook available)
- Larraquy, Roque - Comemadre (translated from the Spanish)
- Mackintosh, Sophie - The water cure
- Miller, Andrew - Now we shall be entirely free
- Morton, Kate - The clockmaker's daughter: a novel
- Murakami, Haruki - Killing commendatore (translated from the Japanese)
- Nagy, Estep - We shall not all sleep: a novel
- Nothomb, Amelie - Strike your heart (translated from the French)
- Park, Samuel - The caregiver: a novel
- Perry, Sarah - Melmoth: a novel (ebook available)
- Picoult, Jodi - A spark of light: a novel
- Shapiro, Barbara A. - The collector's apprentice: a novel
- Stewart, Michael - Ill will
- Tawada, Yoo - The emissary (translated from the Japanese)
- Vasquez, Juan Gabriel - The shape of the ruins (translated from the Spanish)
- Wray, John - Godsend
See more recent fiction arrivals in the stacks inside.
MYSTERIES
- Beaton, M. C. - The dead ringer: an Agatha Raisin mystery*
- Beer, Alex - The second rider (translated from the German)
- Bernhard, Emilia - Death in Paris
- Blaedel, Sara - The midnight witness (translated from the Danish)
- Booth, Stephen - Fall down dead*
- Connelly, Michael - Dark sacred night (ebook available)
- Daly, Paula - Open your eyes*
- Forsyth, Frederick - The fox*
- Francis, Felix - Crisis*
- French, Tana - The witch elm (ebook available)
- Griffiths, Elly - The vanishing box*
- Grisham, John - The reckoning (ebook available)
- Hambly, Barbara - Cold bayou
- Ison, Graham - Deadlock: a Brock and Poole mystery*
- Johansen, Iris - Vendetta
- La Plante, Lynda - Widows*
- Limon, Martin - The line
- Lin, Ed - 99 ways to die
- Loewenstein, Laurie - Death of a rainmaker: a Dust Bowl mystery
- Mawer, Simon - Prague spring*
- Meier, Leslie - Silver anniversary murder: a Lucy Stone mystery
- Meyrick, Denzil - The relentless tide
- Mills, Kyle - Red war: a Mitch Rapp novel
- Paretsky, Sara - Shell game
- Patterson, James - Juror #3
- Porter, Henry - Firefly*
- Ragnar Jonasson - The darkness: a thriller (translated from the Icelandic) (ebook available)
- Robertson, Robin - The long take; or, a way to lose more slowly*
- Sandford, John - Holy ghost (ebook available)
- Von Doviak, Scott - Charlesgate confidential
- Woods, Stuart - Desperate measures
*Indicates a British mystery.
SHORT STORIES
- The future is female!: 25 classic science fiction stories by women, from pulp pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America collection)
- Thompson-Spires, Nafissa - Heads of the colored people: stories
- Williams, Diane - The collected stories of Diane Williams
POETRY
- Cohen, Leonard - The flame: poems, notebooks, lyrics, drawings
- Draughon, Stefan - Poems: and particularly the human face
- Gander, Forrest - Be with
- Heaney, Seamus - 100 poems
- Myles, Eileen - Evolution
- Ritvo, Max - The final voicemails
- Yoon, Emily Jungmin - A cruelty special to our species: poems
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Hanson, Thor - Buzz: the nature and necessity of bees
- Invisible planets: contemporary Chinese science fiction in translation (translated and edited by Ken Liu)
- McNeil, Peter - Pretty gentlemen: macaroni men and the eighteenth-century fashion world
- Tharoor, Shashi - Inglorious empire: what the British did to India
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE & ESSAYS
- Burroughs, William S. - Don't hide the madness: William S. Burroughs in conversation with Allen Ginsberg (edited by Steven Taylor) 920 B9726 D
- Di Robilant, Andrea - Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and his last muse 823 H
- Fumaroli, Marc - The republic of letters (translated from the French) 809 F
