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7,076 members

101 reviews

4.1

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My Name Is Asher Lev

4,798 members

82 reviews

4.2

11 Members: laytonwoman3rd, SqueakyChu, booksinbed, aulsmith, avatiakh, silverbooks, krazy4katz, thecoroner, Dilara86, alex68, FranzK72

3

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

13,527 members

245 reviews

4.1

10 Members: laytonwoman3rd, SqueakyChu, avatiakh, silverbooks, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Suite Française

by Irène Némirovsky

10,737 members

354 reviews

4

10 Members: booksinbed, avatiakh, silverbooks, roby72, krazy4katz, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

5

12,890 members

240 reviews

½ 4.3

9 Members: laytonwoman3rd, SqueakyChu, avatiakh, silverbooks, krazy4katz, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, zombiecat

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The Periodic Table

4,495 members

73 reviews

4.2

7 Members: avatiakh, silverbooks, roby72, alex68, jeffza, Theodor.Enache, FranzK72

7

22,820 members

267 reviews

4

6 Members: silverbooks, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

8

A Tale of Love and Darkness

2,608 members

70 reviews

4.2

9 Members: SqueakyChu, booksinbed, almigwin, avatiakh, silverbooks, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

9

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

14,231 members

139 reviews

½ 3.6

9 Members: laytonwoman3rd, booksinbed, almigwin, silverbooks, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

10

by Anita Diamant

18,125 members

401 reviews

4

7 Members: SqueakyChu, booksinbed, avatiakh, silverbooks, Dilara86, ahef1963, zombiecat

11

The Metamorphosis [novella]

15,139 members

275 reviews

3.9

8 Members: booksinbed, silverbooks, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda, zombiecat

12

If This Is a Man

6,644 members

102 reviews

½ 4.3

8 Members: booksinbed, avatiakh, silverbooks, roby72, thecoroner, Dilara86, alex68, FranzK72

13

by Isaac Bashevis Singer

681 members

7 reviews

3.8

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, Dilara86, alex68, FranzK72

14

by Markus Zusak

52,139 members

2,235 reviews

½ 4.4

6 Members: laytonwoman3rd, SqueakyChu, booksinbed, avatiakh, silverbooks, ahef1963

15

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

by Michael Chabon

20,347 members

428 reviews

4.2

5 Members: booksinbed, aulsmith, avatiakh, silverbooks, ahef1963

16

See Under: Love

by David Grossman

739 members

10 reviews

3.9

6 Members: avatiakh, silverbooks, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

17

by A. B. Yehoshua

548 members

4 reviews

3.8

6 Members: almigwin, silverbooks, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

18

The Family Carnovsky

by Israel Joshua Singer

348 members

12 reviews

4.1

5 Members: almigwin, thecoroner, alex68, Avencejo, FranzK72

19

Maus I: My Father Bleeds History

by Art Spiegelman

12,166 members

279 reviews

½ 4.4

5 Members: SqueakyChu, booksinbed, avatiakh, silverbooks, ManWithAnAgenda

20

by Vasily Grossman

4,114 members

100 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: almigwin, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

21

Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began

by Art Spiegelman

8,310 members

154 reviews

½ 4.5

5 Members: SqueakyChu, booksinbed, avatiakh, silverbooks, ManWithAnAgenda

22

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

by Jonathan Safran Foer

17,744 members

490 reviews

4

5 Members: booksinbed, avatiakh, silverbooks, ahef1963, Avencejo

23

People of the Book

by Geraldine Brooks

11,056 members

522 reviews

3.9

5 Members: booksinbed, silverbooks, krazy4katz, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

24

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

by Michael Chabon

11,378 members

443 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aulsmith, avatiakh, silverbooks, ahef1963

