 | Permanent Red: Essays in Seeing(London: Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative, 1960) | John Berger (Author) | Art history, Modernism, Visual culture / Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive |
 | The Sense of Sight(New York: Pantheon Books, 1985) | John Berger (Author), Lloyd Spencer (Editor) | Art history, Modernism, Visual culture / Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive |
 | Pig Earth(New York: Pantheon Books, 1979) | John Berger (Author) | Fiction / Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive |
 | Railtracks(Berkeley : Counterpoint, [2012], 2012) | John Berger, Anne Michaels (Author), Tereza Stehlíková | Bard2017 / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection |
 | Success and Failure of Picasso(Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1965) | John Berger (Author) | Modernism / Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive |
 | Flow Chart: A Poem(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992) | John Ashbery (Author) | American poetry -- 20th century, Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Selected Prose(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004) | John Ashbery (Author), Eugene Richie (Editor) | Poetry / Permanent Collection |
 | Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror(New York: Penguin Books, 1990) | John Ashbery (Author) | Poetry, American poetry -- 20th century / Permanent Collection |
 | Astroecology(Argos Books, 2017) | Johannes J Helden (Author), Elizabeth Clark Wessel (Translator), Kirkwood Adams (Translator) | Swedish poetry, Poetry, Photography, Drawing, Painting, Review / Permanent Collection |
 | No Place Like Home: Locations of Heimat in German Cinema(Los Angeles / Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005) | Johannes Von Moltke (Author) | History, Review, Film and Film Studies, Germany and German Language / Permanent Collection |
 | The Artist As A Cabdriver - A Methodological Journey With Jeff Perkins(Nero (2015), 216 pages, 2015) | Johanna Viprey (Author) | Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | 40: Forty Years At the ICA(Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, 2005) | Johanna Plummer (Editor), Lisa Yuskavage (Author), Laurie Anderson (Author), Judith Tannenbaum (Author), Janet Kardon (Author), Ann Hamilton (Author), Suzanne Delehanty (Author), Claudia Gould (Author), Judith Stein (Author), Richard Artschwager (Author), Patrick T. Murphy (Author), Sam Green (Author), Tristin Lowe (Author), Gabriel Martinez (Author), Virgil Marti (Author) | History, Non-fiction, Essay, Art history, Interview, Contemporary art / Permanent Collection |
 | Surprised by French Fries(Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011) | Joel Dailey | Permanent Collection |
 | No Real Light(Seattle, WA / New York: Wave Books, 2007) | Joe Wenderoth | Poetry, American poetry -- 21st century / Permanent Collection |
 | Letters to Wendy's(Athens, GA: Verse Press, 2000) | Joe Wenderoth (Author) | Memoir, Poetry, Essay, Letters, Review / Permanent Collection |
 | Danspace Project Platform 2011: Body Madness: Absurdity, Wit, Rhythm, Humor(New York: Danspace Project, 2011) | Jodi Bender (Editor), David Parker (Curator), Ursula Eagly (Curator), Ana Isabel Keilson (Author) | 21st century, New York, Performance, Dance, Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Bruit de Fond / Background Noise(Paris, France: JSBJ - Je Suis une Brande de Jeunes, August 2010) | Joël Vacheron (Author), Aurélien Arbet (Curator), Viviane S. Morey (Translator), Jérémie Egry (Curator), Nicolas Poillot (Curator) | France, Exhibition catalog, Photography, Sound, French language, Contemporary art / Permanent Collection |
 | FAX(The Drawing Center/ Independent Curators International (2009), 182 pages, 2009) | João Ribas (Author), Claire Fontaine (Contributor), Mel Bochner (Contributor), Dan Graham (Contributor), Edward Tufte (Contributor), Dexter Sinister (Contributor), Ryan Gander (Contributor), Wade Guyton (Contributor), Michalis Pichler (Contributor) | Bard2017 / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection |
 | Women of Abstract Expressionism(Denver, CO: Denver Art Museum; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016) | Joan Marter (Editor), Christoph Heinrich (Foreword), Ellen G. Landau (Contributor), Robert Hobbs (Contributor), Susan Landauer (Contributor), Gwen F. Chanzit (Introduction), Joan Marter (Contributor), Aliza Edelman, Jesse Laird Ortega | Exhibition catalog, Painting, Abstraction / Permanent Collection |
 | I Myself Am Only a Receiving Apparatus(Cologne, GE: Buchhandlung Walther König, 2012) | Joachim Koester (Author), Linda Norden (Contributor), Veit Görner (Contributor), Marco Pasi (Contributor), Anders Kreuger (Editor), Kristin Schrader (Contributor), Magali Arriola (Contributor), Frédérique Bergholtz (Contributor), Martiin Germann (Contributor), Yann Chateigné Tytelman (Contributor) | Exhibition catalog, Performance, Review, Drama and Performance studies, Film and Film Studies, Magic and occult / Permanent Collection, BAM Reading Room (2017) |
 | ¿Verdad o mentira?(COLOFON, S.A. (2013), 2013) | Jimmy Liao (Author) | Picture book, Spanish language, Children's literature / Children's Library |
 | Poems That Do Not Go Together(London: Edition Hansjörg Mayer, 2013) | Jimmie Durham (Artist), Barbara Wien (Editor), Wilma Lukatsch (Editor) | Poetry / Permanent Collection |
 | Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear(New York: Carroll & Graf, 2003) | Jim Steinmeyer (Author), Teller (Foreword) | History, Performance, Review, Pop culture, Magic and occult / Permanent Collection, BAM Reading Room (2017) |
 | Love and Hydrogen: New and Selected Stories(New York: Vintage Books, 2004) | Jim Shepard (Author) | American literature, Fiction, Review, American Fiction -- 21st century / Permanent Collection, BAM Reading Room (2017) |
 | A History of Communism(Göttingen: Steidl; London: Alan Cristea Gallery, 2014) | Jim Dine (Author) | Exhibition catalog, Monograph, Contemporary art / Permanent Collection |
 | Cartographic grounds : projecting the landscape imaginary(New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2016., 2016) | Jil Desimini, Charles Waldheim | Bard2017 / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection |
 | My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir(Scribner (2017), 272 pages, 2017) | Jessica B. Harris (Author) | Permanent Collection |
 | The American Way of Death Revisited(Vintage (2000), Edition: Reprint, 320 pages, 2000) | Jessica Mitford (Author) | Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Avalon(New York City: Peradam Press, 2012) | Jessica Calvanico | Poetry, Script, American poetry -- 21st century / Permanent Collection |
 | Sleep, Death's Brother(Brooklyn, NY: Pioneer Works Press, 2017) | Jesse Ball (Author) | Fiction, American Fiction -- 21st century / Permanent Collection, Take Shape |