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Roughly divided into the following categories:

-theology, philosophy, and being Jewish in the modern world

-folktales, culture mythology and stories

-Jewish feminism

-History (including Israel and the Holocaust)

-misc (fiction, Israeli fiction)

For more great Jewish literature please see the National Jewish Book Awards:

http://www.listsofbests.com/list/71185-national-jewish-book-awards

  2. 2.
    Essential Talmud: Thirtieth-anniversary Edition
    by Adin Steinsaltz
  4. 4.
    Who Wrote the Bible?
    by Richard Elliott Friedman
  9. 9.
    Living a Life that Matters
    by Harold S. Kushner
  10. 10.
    Synagogues Without Jews
    by Rivka Dorfman
  11. 11.
    I And Thou
    by Martin Buber
  12. 12.
    When Bad Things Happen to Good People
    by Harold S. Kushner
  13. 13.
    The Meaning of God in Modern Jewish Religion
    by Mordecai M. Kaplan
  14. 14.
    Man's Quest For God
    by Abraham J. Heschel
  15. 15.
    I Asked For Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology
    by Abraham Joshua Heschel
  16. 16.
    The Sabbath
    by Abraham Joshua Heschel
  17. 17.
    The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Vol. 1
    by Daniel C. Matt
  18. 18.
    The Guide for the Perplexed
    by Moses Maimonides
  25. 25.
    The Tales of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav
    by Adin Steinsaltz
  27. 27.
    Tevye's Daughters: Collected Stories of Sholom Aleichem
    by Sholem Aleichem
  28. 28.
    The Essential Kabbalah: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism
    by Daniel C. Matt
  29. 29.
    Elijah's Violin and Other Jewish Fairy Tales
    by Howard Schwartz
  32. 32.
    The Haunted Smile: The Story Of Jewish Comedians In America
    by Lawrence J. Epstein
  33. 33.
    Yiddish Folktales (Library of Yiddish Classics)
    by Beatrice Weinreich
  34. 34.
    Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism
    by Howard Schwartz
  35. 35.
    The Day the Rabbi Disappeared: Jewish Holiday Tales of Magic
    by Dr. Howard Schwartz
  36. 36.
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    The Jewish Woman: New Perspectives
    by elizabeth Koltun
  37. 37.
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    On Being a Jewish Feminist
    by Susannah Heschel
  39. 39.
  40. 40.
    The Red Tent: A Novel
    by Anita Diamant
  42. 42.
    Five Books Of Miriam: A Woman's Commentary on the Torah
    by Ellen Frankel
  43. 43.
    Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective
    by Judith Plaskow
  44. 44.
  45. 45.
    Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America
    by Letty Pogrebin
  46. 46.
  48. 48.
    The Tribe of Dina

