IN THE LOBBY

NONFICTION

• Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe - Dr. Mütter's marvels: a true tale of intrigue and innovation at the dawn of modern medicine
• Baxter, John, 1939-  Paris at the end of the world: the City of Light during the Great War, 1914-1918
• Clarke, Stephen - Dirty Bertie: an English king made in France 
• Collins, Paul - Edgar Allan Poe: the fever called living 
• Corrigan, Maureen - So we read on: how The Great Gatsby came to be and why it endures 
• Di Giovanni, Norman Thomas - Georgie & Elsa: Jorge Luis Borges and his wife: the untold story 
• Drabelle, Dennis - The great American railroad war: how Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris took on the notorious Central Pacific Railroad
• Evans, Colin - The Valentino affair: the Jazz Age murder scandal that shocked New York society and gripped the world
• Ferguson, Priscilla Parkhurst - Word of mouth: what we talk about when we talk about food 
• Findlay, Jean - Chasing lost time: the life of C.K. Scott Moncrieff: soldier, spy and translator 
• Greenway, H. D. S. - Foreign correspondent: a memoir 
• Halbreich, Betty - I'll drink to that: a life in style, with a twist 
• Holt, Terry - Internal medicine: a doctor's stories
• King, Charles - Midnight at the Pera Palace: the birth of modern Istanbul 
• Kissinger, Henry - World order
• Lahr, John - Tennessee Williams: mad pilgrimage of the flesh 
• Laudan, Rachel - Cuisine and empire: cooking in world history 
• McAuliffe, Mary Sperling - Dawn of the Belle Epoque: the Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and their friends
• Melinek, Judy - Working stiff: two years, 262 bodies, and the making of a medical examiner 
• Merkin, Daphne - The fame lunches: on wounded icons, money, sex, the Brontës, and the importance of handbags
• Navai, Ramita - City of lies: love, sex, death, and the search for truth in Tehran
• Ouellette, Jennifer - Me, myself, and why: searching for the science of self 
• Ruoff, Kenneth J.  - Imperial Japan at its zenith: the wartime celebration of the empire's 2,600th anniversary
• Sacks, Mike - Poking a dead frog: conversations with today's top comedy writers 
• Sheehy, Gail - Daring: my passages: a memoir 
• Shenk, Joshua Wolf - Powers of two: finding the essence of innovation in creative pairs
• Stangneth, Bettina - Eichmann before Jerusalem: the unexamined life of a mass murderer (translated from the German)
• Tunick, Michael - The science of cheese
• Venegas, Maria - Bulletproof vest: the ballad of an outlaw and his daughter
• Wolf, Martin - The shifts and the shocks: what we've learned-- and have still to learn-- from the financial crisis 
• Wright, Lawrence - Thirteen days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David

FICTION

• Beukes, Lauren - Broken monsters 
• Bolaño, Roberto - A little lumpen novelita (translated by Natasha Wimmer)
• Brunt, Douglas - The means
• Burton, Jessie - The miniaturist 
• Cao, Lan - The lotus and the storm 
• Cercas, Javier - Outlaws Javier Cercas (translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean)
• Coelho, Paulo - Adultery: a novel (translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa and Zoë Perry)
• Cussler, Clive - The eye of heaven 
• Eve, Nomi - Henna House
• Feiffer, Jules - Kill my mother: a graphic novel
• Ferrante, Elena - Those who leave and those who stay (translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein)
• Follett, Ken - Edge of eternity
• Friedman, Sanford - Conversations with Beethoven
• Gestern, Hélène - The people in the photo Hélène Gestern (translated from the French by Emily Boyce and Ros Schwartz)
• Giraldi, William - Hold the dark
• Gregory, Philippa - The king's curse
• Haynes, Natalie - The furies
• Hensher, Philip - The emperor waltz
• Hood, Ann - An Italian wife
• Howorth, Lisa - Flying shoes
• Lalami, Laila - The Moor's account
• Lapidus, Jens  - Life deluxe Jens Lapidus (translated from the Swedish by Astri von Arbin Ahlander)
• Lehane, Dennis - The drop 
• Mandel, Emily St. John - Station eleven 
• McCullough, Colleen - Bittersweet
• McEwan, Ian - The children act
• McKeon, Darragh - All that is solid melts into air
• Mezrich, Ben - Seven wonders
• Mitchell, David  - The bone clocks
• Montefiore, Santa - Secrets of the lighthouse
• Moss, Todd - The golden hour
• Moyes, Jojo - Silver Bay
• Mukherjee, Neel - The lives of others
• O'Neill, Joseph - The dog
• Parks, Tim - Painting death 
• Pitre, Michael - Fives and twenty-fives
• Rojstaczer, Stuart - The mathematician's shiva 
• Scalzi, John - Lock in 
• Schumacher, Julie- Dear committee members
• Scott, A. D. - The low road
• Scott, Joanna- De Potter's grand tour
• Smith, Ali - How to be both
• Thomas, Matthew - We are not ourselves 
• Thorpe, Rufi - The girls from Corona del Mar 
• Ulinich, Anya - Lena Finkle's magic barrel: a graphic novel
• Vreeland, Susan - Lisette's list
• Waters, Sarah- - The paying guests
• Wood, Naomi - Mrs. Hemingway 

