 | The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003) | Jonathan Sterne | Technology, Sound, Modernism, Music history, Radio, Media studies, Aural history / Permanent Collection |
 | Motherless Brooklyn(New York : Vintage Contempories, ©1999., 1999) | Jonathan Lethem | Bard2017 / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection |
 | Three Essays(Santa Monica, CA: White Wine Press / Madrid: Distrito Cu4tro Galeria de Arte, 2006) | Jonathan Lasker (Author), Elena González (Translator) | Essay, Spanish language, Painting, Art criticism / Permanent Collection |
 | The Twenty First Century Art Book(London, Phaidon Press, 2014) | Jonathan Griffin | 21st century, Art / Permanent Collection |
 | Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture(Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001) | Jonathan Crary (Author), Yve-Alain Bois, George Baker, Leah Dickerman, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh | Philosophy, Sociology, Review, Critical theory / Permanent Collection |
 | To Petrarca: Who Walked Over the Hills of Provence(Paris, FR: Dis Voir, 2009) | Jonas Mekas (Artist) | Permanent Collection |
 | Body Searches(Berlin, Germany: Broken Dimanche Press, 2013) | Jon Stale Ritland (Author), John Holten (Translator), Ida Bencke (Translator), Birger Fr. Motzfeldt Laane, Eirik Sordal (Translator) | Phenomenology, Science, Poetry, Body and Body Politics / Permanent Collection |
 | Content(Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011) | Jon Leon | Permanent Collection |
 | Elizabeth Zoe Lindsay Drink Fanta(New York City: Content, 2011) | Jon Leon (Author) | Poetry, Photography, Visual culture |
 | Coming After: Queer Time, Arriving Too Late and the Spectre of the Recent Past(Toronto: Power Plant, 2012) | Jon Davies, Sharon Hayes (Contributor), Zoe Leonard (Contributor), Ulrike Müller (Contributor), Jimmy Robert (Contributor), Logan MacDonald (Illustrator) | Exhibition catalog, Performance, Queer, Contemporary art, Video art / Permanent Collection |
 | The Social Life of the Book, No. 5: Die Toilette(Paris: Paraguay Press, 2014) | Jon Bywater (Author), Louise Menzies (Author), Marnie Slater (Author) | Theory, Books about books, Fragments, Bard2018 / Permanent Collection, Bard Reading Room 2018 |
 | Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community(Los Angeles: AMMO Books, 2017) | John and Todd Oldham Chaich (Editor) | Queer, Contemporary art, Textile and fiber arts, Bard2018 / Permanent Collection, Bard Reading Room 2018 |
 | Ing Grish: poems(Philadelphia: Saturnalia Books., 2005) | John Yau (Author), Barry Schwabsky (Introduction), Thomas Nozkowski (Illustrator) | Poetry, Contemporary art, Asian American poetry, Erizo Residency, Artist poet collaboration / Permanent Collection, Erizo Residency |
| Mr. Z, Mrs. Z, J. Z, S. Z(Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011) | John Surowiecki | Permanent Collection |
| Further Adventures of My Nose(Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2005) | John Surowiecki | Permanent Collection |
 | The Intangibilities of Form: Skill and Deskilling in Art After the Readymade(London: Verso, 2007) | John Roberts | Aesthetics, Anthropology, Marxism, Labor, Conceptual art, Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Nau Sea Sea Sick(London: Four Corners Books, 2010) | John Moore (Author), Katherine Mansfield (Author), Stephen Crane (Author), Isabella L. Bird (Author), Eileen Myles (Author), Kay Rosen (Illustrator), John Aaron Rosen (Author) | Fiction / Permanent Collection |
 | Vivian Maier: A Photographer Found(Harper Design (2014), Edition: First Edition, 288 pages, 2014) | John Maloof (Author) | Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | City of Corners(Seattle / New York: Wave Books, 2008) | John Godfrey (Author) | 21st century, United States, Poetry / Permanent Collection |
 | Sun Ra & Ayé Aton: Space, Interiors and Exteriors 1972(New York: PictureBox, 2013) | John Corbett (Author), Glenn Ligon (Introduction) | |
 | John Cage Book of Days 2012(Red Hook, NY: The John Cage Trust, 2011) | John Cage (Author), Laura Kuhn (Editor) | 20th century, Artist’s book, Food, American art, Performance, Bard2017 / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection |
 | Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition(Wesleyan (2013), Edition: Anniversary, 312 pages, 2013) | John Cage (Author), Kyle Gann (Contributor) | Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, 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 Shape of a Pocket(New York: Vintage, Random House, 2001) | John Berger (Author) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive |
 | Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist in the USSR(New York: Pantheon Books, 1969) | John Berger (Author) | Modernism, Sculpture / Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive |
 | A Fortunate Man(Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1969) | John Berger (Author), Jean Mohr (Author) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive |
 | About Looking(New York: Pantheon Books, 1980) | John Berger (Author) | Art history, Art theory, Visual culture / Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive |
 | The Look of Things(New York: The Viking Press, 1974 [c.1971]) | John Berger (Author), Nikos Stangos (Introduction) | Art history, Modernism, Visual culture / Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive |
 | 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 |
 | Ways of Seeing(New York: British Broadcasting Company and Penguin Books, 1972) | John Berger (Author) | Art history, Modernism, Visual culture / Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive |
