IN THE LOBBY

NONFICTION

• Alter, Jonathan - His very best: Jimmy Carter, a life
• Attenborough, David - A life on our planet: my witness statement and a vision for the future
• Avian, Bob - Dancing man: a Broadway choreographer's journey
• Baker, Peter - The man who ran Washington: the life and times of James A. Baker III
• Barrios, Richard - West side story: the Jets, the Sharks, and the making of a classic
• Benkemoun, Brigitte - Finding Dora Maar: an artist, an address book, a life
• Birdsall, John - The man who ate too much: the life of James Beard
• Bloom, Harold - Take arms against a sea of troubles: the power of the reader's mind over a universe of death
• Brands, H. W. - The zealot and the emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the struggle for American freedom
• Brennan, John O. - Undaunted: my fight against America's enemies, at home and abroad
• Brown, Michael J. - Hope & scorn: eggheads, experts, and elites in American politics
• Butler, Jon - God in Gotham: the miracle of religion in modern Manhattan
• Caldwell, Gail - Bright precious thing: a memoir
• Chang, David - Eat a peach: a memoir
• Cornejo Villavicencio, Karla - The undocumented Americans
• Cuomo, Andrew M. - American crisis
• De Courcy, Anne - Chanel's Riviera: glamour, decadence, and survival in peace and war, 1930-1944
• Gefter, Philip - What becomes a legend most: a biography of Richard Avedon
• Goldsworthy, Adrian Keith - Philip and Alexander: kings and conquerors
• Hastings, Reed - No rules rules: Netflix and the culture of reinvention
• Hinojosa, Maria - Once I was you: a memoir of love and hate in a torn America
• Jerkins, Morgan - Wandering in strange lands: a daughter of the Great Migration reclaims her roots
• Kakutani, Michiko - Ex Libris (ebook available) 
• Kirsch, Adam - The blessing and the curse: the Jewish people and their books in the twentieth century
• Lee, Hermione - Tom Stoppard: a life
• Lorde, Audre - The selected works of Audre Lorde
• Lozada, Carlos - What were we thinking: a brief intellectual history of the Trump era
• Lycett, Andrew - Conan Doyle's wide world: Sherlock Holmes and beyond
• Mantel, Hilary - Mantel pieces: Royal bodies and other writing from the London review of books
• Messud, Claire - Kant's little Prussian head and other reasons why I write: an autobiography in essays (ebook available) 
• Michaelis, David - Eleanor
• Mishra, Pankaj - Bland fanatics: liberals, race, and empire
• Mlodinow, Leonard - Stephen Hawking: a memoir of friendship and physics
• Parenti, Christian - Radical Hamilton: economic lessons from a misunderstood founder
• Patterson, James - The house of Kennedy
• Putnam, Robert D. - The upswing: how America came together a century ago and how we can do it again
• Ralph, Laurence - The torture letters: reckoning with police violence
• Rattansi, Ali - Racism: a very short introduction
• Reynolds, David S. - Abe: Abraham Lincoln in his times (ebook available) 
• Salter, Mark - The luckiest man: life with John McCain
• Seinfeld, Jerry - Is this anything? (ebook available)
• Sherwin, Martin J. - Gambling with Armageddon: nuclear roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945-1962
• Souder, William - Mad at the world: a life of John Steinbeck (ebook available) 
• Strevens, Michael - The knowledge machine: how irrationality created modern science
• Szabowski, Witold - How to feed a dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot through the eyes of their cooks
• Wehle, Kim - What you need to know about voting and why
• Zakaria, Fareed - Ten lessons for a post-pandemic world (ebook available) 
• The impeachment report: the House Intelligence Committee's report on its investigation into Donald Trump and Ukraine
• One last lunch: a final meal with those who meant so much to us
• Too many times: how to end gun violence in a divided America.

