Pho­to by Anton Dar­ius on Unsplash

With bliz­zards and snow­storms and arc­tic freezes (hope­ful­ly!) behind us, we have a new sea­son of spring books to look for­ward to. Rang­ing from a Mod­ern Ortho­dox rom-com, an unnerv­ing sum­mer camp nov­el, and an immer­sive fam­i­ly his­to­ry span­ning decades and coun­tries, these ten books are not to be missed. (You can see all of our lat­est book reviews here.)

Odessa by Gabrielle Sher

Por­cu­pines by Fran Fabriczki

Taran­tu­la by Eduar­do Hal­fon, and trans­lat­ed by Daniel Hahn

Soon by You by Dahlia Adler

Spin­ning at the Edges by Eliz­a­beth Poliner

Simona is the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil’s man­ag­er of dig­i­tal con­tent strat­e­gy. 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 LilithThe Nor­mal School, Dig­ging through the Fat, and oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. She holds an MFA in fic­tion from The New School.