IN THE LOBBY

NONFICTION

• Armstrong, Jennifer Keishin - Seinfeldia: how a show about nothing changed everything 
• Brooks, Rosa - How everything became war and the military became everything: tales from the Pentagon 
• Byatt, A. S.  - Peacock & vine: on William Morris and Mariano Fortuny 
• Cole, Teju - Known and strange things: essays 
• Dickerson, John - Whistlestop: my favorite stories from presidential campaign history 
• The fire this time: a new generation speaks about race (edited by Jesmyn Ward)
• Goldblatt, David - The Games: a global history of the Olympics 
• Grescoe, Taras - Shanghai grand: forbidden love and international intrigue in a doomed world
• Gross, Michael - Focus: the secret, sexy, sometimes sordid world of fashion photographers 
• Janowitz, Tama - Scream: a memoir of glamour and dysfunction
• Johnston, David - The making of Donald Trump 
• Kaufman, David - Some enchanted evenings: the glittering life and times of Mary Martin
• Kelly, Jack - Heaven's ditch: God, gold, and murder on the Erie Canal
• Khalaf, Farida - The girl who escaped ISIS: this is my story (translated from the German)
• Klein, Jessi - You'll grow out of it
• McDonell, Terry - The accidental life: an editor's notes on writing and writers
• Miller, James A.  - Powerhouse: the untold story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency 
• Moor, Robert  - On trails
• ¡No pasarán!: writings from the Spanish Civil War (edited by Pete Ayrton)
• Rosset, Barney - Rosset: my life in publishing and how I fought censorship 
• Singer, Mark - Trump and me 
• Smee, Sebastian - The art of rivalry: four friendships, betrayals, and breakthroughs in modern art 
• Spiegelman, Nadja - I'm supposed to protect you from all this: a memoir
• Strausbaugh, John - City of sedition: the history of New York during the Civil War 
• Toobin, Jeffrey - American heiress: the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst (ebook available)
• Van der Leun, Justine - We are not such things: the murder of a young American, a South African township, and the search for truth and reconciliation 
• Vance, J. D - Hillbilly elegy: a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
• Whitaker, Amy - Art thinking: how to carve out creative space in a world of schedules, budgets, and bosses

FICTION

• Abbott, Megan E. - You will know me: a novel
• Agee, Jonis - The bones of paradise 
• Barker, Nicola - The cauliflower
• Butler, Robert Olen - Perfume river
• Dawson, Jill - The crime writer
• Engel, Patricia - The veins of the ocean
• Gregory, Philippa - Three sisters, three queens
• Hemmings, Kaui Hart - How to party with an infant 
• Hertmans, Stefan - War and turpentine (translated from the Dutch)
• Hood, Ann - The book that matters most
• Ivey, Eowyn - To the bright edge of the world
• Kluge, Alexander (w/pictures by Gerhard Richter) - Dispatches from moments of calm: 89 stories, 64 pictures (translated from the German)
• London, Joan - The golden age 
• Mbue, Imbolo - Behold the dreamers
• McInerney, Jay - Bright, precious days
• McInerney, Lisa - The glorious heresies
• Miéville, China - The last days of new Paris: a novella
• Miller, Derek B. - The girl in green 
• Moore, Alan - Jerusalem
• Moriarty, Liane - Truly madly guilty 
• Parkhurst, Carolyn - Harmony
• Reyn, Irina - The imperial wife
• Sem-Sandberg, Steve - The chosen ones (translated from the Swedish)
• Sjón - Moonstone: the boy who never was (translated from the Icelandic)
• Solomon, Anna - Leaving Lucy Pear 
• Towles, Amor - A gentleman in Moscow
• Vapnyar, Lara - Still here: a novel
• Watson, Brad - Miss Jane
• Whitehead, Colson - The underground railroad (ebook available)
• Wolfe, Inger Ash - The night bell 
• Wood, Charlotte - The natural way of things
• Woodson, Jacqueline - Another Brooklyn
• Żukrowski, Wojciech - Stone tablets (translated from the Polish)

