Archived Lists

IN THE LOBBY

NONFICTION

• Drawing power: women's stories of sexual violence, harassment, and survival: a comics anthology (Diane Noomin, ed.; introduction by Roxane Gay)
• The best American food writing 2019 (Samin Nosrat, ed.) 
• Andrews, Julie - Home work: a memoir of my Hollywood years 
• Baker, Kevin - The fall of a great American city
• Brodeur, Adrienne - Wild game: my mother, her lover, and me 
• Bryson, Bill - The body: a guide for occupants (ebook available)
• Buccola, Nicholas - The fire is upon us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the debate over race in America /
• Cameron, David - For the record
• Clinton, Hillary Rodham - The book of gutsy women 
• Collins, Gail - No stopping us now: the adventures of older women in America history
• Cusk, Rachel - Coventry: essays (ebook available)
• Farrow, Ronan - Catch and kill: lies, spies, and a conspiracy to protect predators (ebook available)
• Figes, Orlando - The Europeans: three lives and the making of a cosmopolitan culture 
• Fox, Amaryllis - Life undercover: coming of age in the CIA 
• Gayford, Martin - The pursuit of art: travels, encounters and revelations 
• Gioia, Ted - Music: a subversive history 
• Goldsmith, Jack L - In Hoffa's shadow: a stepfather, a disappearance in Detroit, and my search for the truth
• Harry, Debbie - Face it 
• Hendrickson, Paul - Plagued by fire: the dreams and furies of Frank Lloyd Wright 
• Jones, Dan - Crusaders: the epic history of the wars for the holy lands
• Jones, Saeed - How we fight for our lives: a memoir 
• Korda, Michael - Passing: a memoir of love and death 
• Lichtblau, Eric - Return to the Reich: a Holocaust refugee's secret mission to defeat the Nazis 
• Lockwood, Matthew - To begin the world over again: how the American revolution devastated the globe 
• Lownie, Andrew - The Mountbattens 
• Madden, T. Kira - Long live the tribe of fatherless girls: a memoir 
• Manguel, Alberto - Fabulous monsters: Dracula, Alice, Superman, and other literary friends 
• Mann, William J. - The contender: the story of Marlon Brando 
• Marantz, Andrew - Antisocial: online extremists, techno-utopians, and the hijacking of the American conversation
• Markovits, Daniel - The meritocracy trap: how America's foundational myth feeds inequality, dismantles the middle class, and devours the elite
• Matar, Hisham - A month in Siena
• Miller, Chanel - Know my name: a memoir 
• Moaveni, Azadeh - Guest house for young widows: among the women of ISIS
• Morris, Edmund - Edison 
• O'Brien, Tim - Dad's maybe book
• Pasquier, Roger F. - Birds in winter: surviving the most challenging season
• Rice, Susan E. - Tough love: my story of the things worth fighting for
• Robbins, Jerome - Jerome Robbins, by himself: selections from his letters, journals, drawings, photographs, and an unfinished memoir 
• Roth, Michael S. - Safe enough spaces: a pragmatist's approach to inclusion, free speech, and political correctness on college campuses 
• Sansom, Ian - September 1, 1939: a biography of a poem
• Schmidt, Michael - Gilgamesh: the life of a poem
• Simon, Carly - Touched by the sun: my friendship with Jackie
• Smil, Vaclav - Growth: from microorganisms to megacities
• Spiegel, Renia - Renia's diary (translated from the Polish)
• Stagg, Natasha - Sleeveless: fashion, image, media, New York 2011-2019
• Stanger, Allison - Whistleblowers: honesty in America from Washington to Trump 
• Stewart, James B - Deep state: Trump, the FBI, and the rule of law 
• Theroux, Paul - On the plain of snakes: a Mexican journey
• Weiss, Bari - How to fight anti-Semitism 
• Wilson, Catherine - How to be an epicurean: the ancient art of living well 
• Windsor, Edie - A wild and precious life: a memoir 

