Departmental Acquisitions: English / Theatre Arts- Title: The 20th century in poetry / edited by Michael Hulse and Simon Rae.
- Title: A.S. Byatt : critical storytelling /Alexa Alfer and Amy J. Edwards de Campos.
- Title: An actor's craft : the art and technique of acting /David Krasner.
- Title: The anatomy of influence : literature as a way of life /Harold Bloom.
- Title: The annotated Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen ; annotated and edited, with an introduction, by David M. Shapard.
- Title: Art matters : Hemingway, craft, and the creation of the modern short story /Robert Paul Lamb.
- Title: Atlas shrugged / Ayn Rand.
- Title: Beautiful & pointless : a guide to modern poetry /David Orr.
- Title: Beautiful redemption / by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl.
- Title: Becoming Dickens : the invention of a novelist /Robert Douglas-Fairhurst.
- Title: The beginner's goodbye : a novel /by Anne Tyler.
- Title: Better than fiction : true travel tales from great fiction writers /edited by Don George.
- Title: Bewilderment : new poems and translations /David Ferry
- Title: Black dahlia & white rose / Joyce Carol Oates.
- Title: Blue nights / Joan Didion.
- Title: The book of books : the radical impact of the King James Bible, 1611-2011 /Melvyn Bragg.
- Title: Bringing Light to Twilight : Perspectives on a Pop Culture Phenomenon /Edited by Giselle Liza Anatol.
- Title: The Cambridge companion to American crime fiction / edited by Catherine Ross Nickerson.
- Title: The Cambridge companion to Anthony Trollope / edited by Carolyn Dever and Lisa Niles.
- Title: The Cambridge companion to C.S. Lewis / edited by Robert MacSwain and Michael Ward.
- Title: The Cambridge companion to English poets / edited by Claude Rawson.
- Title: The Cambridge companion to twentieth-century Russian literature / edited by Evgeny Dobrenko and Marina Balina.
- Title: The Cambridge companion to utopian literature / [edited by] Gregory Claeys.
- Title: The Cambridge history of African American literature / Maryemma Graham and Jerry W. Ward Jr.
- Title: The Cambridge history of the English novel / edited by Robert L. Caserio and Clement Hawes.
- Title: The catcher in the rye, by J.D. Salinger / editor, Joseph Dewey.
- Title: The cat's table / Michael Ondaatje.
- Title: Chair of tears / Gerald Vizenor.
- Title: Changâo's beads and two-tone shoes / William Kennedy.
- Title: Charles Dickens : a life /Claire Tomalin.
- Title: Charles Dickens and the great theatre of the world / by Simon Callow.
- Title: The cinema of John Boorman / Brian Hoyle.
- Title: Collected poems / Jack Gilbert.
- Title: The collected poems of Charles Olson : excluding the Maximus poems /edited by George F. Butterick.
- Title: The collected poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 / edited by Kevin Young and Michael S. Glaser ; foreword by Toni Morrison ; afterword by Kevin Young.
- Title: Conversations at the American Film Institute with the great moviemakers : the next generation /[edited and with an introduction by] George Stevens, Jr.
- Title: The craft of research / Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams.
- Title: Crazy brave : a memoir /Joy Harjo.
- Title: The critical practice of film : an introduction /Elspeth Kydd.
- Title: Daniel Defoe : the novels /Nicholas Marsh.
- Title: Daughter of smoke & bone / Laini Taylor.
- Title: Days of destruction, days of revolt / Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco.
- Title: Dear life : stories /Alice Munro.
- Title: Diaries / George Orwell ; edited by Peter Davison ; introduction by Christopher Hitchens.
- Title: The directors / edited by Alain Silver and James Ursini.
- Title: Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin mysteries / Richard Kopley.
- Title: Edith Sitwell: the symbolist order [by] James D. Brophy. With a pref. by Harry T. Moore.
- Title: Egyptian mythology : a guide to the gods, goddesses, and traditions of ancient Egypt /Geraldine Pinch.
- Title: The Elder Edda : a book of Viking lore /translated with introduction and notes by Andy Orchard.
- Title: The electric kool-aid acid test / Tom Wolfe.
