 | Inventory arousal(London : Bedford Press, c2011., 2011) | James Hoff, Danny Snelson | Bard2017 / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection |
 | The Social Life of the Book, No. 8: Crumpled, rumpled, crappy, tacky, raunchy, unconscious, whatever(Paris: Paraguay Press, 2015) | James Hoff (Author) | Memoir, Theory, Books about books, Music, Bard2018 / Permanent Collection, Bard Reading Room 2018 |
 | Weirde Sister(Portland, OR: Octopus Books, 2016) | James Gendron (Author) | Poetry, Review, American poetry -- 21st century / Permanent Collection |
 | Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017) | James Forman Jr. (Author) | Permanent Collection |
 | The predicament of culture : twentieth-century ethnography, literature, and art(Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1988., 1988) | James Clifford | Bard2017 / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection |
 | Collected Essays(New York: Library of America, 1998) | James Baldwin (Author), Tony Morrison (Editor) | Memoir, Non-fiction, Essay, Review, African American studies / Permanent Collection |
 | e-flux Journal: Forthcoming(Berlin / New York: Sternberg Press, 2014) | Jalal Toufic (Author), Anton Vidokle (Editor), Julieta Aranda (Editor), Brian Kuan Wood (Editor) | Philosophy, Anthology, Essay, Art theory, Critical theory, Political science, Art criticism / Permanent Collection |
 | NYC makers : the MAD makers biennial(New York : Museum of Arts and Design, c2014., 2014) | Jake Yuzna, Samantha De Tillio | Bard2017 / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection |
 | Cloud Chambers(New York: Temporary Agency, 2015) | Jake Davidson (Author), David Whelan (Author), Efi Callifatidi (Translator), Talc Design Studio (Designer) | Israel, Artist’s book, Contemporary art / Permanent Collection |
 | Bedtime Tales for Sleepless Nights(London: Fuel, 2012) | Jake Chapman (Author), Dinos Chapman (Author) | Monograph / Permanent Collection |
 | The Emancipated Spectator(London: Verso, 2011) | Jacques Rancière, Gregory Elliott (Translator) | Postmodernism, Politics, Essay, Art theory, Art criticism, Bam2016, Politically engaged / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Noise: The Political Economy of Music(Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2006 [c1985]) | Jacques Attali (Author), Fredric Jameson (Foreword), Brian Massumi (Translator), Susan McClary (Afterword) | Philosophy, Music, Politics, Noise / Permanent Collection, Render Visible |
 | One Sleeps the Other Doesn't(Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011) | Jacqueline Waters | Permanent Collection |
 | One Sleeps The Other Doesn't(Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011) | Jacqueline Waters | Poetry, American poetry -- 21st century, Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | The Undivided City(Eindhoven, NL: Onomatopee, 2012) | Jacqueline Schoemaker (Author), Freek Lomme (Editor) | Non-fiction, Essay, Architecture, Urban studies, Urban design / Permanent Collection |
 | Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales(Canterbury Classics (2011), Edition: Lea, 652 pages, 2011) | Jacob Grimm (Author) | BAM Reading Room (2017) |
 | Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs: A Tale from the Brothers Grimm (Sunburst Book)(Square Fish (1987), Edition: Sunburst Edition, 1987, 32 pages, 1987) | Jacob Grimm (Author), Randall Jarrell (Translator), Nancy Ekholm Burkert (Illustrator) | Permanent Collection |
 | Doings: Assorted Performance Pieces 1955-2002(New York: Granary Books, 2005) | Jackson Mac Low | 20th century, Poetry, Performance, Script, Score, Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | 154 forties(Denver, CO: Counterpath, 2012) | Jackson Mac Low, Anne Tardos | Poetry, Review, American poetry -- 20th century, Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Aphoria(Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Arts Press, 2013) | Jackie Clark (Author) | 21st century, United States, Poetry / Permanent Collection |
 | Richard Diebenkorn: Ocean Park(New York: Rizzoli, 1992) | Jack D. Flam | American art, Modernism, Painting, Art criticism / Permanent Collection |
 | One of a Kind(Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008) | Jack Micheline | Permanent Collection |
 | On the Road(Penguin Books (1999), 293 pages, 1999) | Jack Kerouac (Author) | Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | The Complete Collectors Guide to Bauer Pottery(Culver City, CA: California Spectrum, 1982) | Jack Chipman (Author), Judy Stangler (Author) | Collections, Pottery / Permanent Collection |
 | Jai-Alai Magazine Issue 3(Miami, FL: University of Wynwood Press, Fall 2015) | J.V. Portela (Editor), Sara Ryan (Contributor), Stephanie Strickland (Contributor), Scott Brennan (Contributor), Erik Campbell (Contributor), Jaswinder Bolina (Contributor), Michael Hettich (Contributor), Andre Bagoo (Contributor), Conceição Lima (Contributor), Daniel Borzutsky (Contributor), Juan Soros (Contributor), Julien Brogard (Contributor), Ian Honoré (Contributor), Cindy Becerra (Contributor), Justin Phillip Reed (Contributor), Maria Martinez-Caña (Contributor), Michael Angel Martin (Contributor), Ariel Francisco (Contributor), Lissa Batista (Contributor), Quinn Smith (Contributor), Aelana Curran (Contributor), Neil and Seaton de la Flor (Contributor), José Luis Rico (Contributor), Jillian Mayer (Contributor) | Poetry, Spanish language, Bilingual, Translation, Periodical / Permanent Collection |
 | The Playboy of the Western World and Two Other Irish Plays(Penguin Classics (1997), Edition: First Edition, 224 pages, 1997) | J. M. Synge (Author), W. A. Armstrong (Introduction) | BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Something Medieval(La Jolla, CA: Lingua Press, 1988) | J. K. Randall, Catherine Schieve (Cover artist) | Language and Linguistics, Poetry, Music / Permanent Collection |
 | Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915-2015(Prestel (2015), 264 pages, 2015) | Iwona Blazwick (Editor), Briony Fer (Contributor), Tanya Barson (Contributor), Tom McDonough (Contributor), Magnus af Petersens (Editor), Jiang Jiehong (Contributor) | Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | The Third Thing(Brooklyn: Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, 2016) | Ivy Johnson (Author), Kate Robinson (Author) | Poetry, Performance, American poetry -- 21st century / Permanent Collection |
 | In the Vineyard of the Text: A Commentary to Hugh's Didascalicon(University of Chicago Press (1996), 162 pages, 1996) | Ivan Illich (Author) | BAM Reading Room (2017) |