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Past JBC Book Club Picks Fiction A Replacement Life Boris Fishman Nonfiction All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir Shulem Deen Fiction Boxer, Beetle Ned Beauman Nonfiction Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood Leah Vincent Nonfiction Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life Vivian Gornick Fiction Henna House Nomi Eve Nonfiction How's Your Faith?: An Unlikely Spiritual Journey David Gregory Nonfiction Israel: A History Anita Shapira Fiction Jacob's Folly: A Novel Rebecca Miller Nonfiction Lincoln and the Jews: A History Jonathan D. Sarna and Benjamin Shapell Fiction No One Is Here Except All of Us Ramona Ausubel Nonfiction Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind Sarah Wildman Nonfiction Shuva: The Future of the Jewish Past Yehuda Kurtzer Fiction Suddenly, a Knock at the Door Etgar Keret; Nathan Englander, Miriam Shlesinger, Sondra Silverston, trans. Nonfiction The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible Matti Friedman Nonfiction The Arrogant Years: One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn Lucette Lagnado Fiction The Betrayers David Bezmozgis Nonfiction The Broken and the Whole: Discovering Joy after Heartbreak Charles S. Sherman Fiction The Debt of Tamar Nicole Dweck Fiction The Dovekeepers Alice Hoffman Nonfiction The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis Arthur Allen Nonfiction The Forgetting River: A Modern Tale of Survival, Identity, and the Inquisition Doreen Carvajal Fiction The Gallery of Vanished Husbands Natasha Solomons Nonfiction The Gods Are Broken!: The Hidden Legacy of Abraham Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin Fiction The Last Flight of Poxl West: A Novel Daniel Torday Fiction The Middlesteins Jami Attenberg Fiction The Nightingale Kristin Hannah Fiction The Wanting Michael Lavigne Nonfiction The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem Jeremy Dauber
Fiction Suddenly, a Knock at the Door Etgar Keret; Nathan Englander, Miriam Shlesinger, Sondra Silverston, trans.
Nonfiction The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible Matti Friedman
Nonfiction The Arrogant Years: One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn Lucette Lagnado
Nonfiction The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis Arthur Allen
Nonfiction The Forgetting River: A Modern Tale of Survival, Identity, and the Inquisition Doreen Carvajal
