With stories on music, stolen art, complicated romantic entangelments, and friendship abroad, 2022 has been a year filled with engrossing books and captivating characters. Check out the ten reviews that our readers read the most this past year below. (And you can read “The 10 Most Popular PB Daily Stories of 2022″ to round out your winter reading!)
Woman on Fire by Lisa Barr
The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem by Sarit Yishai-Levi, translated by Anthony Berris
The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land: Stories by Omer Friedlander
Sephardi Voices: The Untold Expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands by Henry Green and Richard Stursberg
The Matchmaker’s Gift: A Novel by Lynda Cohen Loigman
Leaving Eastern Parkway by Matthew Daub
The Thread Collectors: A Novel by Alyson Richman and Shaunna Edwards
Cooking alla Giudia: A Celebration of the Jewish Food of Italy by Benedetta Jasmine Guetta
Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai by Matti Friedman
Simona is the Jewish Book Council’s managing editor of digital content and marketing. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a concentration in English and History and studied abroad in India and England. Prior to the JBC she worked at Oxford University Press. Her writing has been featured in Lilith, The Normal School, Digging through the Fat, and other publications. She holds an MFA in fiction from The New School.