MYSTERIES

• Bannalec, Jean-Luc- Murder on Brittany shores (translated from the German)
• Berry, Flynn - Under the harrow 
• Booth, Stephen - Secrets of death
• Bowen, Rhys - Crowned and dangerous
• Brown, Sandra - Sting
• Carlisle, Anna - Dark road home: a Gin Sullivan mystery
• Carofiglio, Gianrico - A fine line (translated from the Italian)
• Carr, Matthew - The devils of Cardona*
• Connolly, John - A time of torment: a Charlie Parker thriller
• Cotterill, Colin - I shot the Buddha
• Coulter, Catherine - Insidious 
• Dolan, Eva - Tell no tales *
• Evanovich, Janet - Curious minds: a Knight and Moon novel
• Feiffer, Jules - Cousin Joseph: a graphic novel
• French, Nicci - Saturday requiem*
• Gentry, Amy - Good as gone
• George, C. B. - The death of Rex Nhongo*
• Hammer, Lotte - The vanished (translated from the Danish)
• Harrison, Cora - A shocking assassination
• Holt, Anne - Dead joker: a Hanne Wilhelmsen novel  (translated from the Norwegian)
• Hunt, James Patrick - Once upon a time in Camelot
• Jewell, Lisa - The girls in the garden*
• Kelly, Stephen - The wages of desire
• Koryta, Michael - Rise the dark
• Loehfelm, Bill - Let the devil out: a Maureen Coughlin novel
• Lustbader, Eric - Any minute now
• Martin, Andrew - The yellow diamond
• Penny, Louise - A great reckoning
• Pryor, Mark - The Paris librarian 
• Putnam, Jonathan F. - These honored dead: a Lincoln and Speed mystery 
• Rimington, Stella - Breaking cover *
• Ripley, Mike - Mr Campion's fault*
• Robinson, Peter - When the music's over: an Inspector Banks novel *
• Robinson, Todd - Rough trade: a Boo & Junior gig 
• Scottoline, Lisa - Damaged: a Rosato & DiNunzio novel 
• Sund, Erik Axl - The crow girl (translated from the Swedish)
• Thor, Brad - Foreign agent: a thriller
• Tracy, P. J. - The sixth idea / P.J. Tracy
• Weaver, Tim - Fall from grace*
• Wilson, Elizabeth - She died young 
• Woods, Stuart - Smooth operator: a Teddy Fay novel featuring Stone Barrington (w/ Parnell Hall)
• Wright, Lili - Dancing with the tiger 

* Indicates a British mystery

SHORT STORIES

• Sneed, Christine - The virginity of famous men 

POETRY

• Fondane, Benjamin - Cinepoems and others (New York Review Books; translated from the French)
• Pizarnik, Alejandra- Extracting the stone of madness: poems 1962-1972 (translated from the Spanish)
• Prikryl, Jana - The after party
• Rich, Adrienne - Collected poems, 1950-2012 

BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

• Global muckraking: 100 years of investigative journalism from around the world (Anya Schiffrin, ed.)
• Zeisler, Andi - We were feminists once: from Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl, the buying and selling of a political movement

See fall 2016 forthcoming book hightlights here. 

IN THE STACKS

LITERATURE & ESSAYS

• Blanchfield, Brian - Proxies: essays near knowing: a reckoning 824 B
• Butler, Marilyn - Romantics, rebels, and reactionaries: English literature and its background, 1760-1830 820.9 B
• Gale, Robert L. - Plots and characters in the fiction and narrative poetry of Herman Melville 823 M
• James, Clive - Gate of lilacs: a verse commentary on Proust 843 J
• Perloff, Marjorie - Edge of irony: modernism in the shadow of the Habsburg Empire  830.9 P
• Petrarca, Francesco - My secret book (translated from the Italian) 879.8 P
• Wroe, Ann - Six facets of light  809.9 W