FICTION

• Alam, Rumaan - Leave the world behind (ebook available) 
• Auslander, Shalom - Mother for dinner
• Auur A. lafsdttir - Miss Iceland
• Balson, Ronald H. - Eli's promise
• Beigbeder, Frdric - A life without end
• Clegg, Bill - The end of the day (ebook available) 
• Doshi, Avni - Burnt sugar
• Haig, Matt - The midnight library
• Hajdu, David - Adrianne Geffel: a fiction
• Hilderbrand, Elin - Troubles in paradise
• Hjorth, Vigdis - Long live the post horn!
• Hoffman, Alice - Magic lessons (ebook available) 
• Hornby, Nick - Just like you (ebook available) 
• Hozar, Nazanine - Aria
• Kafka, Franz - The lost writings
• Kampmann, Anja - High as the waters rise
• Khemiri, Jonas Hassen - The family clause
• Klay, Phil - Missionaries (ebook available) 
• Krzhizhanovski, Sigizmund - Unwitting street
• Leavitt, David - Shelter in place
• Mabanckou, Alain - The death of comrade president
• Makumbi, Jennifer Nansubuga - A girl is a body of water
• McCorkle, Jill - Hieroglyphics
• Modiano, Patrick - Invisible ink
• Mosley, Walter - The awkward black man: stories
• Mukasonga, Scholastique - Igifu
• Murata, Sayaka - Earthlings
• Neville, Stuart - The traveller: and other stories
• O'Hagan, Andrew - Mayflies
• Philyaw, Deesha - The secret lives of church ladies
• Picoult, Jodi - The book of two ways (ebook available)
• Rijneveld, Marieke Lucas - The discomfort of evening (ebook available)
• Roanhorse, Rebecca - Black sun
• Robinson, Marilynne - Jack (ebook available)
• Rodriguez, Ivelisse - Love war stories
• Schwartz, Lynne Sharon - Truthtelling: stories, fables, glimpses
• Smith, Lee - Blue Marlin
• Swamy, Shruti - A house is a body: stories
• Swift, Graham - Here we are (ebook available)
• Tallo, Katie - Dark August
• Terranova, Nadia - Farewell, ghosts
• Tremain, Rose - Islands of mercy
• Vercher, John - Three-fifths
• Veselka, Vanessa - The great offshore grounds
• Wetmore, Elizabeth - Valentine
• Wondratschek, Wolf - Self-portrait with Russian piano
• Y, Miri - Tokyo Ueno station

MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION

• Banville, John - Snow (ebook available)
• Camilleri, Andrea - The Sicilian method
• Casey, Jane - Cruel acts
• Casey, Jane - The cutting place
• Coulter, Catherine - Deadlock
• Cumming, Charles - Box 88
• Dugoni, Robert - The last agent
• French, Tana - The searcher
• Galbraith, Robert - Troubled blood (ebook available)
• Gilman, David - The Englishman
• Grisham, John - A time for mercy (ebook available)
• Holloway, Karla F. C. - A death in Harlem
• Jewell, Lisa - Invisible girl
• Johnson, Craig - Next to last stand
• Lorac, E. C. R. - Murder by matchlight*
• Macmillan, Gilly - To tell you the truth
• Mayor, Archer - The orphan's guilt: a Joe Gunther novel
• McDermid, Val - Still life*
• Morrow, Bradford - The forger's daughter
• Oates, Joyce Carol - Cardiff, by the sea: four novellas of suspense
• Pryor, Mark - The French widow
• Rankin, Ian - A song for the dark times: an Inspector Rebus novel (ebook available)
• Rosenfelt, David - Silent bite
• Turton, Stuart - The devil and the dark water
• Tuti, Ilaria - Flowers over the inferno

POETRY

• Awkward-Rich, Cameron - Dispatch: poems
• Collins, Billy - Whale day: and other poems
• Ewing, Eve L. -
• Graham, Jorie - Runaway: new poems
• Katz, David M. - In praise of Manhattan: poems
• Kingsolver, Barbara - How to fly (in ten thousand easy lessons): poetry
• Kooser, Ted - Red stilts: poems
• Pessoa, Fernando - The complete works of Alberto Caeiro
• Sadoff, Ira - Country, living: a collection of poems
• Stevenson, Anne - Completing the circle
• Wade, Sidney - Deep gossip: new and selected poems

BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

• Hopkins, B. D. - Ruling the savage periphery: frontier governance and the making of the modern state
• Zabinski, Catherine - Amber waves: the extraordinary biography of wheat, from wild grass to world megacrop

IN THE STACKS

LITERATURE

• Blaisdell, Robert - Creating Anna Karenina: Tolstoy and the birth of literature's most enigmatic heroine 92 T6545 B
• Chen, Amy - Placing papers: the American literary archives market 026 C
• Cond, Maryse - The journey of a Caribbean writer 809 C
• Greene, Richard - Russian roulette: the life and times of Graham Greene 92 G7995 G
• Jacobs, Alan - Breaking bread with the dead: a reader's guide to a more tranquil mind 809 J
• Jones, Gayl - Liberating voices: oral tradition in African American literature 820.9 J
• Kotin, Joshua - Utopias of one (Thoreau, Du Bois, Mandel’shtam, Akhmatova, Pound, etc.) 809 K
• Kraus, Karl - The third Walpurgis Night: the complete text 837 K
• Lee, Susanna - Detectives in the shadows: a hard-boiled history 809.9 L
• O'Brien, Glenn - Intelligence for dummies: essays and other collected writings 824 O
• Santana Acua, lvaro - Ascent to glory: how One Hundred Years of Solitude was written and became a global classic 863 G

FICTION

• Barnett, LaShonda K. - Jam on the vine: a novel (historical African American fiction set in early 20th century) F B
• Baron, Alexander - With hope, farewell (early novel by author of From the City from the Plough & The Lowlife) F B
• Greenlee, Sam - The spook who sat by the door (acclaimed 1969 satire/thriller about the first black CIA officer) F G
• Selvon, Samuel - The housing lark (1960s London novel by West Indian author; Penguin Classics) F S
• Other moons: Vietnamese short stories of the American War and its aftermath (translated and edited by Quan Manh Ha and Joseph Babcock) F O

POETRY

• Foster, R. F. - On Seamus Heaney 821.09 H
• Griffin, Howard - Conversations with Auden 821.09 A
• Hull, Akasha Gloria - Color, sex, & poetry: three women writers of the Harlem Renaissance 821.09 H
• Murray, Les A. - The best 100 poems of Les Murray 821 M

MYTH AND LEGEND

• Hughes, Bettany - Venus and Aphrodite: a biography of desire 292 H
• Kachuba, John B. - Shapeshifters: a history 398 K
• Morales, Helen - Antigone rising: the subversive power of the ancient myths 305.4 M

ART

• Gamwell, Lynn - Exploring the invisible: art, science, and the spiritual 704 G
• LaGamma, Alisa - Sahel: art and empires on the shores of the Sahara 709.6 L
• Maclean, Caroline - Circles and squares: the lives and art of the Hampstead modernists 709.04 M
• Mayer, Rosemary - Excerpts from the 1971 journal of Rosemary Mayer (account of life and art in 1970s NYC) 709.2 M
• Peppiatt, Michael - The making of modern art: selected writings 709.4 P
• Ustvedt, Øystein - Edvard Munch: an inner life 759.8 M
• Agnes Pelton: desert transcendentalist 759.1 P
• Jacob Lawrence: the American struggle 759.1 L

PERFORMING ARTS

• Cage, John - Love, icebox: letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham 780.92 C
• Karlin, Fred - Listening to movies: the film lover's guide to film music 791.4 K
• Nichols, Roger - Poulenc: a biography 92 P8745 N
• Ribowsky, Mark - The big life of Little Richard 780.921 L

BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS

• Ernaux, Annie - A girl's story 92 E7113 E
• Gellhorn, Martha - Yours, for probably always: Martha Gellhorn's letters of love & war, 1930-1949 92 G3185 G
• Hazareesingh, Sudhir - Black Spartacus: the epic life of Toussaint Louverture 92 T7345 H
• Johnson, Steven - Enemy of all mankind: a true story of piracy, power, and history's first global manhunt 92 A954 J
• Lehman, David - One hundred autobiographies: a memoir 92 L5226 L
• Logevall, Fredrik - JFK: coming of age in the American century, 1917-1956 92 K3547 L
• Tallis, Nicola - Uncrowned queen: the life of Margaret Beaufort, mother of the Tudors 92 B3745 T
• Talusan, Meredith - Fairest: a memoir 92 T1528 T

