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Brooks, Geraldine "People of the Book" - 2008 This is going to be one of my favourite books this year. Such a wonderful story abou...

Petrowskaja, Katja "Maybe Esther" (German: Vielleicht Esther ) - 2014 A great tale of a Jewish family's history. One critic w...

Bellow, Saul "Humboldt's Gift" - 1975 I try to read the latest Nobel Prize winner for Literature and at least one former one e...

Boschwitz, Ulrich Alexander "The Passenger" aka "The Fugitive" (German: Der Reisende ) - 1939 This is my eighth Classic ...

Singer, Isaac Bashevis "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy" (Yiddish: נטל בחור ישיבה/Yenṭl der Yeshive-boḥer) - 1983 I am a huge Barbra Strei...

Boom, Corrie ten with Sherrill, John and Elizabeth "The Hiding Place. The Triumphant Story of Corrie Ten Boom" (De Schu...

Feuchtwanger, Lion "Jew Süss" (German: Jud Süß ) - 1925 This book is a classic about Germany in the 17th/18th century...

Schaik, Carel van & Michel, Kai "The Good Book of Human Nature: An Evolutionary Reading of the Bible" (Dutch: Het oerboek vo...

Grossman, David "The Zig Zag Kid" ( Hebrew: יש ילדים זיגזג/Jesh Jeladim ) - 1994 A fascinating story about a boy gro...

Abulhawa, Susan "Mornings in Jenin" (aka The Scar of David) - 2010 Everyone who is only slightly interested in world peace sh...

Zweig, Stefanie "Somewhere in Germany" ( German: Irgendwo in Deutschland ) - 1996 Since I reread " Nowhere in Africa ...

Ulitzkaya, Lyudmila "Imago" or "The Big Green Tent" ( Russian: Zelenyi shater/Зеленый шатер ) - 2010 I love Rus...

Schimmel, Betty with Gabriel, Joyce "To See You Again. A True Story of Love in a Time of War" - 1999 A lot of my friends wil...

Zweig, Stefanie "Nowhere in Africa" (German: Nirgendwo in Afrika ) - 1995 I reread " Nowhere in Africa " by Stepha...

Modiano, Patrick "La Place de l'Étoile" ( French: La Place de l'Étoile ) - 1968 An interesting book, certainly a ch...

Shteyngart, Gary "Absurdistan" - 2006 Certainly a funny book. Quite weird actually. A novel about sex, drugs and rock'n r...

Seth, Vikram "Two Lives" - 2005 I had already read two novels by Vikram Seth before, " A Suitable Boy " and " A...

Roth, Philip "Zuckerman Unbound" - 1981 I had read the first Zuckerman story " The Ghost Writer " not that long ago...

Droste-Hülshoff, Annette von "The Jew's Beech" ( German: Die Judenbuche ) - 1842 Annette von Droste-Hülshoff is probabl...

Grjasnowa, Olga "All Russians Love Birch Trees" (German: Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt ) - 2012  I heard ab...