FICTION

• Akutagawa, Ryunosuke - Rashomon and seventeen other stories (early 20th century; translated from the Japanese) F A
• Bataille, Georges - Blue of noon (1935; translated from the French) F B
• Dutourd, Jean - Pluche, or, The love of art (1970; translated from the French) F D
• Inoue, Yasushi - Bullfight (1949; translated from the Japanese; Pushkin Press) F I
• Keene, John - Counternarratives  F K
• Murray, Rosalind - The happy tree (1926; Persephone reissue) F M
• Teffi, N. A - Tolstoy, Rasputin, others, and me: the best of Teffi (1920s-30s; translated from the Russian; New York Review Books) F T
• Zola, Emile - The conquest of Plassans (2014 translation by Helen Constantine) F Z

FICTION ANTHOLOGIES

• Anthology of Korean literature: from early times to the nineteenth century (Peter Lee, ed.) 895 A
• The new diaspora: the changing landscape of American Jewish fiction (Victoria Aarons, ed.) F N
• A thousand forests in one acorn: an anthology of Spanish-language fiction (Valerie Miles, ed.) 863.09 T

POETRY

• Burt, Stephen - Belmont: poems 821 B
• Green, Paul - Paul Green's war songs: a southern poet's history of the Great War, 1917-1920  821 G
• Howe, Susan - That this 821 H
• Joyce, James - Joyce : poems and a play 821 J
• Labé, Louise - Love sonnets & elegies 841 L

JOURNALISM

• Kluger, Richard - Indelible ink: the trials of John Peter Zenger and the birth of America's free press 070.1 K
• Ponce de Leon, Charles L. - That's the way it is: a history of television news in America 070.1 P

ART

• Churchill, Winston - Painting as a pastime 750.1 C
• Empson, William - The face of the Buddha 730 E
• Everywhen: the eternal present in indigenous art from Australia (Stephen Gilchrist, et al., eds.) 709.011 E
• Goswamy, B. N. - The spirit of Indian painting: close encounters with 101 great works, 1100-1900  759.95 G
• Hubert Robert (National Gallery of Art; Margaret Mogan Grassellli, et al.) 759.4 R
• James, Jamie - The glamour of strangeness: artists and the last age of the exotic 701 J
• Onians, John - Neuroarthistory: from Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki 701 O

LANGUAGE

• Berwick, Robert C. - Why only us: language and evolution 401 B
• Green, Jonathon - Slang: a very short introduction 427 G
• Visible language: inventions of writing in the ancient Middle East and beyond (Christopher Woods, ed.) 411 V OVERSIZE

PHILOSOPHY

• Adamson, Peter - Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds: a history of philosophy without any gaps 180 A
• Blue, Daniel - The making of Friedrich Nietzsche: the quest for identity, 1844-1869 193 B
• Gottlieb, Anthony - The dream of enlightenment: the rise of modern philosophy 190 G

BIOGRAPHY

• Bone, James - The curse of beauty: the scandalous & tragic life of Audrey Munson, America's first supermodel (1891-1996) 92 M982 B
• Corbett, Rachel - You must change your life: the story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin  920 C7898 Y
• Davenport-Hines, R. P. T - Edward VII: the cosmopolitan king  92 E257 D
• Freed, John B. - Frederick Barbarossa: the prince and the myth  92 F849 F
• Keats, Jonathan - You belong to the universe: Buckminster Fuller and the future 92 F9677 K
• O'Sullivan, Emer - The fall of the house of Wilde: Oscar Wilde and his family 920 W6722 O
• Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich - An essay in autobiography 92 P2911 P
• Vapnek, Lara - Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: modern American revolutionary 92 F6481 V

PERFORMING ARTS

• Beaver, Frank Eugene - Dictionary of film terms: the aesthetic companion to film art HBR 791.4 B
• Cage, John - The selected letters of John Cage 780.92 C
• Cassavetes, John - Cassavetes on Cassavetes (Ray Carney, ed.) 791.4 C
• James, Clive - Play all: a bingewatcher's notebook 791.4 J
• Marissen, Michael - Bach & God 780.92 B
• Quignard, Pascal - The hatred of music 780.1 Q
• Selvin, Joel - Altamont: the Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the inside story of rock's darkest day 784.6 S

