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Book Riot's 100 must-read works of Jewish Fiction

Description: “Jewish continuity has always hinged on uttered and written words….ours is not a bloodline but a textline,” say Fania Oz-Salzberger and Amos Oz in their beautiful book, Jews and Words. http://bookriot.com/2016/07/15/100-must-read-works-of-jewish-fiction/

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1

The History of Love

by Nicole Krauss

9,645 members

338 reviews

3.9

4 Members: avatiakh, bookmadness, gypsysmom, jenniferw88

2

The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

by Gabrielle Zevin

7,321 members

617 reviews

4

4 Members: avatiakh, gypsysmom, kara.shamy, jenniferw88

3

The Good Lord Bird

by James McBride

2,487 members

138 reviews

3.9

4 Members: avatiakh, gypsysmom, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

8,883 members

260 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ursula, avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Finkler Question

by Howard Jacobson

2,901 members

142 reviews

3

3 Members: avatiakh, gypsysmom, kara.shamy

6

Motherless Brooklyn

by Jonathan Lethem

5,282 members

113 reviews

4

3 Members: ursula, avatiakh, gypsysmom

7

Pebble in the Sky

by Isaac Asimov

4,227 members

73 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: avatiakh, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

8

by Anita Diamant

18,154 members

401 reviews

4

3 Members: avatiakh, gypsysmom, jenniferw88

9

The Collected Stories of Grace Paley

1,059 members

15 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

10

My Holocaust: A Novel

122 members

2 reviews

2.9

2 Members: charl08, avatiakh

11

American Pastoral

8,876 members

188 reviews

3.9

2 Members: avatiakh, gypsysmom

12

The Biology of Luck

by Jacob M. Appel

182 members

38 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: avatiakh, kara.shamy

13

The Museum of Extraordinary Things

by Alice Hoffman

2,475 members

130 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: avatiakh, jenniferw88

14

The Ministry of Special Cases

by Nathan Englander

1,143 members

38 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ursula, avatiakh

15

Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son

by Sholom Aleichem

156 members

2 reviews

3.9

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

16

The Storyteller

by Jodi Picoult

4,345 members

172 reviews

4.1

2 Members: avatiakh, kara.shamy

17

Last Train to Istanbul

802 members

30 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: avatiakh, jenniferw88

18

by Nadine Gordimer

1,996 members

47 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: avatiakh, gypsysmom

19

To the End of the Land

by David Grossman

1,590 members

66 reviews

4

2 Members: avatiakh, gypsysmom

20

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

by Michael Chabon

11,182 members

446 reviews

3.8

2 Members: avatiakh, gypsysmom

21

10,378 members

150 reviews

4

2 Members: avatiakh, gypsysmom

22

4,562 members

69 reviews

4.1

2 Members: avatiakh, gypsysmom

23

The World to Come

1,206 members

47 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

24

The Invisible Bridge

by Julie Orringer

2,268 members

144 reviews

4.2

Member: avatiakh

25

A Room Where The Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard: A Novel in Three Parts