FICTION

• Anshaw, Carol - Right after the weather /
• Aramburu, Fernando - Homeland (translated from the Spanish)
• Arnett, Kristen N - Mostly dead things: a novel 
• Attenberg, Jami - All this could be yours
• Blondel, Jean-Philippe - Exposed  (translated from the French)
• Carner, Talia - The third daughter: a novel
• Croft, Jennifer - Homesick
• Cruz, Angie - Dominicana 
• DeMille, Nelson - The deserter: a novel 
• Goldbloom, Goldie - On division 
• Hjorth, Vigdis - Will and testament: a novel (translated from the Norwegian)
• Holmes, Linda - Evvie Drake starts over: a novel
• Koestler, Arthur - Darkness at noon (new edition and translation from the German by Philip Boehm)
• Lerner, Ben - The Topeka school (ebook available)
• Levy, Deborah - The man who saw everything
• Lightman, Alan P. - Three flames: a novel
• McEwan, Ian - The cockroach 
• Moyes, Jojo - The giver of stars
• Murnane, Gerald - A season on earth
• Newitz, Annalee - The future of another timeline
• O'Brien, Edna - Girl
• Rowley, Steven - The editor: a novel 
• Sallis, James - Sarah Jane 
• Statovci, Pajtim - Crossing
• Strout, Elizabeth - Olive, again (ebook available)
• Vapnyar, Lara - Divide me by zero
• Zink, Nell - Doxology: a novel
• See more recent fiction arrivals in the stacks section below.

MYSTERIES

• Barclay, Linwood - Elevator pitch: a novel 
• Bernhard, Emilia - The books of the dead
• Conlon, Edward - The policewomen's bureau: a novel 
• Connelly, Michael - The night fire (ebook available)
• Connolly, John - A book of bones
• Cornwell, Patricia Daniels - Quantum
• Crombie, Deborah - A bitter feast: a novel* (ebook available)
• Cussler, Clive - The Titanic secret: an Isaac Bell adventure
• French, Nicci - The lying room*
• Grisham, John - The guardians (ebook available)
• Isaacs, Susan - Takes one to know one 
• Ison, Graham - Naked flames*
• Koepp, David - Cold storage 
• Le Carré, John - Agent running in the field* (ebook available)
• Limón, Martin - G.I. confidential 
• McCall Smith, Alexander - To the land of long lost friends 
• Oates, Joyce Carol - Pursuit: a novel of suspense 
• Paul, Bart - See that my grave is kept clean: a novel
• Racculia, Kate - Tuesday Mooney talks to ghosts: an adventure
• Ramsay, Caro - Mosaic*
• Roslund, Anders - Three hours (translated from the Swedish)
• Sandford, John - Bloody genius 
• Sandlin, Lisa - The bird boys
• Upson, Nicola - Sorry for the dead: a Josephine Tey mystery*
• Woods, Stuart - Stealth 
• * indicates a British mystery

STORY COLLECTIONS

• Fajardo-Anstine, Kali - Sabrina & Corina: stories 
• Hale, Nancy - Where the light falls: selected stories of Nancy Hale (Library of America)
• Parsons, Kimberly King - Black light: stories 
• Smith, Zadie - Grand union: stories
• Walbert, Kate - She was like that: new and selected stories

POETRY

• Brown, Jericho - The tradition
• Giménez Smith, Carmen - Be recorder: poems 
• Howe, Fanny - Love and I: poems 
• Jonas, Stephen - Arcana: a Stephen Jonas reader 
• Kaminsky, Ilya - Deaf republic: poems
• Oswald, Alice - Nobody 
• Sze, Arthur - Sight lines 

BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

• Have I got a cartoon for you!: the moment magazine book of jewish cartoons (Bob Mankoff, ed.; foreword by Roz Chast)
• Iyer, Pico - A beginner's guide to Japan: observations and provocations 
• Jamie, Kathleen - Surfacing 
• Oakes, Lauren - In search of the canary tree: the story of a scientist, a cypress, and a changing world 
• Rayner, Jay - My last supper: one meal, a lifetime in the making
• Torre, Dan - Carnivorous plants 
• Womack, Kenneth - Solid state: the story of Abbey Road and the end of the Beatles 

