| Title | Author | Tags / Collections | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Rummage(New York: Little a, 2017) | Ife-Chudeni A. Oputa (Author) | African American poetry, Poetry, African American literature, American poetry -- 21st century / Permanent Collection |
 | Rules of Summer(New York, NY : Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2014., 2014) | Shaun Tan | Picture book, Children's literature / Permanent Collection, Children's Library |
 | Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field(Stanford University Press, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
 | Rude Woods(Brooklyn: The Song Cave, 2013) | Nate Klug, Virgil (Author), W. R. Johnson | Poetry, Translation, American poetry -- 21st century / Permanent Collection |
 | Rubén Gámez: La Fórmula Secreta (Mexico, D. F.: Alias Editorial, 2014) | Rubén Gámez (Artist), Damián Ortega (Author) | Mexico, Monograph, Experimental cinema, Film and Film Studies, Mexican art -- 20th century / Permanent Collection |
 | RRR Imprentas Desobedientes(Mexico City: Gato Negro Ediciones, 2015) | Nicolás Pradilla, Stephen Wright (Contributor), Lionel Bently (Contributor), Prodromos Tsiavos (Contributor), Mark Menjivar (Contributor), Cooperativa Cráter Invertido (Contributor), Andrea Francke (Contributor), Libros fantasma/Libros Caballos (Contributor), Moisés Mayán (Contributor), Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento (Contributor), Nicolás Pradilla (Contributor), La fotocopioteca (Contributor) | Mexico, Essay, Spanish language, Textual Studies / Permanent Collection |
 | Royals(Seattle, WA: Wave Books, 2017) | Cedar Sigo (Author) | Poetry, Review, American poetry -- 21st century / Permanent Collection |
 | Rough Song (New York: The Song Cave, 2020) | Varela Blanca (Author), Lara Carlos (Translator) | Spanish language, Translation, Peruvian literature, Latin American literature / Permanent Collection |
| Roualt(Harry N. Abrams, Inc., ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
 | Rotterdam Dialogues: The Critics, The Curators, The Artists (Rotterdam, Netherlands: Witte De With, 2010) | Zoe Gray (Editor), Miriam Kathrein (Editor), Nicolaus Schaufhausen (Editor), Monika Szewczyk (Editor), Ariadne Urlus (Editor) | Interview, Contemporary art, Curatorial practice / Permanent Collection, Orit Gat Collection |
 | Rotten English: A Literary Anthology(New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007) | Dohra Ahmad (Editor) | Anthology, Short stories, Makhzin / Residency Collection |
 | Rote Socken in St. Petersburg (Berlin, Germany; rakete.co, 2007) | Erik Steinbrecher (Artist) | German art, Contemporary art, Self-publishing |
| Rosegarden and Labyrinth(London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980 [c1963]) | Seonaid Mairi Robertson (Author), Sir. Herbert Read (Introduction) | Pedagogy, Art education / Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive |
 | Rose of No Man's Land(Mariner Books (2007), Edition: First, 320 pages, 2007) | Michelle Tea (Author) | Permanent Collection |
 | Rose Alley (Denver, CO: Counterpath Press, 2009) | Jeremy M. Davies (Author) | Fiction / Permanent Collection |
 | Rosas Lounge(Rome: Nero, 2013) | Marinella Senatore (Author) | Performance, Contemporary art, Bam2016, Participatory and Public art / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Roots to Fruits, No. 1: Ghanaian Highlife (Arnheim, The Netherlands: Werkplaats Typografie, 2022) | Mirelle van Tulder (Editor), Daniel Senior Durán (Editor), Dele Adeyemo (Contributor) | Music, Periodical, African art / Permanent Collection, inseparable assembly Reading Room |
| Romantic Homage to Greece & Spain: My Fable. Their Art(Transaction Publishers, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
 | Rolling the R's: Twentieth Anniversary Edition (Los Angeles, CA; Kaya Press, 2016) | R Zamora Linmark (Author) | Fiction |
| Rodin: Sculptures from 1886-1917(Tudor Publishing Company, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
| Rodin: Sculptures from 1840-1886(Tudor Publishing Company, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
| Rococo to Cubism in Art and Literature: Transformations in Art and Literature From the 18th Century to the 20th Century(Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
 | Rock | Salt | Stone(New York: Nightboat Books, 2017) | Rosamond S. King (Author) | African American poetry, Poetry, American poetry -- 21st century / Permanent Collection |
 | Robert Morris: Sculptures 1962-1984 (London, U.K.: Runkel-Hue-Williams, 1990) | Robert Morris (Artist), Michael Compton (Contributor) | Exhibition catalog, Sculpture, Minimalism / Permanent Collection |
 | Robert Mapplethorpe: Black Book(New York, NY: St. Martin's Griffin, 1986) | Robert Mapplethorpe, Ntozake Shange (Foreword) | Photography, Monograph, Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
| Robert Flaherty: Photographer/Filmmaker: The Inuit 1910-1922(Vancouver Art Gallery & International Center for Photography, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
 | Robert Filliou: Teaching And Learning As Performing Arts(Occasional Papers (2014), Edition: 500, 230 pages, 2014) | Robert Filliou (Author) | Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Rob's Word Shop(Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2019) | Robert Fitterman (Author), Lawrence Giffin (Afterword) | Language and Linguistics, Poetry, Diary, Performance, Cultural studies, Transcript, American poetry -- 21st century / Permanent Collection |
| Road of a Thousand Wonders(Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011) | Jeffery Joe Nelson | Permanent Collection |
 | River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West(New York: Penguin Books, 2004) | Rebecca Solnit (Author) | Technology, 19th century, American history, History, Review / Permanent Collection, BAM Reading Room (2017) |