| Title | Author | Tags / Collections | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing (Cambridge, MA: M.I.T Press, 2017) | Janet Abbate (Author) | Technology, Sociology, Gender / Mindy Seu Cyberfeminism Reference Collection |
 | Reckless Eyeballing (Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2000) | Ishmael Reed (Author) | New York, 1980s, Fiction / Permanent Collection |
 | Recipes for an Ecounter (Vancouver: Western Front, 2009) | Marisa Jahn (Editor), Candice Hopkins (Editor), Berin Golonu (Editor) | Canada, Exhibition catalog, Food, Review, Relational Aesthetics / Permanent Collection |
 | Rechts Averechts - Plain Purl(Belgium: Art Paper Editions, 2017) | , Els Roelandt (Author), Katrien Laporte (Author), Wim de Temmerman (Author), Diane Steverlynck (Author), Clara Huygelen Vankerschaver (Author), Els Huygelen Vankerschaver (Author) | Art, Bilingual, Contemporary art, Textile and fiber arts, Bard2018 / Permanent Collection, Bard Reading Room 2018 |
 | Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963(New York: Picador, 2009) | Susan Sontag (Author) | Philosophy, Biography, Non-fiction / BAM Reading Room (2017), Recovered books |
 | Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution(New York: Verso., 2012) | David Harvey (Author) | Utopias, History, Revolution, Capitalism, Urban studies, Class struggle, Occupy, Bam 2017 / Permanent Collection, BAM Reading Room (2017) |
 | Reason and Resonance: A History of Modern Aurality(New York: Zone Books, 2010) | Veit Erlmann (Author) | Metaphysics, Aural history / Permanent Collection, Render Visible |
 | Rearview Mirror: New Art from Central & Eastern Europe(Alberta, Canada: Art Gallery of Alberta; Toronto, Canada: The Power Plant, 2011) | Christopher Eamon (Editor), Gregory Burke (Foreword), Catherine Crowston (Foreword), Andrzej Szczerski (Contributor), Zoran Erić (Contributor) | Eastern Europe, Exhibition catalog, Contemporary art, Film and Film Studies / Permanent Collection |
 | Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (New York: Vintage Books, 2010) | Technology, Manifestos, Essay collection / Permanent Collection, Orit Gat Collection | |
 | Realities & the Rituals of the Upside Down (Athens, GR: A) GLIMPSE) OF), 2019) | Dimitra Ioannou (Editor) | Greece and Greek Language, Care Work / Permanent Collection |
 | Realism Materialism Art (Berlin, Germany: Sternberg Press, 2015) | Christoph Cox (Editor), Jenny Jaskey (Editor), Suhail Malik (Editor) | Anthology, Contemporary art, Art criticism / Permanent Collection, Orit Gat Collection |
 | Realism in Our Time: Literature and the Class Struggle(New York: Harper & Roe, 1964 [c1962]) | Georg Lukács (Author), Ruth Nada Anshen (Editor), George Stiener (Introduction) | Marxism, Literary criticism, Modernism, Literary studies / Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive |
| Realism In Art: The Relation Between Artistic Beauty and Real Life in Painting from Primitive Origins to Today(International Publishers, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
| Realisim(Penguin Books, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
 | Readings in Physical Distribution Management: The Logistics of Marketing (New York: Macmillan, 1969) | Donald J Bowersox (Author), Bernard J La Londe (Author), Edward W Smykay (Author) | Capitalism / Domain Residency |
| Readings in American Art Since 1900: A Documentary Survey(Frederick A. Praeger, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
 | Reading Like a Computer: A Semantic Guide to Facebook's Content Moderation Policies (New York, NY: Unknown Unknowns, 2018) | Angie Waller (Author), Unknown Unknowns (Author) | Technology, Social media, Cultural policy, Surveillance, MoMA Reading Room, MoMA Reading Room 1 / Permanent Collection, MoMA Reading Room |
