The list below compiles some of the books I have read in 2012. I am currently reading two books and expect to read a few more before the year comes to an end.
On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War, by Bernard Wasserstein
You, Fascinating You, by Germaine Shames
Prague: My Long Journey Home a Memoir of Survival, Denial and Redemption, by Charles Ota Heller
Rhyming Life and Death, by Amos Oz
An Uncommon Friendship: From Opposite Sides of the Holocaust, by Bernat Rosner
Who Shall Live: The Wilhelm Bachner Story, by Samuel P. Oliner
The Gates of November, by Chaim Potok
The Emperor of LIes, by Steve Sem-Sandberg
Italy’s Sorrow, by James Holland,
HIdden History of the Kovno Ghetto-United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Behind Enemy Lines: The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany, by Marthe Cohn
Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl
The Iron Tracks, by Aharon Appelfeld
Wings: A Novel of World War II Flygirls, by Karl Friedrich
Jerusalem Maiden, by Talia Carner
I Shall Not Hate, by Izzeldin Abuelaish
Dinner With Lenny, by Jonathan Cott
Road to Valor: A True Story of WWII, Italy, the Nazis and a Cyclist Who Inspired a Nation by Ali McConnon
The Amber Room, by Steve Berry
Soul to Soul: writings From Dark Places, by Deborah Masel
To Heal a Fractured World, by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
The Zahir, by Paulo Coelho
The Jewish Husband, by Lia Levi
The Devil and Miss Prym, by Paulo Coelho
Simon’s Family, by Marianne Fredericksson
Away, by Amy Bloom
The Dogs and Wolves, by Irene Nemirovsky
The Dovekeepers, by Alice Hoffman
The Island Within, by Ludwig Lewisohn
The Gift of Rest, by Senator Joe Lieberman
A Mind of Winter, by Shira Nayman
22 Britannia Road, by Amanda Hodgkinson
97 Orchard, by Jane Ziegelman
The Jewish Body, by Melvin Konner
Two Lives, by Vikram Seth
This is America!, by Henye Meyer
Three Horses, by Erri De Luca
Jewish Roots in Southern Soil, by Marcie Ferris
Saving Monticello: The Levy Family’s Epic Quest to Rescue the House That Jefferson Built, by Marc Leepson
Being Polite to Hitler, by Forman Dew
The House at Tyneford, by Natashia Solomons
Under the North Light: The Life and Work of Maud and Miska Petersham, by Lawrence Webster
Jewish Stories from Heaven and Earth, by Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins
The Promised Land, by Mary Antin
Joseph Anton, by Salman Rushdie
The Marriage Artist, by Andrew Winer
Unorthodox, by Deborah Feldman
Blackmore Park in World War II, by Fran and Martin Collins
Prague Winter, by Madeleine Albright
Rashi’s Daughters: Book III: Rachel: A Novel of Love and Talmud in Medieval France, by Maggie Anton
Rashi’s Daughters: Book I: Joheved, by Maggie Anton
City of Women, by David R. Gillham
The Sandcastle Girls, by Chris Bohjalian
The Polish Boxer, by Eduardo Halfon
The Violinists Thumb, by Sam Kean
Winter Journal, Paul Auster
The Little Russian, by Susan Sherman
The Woman Who Heard Color, by Kelly Jones
December 18, 2012 – 5 Tevet, 5773
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