27 members

1 review

2.8

Member: avatiakh

26

The Autograph Man

3,197 members

45 reviews

3.1

Member: avatiakh

27

The Golems of Gotham: A Novel

by Thane Rosenbaum

139 members

3 reviews

3.1

Member: avatiakh

28

1,124 members

82 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: avatiakh

29

Albina and the Dog-Men

by Alejandro Jodorowsky

97 members

2 reviews

3

Member: avatiakh

30

The Liars' Gospel

by Naomi Alderman

289 members

13 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: avatiakh

31

Isles of the Blind

by Robert Rosenberg

4 members

Member: avatiakh

32

by Deborah Copaken Kogan

322 members

32 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: avatiakh

33

Septimania: A Novel

by Jonathan Levi

48 members

4 reviews

3.2

Member: avatiakh

34

36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction

by Rebecca Goldstein

691 members

36 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: avatiakh

35

A Perfect Peace

394 members

8 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

36

Adé: A Love Story

by Rebecca Walker

42 members

3 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

37

My Name Is Asher Lev

4,806 members

82 reviews

4.2

Member: avatiakh

38

The Far Euphrates

by Aryeh Lev Stollman

212 members

4 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: avatiakh

39

Piece of Mind: A Novel

by Michelle Adelman

76 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: avatiakh

40

5,693 members

68 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

41

The Messiah of Stockholm

by Cynthia Ozick

410 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

42

Einstein's Dreams

by Alan Lightman

5,602 members

159 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

43

42 members

½ 4.4

Member: avatiakh

44

by Jennifer Weiner

5,152 members

88 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: avatiakh

45

The Sea Beach Line: A Novel

25 members

Member: avatiakh

46

by Rebecca Miller

127 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: avatiakh

47

No One Is Here Except All of Us

by Ramona Ausubel

434 members

39 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

48

Super Sad True Love Story

by Gary Shteyngart

3,177 members

138 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: avatiakh

49

by Doris Lessing

1,152 members

14 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: avatiakh

50

The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir

by Susan Daitch

32 members

2 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: avatiakh

51

A Blessing on the Moon

by Joseph Skibell

318 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

52

After Abel and Other Stories

by Michal Lemberger

61 members

11 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

53

These Things Happen

by Richard Kramer

102 members

14 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: avatiakh

54

The Genizah at the House of Shepher: A Novel

by Tamar Yellin

236 members

32 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: avatiakh

55

King of Yiddish

by Curt Leviant

5 members

Member: avatiakh

56

The Blue Mountain

377 members

16 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

57

As a Driven Leaf

by Milton Steinberg

651 members

9 reviews

4.2

Member: avatiakh

58

by Shemi Zarhin

18 members

½ 4.3

Member: avatiakh

59

by Orly Castel-Bloom

139 members

3 reviews

3.2

Member: avatiakh

60

The Luminous Heart of Jonah S.

by Gina B. Nahai

75 members

16 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

61

Enemies, A Love Story

by Isaac Bashevis Singer

1,142 members

19 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

62

Like a Bride and Like a Mother (Jewish Latin America Series, 13)

by Rosa Nissán

15 members

1 review

Member: avatiakh

63

The Liberated Bride

by A. B. Yehoshua

407 members

7 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: avatiakh

64

225 members

8 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

65

Suddenly, a Knock on the Door

582 members

35 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

66

The Weight of Temptation (Latin American Women Writers)

by Ana María Shua

9 members

5

Member: avatiakh

67

Gentleman's Agreement

by Laura Z. Hobson

335 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

68

by Sergio Chejfec

83 members

2 reviews

4.2

Member: avatiakh

69

Let It Be Morning

by Sayed Kashua

170 members

7 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

70

A Guest for the Night

179 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

71

The Seventh Beggar

by Pearl Abraham

118 members

1 review

½ 3.3

Member: avatiakh

72

125 members

4 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: avatiakh

73

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories

209 members

1 review

3.9

Member: avatiakh

74

by Imre Kertész

2,576 members

73 reviews

4.1

Member: avatiakh

75

Apples from the Desert: Selected Stories

by Savyon Liebrecht

91 members

3 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: avatiakh

76

The Complete Stories

by Clarice Lispector

1,152 members

13 reviews

4.2

Member: avatiakh

77

Kaaterskill Falls

by Allegra Goodman

842 members

19 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: avatiakh

78

The Pillar of Salt

by Albert Memmi

162 members

6 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: avatiakh

79

Diary of the Fall

128 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

80

Melisande! What Are Dreams?

by Hillel Halkin

34 members

4 reviews

4.2

Member: avatiakh

81

Thereafter Johnnie

by Carolivia Herron

76 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: avatiakh

82

The Man in My Basement

by Walter Mosley

869 members

28 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: avatiakh

83

The UnAmericans: Stories

by Molly Antopol

303 members

18 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

84

Marjorie Morningstar

1,414 members

31 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

85

A Trumpet in the Wadi: A Novel

by Sami Michael

93 members

4 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: avatiakh

86

The Monkey's Wrench

994 members

14 reviews

4.1

Member: avatiakh

87

by Aharon Appelfeld

110 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: avatiakh

88

Even in Darkness: A Novel

by Barbara Stark-Nemon

28 members

4 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: avatiakh

89

by Bernard Malamud

2,230 members

41 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: avatiakh

90

Beyond the Pale

by Elana Dykewomon

260 members

3 reviews

4.1

Member: avatiakh

91

Sophie's Choice

by William Styron

6,560 members

91 reviews

4.1

Member: avatiakh

92

The Secret Chord

by Geraldine Brooks

1,664 members

85 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

93

Bitter Bronx: Thirteen Stories

by Jerome Charyn

33 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

94

The Best Place on Earth: Stories

by Ayelet Tsabari

127 members

5 reviews

4.2

Member: avatiakh

95

The Painted Bird

by Jerzy Kosiński

3,254 members

82 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

96

Love and Treasure

by Ayelet Waldman

352 members

21 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

97

by Jonathan Safran Foer

1,675 members

47 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

98

360 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

99

The End of Days

by Jenny Erpenbeck

715 members

39 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

100

by Anzia Yezierska

211 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

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