Jewish Book Council Recommends Summer Reads

Summer is the time when many of us like to kick back and relax through reading.

Miri Pomerantz Dauber, Director, Jewish Book Council Book Clubs, provides the following suggestions, some of which were recognized with Jewish Book Council awards. The 2020 Jewish Book Award recipients will be announced on January 12, 2021.

Fiction

• Hannah’s War by Jan Eliasberg
• On Division by Goldie Goldbloom
• The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman (2019 JBC Book Club Award)
• A Bend in the Stars by Rachel Barenbaum
• The Last Watchman of Old Cairo by Michael David Lukas (2018 JJ Greenberg Memorial Award)
• Fly Already by Etgar Keret (2019 JBC fiction award)
• The Book of V. by Anna Solomon
• The Lost Shtetl by Max Gross

Non Fiction

• The Art of Leaving: A Memoir by Ayelet Tsabari
• America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times Until Today by Pamela Nadell (2019 JBC Jewish Book of the Year/Everett Family Foundation; recommended for book clubs)
• The Color of Love: A Story of a Mixed Race Jewish Girl by Marra Gad
• The Seventh Heaven: Travels Through Jewish Latin America by Ilan Stavans
• The Sacred Exchange: Creating a Jewish Money Ethic by Mary Zamore
• Wandering Dixie: Dispatches from the Lost Jewish South by Sue Eisenfeld
• #QuietingTheSilence: Personal Stories by The Blue Dove Foundation

JBC’s web­site fea­tures a data­base of cur­rent and past Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award win­ners and final­ists; judges’ remarks on the 2019 win­ners and final­ists book pages

The Jewish Book Council (JBC)is a not-for-profit organization that works to promote books of Jewish interest. Through reviews, awards, public programs, book club resources, an annual literary journal, the JBC Network author touring program which connects synagogues, JCCs, and other institutions with current authors for events (virtual for this year!), and more, Jewish Book Council engages in conversations around literature. Find out more, read reviews, sign up to receive JBC’s annual book club reading selection guide, or register with the JBC Network at www.jewishbookcouncil.org.