25

Everything Is Illuminated

by Jonathan Safran Foer

15,040 members

278 reviews

3.8

5 Members: SqueakyChu, booksinbed, avatiakh, silverbooks, ahef1963

26

The Radetzky March

3,339 members

85 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

27

American Pastoral

8,860 members

188 reviews

3.9

5 Members: booksinbed, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

28

by Elias Canetti

2,637 members

31 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

29

The Gift of Asher Lev

1,492 members

26 reviews

4.1

4 Members: avatiakh, silverbooks, krazy4katz, Dilara86

30

The Reawakening

1,470 members

30 reviews

4.2

4 Members: silverbooks, alex68, FranzK72, mermind2

31

Humboldt's Gift

3,265 members

42 reviews

3.8

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

32

4,555 members

69 reviews

4.1

5 Members: SqueakyChu, booksinbed, silverbooks, alex68, ahef1963

33

Someone to Run With

by David Grossman

724 members

23 reviews

4.1

5 Members: SqueakyChu, silverbooks, roby72, thecoroner, FranzK72

34

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

by Giorgio Bassani

2,333 members

59 reviews

3.8

5 Members: booksinbed, silverbooks, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

35

Letter from an Unknown Woman

by Stefan Zweig

768 members

36 reviews

4

5 Members: booksinbed, almigwin, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

36

901 members

31 reviews

3.9

4 Members: almigwin, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

37

The Ministry of Special Cases

by Nathan Englander

1,144 members

38 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: SqueakyChu, almigwin, avatiakh, silverbooks

38

by Tatiana de Rosnay

12,214 members

679 reviews

4

4 Members: SqueakyChu, booksinbed, silverbooks, ahef1963

39

5,690 members

68 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72,aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith : A slog through the life of a middle age academic.

40

The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories: The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka

1,826 members

11 reviews

4.1

4 Members: almigwin, silverbooks, roby72, ahef1963

41

727 members

24 reviews

3.9

4 Members: SqueakyChu, avatiakh, silverbooks, roby72

42

2,407 members

28 reviews

4.1

3 Members: SqueakyChu, avatiakh, Dilara86

43

9,554 members

119 reviews

3.9

4 Members: silverbooks, roby72, thecoroner, FranzK72

44

There Are Jews in My House

by Lara Vapnyar

204 members

5 reviews

4

4 Members: laytonwoman3rd, SqueakyChu, booksinbed, silverbooks

45

The Final Solution: A Story of Detection

by Michael Chabon

3,930 members

161 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: aulsmith, avatiakh, silverbooks

46

The Family Moskat

by Isaac Bashevis Singer

950 members

18 reviews

4.1

4 Members: avatiakh, silverbooks, alex68, FranzK72

47

by Gustav Meyrink

2,032 members

48 reviews

3.8

5 Members: silverbooks, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72,Dilara86

48

The Collected Stories

by Isaac Bashevis Singer

1,205 members

9 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: silverbooks, Dilara86, zombiecat

49

A Canticle for Leibowitz

by Walter M. Miller

13,221 members

341 reviews

3.9

3 Members: almigwin, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

50

The Brothers Ashkenazi

by I. J. Singer

475 members

12 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: almigwin, silverbooks, alex68, FranzK72

51

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

13,144 members

125 reviews

3.8

3 Members: laytonwoman3rd, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

52

The Rabbi's Cat: The Bar Mitzvah / Malka of the Lions / Exodus

935 members

51 reviews

4.1

3 Members: SqueakyChu, avatiakh, zombiecat

53

Barney's Version

by Mordecai Richler

1,999 members

40 reviews

4

4 Members: booksinbed, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

54

If This Is a Man / The Truce

2,694 members

35 reviews

½ 4.5

4 Members: booksinbed, silverbooks, thecoroner, alex68

55

The History of Love

by Nicole Krauss

9,671 members

338 reviews

3.9

3 Members: booksinbed, silverbooks, ahef1963

56

The Finkler Question

by Howard Jacobson

2,900 members

143 reviews

3

4 Members: booksinbed, almigwin, avatiakh, kara.shamy,silverbooks

57

Number the Stars

22,262 members

690 reviews

4.1

3 Members: silverbooks, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

58

Portnoy's Complaint

8,024 members

162 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: booksinbed, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,silverbooks

59

The Painted Bird

by Jerzy Kosiński

3,255 members

82 reviews

3.8

3 Members: silverbooks, krazy4katz, zombiecat

60

by David Grossman

424 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: SqueakyChu, avatiakh, roby72

61

Heir to the Glimmering World

by Cynthia Ozick

792 members

16 reviews

½ 3.3

4 Members: booksinbed, almigwin, avatiakh, silverbooks

62

Shylock Is My Name

by Howard Jacobson

556 members

86 reviews

3.1

2 Members: laytonwoman3rd, kara.shamy

63

Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure

by Michael Chabon

3,113 members

152 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: aulsmith, avatiakh, silverbooks