- Gristwood, Sarah - Vita & Virginia: the life and love of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West 920 G872 V
- Herzog, Werner - Scenarios (prose pieces, basis for screenplays: Aguirre, Land of silence and darkness Fitzcarraldo, more) 832.9 H
- Morris, Jan - In my mind's eye: a thought diary 828 M
- Spahr, Juliana - Du Bois's telegram: literary resistance and state containment 820.9 S
- Tea, Michelle - Against memoir: complaints, confessions & criticisms 824 T
- Wilmers, Mary-Kay - Human relations and other difficulties 824 W
- Writing in America (reprint of 1960 Harper's book, w/ Kazin, Amis, Kunitz, Hardwick, etc.) 820.9 W
FICTION
- Améry, Jean - Charles Bovary, country doctor: portrait of a simple man (New York Review Books; originally published in German in 1978) F A
- Bunch, David R. - Moderan (New York Review Books; 1960s -70s sci-fi) F B
- Kinsky, Esther - River (translated from the German) F K
- Kristensen, Tom - Havoc (New York Review Books; originally published in 1930; translated from the Danish) F K
- Lange, Norah - People in the room (first published in 1950; Argentina; translated from the Spanish) F L
- Tokarczuk, Olga - Drive your plow over the bones of the dead (translated from the Polish) F T
POETRY
- Cheng, François - Chinese poetic writing: with an anthology of Tang poetry 895.1 C
- Gullar, Ferreira - Dirty poem 869.1 G
- Karman, James - Robinson Jeffers: poet and prophet 92 J451 K
- Wilson, Jean Moorcroft - Robert Graves: from Great War poet to Good-bye to all that (1895-1929) 92 G7765 W
BOOKS & READING
- Camplin, Jamie - The art of reading: an illustrated history of books in paint 758 C
- Listri, Massimo - The world's most beautiful libraries (currently on display outside of Members' Room) HBR 027 L OVERSIZE
- Mangan, Lucy - Bookworm: a memoir of childhood reading 028.5 M
ART
- Albers, Josef - Josef Albers in Mexico 709.72 A
- Delacroix, Eugène - Delacroix 759.4 D
- Johnson, Geraldine A. - Renaissance art: a very short introduction 709.4 J
- Twombly, Cy - The essential Cy Twombly 709.2 C
- Willett, Frank - African art (World of Art series) 709 W
ARCHITECTURE & INTERIOR DESIGN
- Dal Co, Francesco - The Guggenheim: Frank Lloyd Wright's iconoclastic masterpiece 720.92 W
- Eerdmans, Emily - Henri Samuel: master of the French interior 747 E
- Home: the best of the New York times home section: the way we live now (Noel Millea, ed.) 747 H
- Penick, Monica - Tastemaker: Elizabeth Gordon, House Beautiful, and the postwar American home 728 P
MUSIC
- Marquis, Donald M. - In search of Buddy Bolden: first man of jazz 92 B6883 M
- Maslon, Laurence - Broadway to Main Street: how show tunes enchanted America 782.6 M
- Waleson, Heidi - Mad scenes and exit arias: the death of the New York City Opera and the future of opera in America 782.1 W
- Walker, Alan - Fryderyk Chopin: a life and times 780.92 C
BIOGRAPHY
- Franz, Tracy - My year of dirt and water: journal of a Zen monk's wife in Japan 92 F8374 F
- Holroyd, Michael - Facts and fiction: a book of storytelling 808 H
- Mazzeo, Tilar J. - Eliza Hamilton: the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton 92 H21758 M
- Stansky, Peter - Julian Bell: from Bloomsbury to the Spanish Civil War 92 B4343 S
- Yurchyshyn, Anya - My dead parents: a memoir 92 Y9572 Y
PHILOSOPHY
- Blackburn, Simon - Ethics: a very short introduction 170 B
- Kaag, John J. - Hiking with Nietzsche: on becoming who you are 193 K
- Lightman, Alan P. - In praise of wasting time 153 L
PSYCHOLOGY
- Barrett, Lisa Feldman - How emotions are made: the secret life of the brain 152 B
- Storr, Anthony - Freud: a very short introduction 150 S
- Tallis, Frank - The incurable romantic: and other tales of madness and desire 152 T
