| Title | Author | Tags / Collections | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | A Burst of Light: And Other Essays (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2017) | Audre Lorde (Author), Sonia Sanchez (Foreword), Jen Keenan (Illustrator) | Collections, African American studies, Black Feminism, Feminism and Feminist theory / Residency Collection |
 | A Certain Lucas (New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984) | Julio Cortázar (Author), Gregory Rebassa (Translator) | Fiction, Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | A Choreographer's Score: Fase, Rosas danst Rosas, Elena's Aria, Bartok(Brussels: Mercatorfonds and Rosas, 2012) | Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker (Author), Bojana Cvejic (Author) | 21st century, Performance, Dance, Score, Bam2016 / Permanent Collection |
 | A Cien Mil Watts (Buenos Aires: Huesos de Jibia, 2011) | Germán Weissi (Author), Walter Cassara (Editor), Nat Filippini (Designer) | Argentinian Literature, Latin American Poetry, Argentina / Permanent Collection |
 | A Collection of Watches Loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of the City of New York(The Gilliss Press, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
| A Complicated Marriage: My Life with Clement Greenberg(Counterpoint, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
 | A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (New York: Nan A. Talese/ Doubleday, 2007) | Xiaolu Guo (Author) | Fiction, Immigration / Permanent Collection |
| A Concise History of Posters: 1870-1970(Harry N. Abrams, Inc., ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
 | A crow and a magpie (Seoul, KR: mediabus, 2022) | Hyungjin Park (Author) | Exhibition catalog, Painting / Permanent Collection, Yellow Pen Club |
A Cure for Suicide: A Novel (New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 2015) | Jesse Ball (Author) | Fiction, American Fiction -- 21st century / Permanent Collection | |
 | A Day as a Disappearance (Seoul, KR; Rasun Press, 2022) | Boma Pak (Artist) | Water, Artist’s book / Permanent Collection, Yellow Pen Club |
 | a day pulls down the sky / a filament in gold leaf (Brooklyn, NY: Belladona* Collaborative, 2019) | Okwui Okpokwasili (Author), Asiya Wadud (Author) | Poetry, Music, Artist poet collaboration / Permanent Collection, inseparable assembly Reading Room |
| A Documentary History of Art Volume I: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance(Doubleday & Company, Inc., ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
| A Documentary History of Art Volume II: Michelangelo and the Mannerists: The Baroque and the Eighteenth Century(Doubleday & Company, Inc., ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
 | A Fair to Meddling Story (Stuttgart, Germany: Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, 2008) | Ken Okiishi (Artist), Nick Mauss (Artist), John Johnston (Contributor) | Artist’s book, Exhibition catalog, Photography, Video art / Permanent Collection, Dan Fox Collection |
 | A Fortunate Man(Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1969) | John Berger (Author), Jean Mohr (Author) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive |
 | A Gathering, 1980-2005(Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2005) | Kiki Smith (Author), Linda Nochlin (Author), Siri Engberg (Author) | Exhibition catalog, Sculpture, Monograph, Contemporary art, Figurative art and Portraiture / Permanent Collection |
 | A Gesture Waves Us on, Answering Our Own Wave(Produzioni Nero (2014), 72 pages, 2014) | Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection | |
| A Guide to New York City Museums(Publisher Unknown, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
 | A Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer (Cambridge, MA; Wakefield Press, 2013) | Pierre Mac Orlan (Author), Napoleon Jeffries (Translator) | French literature, Fiction / Permanent Collection |
| A History of Aesthetic: From the Greeks to the 20th Century(Meridian Books, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
| A History of American Art in Two Volumes(Tudor Publishing Company, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
| A History of Art: Ancient Art(Garden City Publishing Company, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
| A History of Art: Medieval Art(Garden City Publishing Company, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
| A History of Art: The Spirit of Forms(Garden City Publishing Company, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
 | A History of Communism(Göttingen: Steidl; London: Alan Cristea Gallery, 2014) | Jim Dine (Author) | Exhibition catalog, Monograph, Contemporary art / Permanent Collection |
| A History of Far Eastern Art(Harry N. Abrams Inc., ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
 | A History of Reading(Penguin Books (2014), Edition: Revised, 384 pages, 2014) | Alberto Manguel (Author) | BAM Reading Room (2017) |
 | A Hundred Thousand Hours (Brooklyn: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013) | Gro Dahle (Author), Rebecca Wadlinger (Translator) | Norway, Scandinavia, Poetry, Translation, Prose / Permanent Collection |
 | A Joyous Revolt: Toni Cade Bambara, Writer and Activist (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2014) | Linda Janet Holmes (Author) | Biography, Non-fiction, Black Studies, African American studies, African American literature, Black Feminism / Residency Collection, Workshops |