Book Club

Meeting regularly since 2018, the Adat Shalom Book Club gathers to discuss books of interest within the Jewish community. Books chosen may focus on Jewish themes, history, culture, or identity, and many of the authors selected are well-known for their Jewish heritage and for the explorations of the Jewish experience found in their works.

More than just a chance to discuss compelling books, the Adat Shalom Book Club is also an opportunity to connect with friends within the Adat Shalom community and to make new ones. We look forward to seeing you at the next meeting of the Adat Shalom Book Club! 

The Kindness of Strangers - Salka Viertel

Lying on the Couch - Irvin Yalom

A Horse Walks into a Bar - David Grossman
A Pigeon and A Boy - Meir Shalev
A Tale of Love and Darkness - Amos Oz
American Pastoral- Philip Roth
Bread Givers - Anzia Yezierska
Conan Doyle for the Defense - Margalit Fox
Dora Bruder - Patrick Modiano
Florence Adler Swims Forever - Rachel Beanland
If All the Seas Were Ink - Ilana Kushner
Inheritance, a Memoir - Dani Shapiro
Judas - Amos Oz
Kantika - Elizabeth Graver
Night in Shanghai - Nicole Mones
One Hundred Saturdays - Michael Frank
Paris in the Present Tense - Mark Heilprin
Peony - Pearl S. Buck
Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
Rachel Calof's Story - Calof/Rikoon
Snow in August - Pete Hamill
Spies of No Country - Matti Friedman
Suddenly, A Knock on the Door - Etgar Keret
The Best Place on Earth - Ayalet Tsabari

The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights by Kitty Feldis
The Family Orchard - Nomi Eve
The Girl from Foreign - Sadia Shepard
The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles - Giorgio Bassani
The Golem and the Jinni - Helene Wecker
The Gown - Jennifer Robson
The Last Watchman of Old Cairo - Michael David Lukas
The Liar -  Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
The Lost Shtetl - Max Gross
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit - Lucette Lagnado
The Marriage of Opposites - Alice Hoffman
The Messiah of Stockholm - Cynthia Ozick

The Prison Minyan by Jonathan Stone
The Replacement Life - Boris Fishman
The Secret Chord - Geraldine Brooks
The Slave - Isaac Basheves Singer
The Thread Collectors - Shaunna Edwards/Alyson Richman
The Wine of Solitude - Irene Nemirovsky
The World to Come - Dara Horn
The Zone - Sergei Dovlatov
Three Floors Up - Eshkol Nevo
Towers of Gold - Frances Dinkelspiel
Two She-Bears - Meir Shalev
Waking Lions - Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai - Matti Friedman