HISTORY

• Buruma, Ian - The Churchill complex: the curse of being special, from Winston and FDR to Trump and Brexit 327.73 B
• Colwell, Chip - Plundered skulls and stolen spirits: inside the fight to reclaim Native America's culture 970.1 C
• Fletcher, Susan A. - Exploring the history of childhood and play through 50 historic treasures 649.55 F
• Hannigan, Tim - A brief history of Indonesia: sultans, spices, and tsunamis: the incredible story of southeast Asia's largest nation 959.8 H
• Horne, Gerald - The dawning of the apocalypse: the roots of slavery, white supremacy, settler colonialism, and capitalism in the long sixteenth century 973.1 H
• Katz, Catherine Grace - The daughters of Yalta: the Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: a story of love and war 940.5314 K
• Panayi, Panikos - Migrant city: a new history of London 942.1 P
• Turner, John G. - They knew they were pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and the contest for American liberty 974.48 T
• Ullrich, Volker - Hitler: downfall, 1939-1945 92 H675 U

RACE IN AMERICA / AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY

• Bernard, Emily - Black is the body: stories from my grandmother's time, my mother's time, and mine 305.88 B
• Currie, Elliott - A peculiar indifference: the neglected toll of violence on black America 305.88 C
• Davies, Tom Adam - Mainstreaming Black Power 323.1 D
• Hutchinson, George - In search of Nella Larsen: a biography of the color line 92 L3343 H
• Ignatiev, Noel - How the Irish became white 305.81 I
• Jones, Martha S. - Vanguard: how Black women broke barriers, won the vote, and insisted on equality for all 323.4 J
• Moses, Wilson Jeremiah - Afrotopia: the roots of African American popular history 305.88 M
• Richardson, Allissa V. - Bearing witness while black: African Americans, smartphones, and the new protest #Journalism 323.1 R

ANTIQUITY

• Bayliss, Andrew J. - The Spartans 938 B
• Buchwald, Jed - The riddle of the Rosetta: how an English polymath and a French polyglot discovered the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs 493 B
• Cartledge, Paul - Thebes: the forgotten city of ancient Greece 938 C
• Woolf, Greg - The life and death of ancient cities: a natural history 307.76 W

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

• Spohr, Kristina - Post Wall, post Square: how Bush, Gorbachev, Kohl, and Deng shaped the world after 1989 909.82 S
• Weiner, Tim - The folly and the glory: America, Russia, and political warfare, 1945-2020 327.73 W
• Yergin, Daniel - The new map: energy, climate, and the clash of nations 333.7 Y

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Johnson, Dennis W. - Campaigns and elections: what everyone needs to know_ 324 J
• Keyssar, Alexander - Why do we still have the electoral college? 324 K
• Penkower, Monty Noam - The Federal Writers' Project: a study in government patronage of the arts 973.917 P
• Talbott, Strobe - Our founders' warning: the age of reason meets the age of Trump 320.9 T
• Weissmann, Andrew - Where law ends: inside the Mueller investigation 973.933 W

WAR

• Black, Jeremy - Military strategy: a global history 355 B
• Gallicchio, Marc S. - Unconditional: the Japanese surrender in World War II 940.5352 G
• Guillemin, Jeanne - Hidden atrocities: Japanese germ warfare and American obstruction of justice at the Tokyo Trial 341.3 G
• Mikaberidze, Alexander - The Napoleonic Wars: a global history 940.27 M
• Todman, Daniel - Britain's war: a new world, 1942-1947 940.5342 T

ESPIONAGE

• Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri - The Nazi spy ring in America: Hitler's agents, the FBI, and the case that stirred the nation 940.5485 J
• Somaiya, Ravi - The golden thread: the Cold War and the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjld 341.1 S
• Sutton, Matthew Avery - Double crossed: the missionaries who spied for the United States during the Second World War 940.5485 S

