Amy Weiner Weiss returns to add to her quarantine-ready reading list! Check out her new additions—hopefully you’ll find something to take care of your literary sweet tooth.
Buzzy titles I haven’t read (yet), but probably should:
Anthology, short fiction, for young adults: It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories edited by Katherine Locke and Laura Silverman
Contemporary fiction: Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Contemporary fiction: The Altruists by Andrew Ridker
Holocaust fiction: The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman
Literary fiction: The Ruined House by Ruby Namdar
Memoir, contemporary nonfiction: The Book of Separation by Tova Mirvis
Contemporary fiction: On Division by Goldie Goldbloom
Contemporary nonfiction: Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro
Memoir, LGBTQ nonfiction: Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman by Abby Stein
Holocaust fiction: Cilka’s Journey (Tattooist of Auschwitz Book #2) by Heather Morris
Great-looking books coming this spring:
History, biography: Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes by Adam Hochschild
Memoir, family: Nobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Kalb
Post-Holocaust memoir: I Want You To Know We’re Still Here by Esther Safran Foer (mother of aforementioned writer Jonathan Safran Foer)
As seen at recent JAAMM Fests, humor/pop culture:
Have I Got A Cartoon For You! The Moment Magazine Book of Jewish Cartoons edited by Bob Mankoff
Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons by Mike Reiss
The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia: From Abraham to Zabar’s and Everything In Between by Tablet Magazine [note: I highly recommend the hardcover edition, it makes a fabulous coffee table book!]
Last Girl Before Freeway: The Life, Love, Losses, and Liberation of Joan Rivers by Leslie Bennetts
Die Laughing: Killer Jokes for Newly Old Folks by William Novak
Famous Nathan: A Family Saga of Coney Island, the American Dream, and the Search for the Perfect Hot Dog by Lloyd Handwerker
Mother, Can You Not? by Kate Siegel
