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Nonfiction Whatever is Contained Must Be Released: My Jewish Orthodox Girlhood, My Life as a Feminist Artist Helène Aylon
Nonfiction Explaining Life: The Wisdom of Modern Jewish Poetry, 1960 – 2010 Eleanor Ehrenkranz
Nonfiction The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted By Her Beauty to Notice M.G. Lord
Nonfiction Women from the Ankle Down: The Story of Shoes and How They Define Us Rachelle Bergstein
Nonfiction Promiscuous: Portnoy’s Complaint and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness Bernard Avishai
Visual Arts Jewish Mothers: Strength, Wisdom, Compassion Lloyd Wolf and Paula Wolfson; Anne Roiphe, fwd.
Nonfiction The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer Anne-Marie O’Connor
Nonfiction Alice’s Piano: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer Melissa Müller and Reinhard Piechocki; Alice Herz-Sommer, fwd.
Nonfiction A Century of Wisdom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the World’s Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor Caroline Stoessinger
Nonfiction Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination Mark Krupnick; Jean K. Carney; Mark Shechner, eds.
