The authors and titles included here are in alphabetical order by the author's last name. Up to five titles that are available in English translation are listed per author. These titles are offered as suggestions, not preferences. Locate descriptions of them on a bookseller's site like Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
Let us know what you read and what you were able to observe about Israeli or Jewish American culture that you didn't know before reading the book. What were your general impressions?
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Saul Bellow Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King, Herzog, Humboldt's Gift, Ravelstein
Yochi Brandes The Orchard, The Secret Book of Kings
Abraham Cahan Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto, The Rise of David Levinsky, The Imported Bridegroom, The White Terror and the Red: A Novel of Revolutionary Russia
Michael Chabon The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Gentlemen of the Road, Telegraph Avenue
Anita Diamant The Red Tent, Good Harbor, The Last Days of Dogtown, Day After Night, The Boston Girl
Natasha Diaz Color Me In: A Novel
E.L. Doctorow The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, World's Fair: A Novel, Billy Bathgate, The March
Nathan Englander kaddish.com, Dinner at the Center of the Earth, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, The Ministry of Special Cases, For Relief of Special Cases
Evan Fallenberg The Parting Gift, When We Danced on Water, LIght Fell
Edna Ferber So Big, Show Boat, Cimarron, Giant, Ice Palace
Jonathan Safran Foer Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Here I Am, Tree of Codes
Assaf Gavron The HIlltop: A Novel, Almost Dead: A Novel, Hydromania, Croc Attack
Myla Goldberg Bee Season, Feast Your Eyes, Catching the Moon, The False Friend, Wickett's Remedy
![Harlot's Ghost: A Novel by [Norman Mailer]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/516ONbUxr-L.jpg)
Rebecca Goldstein Mazel, Strange Attractors, The Mind-body Problem: A Novel, Properties of Light: A Novel, The Dark Sister
Allegra Goodman Paradise Park: A Novel, Family Markowitz,Total Immersion, The Other Side of the Island
David Grossman A Horse Walks Into a Bar, The Book of Intimate Grammar, Someone to Run With, To the End of the Land, Falling Out Time
Sheila Heti How Should a Person Be? We Need a Horse, All Our Happy Days Are Stupid, Ticknor, The Middle Stories
Alice Hoffman The World That We Knew, The Marriage of Opposites, The Museum of Extraordinary Things, The Red Garden, The Dovekeepers
Dara Horn The World to Come: A Novel, Eternal Life, All Other NIghts, A Guide for the Perplexed, In the Image: A Novel
Etgar Keret Missing Kissinger, Pizzeria Kamikaze, The Seven Good Years: A Memoir, Jetlag, Dad Runs Away with the Circus (Children's book)
Nicole Krauss Man Walks Into a Room, The History of Love, Great House, Forest Dark, To Be a Man
Michal Lemberger After Abel and Other Stories
Norman Mailer The Naked and the Dead, The Executioner's Song, An American Dream, Tough Guys Don't Dance, Ancient Evenings
Bernard Malamud The Natural, The Fixer, The Assistant, A New Life, The Tenants
Tova Mirvis The Visible City, The Outside World, The Ladies Auxiliary, The Book of Separation: A Memoir
Julie Orringer The Invisible Bridge, The Flight Portfolio: A Novel, How to Breathe Underwater, Can You Feel This?
Cynthia Ozick Foreign Bodies, Antiques, Metaphor & Memory, Heir to a Glimmering World: A Novel, Trust: A Novel
Chaim Potok My Name Is Asher Lev, The Chosen, The Promise, Davita's Harp: A Novel, In the Beginning: A Novel
Philip Roth The Plot Against America, American Pastoral, Portnoy's Complaint, Nemesis, Everyman
Cathleen Schine They May Not Mean To, But They Do, The Grammarians: A Novel, The Three Weissmans of Westport: A Novel, The New Yorkers: A Novel, Rameau's Niece: A Novel
Haim Sabato From the Four Winds, The Dawning of the Day: A Jerusalem Tale, Adjusting Sights, Aleppo Tales
Meir Shalev A Pigeon and a Boy, My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir, The Loves of Judith: A Novel, The Blue Mountain: A Novel, Two She-Bears: A Novel
Steve Stern Isaac and the Undertaker's Daughter, The Frozen Rabbi, The Pinch, The Wedding Jester, The Angel of Forgetfulness
Lara Vapnyar Still Here: A Novel, Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love, The Scent of Pine: A Novel, There Are Jews in My House, Divide Me By Zero
Meg Wolitzer The Ten-Year Nap: A Novel, The Interestings: A Novel, The Female Persuasion: A Novel, This Is My Life, Sleepwalking
Heartfelt thanks to Dr. Danny Anderson, Assistant Professor in the English and Fine Arts Department,
for sharing his expertise on Jewish American writers of fiction.
His suggestions have been invaluable.
Toda Raba, Danny!