• We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir, Raja Shehadeh Father and son lawyers share goals, but are unable to appreciate each other’s politics.
  • A Day In The Life of Abed Salama, Nathan Thrall.  An account of daily life in the occupied West Bank.
  • Enter Ghost, Isabella Hammad. A West Bank production of Hamlet explores the challenge of theater-making under occupation.
  • Land of Hope and Fear, Isabel Kershner. A mosaic portrait of Israeli society at the height of Israel’s protests against the judicial overhaul.
  • The Heaven And Earth Grocery Store, James McBride. A saga about intertwined Black and Jewish communities banding together in rural Pennsylvania.
  • Hope, Andrew Ridker. A send-up of a seemingly perfect Boston Jewish family as it unravels over the course of a year.
  • The Postcard, Anne Berest. Part fiction, part memoir, a mystery of four ancestors murdered at Auschwitz.
  • The Best of Everything, Rona Jaffe. A reissue of the 1958 cult classic: Five young secretaries trying to make it in New York City.
  • Lies and Sorcery, Elsa Morante. Available in English this year, these stories explore women’s inner lives.
  • The World And All That It Holds, Aleksandar Hemon. The life of a Sephardic Jew upended by the start of WWI.
  • I Must Be Dreaming, Roz Chast. The New Yorker cartoonist produces an illustrated catalogue of her dreams.
  • The Cost Of Free Land, Rebecca Clarren. Journalist explores how her Jewish ancestors displaced the Lakota for settlers like her family.
  • Fatherland, Burkhard Bilger. The New Yorker writer investigates his grandfather’s time as a Nazi Party chief in France.
  • Portico: Cooking And Feasting In Rome’s Jewish Kitchen, Leah Koenig. Celebrating Shabbat in Rome, a Jewish food scene distinct from Ashkenazi and Sephardic cousins.
  • The Everlasting Meal Cookbook, Tamar Adler. An alphabetized lexicon of leftovers and how to use them, including spare fish heads…