MYSTERIES

• Adler, Elizabeth - Last to know
• Adler-Olsen, Jussi - The Marco effect: a Department Q novel (translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken)
• Barclay, Linwood - No safe house
• Booth, Stephen - The Corpse Bridge 
• Brett, Simon - The Cinderella killer*
• Brown, Sandra - Mean streak
• Child, Lee - Personal: a Jack Reacher novel
• Dams, Jeanne M. - Day of vengeance*
• Eastland, Sam - The beast in the red forest: an Inspector Pekkala novel
• Ellroy, James - Perfidia 
• Fitzgerald, Conor - Bitter remedy 
• Flynn, Rory - Third rail: an Eddy Harkness novel 
• French, Tana - The secret place 
• Fyfield, Frances - Trial by fire: a Helen West mystery
• Goddard, Robert - The corners of the globe*
• Goldberg, Tod - Gangsterland
• Gordon-Smith, Dolores - After the exhibition: a Jack Haldean mystery*
• Gregson, J. M. - Rest assured*
• Haddam, Jane - Fighting chance: a Gregor Demarkian novel 
• Hannah, Sophie - The monogram murders: the new Hercule Poirot mystery*
• Harris, Oliver - Deep shelter*
• Hay, Mavis Doriel (1894-1979) - Death on the Cherwell*
• Hay, Mavis Doriel (1894-1979) - Murder underground*
• Horst, Jorn Lier - The hunting dogs (translated from the Norwegian by Anne Bruce)
• Kehlmann, Daniel, 1975- - F (translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway)
• Keller, Julia. - Summer of the dead
• Kellerman, Faye - Murder 101: a Decker/Lazarus novel 
• Kellerman, Jonathan - The Golem of Hollywood
• Kerr, Philip - Research 
• Koenig, Minerva - Nine days
• Krajewski, Marek - The minotaur's head (translated rom the Polish by Danusia Stok)
• Lemaître, Pierre - Irène (translated from the French by Frank Wynne)
• Limón, Martin - The iron sickle 
• Little, Elizabeth - Dear daughter
• Lovesey, Peter - The stone wife: a Peter Diamond investigation*
• Mankell, Henning - An event in autumn (translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson)
• Martin, Nancy - A little night murder 
• McKinty, Adrian - The sun is God
• Oldham, Nick - Low profile*
• Owen, Howard - Parker Field: a Willie Black mystery
• Patterson, James - Private down under
• Perry, Anne - Blood on the water: a William Monk novel*
• Pryor, Mark - The Button man: a Hugo Marston novel
• Robb, J. D. - Festive in death
• Robinson, Peter - Abattoir blues*
• Robotham, Michael - Life or death*
• Rucka, Greg - Bravo 
• Scerbanenco, Giorgio - Traitors to all (translated from the Italian by Howard Curtis)
• Shafer, David - Whiskey tango foxtrot
• Smith, Dan - Red winter 
• Stanley, Kelli - City of ghosts 
• Taylor, Andrew - The silent boy*
• Todd, Charles - An unwilling accomplice

POETRY

• Beckman, Joshua - The inside of an apple 
• Hirsch, Edward - Gabriel: a poem
• Manning, Maurice - The gone and the going away 
• Wiman, Christian - Once in the West 

SHORT STORIES

• Antrim, Donald - The emerald light in the air: stories
• Earley, Tony - Mr. Tall: a novella and stories 
• Redel, Victoria - Make me do things: stories
• Upton, Lee - The Tao of humiliation: stories 

IN THE STACKS

LITERATURE

• Andrews, Chris - Roberto Bolaño's fiction: an expanding universe , 863 B
• Darnton, Robert - Censors at work: how states shaped literature , 323.4 D
• Dowden, Stephen D. - Understanding Thomas Bernhard , 833 B
• Ferris, David S. - The Cambridge introduction to Walter Benjamin , 838.09 B
• Koestenbaum, Wayne - My 1980s & other essays , 824 K
• The Kreutzer sonata variations: Lev Tolstoy's Novella and counterstories by Sofiya Tolstaya and Lev Lvovich Tolstoy (translated and edited by Michael R. Katz) 891.73 K
• Memories of Chekhov: accounts of the writer from his family, friends and contemporaries (edited and translated by Peter Sekirin) 92 C5157 M