64

The Adventures of Augie March

4,233 members

80 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, alex68, FranzK72

65

My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

965 members

58 reviews

4.2

2 Members: laytonwoman3rd, booksinbed

66

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

by Mordecai Richler

1,497 members

18 reviews

3.8

3 Members: booksinbed, silverbooks, ahef1963

67

You Can't Take It With You

564 members

8 reviews

3.8

2 Members: almigwin, ManWithAnAgenda

68

Sybil, or The Two Nations

by Benjamin Disraeli

835 members

6 reviews

3.1

3 Members: booksinbed, almigwin, alex68

69

A Perfect Peace

394 members

8 reviews

3.9

3 Members: almigwin, avatiakh, silverbooks

70

Marjorie Morningstar

1,414 members

31 reviews

3.8

3 Members: laytonwoman3rd, booksinbed, silverbooks

71

A Woman in Jerusalem

by A. B. Yehoshua

605 members

30 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: almigwin, avatiakh, silverbooks

72

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

by Hannah Arendt

4,986 members

65 reviews

4.2

3 Members: almigwin, silverbooks, alex68

73

A Journey to the End of the Millennium

by A. B. Yehoshua

524 members

9 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: almigwin, avatiakh, silverbooks

74

by David Grossman

564 members

10 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: silverbooks, roby72, thecoroner

75

If Not Now, When?

1,618 members

20 reviews

4.1

3 Members: silverbooks, alex68, FranzK72

76

How I Found America: Collected Stories

by Anzia Yezierska

63 members

½ 3.6

2 Members: almigwin, silverbooks

77

by Lion Feuchtwanger

391 members

9 reviews

4

2 Members: almigwin, jeffza

78

Salome of the Tenements

by Anzia Yezierska

71 members

1 review

2.9

2 Members: almigwin, silverbooks

79

Elsewhere, Perhaps

258 members

6 reviews

4

3 Members: almigwin, avatiakh, silverbooks

80

The Puttermesser Papers

by Cynthia Ozick

818 members

18 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: booksinbed, almigwin, silverbooks

81

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories

by Nathan Englander

1,097 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: booksinbed, silverbooks

82

A Treasury of Yiddish Stories: Revised and Updated Edition

388 members

1 review

3.2

2 Members: almigwin, silverbooks

83

Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor Frankl

19,346 members

369 reviews

4.2

2 Members: krazy4katz, ahef1963

84

by Isaac Bashevis Singer

1,159 members

16 reviews

3.8

2 Members: silverbooks, Dilara86

85

Tanakh : a new translation of the Holy Scriptures according to the traditional Hebrew text

by Jewish Publication Society of America

2,833 members

21 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: aulsmith, silverbooks

86

by Michael Chabon

4,577 members

105 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith

87

by Bernard Malamud

2,490 members

40 reviews

3.9

Member: NoPlanetB

88

86 members

1 review

4.2

Member: almigwin

89

Er wordt op u gewacht

by Raimond Bernard

1 member

5

Member: Toledoth

90

by Anzia Yezierska

1,346 members

31 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: almigwin, silverbooks

91

745 members

5 reviews

4.2

2 Members: silverbooks, krazy4katz

92

by Arthur Miller

1,254 members

21 reviews

3.9

2 Members: booksinbed, almigwin

93

by Isaac Bashevis Singer

1,083 members

10 reviews

4.1

2 Members: avatiakh, roby72

94

The Book of Lights

1,068 members

9 reviews

3.9

2 Members: silverbooks, krazy4katz

95

The Age of Wonders

by Aharon Appelfeld

187 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: almigwin, silverbooks

96

The Elected Member

by Bernice Rubens

337 members

14 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

97

709 members

5 reviews

4.2

2 Members: booksinbed, ahef1963

98

by Aharon Appelfeld

101 members

1 review

4.2

2 Members: almigwin, silverbooks

99

Kaaterskill Falls

by Allegra Goodman

842 members

19 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: laytonwoman3rd

100

De wederopstanding van de bakker

57 members

5

Member: almigwin

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