  52. 52.
    Sex Wars: A Novel of Gilded Age New York
    by Marge Piercy
  54. 54.
    Night (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Elie Wiesel
  55. 55.
    GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation
    by Deborah Dash Moore
  58. 58.
    The Avengers
    by Rich Cohen
  59. 59.
    Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
    by Jud Newborn
  60. 60.
    Survival In Auschwitz
    by Primo Levi
  61. 61.
    Number the Stars
    by Lois Lowry
  62. 62.
    Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
    by Art Spiegelman
  63. 63.
    The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
    by Art Spiegelman
  66. 66.
    In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
    by Irene Opdyke
  67. 67.
    Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust
    by Yaffa Eliach
  68. 68.
    Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
    by Anne Frank
  69. 69.
    The Case for Israel
    by Alan Dershowitz
  70. 70.
    1948: A Soldier's Tale - The Bloody Road to Jerusalem
    by Uri Avnery
  71. 71.
  72. 72.
    My Life By Golda Meir
    by GOLDA MEIR
  73. 73.
  74. 74.
    Soldier of Peace: The Life of Yitzhak Rabin
    by Dan Kurzman
  75. 75.
    The Letters of Allen Ginsberg
    by Allen Ginsberg
  76. 76.
    Exodus
    by Uris
  77. 77.
    The Chosen (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
    by Chaim Potok
  81. 81.
    The Story of the Jews : A 4,000-Year Adventure
    by Stan Mack
  82. 82.
    Jewtopia: The Chosen Book for the Chosen People
    by Bryan Fogel
  83. 83.
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
    by Michael Chabon
  84. 84.
    Call It Sleep: A Novel
    by Henry Roth
  87. 87.
    As a Driven Leaf
    by Milton Steinberg
  89. 89.
    A Time to Every Purpose: Letters to a Young Jew
    by Jonathan D Sarna
  93. 93.
    Joys of Jewish Humor
    by Henry D. Spalding
  95. 95.
    Songs for the Butcher's Daughter: A Novel
    by Peter Manseau
  96. 96.
    People of the Book: A Novel
    by Geraldine Brooks
  97. 97.
    Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish
    by Abigail Pogrebin
  98. 98.
    ?
    The Yiddish Policeman's Union
    by Michael Chabon
  99. 99.
    Louis Zukofsky: Selected Poems (American Poets Project)
    by Louis Zukofsky
  100. 100.
    Herzog (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow
  101. 101.
    Getting Even
    by Woody Allen
  102. 102.
    Boychiks in the Hood: Travels in the Hasidic Underground
    by Robert Eisenberg
  103. 103.
    ?
    Light And Fire of the Baal Shem Tov
    by Yitzhak Buxbaum
  104. 104.
    Let My Babies Go: A Passover Story (Rugrats)
    by Sarah Willson
  105. 105.
    The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
    by Isaac Babel
  106. 106.
    Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan
    by Paul Celan
  107. 107.
    The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas (Jewish Latin America)
    by Alberto Gerchunoff
  108. 108.
    See Under: LOVE: A Novel
    by David Grossman
  109. 109.
    Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories
    by Franz Kafka
  110. 110.
    Death of a Salesman (Heinemann Plays)
    by Arthur Miller
  113. 113.
    The Brothers Ashkenazi (Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by I. J. Singer
  114. 114.
    The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
    by Isaac Bashevis Singer
  115. 115.
    Five Seasons (Harvest Book)
    by A. B. Yehoshua
  118. 118.
    The Painted Bird
    by Jerzy Kosinski
  119. 119.
    The Fixer
    by Bernard Malamud
  120. 120.
    Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel
    by Jonathan Safran Foer
  121. 121.
    Jewish-American Literature Since 1945
    by Stephen Wade
  122. 122.
    The Shawl
    by Cynthia Ozick
  123. 123.
    My Name Is Asher Lev
    by Chaim Potok
  124. 124.
    X-Men: Magneto Testament
    by Greg Pak
  125. 125.
  126. 126.
    A Contract with God
    by Will Eisner
  127. 127.
    Exit Wounds
    by Rutu Modan
  128. 128.
    Klezmer: Tales of the Wild East
    by Joann Sfar
  129. 129.
    Jewish Humour
    by Ben Eliezer
  130. 130.
    The Plot Against America
    by Philip Roth
  131. 131.
    A Tale of Love and Darkness
    by Amos Oz
  132. 132.
    To Know a Woman (Harvest in translation)
    by Amos Oz
  133. 133.
    Black Box
    by Amos Oz
  134. 134.
    Golden Country
    by Jennifer Gilmore
  135. 135.
    Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge
    by Paul Zakrzewski
  136. 136.
    The Autograph Man
    by Zadie Smith
  137. 137.
    ?
    Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews
    by Chaim Potok
  138. 138.
    A Mad Desire to Dance
    by Elie Wiesel
  139. 139.
    The Devil's Arithmetic (Puffin Modern Classics)
    by Jane Yolen
  140. 140.
    Portnoy's Complaint
    by Philip Roth
  141. 141.
    The Golem's Mighty Swing
    by James Sturm
  142. 142.
    We Are On Our Own
    by Miriam Katin
  143. 143.
    The Jew of New York
    by Ben Katchor
  144. 144.
    Yossel April 19, 1943
    by Joe Kubert
  145. 145.
    Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972
    by Edward K. Kaplan
  147. 147.
    ?
  148. 148.
    Human Stain
    by Philip Roth
  152. 153.
    The Rebbe's Army: Inside the World of Chabad-Lubavitch
    by Sue Fishkoff
  153. 154.
    The Rabbi's Cat
    by Joann Sfar
  154. 155.
    The Rabbi's Cat 2
    by Joann Sfar
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