POETRY

• Armitage, Simon - The last days of Troy 821 A
• Baldwin, James - Jimmy's blues and other poems 821 B
• Benn, Gottfried - Impromptus: selected poems and some prose (translated from the German by Michael Hofmann) 830.81 B
• The Cambridge companion to the poetry of the First World War (Santanu Das, ed.) 821.09 C
• Phillips, Carl - The art of daring: risk, restlessness, imagination  808.1 P

ART

• Assyria to Iberia: at the dawn of the Classical Age (Joan Aruz, et al., eds.; Metropolitan Museum of Art) 709.3 A
• Craft, Catherine - Robert Rauschenberg  709.2 R
• De Montebello, Philippe - Rendez-vous with art  701 D
• Malevich (Achim Borchardt-Hume, ed.) 759.7 M
• Richard Wilson and the transformation of European landscape painting (Martin Postle and Robin Simon, eds.) 759.2 W
• Rosewell, Roger - Medieval wall paintings in English & Welsh churches 751.1 R

PHOTOGRAPHY

• Lyon, Danny - The bikeriders 796.7 L
• Stoller, Ezra - The TWA Terminal 725.8 S
• Garry Winogrand  (Metropolitan Museum of Art) 779 W

FILM

• Thomson, David - The new biographical dictionary of film (6th ed.) Ref. 791.4 T
• Wilson, Steve - The making of Gone with the wind 791.4 W

MUSIC

• Greenfield, Robert - Ain't it time we said goodbye: the Rolling Stones on the road to exile 780.921 G
• Philip, Robert - Early recordings and musical style: changing tastes in instrumental performance, 1900-1950 781 P

FICTION

• Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The lost decade: short stories from Esquire, 1936-1941  F F
• Hugo, Victor - The wretched (new translation) F H
• Lago, Eduardo - Call me Brooklyn  F L
• Qiu, Miaojin - Last Words from Montmartre (translated from the Chinese; New York Review of Books) F Q

BOOKS & READING

• Butler, William Elliott - American bookplates 097 B
• Davidson, Jenny - Reading style: a life in sentences 809 D
• Manguel, Alberto - The traveler, the tower, and the worm: the reader as metaphor 809.3 M
• Newman, Nancy - Raising passionate readers: 5 easy steps to success in school and life 649 N

LANGUAGE

• Ayto, John - The Oxford dictionary of rhyming slang 427 A
• Epstein, Lita - If you can't say anything nice, say it in Yiddish: the book of Yiddish insults and curses 492.4 E
• Heller-Roazen, Daniel - Dark tongues: the art of rogues and riddlers 417 H

WRITING

• Brayfield, Celia - Writing historical fiction: a writers' and artists' companion 808.3 B
• Casey, John - Beyond the first draft: the art of fiction 808.3 C
• Murray, Kay - The writer's legal guide: an Authors Guild desk reference  655.6 M

BIOGRAPHY

• Barber, Lynn - A curious career 92 B2346 B
• Beller, Thomas - J.D. Salinger: the escape artist 92 S1657 B
• Hackel, Steven W. - Junípero Serra: California's founding father 92 S487 H
• Ó Catháin, Gearóid Cheaist - The loneliest boy in the world: the last child of the great Blasket Island 92 O111 O
• Turner, Brian - My life as a foreign country 92 T9455 T

HISTORY

• Bunker, Nick - An empire on the edge: how Britain came to fight America 973.31 B
• Gobetti, Ada - Partisan diary: a woman's life in the Italian Resistance 940.548 G
• Langguth, A. J. - After Lincoln: how the north won the Civil War and lost the peace 973.8 L
• Makers of modern Asia (Ramachandra Guha, ed.) 950 M
• Maynes, Mary Jo - The family: a world history 306.8 M
• Seward, Desmond - The demon's brood: a history of the Plantagenet dynasty 942.03 S
• Smith, Ryan K. - Robert Morris's folly: the architectural and financial failures of an American founder 973.3 S

ANTIQUITY

• Goldsworthy, Adrian Keith - Augustus: first emperor of Rome 92 A923 G
• Lane, M. S. - Greek and Roman political ideas 320.9 L
• Mayor, Adrienne - The Amazons: lives and legends of warrior women across the ancient world 305.4 M

