Thursday, May 09, 2013

CBH Book Club Reading List - as of May, 2013 (and going thru end of 2013)


CBH Book Club Reading List
(in order of having been read?)

 Author                                   Title        _____                        
Primo Levi                             The Periodic Table
Chaim Potok                          The Chosen
Elias Canetti                           Auto-da-Fe
S. Y. Agnon                           A Simple Story
Saul Bellow                            Herzog
Mordacai Richler                   Barney's Version 
Andre Schwartz-Bart              The Last of the Just
Simon Wiesenthal                  Sunflower
Amos Oz                                My Michael
Myla Goldberg                       Bee Season: A Novel
Philip Roth                             The Counterlife
David Klingoffer                   The Lord Will Gather Me In
Michael Chabon                     Kavalier & Clay
Philip Roth                             American Pastoral
Geraldine Brooks                   Nine Parts of Desire
Stefan Zweig                         Beware of Pity
Arnold Eisen                          Taking Hold of Torah            
Anita Brookner                      Providence                      
Gluckel Hamelin                    Memoirs of Glueckel
Daniel Fuchs                          Summer in Williamsburg
                                               Poetry by Jewish poets
Richard Zimler                       Last Kabbalist of Lisbon
Hasia Diner                            Lower East Side Memories
Ben Orlove                             In My Father's Study
Marge Piercy                          He, She and It
Sigmund Freud                      Moses and Monotheism
Melvin Jules Bukiet               Neurotica: Jewish Writers on Sex
Amos Oz                                The Same Sea
Philip Roth                             The Plot Against America
Elie Wiesel                             The Testament : A novel
 Batya Gur                              Literary Murder 
 Cynthia Ozick                        The Messiah of Stockholm 
 A. B. Yehoshua                     Mr. Mani  
 Stella Suberman                     The Jew Store 
 Maggie Anton                        Rashi's Daughters  
 Robert Alter                           The David Story  
 Lawrence J. Epstein               The Haunted Smile  
 Amos Oz                                A Tale of Love and Darkness  
Douglas Century                   Barney Ross
Nicole Krauss                        The History of Love
Dara Horn/Chagall                The World to Come/My Life
Farideh Goldin                      Wedding Song
Michael Wex                         Born to Kvetch
Jonathan Lethem                   The Fortress of Solitude
Aaron Lansky                        Outwitting History
Stephen Dubner                     Turbulent Souls
Lawrence Kushner                Jewish Spirituality

David Maine                           The Preservationist
I.B. Singer                               Enemies: A Love Story                                   
Philip Roth                              Everyman                               
A.Elon                                     The Pity of It All                                            
Franz Kafka                            The Trial          
Michael Chabon                      The Yiddish Policemen's Union                               
Irene Nemirovsky                   Suite Francaise                     
Joseph Epstein                        Fabulous Small Jews              
Rami, Rabbi Shapiro               Ethics of the Sages: Pirke Avot 
Nathan Englander                   The Ministry of Special Cases                                   
A.B. Yehoshua                       The Lover                                
Geraldine Brooks                    People of the Book                                        
Mary Doria Russell                 The Sparrow                                      
Philip Roth                              Indignation                            
Meir Shalev                             A Pigeon and a Boy                          
Lore Segal                               Her First American                           
Joann Sfar [graphic novel]      The Rabbi's Cat                                 
Adam Mansbach                     The End of the Jews             
Kenneth Gross                                    Shylock Is Shakespeare                                
Shalom Auslander                   Foreskin's Lament
Meir Shalev                             The Blue Mountain
Peter Manseau                         Songs for the Butcher's Daughter
Ariel Sabar                              My Father's Paradise
Ron Leshem                            Beaufort
Diane Ackerman                     The Zookeeper's Wife
Abraham Joshua Heschel        The Sabbath
Barbara Kessel                        Suddenly Jewish
Milton Steinberg                     As A Driven Leaf
Charles Powers                        In the Memory of the Forest
Robert Pinsky                          The Life of David
Daniel Silva                             The Kill Artist
Herbert Weiner                        9 1/2 Mystics: The Kabbala Today
W.G. Sebald                            Austerlitz
Steve Stern                              The Frozen Rabbi
Asher Ginsberg                        Selected essays of Ahad ha-'Am 
Hans Fallada                            Every Man Dies Alone
Joan Leegant                           Wherever You Go
David Grossman                      To the End of the Land 
Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
David Benioff
City of Thieves
Rubin, Derek, editor
Who we are: on being (...) a Jewish American writer
Joshua Halberstam
A Seat At The Table
Lucette Lagnado
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
Alice Hoffman 
The Dovekeepers 
David Liss
A Conspiracy of Paper
Aharon Appelfeld 
Until The Dawn's Light 
A. Hoffman & P. Cole
Sacred Trash
Paul Auster
The New York Trilogy
Ruth Gay
Unfinished People
Philip Roth
The Human Stain
Sayed Kahua
Second Person Singular
Edmund De Waal
The Hare with Amber Eyes
David Leavitt
The Indian Clerk
A.B. Yehoshua
Journey to the End of the Millennium
Lillian Hellman
Scoundrel Time & Watch on the Rhine
Jonathan Sacks
The Great Partnership