 | Square dances of today, and how to teach and call them(New York, A. S. Barnes [1950], 1950) | Richard G. Kraus | Permanent Collection, BAM Reading Room (2017) |
 | Between Theater and Anthropology(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985) | Richard Schechner (Author), Victor Turner (Foreword) | Anthropology, Theatre, Performance, Cultural studies, Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Years(Harper & Roe, 1974) | Richard Pells (Author) | Philosophy, History / Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive |
 | Cool Pose: The Dilemmas of Black Manhood in America(New York : Simon & Schuster., 1993) | Richard Majors (Author), Janet Mancini Billson (Author) | Black masculinity, Slavery, Sociology, Race, Gender, Cultural studies, Masculinity, Bam 2017 / Permanent Collection, BAM Reading Room (2017) |
| Theatre of Mixed Means: An Introduction to Happenings, Kinetic Environments, and Other Mixed-Means Performances(London: Pitman Publishing, 1970 [1968]) | Richard Kostelanetz (Author) | New York, Modernism, Performance, Happenings, Drama and Performance studies / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Scenarios: Scripts to Perform(New York: Assembling Press, 1980) | Richard Kostelanetz (Editor), George Brecht (Author), John Cage (Author), Sarah Maclay (Author), Wolf Vostell (Author) | Performance, Script, Contemporary art, Drama and Performance studies / Permanent Collection |
 | The Theatre of Mixed Means; An Introduction to Happenings, Kinetic Environments, and other Mixed-Means Performances(New York, Dial Press., 1968) | Richard Kostelanetz, Claes Oldenburg (Contributor), John Cage (Contributor), Robert Rauschenberg (Contributor), La Monte Young (Contributor), Robert Whitman (Contributor), Allan Kaprow (Contributor), Ann Halprin (Contributor), Ken Dewey (Contributor) | Contemporary art, Happenings / Permanent Collection |
 | Plays with Films(Contra Mundum Press (2013), 324 pages, 2013) | Richard Foreman (Author), Rainer J. Hanshe (Editor), George Hunka (Introduction) | Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
| Stage makeup(New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts [1967], 1967) | Richard Corson | Permanent Collection, BAM Reading Room (2017) |
 | Nijinsky: A Life of Genius and Madness(Pegasus Books (2013), Edition: 1, 608 pages, 2013) | Richard Buckle (Author) | Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Li Kung-lin's "Classic of Filial Piety"(Metropolitan Museum of Art (2012), 176 pages, 2012) | Richard Barnhart (Author) | Bard2017 / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection |
 | Techno Casa(Los Angeles / Berlin: Errant Bodies Press, 2015) | Ricardo Benassi (Author), David Smith (Translator) | Music, Bilingual, Media studies, Italy and Italian language / Permanent Collection |
 | The Hour of Daydreams(Forest Avenue Press (2017), 232 pages, 2017) | Renee Macalino Rutledge (Author) | Permanent Collection |
 | Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge(St. Louis, MO: Dorothy, a publishing project, 2013) | Renee Gladman (Author), Gisela Insuaste (Cover artist) | Poetry, Architecture, American poetry -- 21st century / Permanent Collection |
 | Rene Ricard 1979-1980(Paris: Éditions Lutanie, 2018) | Rene Ricard (Artist), Gerard Malanga (Editor), Rachel Valinsky (Translator), Manon Lutanie (Translator) | Artist’s book, Poetry, Art, Translation / Permanent Collection |
 | The Tooth Fairy Meets El Ratón Pérez(Berkeley : Tricycle Press, c2010., 2010) | René Colato Laínez, Tom Lintern (Illustrator) | Picture book, Spanish language, Children's literature / Permanent Collection, Children's Library |
 | Thirteen(Simon & Schuster (Juv) (1994), 1994) | Remy Charlip (Author) | Permanent Collection, BAM Reading Room (2017) |
 | The Winter Garden Photograph(Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2019) | Reina María Rodríguez (Author), Rosa Alcalá, Kristin Dykstra (Translator), Nancy Gates Madsen (Translator) | Poetry, Photography, Cuban poetry -- 20th century / Permanent Collection |
 | Radicalism in the Wilderness: International Contemporaneity and 1960s Art in Japan(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016) | Reiko Tomii | 1960s, Art, Art history, Japan and Japanese language / Permanent Collection |
| Mountainislandglacier: Correspondence from Eyjafjallajökull(Berlin, DE: Broken Dimanche Press / Barcelona, ES: Ortomática, 2011) | Regina de Miguel (Editor), Alan Pauls (Contributor), Eduardo Hurtado (Contributor), Markus Miessen (Contributor), John Holten (Contributor), Emanuele Guidi (Contributor), Laurence Rassel (Contributor), Lorenzo Sandoval (Editor), Urszula Wozniak (Contributor), Antonio R. Montesinos (Contributor), Maria Ptquk (Contributor), Javier Fresneda (Contributor), Pavla Ascher (Contributor), Nicolas Malevé (Contributor), Santiago Eraso (Contributor), Juan Freire (Contributor) | 21st century, Europe, Politics, Essay, Visual culture, Borders and Border Studies / Permanent Collection |
 | Creative Development: Five Lectures to Art Students(London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962) | Reg Butler (Author) | Pedagogy, Art education / Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive |
 | River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West(New York: Penguin Books, 2004) | Rebecca Solnit (Author) | Technology, 19th century, American history, History, Review / Permanent Collection, BAM Reading Room (2017) |
 | Nonstop metropolis : a New York City atlas(Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016], 2016) | Rebecca Solnit, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro (Editor), Molly Roy | Bard2017 / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection |
 | Men Explain Things to Me(Haymarket Books (2015), Edition: Updated, 176 pages, 2015) | Rebecca Solnit (Author) | Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Television: Technology and Cultural Form(New York: Schocken Books, 1975 [c1974]) | Raymond Williams (Author) | Television, Pop culture, Communication studies / Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive |
 | Rashid Johnson: Sharpening My Oyster Knife(Bielefeld, DE: Kerber Verlag, 2009) | Rashid Johnson (Artist), Uwe Gellner (Editor) | Photography, American art, Monograph, Contemporary art, Bam2016, Figurative art and Portraiture / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | MMX(Paris: Éditions Lunatie, 2013) | Raphaele Godin, Manon Lutanie (Designer) | Photography, Monograph, Contemporary art / Permanent Collection |
 | Toys Redux: An Anthology on Play as Critical Action(Zurich, CH: JRP | Ringier, 2015) | Raphael Gygax (Editor), Alexander R. Galloway (Contributor), Esther Buss (Contributor), Welter. Judith (Editor), Hans Ulrich Reck (Contributor), Stephanie Wenger (Contributor) | Play, Essay, Critical theory, Art criticism / Permanent Collection |
| Arrow Factory: The Next Four Years(Beijing: Arrow Factory, 2015) | Rania Ho (Editor), Wei Wang (Editor), Pauline J. Yao (Editor), Danhua Wang (Translator), Kuangdi Chen (Translator), Juan Guo (Translator) | Site-specific art, Exhibition catalog, Chinese art, Installation art, Contemporary art, Museum studies / Permanent Collection |
| Table of Contents(Siobhan Davies Dance (2013), 31 pages, 2013) | Ramsey Burt (Author) | Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