WOMEN'S STUDIES
- Dunn, Nell - Talking to women (reissue of 1965 classic) 305.4 D
- Knight, Lynn - The button box: lifting the lid on women's lives 391.4 K
- Marshall, Susan E. - Splintered sisterhood: gender and class in the campaign against woman suffrage 324.3 M
- Thomas, Gillian - Because of sex: one law, ten cases, and fifty years that changed American women's lives at work 344 T
ESPIONAGE & INTELLIGENCE
- Hutton, Robert - Agent Jack: the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter 327.12 H
- Usdin, Steven T. - Bureau of spies: the secret connections between espionage and journalism in Washington 327.12 U
- Verdery, Katherine - My life as a spy: investigations in a secret police file 949.8 V
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Kornacki, Steve - The red and the blue: the 1990s and the birth of political tribalism 324.273 K
- Mearsheimer, John J. - The great delusion: liberal dreams and international realities 327.73 M
- Miller, Jim - Can democracy work?: a short history of a radical idea, from ancient Athens to our world 321.8 M
HISTORY
- The Bolivia reader: history, culture, politics (Sinclair Thomson, ed.) 984 B
- Bucher, Georg - In the line: 1914-1918 (memoir from a German Army Private in WWI) 940.48 B
- Christiansen, Rupert - City of light: the making of modern Paris 944.36 C
- Ellis, Joseph J. - American dialogue: the founders and us 973 E
- Kershaw, Ian - Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017 940.55 K
- Lehrman, Lewis E. - Lincoln & Churchill: statesmen at war 920 L5232 L
- Parker, John - African history: a very short introduction 960 P
- Ross, Marc Howard - Slavery in the North: forgetting history and recovering memory 326 R
- Schwarcz, Lilia Moritz - Brazil: a biography 981 S
- Wilentz, Sean - No property in man: slavery and antislavery at the nation's founding 342.73 W
ANTIQUITY
- Bryce, Trevor - Babylonia: a very short introduction 935 B
- Euripides - Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus (translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien) 882.3 E
- Jouanna, Jacques - Sophocles: a study of his theater in its political and social context 882.2 J
- Ober, Josiah - Political dissent in democratic Athens: intellectual critics of popular rule 938 O
- The Loeb Classical Library digital edition is now available to members.
NEW YORK
- Day, Leslie - Honeybee hotel: the Waldorf Astoria's rooftop garden and the heart of NYC 638 D
- Lamberg, Carol - Neighborhood success stories: creating and sustaining affordable housing in New York 363.5 L
- Mantz, Christina - The Seguine House: a nineteenth-century working estate in twenty-first-century New York City 728 M
- Taborn, Karen Faye - Walking Harlem: the ultimate guide to the cultural capital of Black America 917.471 T
RELIGION
- Friedman, Richard Elliott - The Exodus: how it happened and why it matters 222 F
- Grasso, Christopher - Skepticism and American faith: from the Revolution to the Civil War 277.3 G
- Juergensmeyer, Mark - Terror in the mind of God: the global rise of religious violence 303.6 J
SPORTS & RECREATION
- Dray, Philip - The fair chase: the epic story of hunting in America 639.1 D
- Galeano, Eduardo - Soccer in sun and shadow 796.3 G
- Jacoby, Susan - Why baseball matters 796.3 J
- Knausgård, Karl Ove - Home and away: writing the beautiful game 920 K675 H
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
- Scraps of wool: a journey through the golden age of travel writing (compiled by Bill Colegreave) 808.8 S
- Bojanowska, Edyta M. - A world of empires: the Russian voyage of the frigate Pallada 947.08 B
- Stagg, Guy - The Crossway 362.1 S