SOCIOLOGY

• Cappello, Lawrence - None of your damn business: privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the digital age 323.4 C
• Chayes, Sarah - On corruption in America: and what is at stake 364.13 C
• French, David - Divided we fall: America's secession threat and how to restore our nation 306 F
• Goodman, Adam - The deportation machine: America's long history of expelling immigrants 325.73 G

WOMEN'S STUDIES

• Duberman, Martin B. - Andrea Dworkin: the feminist as revolutionary 92 D994 D
• Leibman, Laura Arnold - The art of the Jewish family: a history of women in early New York in five objects 305.86 L
• Poling-Kempes, Lesley - Ladies of the canyons: a league of extraordinary women and their adventures in the American Southwest 979 P
• Robinson, Jane - Ladies can't climb ladders: the pioneering adventures of the first professional women 331.4 R

ECONOMICS

• Berfield, Susan - The hour of fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the battle to transform American capitalism 330.973 B
• Goldberg, Edward - Why globalization works for America: how nationalist trade policies are destroying our country 330.973 G
• Stebenne, David - Promised land: how the rise of the middle class transformed America, 1929-1968 305.5 S

LAW

• Eskridge, William N. - Marriage equality: from outlaws to in-laws 347.6 E
• Hernndez, Kelly Lytle - City of inmates: conquest, rebellion, and the rise of human caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965 365 H
• Vitale, Alex S. - The end of policing 363.2 V

CRIME

• Stout, David - The kidnap years: the astonishing true history of the forgotten kidnapping epidemic that shook Depression-era America 364 S
• Witwer, David Scott - Murder in the garment district: the grip of organized crime and the decline of labor in the United States 364.1 W

NEW YORK CITY

• Cardwell, Diane - Rockaway: surfing headlong into a new life 92 C2693 C
• Flowe, Douglas J. - Uncontrollable Blackness: African American men and criminality in Jim Crow New York 305.88 F
• Hayes, Bill - How we live now: scenes from the pandemic 92 H4173 H
• Smith, Morgan - Harlem: the vision of Morgan and Marvin Smith 974.71 S OVERSIZE

PHILOSOPHY

• Edmonds, David - The murder of Professor Schlick: the rise and fall of the Vienna Circle 140 E
• Houellebecq, Michel - In the presence of Schopenhauer 193 H
• - The Oxford handbook of Epicurus and epicureanism 187 O

PSYCHOLOGY

• Ghaemi, S. Nassir - A first-rate madness: uncovering the links between leadership and mental illness 303.3 G
• Hitz, Zena - Lost in thought: the hidden pleasures of an intellectual life 153 H
• Lanzoni, Susan Marie - Empathy: a history 152 L

RELIGION

• Jenkins, Jack - American prophets: the religious roots of progressive politics and the ongoing fight for the soul of the country 261.7 J
• Manseau, Peter - The Jefferson Bible: a biography 232.9 M
• Tracy, David - Fragments: the existential situation of our time: selected essays, volume 1 230 T

SCIENCE & HEALTH

• Barrie, David - Incredible journeys: exploring the wonders of animal navigation 591.5 B
• Cowles, Henry M. - The scientific method: an evolution of thinking from Darwin to Dewey 507 C
• Davis, Mike - The monster enters: COVID-19, avian flu and the plagues of capitalism 614.4 D
• Giggs, Rebecca - Fathoms: the world in the whale 599 G
• Schneider, David - The invention of surgery: a history of modern medicine: from the Renaissance to the implant revolution 617 S
• Snowden, Frank M. - Epidemics and society: from the Black Death to the present 614.4 S

CLIMATE

• Dolin, Eric Jay - A furious sky: the five-hundred-year history of America's hurricanes 551.5 D
• Horowitz, Andy - Katrina: a history, 1915-2015 363.3 H
• Jahren, Hope - The story of more: how we got to climate change and where to go from here 363.7 J