| Title | Author | Tags / Collections | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 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 Cure for Suicide: A Novel (New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 2015) | Jesse Ball (Author) | Fiction, American Fiction -- 21st century / Permanent Collection | |
| 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) | Exhibition catalog, Photography, Video art, Artist book / 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) | Your library, 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 |
| A Model For Aesthetic Response in the Arts(CEMREL INC., ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
 | A Most Ambiguous Sunday (Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2013) | Jung Young Moon (Author), Jung Yewon (Translator), Inrae You Vinciguerra (Translator), Louis Vinciguerra (Translator) | Fiction, Korean literature / Permanent Collection |
| A New Deal for Public Art: Murals From Federal Work Programs Organized by New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation Public Arts Program. In collaboration with The Bronx Museum of the Arts(Bronx Museum of Art, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
 | A New Nation of Goods : the Material Culture of Early America (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010) | David Jaffee (Afterword) | American history, Capitalism, Bard2017 / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection |
 | A New Republic(New York: Brooklyn Museum in association with DelMonico Books & Prestel, 2015) | Kehinde Wiley (Author), Eugenie Tsai (Editor), Kehinde Wiley (Author), Connie H. Choi (Contributor) | African American art, Brooklyn Museum, Exhibition catalog, Painting, Makhzin / Permanent Collection, Residency Collection, Makhzin |
 | A Nuclear Family(Brooklyn, NY: UpSet Press, 2014) | April Naoko Heck (Author) | Poetry, Review, American poetry -- 21st century / Permanent Collection |
 | A Painter of Our Time(London; Baltimore, MD: Secker & Warburg and Penguin Books, 1958) | John Berger (Author) | Art history, Modernism / Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive |
 | A Performance Cycle: Archiving, Gathering, Exhibiting, Recounting, Remembering, Loving, Desiring, Ordering, Mapping(Rome: Nero, 2011) | Cecilia Canziani (Editor), Mieke Bal (Author), Giorgio Agamben (Author), Adrian Rifkin (Author), Ilaria Gianni (Editor) | Exhibition catalog, Performance, Contemporary art, Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room (2016), Permanent Collection |