 | The Future of Nostalgia(Basic Books (2002), Edition: First Trade Paper Edition, 432 pages, 2002) | Svetlana Boym (Author) | BAM Reading Room (2017) |
 | Fransje Killaars (English and Dutch Edition)(Rotterdam, Netherlands: nai010 publishers, 2013) | Sven Lütticken (Author), Bianca Stigter (Contributor), Fransje Kilaars (Artist), Sven Lütticken (Contributor) | Art, Bilingual, Monograph, Contemporary art, Textile and fiber arts, Bard2018 / Permanent Collection, Bard Reading Room 2018 |
 | Empire of Cotton: A Global History(New York: Knopf, 2015) | Sven Beckert (Author) | American history, History, Review / Permanent Collection |
 | The Reenchantment of Art(New York, N.Y: Thames and Hudson, 1992) | Suzi Gablik (Author) | 21st century / Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive |
 | Leaving Art: Writings on Performance, Politics, and Publics, 1974-2007(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010) | Suzanne Lacy (Author), Kerstin Mey (Afterword), Moira Roth (Introduction) | 20th century, California, Performance, Art criticism, Artist writing, Participatory and Public art / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Reflections on Art: A Sourcebook of Writings by Artists, Critics, and Philosophers(New York: Oxford University Press, 1961 [c1958]) | Susanne K. Langer (Editor) | Philosophy, Aesthetics, Art theory, Artist writing / Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive |
 | Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism in Reason, Rite, and Art(New York: The New American Library, 1959 [c.1942]) | Susanne K. Langer (Author) | Philosophy / Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive |
 | Bad reputation: Performances, Essays, Interviews(Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2009) | Susana Ventura, Chris Kraus (Author), Sarah Schulman (Author), Penny Arcade (Artist), Stephen Bottoms (Afterword), Ken Bernard (Foreword) | New York, 20th century, Performance, Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Richard Segalman: Black & White: Muses, Magic & Monotypes(New York: The Artist Book Foundation, 2015) | Susan Forrest Castle (Author) | Painting, Monograph, Contemporary art, Figurative art and Portraiture / Permanent Collection |
 | Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power(Durham: Duke University Press, 2016., 2016) | Susan E. Cahan | African American art, 20th century, Race, Museum studies / Permanent Collection |
| Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963(New York: Picador, 2009) | Susan Sontag (Author) | Philosophy, Biography, Non-fiction / BAM Reading Room (2017), Recovered books |
 | My Emily Dickinson(New York : New Directions, c2007., 2007) | Susan Howe | Bard2017 / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection |
| My Emily Dickinson (New Directions Paperbook)(New Directions (2007), Edition: Reissue, 160 pages, 2007) | Susan Howe (Author) | Permanent Collection |
 | The Provisional Texture of Reality: Selected Texts and Talks, 1977-2007(Zurich, CH: JRP | Ringier, 2008) | Susan Hiller (Artist), Alexandra Kokoli (Editor) | Anthology, 20th century, American art, Criticism and interpretation, Bard2017, Artist writing / Bard Reading Room (2017), 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 |
 | Prophetika(New York: Kicks Books, 2014) | Sun Ra (Author), Charles Plymell (Foreword), Miriam Linna (Editor), Patrick Broderick (Designer), Phast Phreddie Patterson (Introduction) | African American poetry, Poetry, Jazz, Review, African American literature, Afrofuturism / Permanent Collection |
 | Other Musics(New York City: MoMA PS1, 2016) | Sukhdev Sandhu (Author) | New York, Music, Contemporary art, Art criticism, Bard2017 / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection |
 | Feminism and theatre(New York : Methuen, 1988., 1988) | Sue-Ellen Case | Permanent Collection, BAM Reading Room (2017) |
 | Rites of passage : art for the end of the century(London : Tate Gallery Publications, 1995., 1995) | Stuart Morgan, Frances Morris | Bard2017 / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection, Andrea Rosen Gallery |
 | All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture(New York: Basic Books (Harper Collins), 1988) | Stuart Ewen (Author) | Aesthetics, Media studies, Visual culture / Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive |
 | Stuart Davis: In Full Swing(Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art / New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2016) | Stuart Davis (Author), Barbara Haskell (Author), Adam D. Weinberg (Foreword), Harry Cooper (Author), Earl A. Powell III (Foreword), Sarah Humphreville | Exhibition catalog, Jazz, Painting, Monograph, Cubism / Permanent Collection |
 | Dot Dot Dot 19(Princeton Architectural Press (2010), Edition: 2009-2010, Winter ed., 104 pages, 2010) | Stuart Bailey (Author) | Bard2017 / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection |
 | Bulletins of The Serving Library #10: Test(Berlin: Sternberg Press; New York: The Serving Library, 2016) | Stuart Bailey (Editor), David Reinfurt (Editor), Angie Keefer (Editor) | Permanent Collection |
 | Self-Organised(London: Open Editions / Bergen, NO: Hordaland Art Centre, 2013) | Stine Hebert (Editor), Jan Verwoert (Contributor), Charles Esche (Contributor), Julie Ault (Contributor), Anthony Davis (Contributor), Jonas Ekeberg (Contributor), David Riff (Contributor), Ekaterina Degot (Contributor), Johan Frederik Hartle (Contributor), Stephan Dillemuth (Contributor), Abdellah Karroum (Contributor), Barnaby Drabble (Contributor), Maibritt Borgen (Contributor), Anne Szefer Karlsen (Editor), Linus Elmes (Contributor), Jakob Jakobson (Contributor), Céline Condorelli (Contributor), Livia Pancu (Contributor), Juan A Gaitán (Contributor), How & For Whom/WHW What (Contributor) | Politics, Art history, Review, Art theory, Art education, Curatorial practice, Politically engaged / Permanent Collection |
 | Threads talk series(New York City : Victoria, TX : Granary Books ; Cuneiform Press, 2016., 2016) | Steven Clay, Keith A. Smith (Author), Jen Bervin (Author), Jerome Rothenberg (Author), Johanna Drucker (Author), Charles Alexander (Author), Simon Cutts (Author), Emily McVarish (Author), Buzz Spector (Author), Cecilia Vicuña (Author), Alan Loney (Author), Kyle Schlesinger (Editor), Richard Minsky (Author), Kathy Walkup (Author) | Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | When will the book be done? : Granary's books(New York : Granary Books, 2001., 2001) | Steven Clay | Bard2017 / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection |
 | Steve McCurry: On Reading(New York: Phaidon, 2016) | Steve McCurry (Author), Paul Theroux | Photography, American art, Monograph, Contemporary art, Figurative art and Portraiture / Permanent Collection |
 | No Place for Children: Voices from Juvenile Detention(Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005) | Steve Liss, Marian Wright Edelman (Contributor), Cecilia Ballí (Contributor) | Photography, Journalism / Permanent Collection, BAM Reading Room (2017) |
| Duets: Stephen Andrews & Gregg Bordowitz in Conversation(Visual AIDS, New York (2014), Edition: 1st, 64 pages, 2014) | Stephen Andrews (Author), Lynne Tillman (Foreword), Karen Kelly (Editor), Stephen Andrews (Artist), Barbara Schröder (Editor), Nelson Santos (Preface) | Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
| Ocula Conversations(Hong Kong, CN: Ocula, 2016) | Stephanie Bailey (Editor), Antony Gormley (Contributor), Eungie Joo (Contributor), Ryan Gander (Contributor), Koki Tanaka (Contributor), Henri Dono (Contributor) | Asia Pacific, Interview, Contemporary art / Permanent Collection |
