 | Vicissitudes of the Visual Imaginary(Santa Monica, CA: White Wine Press / Madrid: Distrito Cu4tro Galeria de Arte, 2007) | Ana Tiscornia (Author), Kevin Power (Editor), Amanda Nolen (Translator) | Essay, Art history, Spanish language, Art criticism / Permanent Collection |
 | My Dead(Portland, OR: Octopus Books, 2013) | Amy Lawless (Author) | Death, Poetry, American poetry -- 21st century / Permanent Collection |
 | Performing the body/performing the text(London ; New York : Routledge, 1999., 1999) | Amelia Jones, Andrew Stephenson | Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Performing the Body/Performing the Text(London/New York: Routledge, 1999) | Amelia Jones (Editor), Amelia Jones (Contributor), Coco Fusco (Contributor), Jonathan Katz (Contributor), Lisa Bloom (Contributor), Peggy Phelan (Contributor), Donald Preziosi (Contributor), Michael Hatt (Contributor), Andrew Stephenson (Editor), Andrew Stephenson (Contributor), Reina Lewis (Contributor), Philip Ursprung (Contributor), Karen Lang (Contributor), Joanna Lowry (Contributor), Gavin Butt (Contributor), Christine Poggi (Contributor), Meiling Cheng (Contributor), Fionna Barber (Contributor), Nao Bustamante (Contributor), Jennifer DeVere Brody (Contributor), Barbar U. Schmidt (Contributor), B. J. Wray (Contributor) | Race, Performance, Critical theory, Body and Body Politics, Feminism and Feminist theory / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Ordinary Cruelty(Write Bloody Publishing (2017), 100 pages, 2017) | Amber Flame (Author) | Permanent Collection |
 | Handiwork(New Hampshire: Slope Editions, 2012) | Amaranth Claire Borsuk | Poetry / Permanent Collection |
 | Amalia Pica(Cambridge, MA: MIT List Visual Arts Center; Chicago, IL: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; New York, NY: Copublished and distributed by ARTBOOK D.A.P., 2013) | Amalia Pica (Author), Julie Rodrigues Widholm (Editor), João Ribas (Editor) | Exhibition catalog, Monograph / Permanent Collection |
 | Amkoullel, l'Enfant Peul(Paris: Éditions J'ai Lu, 2007) | Amadou Bâ Hampâté (Author) | African literature, Fiction, African diaspora, French language, African fiction / Permanent Collection |
 | Love Is Like Park Avenue(New York: New Directions, 2009) | Alvin Levin (Author) | American literature, New York, Fiction, American fiction -- 20th century / Permanent Collection |
 | Deathbound subjectivity(Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1989., 1989) | Alphonso Lingis | Permanent Collection, BAM Reading Room (2017) |
 | My Name Is María Isabel(New York, NY: Atheneum (Macmillan); Toronto, ONT: Maxwell Macmillan Canada, 1993., 1993) | Alma Flor Ada, Kathryn Dyble Thompson (Illustrator), Ana M. Cerro (Translator) | Fiction, Children's literature / Permanent Collection, Children's Library |
 | I Love Saturdays y domingos(New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2002., 2002) | Alma Flor Ada, Elivia Savadier (Illustrator) | Picture book, Spanish language, Children's literature / Permanent Collection, Children's Library |
 | The City Amplified: Oral Histories and Radical Archives(New York: The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2019) | Allison Guess (Editor), Prithi Kanakamedala (Editor), Maggie Schreiner (Author), Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz (Author), Samip Mallick (Author), Sady Sullivan (Author), Rebecca Amato (Author), Molly Garfinkel (Author), Yvette Ramírez (Author), Walis Johnson (Author), Hatuey Ramos-Fermín (Author), Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani (Author) | New York, Education, Community, Oral History, Archives / Permanent Collection |
 | Breathless: Sound Recording, Disembodiment, and the Transformation of Lyrical Nostalgia(Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2002) | Allen S. Weiss (Author) | Literary criticism, Sound, Performance, Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Drawing(New York: Christine Burgin, 2014) | Allen Ruppersberg (Author), Leslie Jones (Contributor) | American art, Drawing, Conceptual art, Monograph / Permanent Collection |
 | Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets, No. 4)(City Lights Publishers (2001), Edition: Reissue, 57 pages, 2001) | Allen Ginsberg (Author) | BAM Reading Room (2017) |
 | Allan Kaprow: Fluids(Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2005) | Allan Kaprow (Artist) | Switzerland, Artist’s book, American art, Conceptual art, Review, Happenings / Permanent Collection |
 | In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose(Mariner Books (2004), Edition: Reprint, 418 pages, 2003) | Alice Walker (Author) | Prose, Womanism, Black Feminism / BAM Reading Room (2017) |
 | Octopus Notes #9(PARIS: Éditions octopus notes, 2019) | Alice Dusapin (Editor), Justin Jaeckle, Marc Touitou (Designer), Cecile Poulot (Translator), Martin Laborde (Editor), Baptiste Pinteaux (Editor) | Art, Essay, Interview, Periodical, Review / Permanent Collection |
 | Re-Materialising Feminism(London: Arcadia Missa Publications, 2014) | Alice Brooke (Editor), Farkas Rozsa, Giulia Smith (Editor) | Politics, Gender, Review, Feminism and Feminist theory / Permanent Collection, BAM Reading Room (2017) |
 | Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from L.A.(Los Angeles, CA: Hammer Museum, 2009) | Ali Subotnick (Editor), Ann Philbin (Foreword), Julie Becker (Contributor), Llyn Foulkes (Contributor), Hirsch Perlman (Contributor), Charles Irvin (Contributor) | Surrealism, Los Angeles, 20th century, Exhibition catalog, American art, Contemporary art / Permanent Collection |
 | A Poem for Record Keepers(Argos Books (2016), 79 pages, 2016) | Ali Power (Author) | Bard2017 / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection |
 | Tonight No Poetry Will Serve(Helsinki, Finland: Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, 2014) | Alfredo Jaar (Author), Patrik Nyberg (Editor), Jari-Pekka Vanhala (Editor) | Politics, Photography, Monograph, Contemporary art / Permanent Collection |
 | The Search for Meaning in Modern Art(Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall Ink, 1964) | Alfred Neumeyr (Author), Sir Herbert Read (Introduction) | 20th century, Art history, Modernism, Art criticism / Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive |
 | DIMEADON(Tercer Mundo, 2016) | Alexandro Chaparro (Author), Juan Herrera | Photography, Spanish language, Review, Social documentary photography, Politically engaged / Permanent Collection |
 | New Paintings 2014-2016(New York: Cooperative Editions, 2017) | Alexandria Tarver | Artist’s book, Illustration, Art, Drawing, Painting, Contemporary art / Permanent Collection |
 | Gutai: Splendid Playground(Guggenheim Museum (2013), Edition: First, 316 pages, 2013) | Alexandra Munroe (Author), Gutai (Artist) | Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Alexandra Leykauf(Roma Publications (2016), 240 pages, 2016) | Alexandra Leykauf (Author) | Artist’s book, Art, Photography, Bard2018 / Permanent Collection, Bard Reading Room 2018 |
 | Bas Jan Ader: Death Is Elsewhere(Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2015 [c2013]) | Alexander Dumbadze (Author) | Los Angeles, California, Biography, Art history, Conceptual art, Monograph, Artist biography, Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Brief Chronicle, Books 6-8(Brooklyn, NY: 3 Hole Press, 2017) | Alexander Borinsky (Author), Amina Cain (Introduction) | Play, American drama -- 21st century, Publishing performance / Permanent Collection |
