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Nonfiction Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible David Plotz
Nonfiction My Jesus Year: A Rabbi’s Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith Benyamin Cohen
Nonfiction Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking Our Declaration of Independence Alan Dershowitz
Nonfiction What We Now Know About Jewish Education: Perspectives on Research for Practice Robert Louis Goodman, Paul Flexner, and Linda Dale Bloomberg, eds.
Nonfiction Celebrating the Jewish Year: The Spring and Summer Holidays Paul Steinberg; Janet Greenstein Potter, ed.
Nonfiction Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace Ayelet Waldman
Nonfiction Dignity Beyond Death: The Jewish Preparation for Burial Rochel U. Berman; Rabbi Irving Greenberg, fwd.
Nonfiction Christians & Jews in Dialogue: Learning in the Presence of the Other Mary C. Boys; Sara S. Lee
Nonfiction The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism: From Ancient Times to the Present Day Walter Laqueur