| Title | Author | Tags / Collections | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | The Shapes We Make With Our Bodies(New York: Plays Inverse Press, 2015) | Meg Whiteford (Author) | Poetry, Performance, Feminism and Feminist theory / BAM Reading Room (2017), Recovered books |
 | The Shape of Content(Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
 | The Shape of a Pocket(New York: Vintage, Random House, 2001) | John Berger (Author) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive |
 | The Shadow of Arms (New York, NY: Seven Stories Press, 2014) | Hwang Sok-Yong (Author), Chun Kyung-ja (Translator) | Vietnam War, Fiction, Korean literature / Permanent Collection |
| The Sexuality Spectrum(Publisher Unknown, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
 | The Sex Diary of a Metaphysician(Berkeley: Ronin Publishing, Inc., 1988 [c.1963]) | Colin Wilson (Author) | Fiction, Psychology, Sexuality / Permanent Collection, Carolyn Bush Library |
 | The seven most exciting hours of Mr. Trier's life in twenty-four chapters(Rotterdam, NL: Witte de With; Leuven, BE: STUK Kunstencentrum; Berlin, DE: Sternberg Press, 2008) | Keren Cytter (Author), Monika Szewczyk (Editor), Hillel Roman (Translator) | Fiction, Contemporary art, Artist writing / Permanent Collection |
 | The Seven Good Years: A Memoir(New York: Riverhead Books, 2016) | Etgar Keret (Author) | Memoir, Biography, Non-fiction / BAM Reading Room (2017), Recovered books |
 | THE SERVICE PORCH (Tuscon, AZ: Letter Machine Editions, 2016) | Fred Moten (Author), HG Hegnauer (Cover artist) | Poetry, American poetry -- 21st century / Permanent Collection |
 | The Serpent of Stars (Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2004) | Jean Giono (Author), Jody Gladding (Author) | France, Fiction / Permanent Collection |
 | 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 |
 | The Sense of Brown (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020) | José Esteban Muñoz (Author), Tavia Nyongó (Editor), Joshua Chambers-Letson (Editor) | Cultural studies, Critical theory, Collective, Queer theory, Latin American studies / Permanent Collection, inseparable assembly Reading Room |
 | The Selected poetry of Emilio Villa(New York: Contra Mundum Press, 2014) | Emilio Villa, Dominic Siracusa (Translator) | Poetry, Review, Bam2016, Italy and Italian language / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | The Selected Poems of Po Chü-I(New York: New Directions Publishing, 1999) | Juyi Bai, David Hinton (Translator) | Taoism, Poetry, Buddhism, Chinese poetry / Permanent Collection |
 | The selected letters of John Cage(Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2016], 2016) | John Cage, Laura Diane Kuhn | Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | The Seducer's Diary (London, UK: Penguin Books, 2007) | Søren Kierkegaard (Author), Alastair Hannay (Translator), Victor Eremita (Editor) | Fiction, Love and relationships, Romance |
 | The Secret Lives of Men and Women: A PostSecret Book(New York: William Morrow, 2007) | Frank Warren (Author) | Non-fiction, Art / BAM Reading Room (2017), Recovered books |
 | The Secret Life of Saeed, the Ill-fated Pessoptimist (London and New York: Readers International, 1985) | Emile Ḥabiby (Afterword), Salma Khadra Jayyusi (Translator), Trevor Le Gassick (Translator) | Israel, Fiction, Arabic literature, Palestine / Permanent Collection, Residency Collection, KAF Residency |
 | The Second World Congress of Free Artists (In Three Acts) (Brooklyn, NY: Camel Collective; Aarhus, Denmark: Kunsthal Aarhus, 2010) | Camel Collective (Author), Anthony Graves (Foreword), Tom McDonough (Contributor), Douglas Ross (Contributor), Gareth James (Contributor), Eva Diaz (Contributor), Sam Gould (Contributor), Red76 (Contributor), Lee H. Jones (Contributor), Sande Cohen (Contributor), Javier Toscano (Contributor), Anthony Davies (Contributor), Nils Norman (Contributor), Howard Slater (Contributor), Colin Lang (Contributor), Benj Gerdes (Contributor), Jennifer Hayashida (Contributor), Johannes Raether (Contributor), Ari Godwin Kollontai Hartz (Contributor), Andrea Creutz (Contributor), Sebastien Berthier (Contributor), Shirin Sabani (Contributor), Ashley Hunt (Contributor), Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen (Contributor), Temporary Institute for Witchpower (Contributor), Mónica Castillo (Contributor), Miklós Erhardt (Contributor), UKK (Young Artist Workers) (Contributor), Flo Maak (Contributor), Maarten Breum (Contributor), Zachary Cahill (Contributor), Mary Walling Blackburn (Contributor), Carlos Motta (Contributor), J. Morgan Puett (Contributor), C. Krydz Ikwuemesi (Contributor), Dario Azzellini (Contributor), Olivier Ressler (Contributor), Eduardo Abaroa (Contributor), Mirene Arsanios (Contributor), Michael Ashkin (Contributor), Sean Dockray (Contributor), rum46 (Contributor) | Play, Essay, Experimental, Collective, Essay collection, Experimental theatre, MoMA Reading Room, MoMA Reading Room 1 / Permanent Collection, MoMA Reading Room |
 | 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 |
| The Search for Alexander(New York Graphic Society, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
 | The Seabirds Are Still Alive (London, UK: Women's Press, 1997) | Toni Cade Bambara (Author) | Fiction, Black Studies, Collections, Short stories, African American fiction, Novella, African American literature / Residency Collection |
 | The Sea and the Bells(Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2002) | Pablo Neruda (Author), William O'Daly (Translator) | Chile, Poetry / Permanent Collection |
 | The Savage Detectives: A Novel (London, UK: Picador, 2008) | Roberto Bolaño (Author), Natasha Wimmer (Translator) | Mexico, Fiction / Permanent Collection, Where No Wall Remains |
 | The Sample Book (Vienna, Austria: Secession, 2016) | Yto Barrada (Artist) | Artist’s book, Design, Exhibition catalog, Art, Contemporary art, Fashion design, Textile and fiber arts, Bard2018, MoMA Reading Room / Permanent Collection, Bard Reading Room 2018, MoMA Reading Room |
 | The Salt Eaters (London, UK: Women's Press, 2000) | Toni Cade Bambara (Author) | American South, Fiction, Black Studies, African American fiction, African diaspora, African American literature / Residency Collection, Workshops |
 | The Saint-Makers (Merrick, NY: Cross Cultural Editions, 2008) | Paul M. Levitt (Author) | Religion, Fiction / Permanent Collection |
 | The Russian Version (Brooklyn: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2019) | Elena Fanaĭlova (Author), Genya Turovskaya (Translator), Stephanie Sandler (Translator), Alexandr Skidan (Introduction) | Poetry, Bilingual, Russian literature / Permanent Collection |
| The Russian Version(Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009) | Elena Fanailova | Permanent Collection |
 | The Run Home Book(Zurich, Germany: Nieves, 2014) | Susan Cianciolo (Author), Nakako Hayashi (Contributor), Wallace Lester (Contributor), Coulter Fussell (Contributor), Jasiu Krajewski (Contributor), Julio Espada (Contributor), Zoe Latta (Contributor), Hans Gullickson (Contributor), Jessica Ogden (Contributor) | Artist’s book, Photography, Fashion design, Bard2018 / Permanent Collection, Bard Reading Room 2018 |