Book Club Backlist
Engaging, conversation-worthy novels, novellas, and short fiction chosen especially for Book Clubs and Reading Groups. Popular Jewish-interest book club picks tend to combine strong storytelling with rich material for discussion—family and identity, memory and history (often the Holocaust or immigration), and moral complexity—which makes them well-suited to group conversation. Titles here tend to recur on club lists because they're literary, emotionally resonant, and raise questions readers want to talk through together rather than just read passively.

The Last Dekrepitzer
Howard Langer
National Jewish Book Club Award Winner

The Boy with the Star Tattoo
Talia Carner

On Her Own
Lihi Lapid and Sondra Silverston, Translator

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride
National Jewish Book Club Award Winner

The Postcard
Anne Berest and Tina Kover, Translator

Adam Unrehearsed
Don Futterman

Once We Were Home
Jennifer Rosner

Kantika
Elizabeth Graver

The Netanyahus
Joshua Cohen

The Weight of Ink
Rachel Kadish
National Jewish Book Club Award Winner

The Golem and the Jinni
Helene Wecker
National Jewish Book Club Award Winner

The Goddess of Warsaw
Lisa Barr

And After the Fire
Lauren Belfer
National Jewish Book Club Award Winner

Dog
Yishay Ishi Ron and Yardenne Greenspan, Translator
National Jewish Book Club Award Winner

Shayna
Miriam Ruth Black
National Jewish Book Club Award Winner

The Lost Shtetl
Max Gross
National Jewish Book Club Award Winner

The Hidden Palace
Helene Wecker
National Jewish Book Club Award Winner

The Girl from Berlin
Ronald H. Balson
National Jewish Book Club Award Winner

The World That We Knew
Alice Hoffman
National Jewish Book Club Award Winner

Sophie's Choice
William Styron

The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem
Sarit Yishai-Levi and Anthony Berris, Translator

In Another Time
Jillian Cantor

The Lost Letter
Jillian Cantor

The Slaughterman's Daughter
Yaniv Iczkovits

Cece in Wonder Land
Bonnie S. Priever
“A great book club read.” —Hadassah Magazine

The Tunnel
A.B. Yehoshua and Stuart Schoffman, Translator

We Were the Lucky Ones
Georgia Hunter
National Jewish Book Award Book Club Finalist