 | Reading Ecologies: Transforming Publishing in Africa (Berlin, Germany: MISS READ, Paris, France: Afrikadaa, Yaoundé, Cameroon: Mosaïques, 2025) | Michalis Pichler (Editor), Pascale Obolo (Editor), Parfait Tabapsi (Editor), Yves Xavier Ndounda (Translator), Nfor E. Njinyoh (Translator) | African literature, Publishing, African diaspora / Permanent Collection |
 | Reader on Fetishism (Value, Flesh, Real, Referent) (Los Angeles, California: Cassandra Press, 2017) | Kandis Williams (Editor), Jean Baudrillard (Contributor), Maggie Change (Contributor), Theodora Danylevich (Contributor), Denise Ferreira da Silva (Contributor), SanSan Kwan (Contributor), John Ruskin (Contributor), Hortense Spillers (Contributor), Klaus Theweleit (Contributor), Hermano Roberto Thiry-Cherques (Contributor), Vincent Woodard (Contributor) | Philosophy, Critical theory, MoMA Reading Room / Permanent Collection, MoMA Reading Room |
 | Read Thread: The Story of the Red Thread (Sternberg Press)(Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2017) | Cecilia Vicuña (Author), Dieter Roelstraete (Contributor), José de Nordenflycht Concha (Contributor) | Poetry, Art, Body and Body Politics, Feminism and Feminist theory, Textile and fiber arts, Bard2018 / Permanent Collection, Bard Reading Room 2018 |
 | Read My Lips(New York: 80WSE Press, 2011) | Gran Fury (Artists' collective) (Author), Michael Cohen | Exhibition catalog, Monograph / Permanent Collection |
 | re: The Furies (Los Angeles, CA: Cassandra Press, 2017) | Guerilla Girls (Contributor), Maia Ruth Lee (Contributor), Taylor Doran (Contributor), Sarah Crowner (Contributor), Roula Nassar (Contributor), Ser Serpas (Contributor), Courtney Malik (Contributor), Kandis Williams (Contributor), Farah Al-Qasimi (Contributor) | Zines, Essay collection, Feminism and Feminist theory, MoMA Reading Room / Permanent Collection, MoMA Reading Room |
 | re.act.feminism #2 - a performing archive(London, UK: Live Art Development Agency, 2014) | Bettina Knaup (Editor), Rebecca Schneider (Contributor), Beatrice Stammer (Editor), Kathrin Becker (Contributor), Angelika Richter (Contributor), Mathias Danbolt (Contributor) | Exhibition catalog, Performance, Contemporary art, Feminism and Feminist theory / Permanent Collection |
 | Re-Materialising Feminism(London: Arcadia Missa Publications, 2014) | Alice Brooke (Editor), Farkas Rozsa, Giulia Smith (Editor) | Politics, Gender, Review, Feminism and Feminist theory / Permanent Collection, BAM Reading Room (2017) |
 | Rashid Johnson: Sharpening My Oyster Knife(Bielefeld, DE: Kerber Verlag, 2009) | Rashid Johnson (Artist), Uwe Gellner (Editor) | Photography, American art, Monograph, Contemporary art, Bam2016, Figurative art and Portraiture / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Ramblings of a wannabe painter(New York, NY: David Zwirner Books, 2016) | Paul Gauguin, Donatien Grau (Translator) | 20th century, Painting, Art theory, Art criticism, Art market / Permanent Collection |
Rain Games ([unspecified]: Lorraine, 2019) | Anne Marie Rooney (Author), Sam Sheffield (Author) | Permanent Collection | |
 | Railtracks(Berkeley : Counterpoint, [2012], 2012) | John Berger, Anne Michaels (Author), Tereza Stehlíková | Bard2017 / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection |
 | Raft Amphibians(New York: Cooperative Editions, 2017) | Mary MacDougall (Author) | Artist’s book, Design, Illustration, Art, Contemporary art / Permanent Collection |
 | Radicalism in the Wilderness: International Contemporaneity and 1960s Art in Japan(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016) | Reiko Tomii | 1960s, Art, Art history, Japan and Japanese language / Permanent Collection |