IN THE STACKS

LITERATURE, BELLES LETTRES

• Benson, Josef - J.D. Salinger's the catcher in the rye: a cultural history  823 B
• Berger, John - What time is it? 824 B
• Duras, Marguerite - Me & other writing 824 D
• MacKay, Marina - Ian Watt: the novel and the wartime critic 820.9 M
• Vila-Matas, Enrique - A brief history of portable literature (translated from the Spanish) 820.9 V
• Williams, Terry Tempest - Erosion: essays of undoing  824 W

FICTION

• Bergman, Ingmar - Private confessions: a novel  F B
• Kim, Man-jung - The nine cloud dream (translated from the Korean; 17th century; Penguin Classics) F K
• Manchette, Jean-Patrick - Nada (translated from the French; New York Review Books) F M
• Prapda Yun - The sad part was (translated from Thai) F P
• Tabucchi, Antonio - Message from the shadows: stories (translated from the Italian) F T

POETRY

• Elizabeth Bishop: the geography of gender (Marilyn Kay Lombardi, ed.) 821.09 B
• The poetry of Walt Whitman (Nick Selby, ed.; Reader's guide to essential criticism) 821.09 W
• James, Clive - Somewhere becoming rain: collected writings on Philip Larkin  821.09 L
• Rossetti, Christina Georgina - Selected poems 821 R

LANGUAGE

• Marcolongo, Andrea - The ingenious language: nine epic reasons to love Greek 480 M
• Shariatmadari, David - Don't believe a word: the surprising truth about language 401 S
• Venuti, Lawrence - Contra instrumentalism: a translation polemic  418 V

ART& AESTHETICS

• The last knight: the art, armor, and ambition of Maximilian I (Metropolitan Museum of Art; Pierre Terjanian, ed.) 709.4 L
• Elliott, Patrick - Cut and paste: 400 years of collage 741.1 E
• Lavery, Grace E - Quaint, exquisite: Victorian aesthetics and the idea of Japan  111 L
• Lederer, Roger J - The art of the bird: the history of ornithological art through forty artists 704.94 L
• Tucker, Marcia - Out of bounds: the collected writings of Marcia Tucker 706.9 T
• Yanagi, Muneyoshi - The beauty of everyday things (translated from the Japanese; Penguin Classics) 745 Y

PHOTOGRAPHY

• Adams, Ansel - Ansel Adams: an autobiography  770.92 A
• Aspinwall, Jane - Golden prospects: daguerreotypes of the California gold rush 979.4 A OVERSIZE
• Cunningham, Bill - Bill Cunningham: on the street: five decades of iconic photography 779 C

ANTIQUITY

• The battle between the frogs and the mice: a tiny Homeric epic (A.E. Stallings) 883.1 B
• Aristotle - Aristotle's art of rhetoric 808 A
• Jones, Alexander - A portable cosmos: revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, scientific wonder of the ancient world 529 J
• Spivey, Nigel Jonathan - The Sarpedon Krater: the life and afterlife of a Greek vase 738 S
• The Loeb Classical Library digital edition is available to members. See the Electronic Resources page on our website.

HISTORY

• Church, S. D. - King John: and the road to Magna Carta  942.03 C
• DiGirolamo, Vincent - Crying the news: a history of America's newsboys 331.3 D
• Hämäläinen, Pekka - Lakota America: a new history of indigenous power 970.3 H
• Jackson, Holly - American radicals: how nineteenth-century protest shaped the nation 303.4 J
• Jackson, Kellie Carter - Force and freedom: black abolitionists and the politics of violence 326 J
• Levin, Kevin M. - Searching for black Confederates: the Civil War's most persistent myth 973.74 L
• Morales, Ed - Fantasy island: colonialism, exploitation, and the betrayal of Puerto Rico 972.95 M
• Rowland, Ingrid D - The divine spark of Syracuse 937.8 R

AFRICA

• Campbell, John - Nigeria: what everyone needs to know®  966 C
• Holt, P. M. - A history of the Sudan: from the coming of Islam to the present day  962 H
• Thurston, Alexander - Boko Haram: the history of an African jihadist movement 966 T

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Kogan, David - Protest and power: the battle for the Labour Party  324.2 K
• Shklar, Judith N - On political obligation  320.4 S
• Soave, Robby - Panic attack: young radicals in the age of Trump 322 S
• White, E. B. - On democracy  820.81 W