ANTIQUITY

• Fletcher, Joann - The story of Egypt: the civilization that shaped the world 932 F
• Mason, Steve - A history of the Jewish War, A.D. 66-74 933 M
• Scott, Michael - Ancient worlds: an epic history of East & West 930 S
• Thonemann, Peter - The Hellenistic age 938 T

HISTORY

• Broodbank, Cyprian - The making of the Middle Sea: a history of the Mediterranean from the beginning to the emergence of the classical world 939 B
• Man, John - Samurai: the last warrior: a history  952 M
• The Princeton history of modern Ireland  (Richard Bourke, ed.) 941.5 P
• Rees, Sian - Lucie Aubrac: the French resistance heroine who outwitted the Gestapo 940.5344 R
• Reséndez, Andrés - The other slavery: the uncovered story of Indian enslavement in America 326 R
• Taylor, Alan - American revolutions: a continental history, 1750-1804  973.3 T
• Wood, Peter H. - Strange new land: Africans in colonial America  973.2 W

WAR

• Doran, Amanda-Jane - The Huns have got my gramophone!: advertisements from the Great War 940.342 D
• Manning, Chandra - Troubled refuge: struggling for freedom in the Civil War 973.71 M
• Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh - Somme: into the breach 940.42 S
• Todman, Daniel - Britain's war: into battle, 1937-1941  940.5342 T
• War factory: a report (Mass Observation publication) 940.5315 W

TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION

• Elkin, Lauren - Flâneuse: women walk the city in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London 910 E
• Knight, Gavin - Swordfish and the star: life on Cornwall's most treacherous stretch of coast  942.3 K

SCIENCE

• Aldersey-Williams, Hugh - The tide: the science and stories behind the greatest force on earth 553.7 A
• Munz, Tania - The dancing bees: Karl von Frisch and the discovery of the honeybee language 595.799 M
• Otto, Shawn Lawrence - The war on science: who's waging it, why it matters, what we can do about it 304.2 O
• Unity of nature: Alexander von Humboldt and the Americas (Georgia de Havenon, et al., eds.) 508 U

RELIGION

• Arberry, A. J. - Sufism: an account of the mystics of Islam 297 A
• Harmless, William - Desert Christians: an introduction to the literature of early monasticism 271 H
• Hazleton, Lesley - Agnostic: a spirited manifesto 211 H
• Rudin, A. James - Pillar of fire: a biography of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise 92 W8134 R

RACE IN AMERICA

• Hill, Marc Lamont - Nobody: casualties of America's war on the vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and beyond 305.5 H
• Price, Melanye T. - The race whisperer: Barack Obama and the political uses of race 973.932 P
• Ross, Lawrence C. - Blackballed: the black and white politics of race on America's campuses 378 R
• Smith, Mychal Denzel - Invisible man, got the whole world watching: a young black man's education 325.26 S

SOCIOLOGY

• Isay, David - Callings: the purpose and passion of work 331.7 I
• McDonell, Nick - The civilization of perpetual movement: nomads in the modern world 304.8 M
• Pearson, Helen - The life project: the extraordinary story of 70,000 ordinary lives 312 P

ECONOMICS & FINANCE

• Liebmann, George W. - The fall of the House of Speyer: the story of a banking dynasty 332.1 L
• Stiglitz, Joseph E. - The euro: how a common currency threatens the future of Europe 332.4 S

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Benhabib, Seyla - The reluctant modernism of Hannah Arendt 320.9 B
• Cohen, Michael A. - American Maelstrom: the 1968 election and politics of division 324 C
• Levin, Yuval - The fractured republic: renewing America's social contract in the age of individualism 306 L

NEW YORK

• Krase, Jerome - Race, class, and gentrification in Brooklyn: a view from the street 307.76 K
• Steier, Richard - Enough blame to go around: the labor pains of New York City's public employee unions 331.88 S
• Weiner, Melissa F. - Power, protest, and the public schools: Jewish and African American struggles in New York City 371.9 W

AUDIO

• Lively, Penelope - Consequences Lobby Audio-CD L
• Macdonald, Ross - The drowning pool Audio-CD M
• Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe - The leopard Audio-CD T
• Wolitzer, Meg - The wife: a novel Lobby  Audio-CD W