Book Club

(Years stated in 2020 and earlier are educated guesses)

2024

• Hotel Cuba, by Aaron Hamburger
• Jacobo’s Rainbow, by David Hirshberg
• The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
• The Lemon Tree, by Sandy Tolan
• The Boston Girl, by Anita Diamant

2023

• Kantika by Elizabeth Graver
• Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships, by Nina Totenberg
• The Lost Shtetl, by Max Gross
• The Paris Architect, by Charles Belfoure
• How to Find Your way in the Dark, by Derek B. Miller
• The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land, by Omer Friedlander

2022

• My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner, by Meir Shalev
• Song of the Jade Lily, by Kirsty Manning
• Last Summer at the Golden Hotel, by Elyse Friedland
• The Hidden Palace, by Helene Wecker
• Unorthodox, by Deborah Feldman
•  Mrs. Everything, by Jennifer Weiner

2021

• Three Floors Up, by Eshkol Nevo.​
• Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah: Fear and Love in the Modern Middle East, by Adam Valen Levinson.
• The Storyteller, by Jodi Picoult
• The Color of Love: A Story of a Mixed-Race Jewish Girl by Marra Gad
•  The Book of V, by Anna Solomon
• A Lotus Grows in the Mud, by Goldie Hawn

2020

• The Last Watchman of Old Cairo, by Michael David Lukas.
• I Feel Bad About My Neck, by Nora Ephron.
• The Zookeeper’s Wife, by Diane Ackerman
• All the Rivers, by Dorit Rabinyan
• The Seven Good Years, by Etgar Keret
• On Division, by Goldie Goldbloom

2019

• The Secret Chord, by Geraldine Brooks
• Inheritance, by Dani Shapiro,
• Judas, by Amos Oz
• The View From Penthouse B, by Elinor Lipman
• They May Not Mean To, But They Do, by Cathleen Schine
• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

2018

• Waking Lions, by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen.
• The Mathematician’s Shiva, by Stuart Rojstaczer.
• Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish, by Abigail Pogrebin
• Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin
• The Septembers of Shiraz,  a novel by Dalia Sofer.
• To The End Of The Land, by David Grossman

2017

• The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
• The Girl From Foreign: A Memoir by Sadia Shepard
• The Innocents, by Francesca Segal
• The Golem and the Jinni, by Helene Wecker
• Moonglow, by Michael Chabon
• Have a Little Faith, by Mitch Albom

2016

• The Swans of Fifth Avenue, by Melanie Benjamin
• The Notorious RBG: The Life & Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik, 2015
• Paradise Park, by Allegra Goodman, 2001
• The UnAmericans, by Molly Antopol, 2014
• The World to Come: A Novel, by Dara Horn, 2006
• The Periodic Table, by Primos Levi, 1975

2015

• The Marriage of Opposites, by Alice Hoffman, 2015
• A Selection of books about Jewish history in China:
  • Peony, by Pearl S. Buck (1948), a novel about the love between a young Han Chinese bondmaid and the Jewish son of the household she serves
  • Mandarins, Jews and Missionaries: The Jewish Experience in the Chinese Empire, by Michael Pollak (1998), a history of the Jews of Kaifeng by a Jewish writer
  • The Jews of Kaifeng, China: History, Culture, Religion, by Xin Xu (2013), a history by a Chinese historian
• Henna House, by Nomi Eve, 2014
• The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, 2005
• The Arrival, by Shaun Tan, 2006
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, by Nathan Englander,

2014

• Great House: A Novel, by Nicole Krauss, 2010
• The Dovekeepers, by Alice Hoffman, 2011
• Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books, by Aaron Lansky, 2004
• Sholem Aleichem, Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories
• Sarah: Women of Genesis, by Orson Scott Card, 2001. (Note: Card has also written Rachel and Leah and Rebekah as part of his series Women of Genesis.
• The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Jacobs,

2013

• The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, by Chabon, Michael, 2007
• A Guide for the Perplexed, by Dara Horn, 2013
• The Faith Club: A Muslim, Christian, Jew — Three Women Search for Understanding, by Ranya Idliby, 2006
• My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, by Ariel Sabar, 2008
• Bee Season, by Myla Goldberg, 2000
• People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks, 2008

2012

• Heartburn, by Nora Ephron, 1983
• The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World, by Lucette Lagnado, 2008
• The Inn at Lake Devine, by Elinor Lipman
• The Betrayers, by David Bezmozgis, 2014
• Rashi’s Daughter: Joheved, by Maggie Anton, 2007
• Sotah, by Naomi Ragen, 1992