NEW YORK

• Hoffnung-Garskof, Jesse - Racial migrations: New York City and the revolutionary politics of the Spanish Caribbean, 1850-1902 974.71 H
• Keene, Michael - New York City's Hart Island: a cemetery of strangers 974.71 K
• McLaughlin, Carolyn - South Bronx battles: stories of resistance, resilience, and renewal 974.71 M
• Roberts, Sam - History of New York in 25 buildings: the 400-year untold story of an American metropolis 974.71 R

SOCIOLOGY

• Berenson, Edward - The accusation: blood libel in an American town 305.86 B
• Kahn-Harris, Keith - Strange hate: antisemitism, racism and the limits of diversity 305.8 K
• Reinhardt, Uwe E. - Priced out: the economic and ethical costs of American health care 362.1 R
• Saslow, Eli - Rising out of hatred: the awakening of a former white nationalist 305.8 S

MIGRATION & REFUGEES

• García, María Cristina - The refugee challenge in post-Cold War America 362.73 G
• Gatrell, Peter - The unsettling of Europe: how migration reshaped a continent 304.8 G
• Paxson, Margaret - The plateau 940.5344 P

BIOGRAPHY

• Fitzsimons, Eleanor - The life and loves of E. Nesbit: Victorian iconoclast, children's author, and creator of The railway children 92 N458 F
• Kafatou, Sarah - Pomegranate years: a journal of aging, art, love, and loss on a Greek island 92 K1139 K
• Leventhal, F. M. - Leonard Woolf: Bloomsbury socialist 92 W9133 L
• Longerich, Peter - Hitler: a biography 92 H675 L
• Morris, Mark - Out loud: a memoir 92 M8771 M
• Unger, Harlow G. - Thomas Paine: and the clarion call for American independence 92 P1474 U

TECHNOLOGY

• Technology in America: a history of individuals and ideas (Carroll Pursello, ed.) 609 T
• Berry, Wendell - Why I am not going to buy a computer 303.4 B
• Browne, John - Make, think, imagine: engineering the future of civilization 620 B
• Clarke, Richard A. - The fifth domain: defending our country, our companies, and ourselves in the age of cyber threats 363.3 C

SCIENCE

• Dear, Peter - Revolutionizing the sciences: European knowledge in transition, 1500-1700 509 D
• Gornitz, Vivien - Vanishing ice: glaciers, ice sheets, and rising seas 551.3 G
• Scales, Helen - Poseidon's steed: the story of seahorses, from myth to reality  597 S
• Tree, Isabella - Wilding: returning nature to our farm 333.7 T

ESOTERICISM & PARANORMAL

• Ebeling, Florian - The secret history of Hermes Trismegistus: hermeticism from ancient to modern times  133 E
• Faivre, Antoine - Western esotericism: a concise history  133 F
• Pasulka, Diana Walsh - American cosmic: UFOs, religion, technology  001.9 P

ECONOMICS

• Appelbaum, Binyamin - The economists' hour: false prophets, free markets, and the fracture of society 330.973 A
• Couldry, Nick - The costs of connection: how data is colonizing human life and appropriating it for capitalism 303.4 C
• Sassoon, Donald - The anxious Triumph: a global history of capitalism, 1860-1914 330.1 S

EDUCATION

• Friedlander, Judith - A light in dark times: the New School for Social Research and its University in Exile 378 F
• Kronman, Anthony T - The assault on American excellence 378 K
• Perkins, Anne Gardiner - Yale needs women: how the first group of girls rewrote the rules of an Ivy League giant 378 P
• Taylor, Alan - Thomas Jefferson's education 973.4 T

RELIGION

• Egan, Timothy - A pilgrimage to eternity: from Canterbury to Rome in search of a faith 248 E
• GhaneaBassiri, Kambiz - A history of Islam in America: from the new world to the new world order 297 G
• Holland, Tom - Dominion: the making of the western mind 270 H
• Magness, Jodi - Masada: from Jewish revolt to modern myth 933 M
• Sugirtharajah, R. S - Jesus in Asia 232.9 S