- Title: Eminent outlaws : the gay writers who changed America /Christopher Bram.
- Title: Emotion on demand : an actor's workbook for mastering emotional triggers /Michael Woolson.
- Title: Encyclopedia of literary romanticism / [edited by] Andrew Maunder.
- Title: Evolution of the Word : the New Testament in the order the books were written /Marcus J. Borg.
- Title: The Facts on File companion to American drama / edited by Jackson R. Bryer and Mary C. Hartig.
- Title: Fairy tales framed : early forewords, afterwords, and critical words /edited by Ruth B. Bottigheimer.
- Title: Fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm : a new English version /[edited] by Philip Pullman.
- Title: Farther away / Jonathan Franzen.
- Title: Fatalism in American film noir : some cinematic philosophy /Robert B. Pippin.
- Title: Fear and loathing at Rolling Stone : the essential writing of Hunter S. Thompson /edited and with a foreword by Jann S. Wenner ; and with an introduction by Paul Scanlon.
- Title: Fear and loathing in America : the brutal odyssey of an outlaw journalist, 1968-1976 /Hunter S. Thompson ; foreword by David Halberstam ; edited by Douglas Brinkley.
- Title: Film noir / Alain Silver and James Ursini ; edited by Paul Duncan.
- Title: The glass menagerie / Tennessee Williams ; introduction by Robert Bray.
- Title: The gothic imagination : conversations on fantasy, horror, and science fiction in the media /John C. Tibbetts ; preface by Richard Holmes.
- Title: Gothic novelists / editor, Carl Rollyson.
- Title: A grain of wheat / Ngäugäi wa Thiong'o ; introduction by Abdulrazak Gurnah.
- Title: Green suns and faèerie : essays on Tolkien /Verlyn Flieger.
- Title: Head off & split : poems /Nikky Finney.
- Title: Hemingway's boat : everything he loved in life, and lost /Paul Hendrickson.
- Title: Higher gossip : essays and criticism /John Updike ; edited by Christopher Carduff.
- Title: A history of Russian literary theory and criticism : the Soviet age and beyond /edited by Evgeny Dobrenko and Galin Tihanov.
- Title: A hologram for the king : a novel /Dave Eggers.
- Title: Horoscopes for the dead : poems /Billy Collins.
- Title: How literature works : 50 key concepts /John Sutherland.
- Title: A human eye : essays on art in society, 1997-2008 /Adrienne Rich.
- Title: In other worlds : SF and the human imagination /Margaret Atwood.
- Title: In the house of the interpreter : a memoir /Ngugi wa'Thiong'o.
- Title: Indie : an American film culture /Michael Z. Newman.
- Title: J. D. Salinger : a life /Kenneth Slawenski.
- Title: James Joyce / Andrew Gibson.
- Title: James Joyce / edited by Sean Latham.
- Title: Jamrach's menagerie : a novel /by Carol Birch.
- Title: Jane Austen : two centuries of criticism /Laurence W. Mazzeno.
- Title: John Keats : a new life /Nicholas Roe.
- Title: Joyce : a guide for the perplexed /Peter Mahon.
- Title: Joyce's Ulysses : a reader's guide /Sean Sheehan.
- Title: Kazuo Ishiguro : new critical visions of the novels /edited by Sebastian Groes and Barry Lewis.
- Title: Killing game / Eugáene Ionesco ; translated from the French by Helen Gary Bishop.
- Title: Language diversity in the USA / edited by Kim Potowski.
- Title: Leslie Marmon Silko : a literary companion /Mary Ellen Snodgrass.
- Title: The librarian's guide to micropublishing : helping patrons and communities use free and low-cost publishing tools to tell their stories /Walt Crawford.
- Title: Lionel Asbo : state of England /Martin Amis.
- Title: The literary theory toolkit : a compendium of concepts and methods /Herman Rapaport.
- Title: Making space in the works of James Joyce / edited by Valâerie Bâenâejam and John Bishop.
- Title: Master of the mountain : Thomas Jefferson and his slaves /Henry Wiencek.
- Title: A memoir of Jane Austen, by her nephew J.E. Austen-Leigh.
- Title: Mother night / Kurt Vonnegut.
- Title: Open city : a novel /Teju Cole.
