A Play for the End of the World
By: Jai Chakrabarti
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling debut novel--set in early 1970's New York and rural India--the story of a turbulent, unl…
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1. Jasmine Nights
By: Julia Gregson
3.49
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
At twenty-three, Saba Tarcan knows her only hope of escaping the clamor of Cardiff Bay, Wales, lies… read more
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2. An Unexpected Guest
By: Anne Korkeakivi
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Clare Moorhouse, the American wife of a high-ranking diplomat in Paris, is arranging a last-minute … read more
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3. Enon
By: Paul Harding
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A stunning mosaic of human experience, Enon affirms Paul Harding as one of the most gifted and prof… read more
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5. The Dark Lady's Mask
By: Mary Sharratt
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Shakespeare in Love meets Shakespeare's Sister in this novel of England's first professional woman … read more
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6. Celia Garth
By: Gwen Bristow
5.00
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
This is a story about a girl who wanted things to happen to her. Celia Garth lived in Charleston, S… read more
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7. The Postcard
By: Anne Berest
4.37
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-cen… read more
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"It would be wrong to call them memories; they are moments of life, that man hat es erlebt - one has lived. They are inside me, part of me, branded into my skin, you might say - but they're not memori…"-Anne Berest, The Postcard
"After the war, women in orthodox Jewish families had made it their mission to have as many children as possible to replenish the population -- and it seemed to me that the same was true for books. Th…"-Anne Berest, The Postcard
8. The Covenant of Water
By: Abraham Verghese
4.45
Format: 724 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial ep… read more
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9. Künstlers in Paradise
By: Cathleen Schine
3.53
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The beloved bestselling author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport—once dubbed “the modern-day Jewi… read more
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"If not a lost art, then an art that often rushes away from contemporary writers with all the excited energy of a disobedient dog. At least, that dog runs off from me. The best I have been able to do …"-Cathleen Schine, Künstlers in Paradise
10. The Latecomer
By: Jean Hanff Korelitz
4.01
Format: 439 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Latecomer is a la… read more
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11. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
By: Dara Horn
4.36
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating ess… read more
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"Evil' may or may not be banal, but killing Jews sure is."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"between the raindrops" - a Hebrew expression for evading repeated disaster."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"Sometimes your body is someone else's haunted house. Other people look at you and can only see the dead."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"There are so few Jews in the world: even in the United States, we are barely 2 percent of the population, a minority among minorities... Statistically speaking, nothing that happens to Jews should be…"-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
12. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
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13. The Museum of Failures
By: Thrity Umrigar
4.13
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
An immersive story about family secrets and the power of forgiveness from the bestselling author of… read more
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"Because, ultimately everybody's story was written in scars."-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures
"He had often thought of Bombay as the museum of failures, an exhibit hall filled with thwarted dreams and broken promises."-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures
"Of course, there were unhappy people everywhere on earth, and if you catalogued all their griefs and disappointments, every place could be considered a museum of failures. One could argue that this w…"-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures
14. The Boy with the Star Tattoo
By: Talia Carner
4.15
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
From acclaimed author of The Third Daughter comes an epic historical novel of ingenuity and courage… read more
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15. Kantika
By: Elizabeth Graver
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New … read more
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"Ken sos tu? I am Rebecca (Rivka, Rebekah) from my mother’s mother and the wife of Isaac in the Bible. The name means “to tie firmly"-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika
"Where are you going, where have you been? Do you have children? How was the voyage? What is the news of the world? What can I do for you? Please, sit. Eat. She’ll give them the name of Villa Erna, th…"-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika
16. A Play for the End of the World
By: Jai Chakrabarti
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling debut novel--set in early 1970's New York and rural India--the story of a turbulent, unl… read more
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- historical fiction
- novels
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17. After the Funeral and Other Stories
By: Tessa Hadley
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tid… read more
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18. We Must Not Think of Ourselves
By: Lauren Grodstein
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A heart-wrenching story of love and defiance set in the Warsaw Ghetto, based on the actual archives… read more
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"We had never practiced Judaism before, and I thought myself too old to try believing something new, or to take advantage of an accident of birth to claim some brown patch of desert as my home."-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves
"Our task is to pay attention... To listen to the stories. We want all political backgrounds, all religious attitudes. The illiterate and the elite. Every ideology. Interview everyone. Learn about the…"-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves
"There should be another word for this feeling - a sort of sorrowful happiness, or a happiness that only deepens someone's sorrow. The closest I can come to it is the Portuguese word saudade, which ne…"-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves
19. Shanghailanders
By: Juli Min
3.51
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in tim… read more
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20. Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai
By: Matti Friedman
4.21
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The incredible never-before-told story of Leonard Cohen's 1973 tour of Israel during the Yom Kippur… read more
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21. Once We Were Home
By: Jennifer Rosner
3.93
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From Jennifer Rosner, National Jewish Book Award Finalist and author of The Yellow Bird Sings , com… read more
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22. The Goddess of Warsaw
By: Lisa Barr
4.45
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
From the New York Times bestselling author of Woman on Fire, the harrowing and ultimately triumphan… read more
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23. Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy
By: Letty Cottin Pogrebin
3.99
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
An intimate memoir from a founding editor of Ms. magazine who grew up in a Jewish immigrant family … read more
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24. My Beloved Life
By: Amitava Kumar
3.83
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An exceptionally moving novel that traces the arc of a man's life from his 1935 birth in a small vi… read more
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25. Hotel Cuba
By: Aaron Hamburger
3.97
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Fleeing the chaos of World War I and the terror of the Soviet Revolution, practical, sensible Pearl… read more
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26. Stockholm
By: Noa Yedlin
3.27
Format: 378 pages, Hardcover
An ingeniously plotted dark comedy about aging and friendship following a tight-knit circle of seni… read more
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27. House on Endless Waters
By: Emuna Elon
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For fans of The Invisible Bridge and The History of Love, a lyrical and exquisitely moving novel ab… read more
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"In order to hand me over she had to detach herself from herself, and afterward she never managed to get back inside herself and continued, long after the war ended, living outside herself and observi…"-Emuna Elon, House on Endless Waters
"Two thousand five hundred. According to the documents Yoel has studied, that was the number of Jewish children hidden by Christian families during the war. Two thousand five hundred Jewish children, …"-Emuna Elon, House on Endless Waters
28. The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land
By: Omer Friedlander
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
he Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land announces the arrival of a natural-born storyteller of immense… read more
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29. You, Me, and the Sea
By: Meg Donohue
3.74
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
From the USA Today bestselling author of All the Summer Girls and Dog Crazy comes a spellbinding an… read more
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30. The Magical Language of Others
By: E.J. Koh
3.87
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
The Magical Language of Others is a powerful and aching love story in letters, from mother to daugh… read more
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31. The Prison Minyan
By: Jonathan Stone
4.31
Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to Otisville, America's only Jewish prison...where a new celebrity inmate is about to shatt… read more
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