Diary of a Lonely Girl, or The Battle against Free Love (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art)
By: Miriam Karpilove
3.78
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
First published serially in the Yiddish daily newspaper di Varhayt in 1916-18, Diary of a Lonely Gi…
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1. The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Randolph Hogan
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
This is Marquez's account of a real-life event. In 1955, eight crew members of the destroyer Caldas… read more
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- fiction
2. The Argonauts
By: Maggie Nelson
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more
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- feminism
3. Oreo
By: Harryette Mullen , Fran Ross
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of a few works of satire written by African American women, Oreois an uproariously funny novel … read more
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4. The World to Come
By: Dara Horn
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A million-dollar Chagall is stolen from a museum during a singles' cocktail hour. The unlikely thie… read more
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5. Act of Oblivion
By: Robert Harris
4.07
Format: 463 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more
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- historical
- novels
- fiction
"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion
6. 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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- historical
- fiction
- jewish
"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
7. A Scatter of Light
By: Malinda Lo
3.87
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Malinda Lo returns to the Bay Area with another masterful coming-of-queer-age … read more
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- fiction
"This is what I’ve learned: The art is greater than you and your feelings. You have to serve it. It is not you. Some people will never understand that, but you need to surround yourself with people wh…"-Malinda Lo, A Scatter of Light
8. Worry
By: Alexandra Tanner
3.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more
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- novels
- fiction
9. Kissing Kosher
By: Jean Meltzer
3.84
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Step 1: Get the secret recipe. Step 2: Don’t fall in love… Avital Cohen isn’t wearing underpants… read more
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- fiction
- jewish
10. Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
By: Jessica Pan
3.89
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An introvert spends a year trying to live like an extrovert with hilarious results and advice for r… read more
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"That’s the truth of the world, Jessica,"-Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
"I hate flakiness, and I blame the Facebook ‘Maybe’ button,"-Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
"I'm giddy just imagining the shit I'll get up to when I'm eighty."-Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
"I watched my first penalty shoot-out during the World Cup 2014 (Brazil vs. Chile): men cried, I cried, Neymar cried. I was done for. I loved it."-Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
11. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
By: Amanda Montell
3.85
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultis… read more
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"Without language, there are no "cults"."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
"Some say people who join cults are “lost."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
"With words, we breathe reality into being."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
"The nimble direct sales industry always finds a way to reinvent itself - the capitalist cockroach that just won't stop reincarnating."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
12. The Netanyahus
By: Joshua Cohen
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian - but … read more
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- novels
- fiction
- jewish
13. Pearl
By: Siân Hughes
3.91
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
A haunting debut novel inspired by the medieval poem of the same name Marianne is eight years ol… read more
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- novels
- fiction
14. A Lady's Guide to Scandal (A Lady's Guide, #2)
By: Sophie Irwin
3.82
Format: 359 pages, Paperback
Internationally bestselling author Sophie Irwin brings us another fresh, witty take on a romantic e… read more
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- historical
- fiction
15. Nevada
By: Imogen Binnie
3.97
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi… read more
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- fiction
"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
16. Grey Dog
By: Elliott Gish
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women’s historical fiction with delu… read more
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- historical
- fiction
17. The Hebrew Teacher
By: Maya Arad
4.04
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome cris… read more
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- fiction
- jewish
"״ילד לא צריך בכלל מסיבה גדולה עד גיל ארבע,״ פוסקת רוית. ״מה, בארץ עושים רק עם הסבתות, הדודים...״ ״אבל זו הבעיה, אין פה סבתות,״ היא מחווה את דעתה. ״איי,״ מלכה מסכימה, ״זאת בדיוק הבעיה. אין פה סבתות.״"-Maya Arad, The Hebrew Teacher
"יועד לוגם מהכוס ומעווה את פניו. ״חרא קפה.״ ״בפעם הבאה תלך לקפה מול הספרייה,״ היא מציעה לו טיפ של מקומיים. רק לפני שנה פתחו אותו, וכל הקמפוס מדבר עליו: כמו בניו יורק, כמו בסן פרנסיסקו, בסיאטל: קלייה ע…"-Maya Arad, The Hebrew Teacher
18. Either/Or
By: Elif Batuman
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Idiot, the continuation of beloved protagonist Sel… read more
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- novels
- fiction
"I'm going to become whatever I was going to become."-Elif Batuman, Either/Or
"Fiona Apple's album made me more immediately depressed than any other music I remembered hearing."-Elif Batuman, Either/Or
"That had probably been written by a professor. I recognized the professor's characteristic delight at not imparting information."-Elif Batuman, Either/Or
"I was going to remember, or discover, where everything came from. I was going to do the subtle, monstrous thing where you figured out what you were doing, and why."-Elif Batuman, Either/Or
19. Greta & Valdin
By: Rebecca K. Reilly
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more
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- fiction
"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin
20. Natural Beauty
By: Ling Ling Huang
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obs… read more
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- fiction
"it is still more permitted for women to be mediocre than for them to be fat"-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
"It’s unfortunate that I can undermine months of parental reassurance in just a few seconds, but it’s probably better for kids to learn early on that yes, monsters are real."-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
"I had always assumed love carried itself easily through various permutations and disintegrations. Now I find myself disassociating them from the people I had known my parents to be. I can't decide wh…"-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
21. The Midnight Bargain
By: C.L. Polk
3.76
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
Beatrice Clayborn is a sorceress who practices magic in secret, terrified of the day she will be lo… read more
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- historical
- fiction
"If I can only use my magic when you deem it safe, does that magic belong to me, or you?"-C.L. Polk, The Midnight Bargain
22. Aesthetica
By: Allie Rowbottom
3.36
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
In a debut novel as radiant as it is caustic, a former influencer confronts her past—and takes inve… read more
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- feminism
- novels
- fiction
23. Shmutz
By: Felicia Berliner
3.52
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this witty, provocative, and unputdownable debut novel a young Hasidic woman on a quest to get m… read more
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- fiction
- jewish
24. The Golem of Brooklyn
By: Adam Mansbach
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In Ashkenazi Jewish folklore, a golem is a humanoid being created out of mud or clay and animated t… read more
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- fiction
- jewish
25. A Very Nice Girl
By: Imogen Crimp
3.37
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bitingly honest, darkly funny debut about ambition, sex, power, and love, Imogen Crimp's A Very N… read more
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- novels
- fiction
26. Brat
By: Gabriel Smith
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more
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- fiction
"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."-Gabriel Smith, Brat
27. Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir
By: Sara Glass
4.38
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A moving coming-of-age memoir in the vein of Unorthodox and Brazen , about one young woman’s desper… read more
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- jewish
28. La finta cieca e altri racconti
By: Esther Singer Kreitman
3.67
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
Sono racconti che danno un’idea di quanti bellissimi romanzi avrebbe potuto scrivere l’autrice, se … read more
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- jewish
29. From the Jewish Provinces: Selected Stories
By: Fradel Stock
4.15
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner, 2022 MLA Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies From the Jewish Prov… read more
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- fiction
- jewish
30. Diary of a Lonely Girl, or The Battle against Free Love (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art)
By: Miriam Karpilove
3.78
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
First published serially in the Yiddish daily newspaper di Varhayt in 1916-18, Diary of a Lonely Gi… read more
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- classics
- jewish
- historical
- feminism
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31. Magical Meet Cute
By: Jean Meltzer
3.71
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Is he the real deal…or did she truly summon a golem? Faye Kaplan used to be engaged. She also us… read more
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