PHILOSOPHY

• Adamson, Peter - Classical philosophy: a history of philosophy without any gaps, volume 1 109 A
• Cornford, Francis Macdonald - The unwritten philosophy and other essays  108 C

WOMEN'S STUDIES

• Cobble, Dorothy Sue - Feminism unfinished: a short, surprising history of American women's movements 305.4 C
• Howe, Florence - A life in motion 92 H8557 H
• Russett, Cynthia Eagle - Sexual science: the Victorian construction of womanhood 305.4 R

PSYCHOLOGY

• Gold, Joel - Suspicious minds: how culture shapes madness 362.2 G
• Rottenberg, Jonathan - The depths: the evolutionary origins of the depression epidemic 616.8 R

HEALTH & MEDICINE

• Bourke, Joanna - The story of pain: from prayer to painkillers  616 B
• Emanuel, Ezekiel J.  - Reinventing American health care: how the Affordable Care Act will improve our terribly complex, blatantly unjust, outrageously expensive, grossly inefficient, error prone system  362.1 E
• Hill, John, - The old man's guide to health and longer life: with rules for diet, exercise & physick for preserving a good constitution, and preventing disorders in a bad one (first published in 1750) 612.67 H

ECONOMICS & FINANCE

• Baptist, Edward E. - The half has never been told: slavery and the making of American capitalism 306.3 B
• Chang, Ha-Joon - Economics: the user's guide 330 C
• Taub, Jennifer - Other people's houses: how decades of bailouts, captive regulators, and toxic bankers made home mortgages a thrilling business 332.7 T

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• McCutcheon, Chuck - Dog whistles, walk-backs, and Washington handshakes: decoding the jargon, slang, and bluster of American political speech 320.3 M
• Micklethwait, John - The fourth revolution: the global race to reinvent the state  320.1 M
• Richardson, Heather Cox - To make men free: a history of the Republican Party  324.273 R

LABOR

• Lee, Howard B. - Bloodletting in Appalachia: the story of West Virginia's four major mine wars and other thrilling incidents of its coal fields 331.89 L
• Lichtenstein, Nelson - State of the union: a century of American labor 331 L

LAW

• Ferguson, Robert A. - Inferno: an anatomy of American punishment 364.6 F
• Zirin, James D. - The mother court: tales of cases that mattered in America's greatest trial court 347.99 Z

PLACES

• Bosworth, R. J. B. - Italian Venice: a history 945.3 B
• Filiu, Jean-Pierre. - Gaza: a history 956.94 F
• Kater, Michael H. - Weimar: from Enlightenment to the present 943.2 K
• Kurkov, Andrei - Ukraine diaries: dispatches from Kiev  947.7 K
• Schürer, Norbert - Berlin  943.1 S

RELIGION

• McGinn, Bernard - Thomas Aquinas's Summa theologiae: a biography 208 M
• Miller, Steven P. - The age of evangelicalism: America's born-again years  277.3 M
• Veidlinger, Jeffrey - In the shadow of the shtetl: small-town Jewish life in Soviet Ukraine 305.86 V
• Wolpe, David - David: the divided heart  221.92 D

WAR

• Borowiec, Andrew - Warsaw boy: a memoir of a wartime childhood  940.548 B
• Buruma, Ian - Theater of cruelty: art, film, and the shadows of war 704 B
• Mayo, Jonathan - D-day: minute by minute  940.542 M
• Nicosia, Gerald - Home to war: a history of the Vietnam veterans' movement 973.923 N

ESPIONAGE

• Abbott, Karen - Liar, temptress, soldier, spy: four women undercover in the Civil War 920 A1325 L
• Bailey, Roderick - Target : Italy: the secret war against Mussolini, 1940-1943 : the official history of SOE operations in fascist Italy940.5485 B
• King, Melanie - Secrets in a dead fish: the spying game in the First World War 327.12 K

SCIENCE & NATURE

• Macdonald, Helen - H is for Hawk 598.2 M
• Money, Nicholas P. - The amoeba in the room: lives of the microbes 589.95 M

TECHNOLOGY

• Basile, Salvatore - Cool: how air conditioning changed everything 697 B
• Bernard, Andreas - Lifted: a cultural history of the elevator 621.8 B
• Chandra, Vikram - Geek sublime: the beauty of code, the code of beauty 005 C

NEW YORK

• Litvin, Yoav - Outdoor gallery: New York City 709.7471 L
• Martin, Justin - Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's first bohemians  920 M3833 R
• Speretta, Tommaso - Rebels rebel: AIDS, art and activism in New York, 1979-1989 709.2 S

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