- Title: Outlaw journalist : the life and times of Hunter S. Thompson /William McKeen.
- Title: The Oxford handbook of children's literature / edited by Julia Mickenberg and Lynne Vallone.
- Title: Persuasion : an annotated edition /Jane Austen ; edited by Robert Morrison.
- Title: Phillis Wheatley : biography of a genius in bondage /Vincent Carretta.
- Title: Poems 1962-2012 / Louise Glèuck.
- Title: Postapocalyptic fiction and the social contract : "we'll not go home again" /Claire P. Curtis.
- Title: Pride and prejudice, by Jane Austen / editor, Laurence W. Mazzeno.
- Title: The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics / editor in chief Roland Greene ; general editor Stephen Cushman ; associate editors Clare Cavanagh, Jahan Ramazani, Paul Rouzer ; assistant editors Harris Feinsod, David Marno, Alexandra Slessarev.
- Title: The readers' advisory guide to street literature / Vanessa Irvin Morris ; foreword by Teri Woods.
- Title: Regeneration / Pat Barker.
- Title: The romantic revolution : a history /Tim Blanning.
- Title: Sacred hunger / Barry Unsworth.
- Title: Saving the race : conversations on Du Bois from A collective memoir of souls /Rebecca Carroll.
- Title: Schindler's list Universal Pictures presents an Amblin Entertainment production ; directed by Steven Spielberg ; screenplay by Steve Zaillian ; produced by Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen, Branko Lustig ; executive producer, Kathleen Kennedy.
- Title: Science fiction : the 101 best novels, 1985-2010 /Damien Broderick & Paul Di Filippo ; with a foreword by David Pringle.
- Title: The sense of an ending / Julian Barnes.
- Title: Sherman Alexie : a collection of critical essays /edited by Jeff Berglund and Jan Roush.
- Title: A short autobiography / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; edited by James L. W. West III.
- Title: Snowdrops : a novel /A.D. Miller.
- Title: Stag's leap / by Sharon Olds.
- Title: The story of ain't : America, its language, and the most controversial dictionary ever published /David Skinner.
- Title: Summertime : fiction /J.M. Coetzee.
- Title: Swamplandia! / Karen Russell.
- Title: Talking into the ear of a donkey : poems /Robert Bly.
- Title: Tehanu / Ursula K. Le Guin.
- Title: Theory after theory : an intellectual history of literary theory from 1950 to the early twenty-first century /Nicholas Birns.
- Title: This is how you lose her / Junot Dâiaz.
- Title: Toni Morrison : forty years in the clearing /edited and with an introduction by Carmen R. Gillespie.
- Title: Tonight no poetry will serve : poems, 2007-2010 /Adrienne Rich.
- Title: Twenty-five books that shaped America : how white whales, green lights, and restless spirits forged our national identity /Thomas C. Foster.
- Title: Twenty years after : a historical romance being the continuation of The Three Musketeers /by Alexandre Dumas ; illustrated by J.A. Beauce.
- Title: Understanding film theory / Christine Etherington-Wright and Ruth Doughty.
- Title: The undertaker's daughter / Toi Derricotte.
- Title: Virgin and veteran readings of Ulysses / Margot Norris.
- Title: The voice is all : the lonely victory of Jack Kerouac /Joyce Johnson.
- Title: Wait / C. K. Williams.
- Title: Weep not, child / Ngäugäi wa Thiong®o ; introduction by Ben Okri.
- Title: The western lit survival kit : an irreverent guide to the classics, from Homer to Faulkner /Sandra Newman.
- Title: Why read Moby-Dick? / Nathaniel Philbrick.
- Title: Winter journal / Paul Auster.
- Title: World directors and their films : essays on African, Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern cinema /Bert Cardullo.
- Title: The worm Ouroboros / E.R. Eddison.
- Title: Writers of the Black Chicago renaissance / edited by Steven C. Tracy.
- Title: Writing and the iGeneration : composition in the computer-mediated classroom /by Terry Carter and Maria A. Clayton, co-editors.
- Title: Yossarian slept here : when Joseph Heller was dad, the Apthorp was home, and life was a Catch-22 /Erica Heller.