 | Sensitive Geometries: Brazil 1950s–1980s(New York: Hauser & Wirth, 2013) | Claudia Saldanha (Author), Vincent William Gagliostro (Designer), Fabina Lopes (Translator) | Exhibition catalog, Modernism, Geometric abstraction, Brazilian art, Neo-Concretism / Permanent Collection |
 | The End of the Alphabet(New York: Grove Press, 2015) | Claudia Rankine (Author), Calvin Bedient (Introduction), Laura Hammond Hough (Designer) | African American poetry, American poetry -- 21st century / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection |
 | Citizen: An American Lyric(Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2014) | Claudia Rankine | African American poetry, Poetry, Essay, Race, Makhzin / Permanent Collection, Residency Collection, Makhzin |
 | Citizen: An American Lyric(Penguin UK (2015), Edition: Reprint, 2015) | Claudia Rankine (Author) | Bard2017 / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection |
 | Sound & Fury / Blunt Object(New York City: MoMA PS1, 2016) | Claudia Rankine (Author), Ronaldo V. Wilson (Author) | 21st century, New York, Poetry, Art criticism, Bard2017 / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection |
 | The End of the Alphabet(Grove Press (2015), Edition: Reprint, 128 pages, 2015) | Claudia Rankine (Author) | Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind(Albany, NY: Fence Books, 2015) | Claudia Rankine (Editor), Beth Loffreda (Editor), Max King Cap (Editor) | Essay, Letters, Race, African American studies, Art criticism, Bard2017 / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection |
 | Nothing in Nature is Private(Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland State University Poetry Centre, 1994) | Claudia Rankine, Nuala M. Archer (Editor), Thaddeus Root (Designer) | African American poetry, American poetry -- 21st century / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection |
 | Danspace Project Platform 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets(New York: Danspace Project, 2015) | Claudia La Rocco (Editor), Edwin Denby (Author), Fred Moten (Author), Judy Hussie-Taylor (Editor), Reid Bartelme (Author) | 21st century, New York, Performance, Dance, Bam2016 / Permanent Collection |
 | The Unmaking of Home in Contemporary Art(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017) | Claudette Lauzon (Author) | Politics, Art history, Immigration, Art theory, Contemporary art, Art criticism, Politically engaged / Permanent Collection |
 | Manchild in the Promised Land(Touchstone (2011), Edition: Reprint, 416 pages, 2011) | Claude Brown (Author), Nathan McCall (Introduction) | Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | This Time We Are Both(Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010) | Clark Coolidge (Author) | Review / Permanent Collection |
 | EN MAS': Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean(New York: Independent Curators International; New Orleans, LA: Contemporary Art Centre, 2015) | Claire Tancons (Editor), Shannon Jackson (Author), Krista Thompson (Editor), Neil Barclay (Author), Renaud Proch (Author) | 21st century, Art, Performance, Bam2016, Caribbean and Caribbean Studies / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Drawing Time, Reading Time (Drawing Room Gallery Exhibition Catalogues)(New York: The Drawing Center, 2015) | Claire Gilman (Author) | Permanent Collection, Cybernetics Conference |
 | Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship(London: Verso, 2012) | Claire Bishop (Author) | Politics, Art history, Contemporary art, Art criticism, Politically engaged / Permanent Collection |
 | Radical Museology: or, What's 'Contemporary' in Museums of Contemporary Art?(London, UK: Koenig Books, 2013) | Claire Bishop (Author), Dan Perjovschi (Illustrator) | Essay, Contemporary art, Art criticism, Museum studies, Institutional critique, Exhibition studies / Permanent Collection |
 | Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship(New York: Verso Books, 2012) | Claire Bishop (Author) | Performance, Bam2016, Participatory and Public art, Relational Aesthetics / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Urban Appetites: Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York (Historical Studies of Urban America)(University of Chicago Press (2014), Edition: Reprint, 288 pages, 2015) | Cindy R. Lobel (Author) | Bard2017 / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection |
 | Dolce Stil Oriollo: Tropical Opacity(São Paulo, BR: Something Always, 2017) | Christopher Ray Pérez (Editor), Leonardo Finotti (Contributor), Ricardo Domeneck (Contributor), Angélica Freitas (Contributor), Marwa Arsanios (Contributor), Jonathas de Andrade (Contributor), Mauricio Marcín (Contributor), Debora Delmar Corp. (Contributor), Hick Duarte (Contributor), Maurício Ianês (Contributor), Maru Calva (Contributor), Rafel Uriegas (Contributor), WAI Architecture Think Tank (Contributor) | Art, Politics, Photography, Colonialism, Contemporary art, Art criticism, Latin American studies, Ecology and Environmentalism / Permanent Collection |
 | Kindred Specters: Death, Mourning, and American Affinity(Minneapolis, MN: University Of Minnesota Press, 2007) | Christopher Peterson (Author) | Philosophy, American literature, Literary criticism, Queer, Review, Critical theory / Permanent Collection |
 | Rearview Mirror: New Art from Central & Eastern Europe(Alberta, Canada: Art Gallery of Alberta; Toronto, Canada: The Power Plant, 2011) | Christopher Eamon (Editor), Gregory Burke (Foreword), Catherine Crowston (Foreword), Andrzej Szczerski (Contributor), Zoran Erić (Contributor) | Eastern Europe, Exhibition catalog, Contemporary art, Film and Film Studies / Permanent Collection |
 | The Father of the Arrow is the Thought(Portland, OR: Octopus Books, 2015) | Christopher DeWeese (Author) | Poetry, American poetry -- 21st century / Permanent Collection |
 | Bibliothèque d'un amateur: Richard Prince's Publications 1981-2014.(Paris/Fogilno: Christophe Daviet-Thery and Viandustriae Publishing, 2014) | Christophe Daviet-Thery (Editor), Richard Prince (Author), Jerome Saint-Loubert Bie (Editor) | Books about books, Exhibition catalog, Art books, Bard2018 / Permanent Collection, Bard Reading Room 2018 |
 | Print/out : 20 years in print(New York, N.Y. : Museum of Modern Art : Distributed in the United States and Canada by Artbook/D.A.P., 2012., 2012) | Christophe Cherix, Kim Conaty, Sarah J. S. Suzuki | Bard2017 / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection |
 | Christoph Schlingensief(Köln, Germany: Walther König, 2014) | Christoph Schlingensief (Artist), Elfriede Jelinek (Contributor), Alexander Kluge (Contributor), Klaus Biesenbach (Editor), Laurence Kardish (Contributor), Chris Dercon (Contributor), Tilda Swinton (Contributor), Susanne Pfeffer (Editor), Anna-Catharina Gebbers (Editor), Aino Laberenz (Editor) | Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music(New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017) | Christoph Cox (Editor), William S. Burroughs (Author), Mark Slouka (Author), Umberto Eco (Author), Simon Reynolds (Author), Jacques Barzun (Author), Marshall McLuhan (Author), Iain Chambers (Author), John Cage (Author), Glenn Gould (Author), Theodor Adorno (Author), Karlheinz Stockhausen (Author), Brian Eno (Author), Brian Eno (Author), Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (Author), Hanns Eisler (Author), David Toop (Author), David Toop (Author), Kodwo Eshun (Author), R. Murray Schafer (Author), Morton Feldman (Author), Daniel Warner (Editor), Derek Bailey (Author), Cornelius Cardew (Author), Steve Reich (Author), George Lewis (Author), Michael Nyman (Author), Luigi Russolo (Author), Susan McClary (Author), Henry Cowell (Author), Kyle Gann (Author), John Zorn (Author), Tony Conrad (Author), Wim Mertens (Author), Mary Russo (Author), Christian Marclay (Author), John Oswald (Author), Chris Cutler (Author), Francisco Lopez (Author), Pierre Schaeffer (Author), Pauline Oliveros (Author), Paul D. Miller (Author), Anthony Braxton (Author), Frederic Rzewski (Author), Edgard Varèse (Author), Ben Neill (Author), Earle Brown (Author), J.K. Randall (Author), Philip Sherburne (Author), Ola Stockfelt (Author), Yasunao Tone (Author), Kim Cascone (Author), Jack Attali (Author), Omette Coleman (Author) | 20th century, History, Music, Sound / Permanent Collection, Render Visible |
 | The Aesthetics of Disengagement: Contemporary Art and Depression(Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2006) | Christine Ross (Author) | 21st century, Art history, Mental health, Art theory, Contemporary art, Art criticism / Permanent Collection |
 | Acts Of Voicing: On the Poetics and Politics of the Voice(Spector Books (2015), Edition: Bilingual, 555 pages, 2015) | Christine Peters (Editor), Iris Dressler (Editor) | Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | The Collected Knitwork of Loes Veenstra(Rotterdam: Stichting Kunstimplantaat, 2012) | Christien Meindertsma (Author) | Review, Fashion design, Material studies, Textile and fiber arts, Bard2018 / Permanent Collection, Bard Reading Room 2018 |
 | Honest James(Brooklyn: The Song Cave, 2015) | Christian Schlegel (Author) | 21st century, Poetry |