2026
Title
Author
May
As a Jew: Reclaiming Our Story from Those Who Blame, Shame, and Try to Erase Us
Sarah Hurwitz
April
March
Heart of a Stranger: An Unlikely Rabbi’s Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging
Angela Buchdahl
February
January
The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
Michelle Young
2025
Title
Author
December
November
Horse
Geraldine Brooks
October
It’s OK to Be Angry about Capitalism
Bernie Sanders
September
August
July
The 100-year-old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Jonas Jonasson
June
Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag
Sigrid Nunez
May
Again and Again
Jonathan Evison
April
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Doris Kearns Goodwin
March
February
James
Percival Everett
January
Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times
Jonathan Sacks
2024
Title
Author
December
The Only Woman in the Room
Marie Benedict
November
October
Kizuna Coast
Sujata Massey
September
August
Facing the Mountain
Daniel James Brown
July
The Garden of Evening Mists
Tan Twan Eng
June
May
How to Become an American: A History of Immigration, Assimilation, and Loneliness
Daniel Wolff
April
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
James McBride
March
February
Soil: The Story of A Black Mother’s Garden
Camille Dungy
January
Trust
Herman Diaz
2023
Title
Author
December
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
Christian Cooper
November
October
The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese
September
August
July
Lost and Found
Kathryn Schulz
June
May
Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
April
With the End in Mind: Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
Kathryn Mannix
March
Astonish Me
Maggie Shipstead
February
Agent Josephine
Damien Lewis
January
The House of Broken Angels
Louis Alberto Urrea
2022
Title
Author
December
The Summer of the Great Grandmother
Madeleine L’Engle
November
October
Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Maria Semple
September
The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
Jonathan Kaufman
August
July
The Bar Mitzvah and the Beast: One Family’s Crosscountry Ride of Passage by Bike
Matt Biers-Ariel
June
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
May
April
These Precious Days
Ann Patchett
March
The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles
February
January
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
2021
Title
Author
December
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
November
October
The Choice
Edith Eva Eger
September
August
The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman
July
Homeland Elegies: A Novel
Ayad Akhtar
June
Half Broke
Ginger Gaffney
May
Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life
James Lovejoy
April
The Righteous Mind
Jonathan Haidt
March
February
Memorial
Bryan Washington
January
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabelle Wilkerson
2020
Title
Author
December
November
A Tale for the Time Being
Ruth Ozeki
October
The Alice Network
Kate Quinn
September
A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir
Lev Golinkin
August
July
Bad Blood
Jonathan Carreyrou
June
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
Kathleen Rooney
May
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
April
The Education of an Idealist
Samantha Power
March
February
The Library Book
Susan Orlean
January
The Topeka School
Ben Lerner
2019
Title
Author
December
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes
November
How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan
October
September
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
August
Educated
Tara Westover
July
June
May
Less
Andrew Sean Greer
April
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
March
February
Murder in the Melting Pot
Jane Isenberg
January
The Cooking Gene
Michael Twitty
2018
Title
Author
December
The Heart’s Invisible Furies
John Boyner
November
October
The Return
Hisham Matar
September
The Weight of Ink
Rachel Kadish
August
July
The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst
June
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
May
April
The Immortalists
Chloe Benjamin
March
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
February
January
Let There Be Laughter
Michael Krasny
2017
Title
Author
December
The Story of a Marriage
Andrew S. Greer
November
October
You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir
Sherman Alexie
September
Out of Egypt: A Memoir
Andre Aciman
August
July
Are You Anybody
Jeffrey Tambor
June
The Turner House
Angela Flournoy
May
April
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
March
The Great Fire
Shirley Hazzard
February
January
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
James W. Loewen
2016
Title
Author
December
November
A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman
October
September
The Underground Girls of Kabul
Jenny Nordberg
August
The Blackwater Lightship
Colm Toibin
July
Lab Girl
Hope Jahren
June
We’re All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler
May
Not in God’s Name
Jonathan Sacks
April
March
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie
February
January
On the Move: A Life
Oliver Sacks
2015
Title
Author
December
November
Euphoria
Lily King
October
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
September
August
Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
July
Being Mortal
Atul Gwande
June
An Officer and a Spy
Robert Harris
May
Bettyville
George Hodgman
April
Let’s Take the Long Way Home
Gail Caldwell
March
Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place
Coll Thrush
February
January
2014
Title
Author
December
A Passage to India
E.M. Forster
November
October
Do You Remember Me?
Judith Levine
September
The Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown
August
July
Love and Treasure
Ayelet Waldman
June
May
For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet’s Journey
Richard Blanco
April
My Promised Land
Avi Shavit
March
Dressed for Death
Donna Leon
February
The Family: A Journey Into the Heart of the Twentieth Century
David Laskin
January
2013
Title
Author
December
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
Timothy Egan
November
The Tiger’s Wife
Tea Obreht
October
September
August
The Last Chinese Chef
Nicole Mones
July
Stories for Boys
Gregory Martin
June
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
When the Emperor Was Divine
Jamie Ford
Julie Otsuka
May
April
The Assault
Harry Mulisch
March
The Bones and the Book
Jane Isenberg
February
Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady
Florence King
January
In the Garden of the Beasts
Erik Larson
2012
Title
Author
December
My Stroke of Insight
Jill Bolte Taylor
November
October
The Submission
Amy Waldman
September
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green
August
July
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama
Alison Bechdel
June
Like Me
Cheryl Wright
May
The Hare with Amber Eyes
Edmund de Waal
April
March
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery
February
To the End of the Land
David Grossman
January
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
2011
Title
Author
December
November
Dovekeepers
Alice Hoffman
October
Zeitoun
Dave Eggers
September
Annie’s Ghosts
Steve Luxemburg
August
July
The Jew Store
Stella Suberman
June
Hot, Flat and Crowded
Thomas Friedman
May
A Lily of the Field
John Lawton
April
The Lacuna
Barbara Kingsolver
March
February
Dreamers of the Day
Mary Doria Russell
January
Sarah’s Key
Tatiana de Rosnay
2010
Title
Author
December
Shanghai Moon
S.J. Rozen
November
October
Rashi’s Daughters, Book I: Joheved
Maggie Anton
September
Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese
August
July
Miscellaneous Deductions (a play)
Roy Hamrick
June
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloots
May
Jewish with Feeling: A Guide to Meaningful Jewish Practice
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
April
March
February
The Kill Artist
Daniel Silva
January
The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story
Diane Ackerman
2009
Title
Author
December
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Alison Bechdel
November
Exodus
Leon Uris
October
September
Wrestling with God & Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition
Rabbi Steven Greenberg
August
A Tale of Love and Darkness
Amos Oz
July
June
When You Lie About Your Age the Terrorists Win: Reflections on Looking in the Mirror
Carol Leifer
May
A Thread of Grace
Mary Doria Russell
April
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union
Michael Chabon
March
February
The Great Man
Kate Christensen
January
The History of Love
Nicole Kraus
2008
Title
Author
December
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
November
The Light Within: The Extraordinary Friendship of a Doctor and Patient Brought Together by Cancer
Lois M. Ramondetta and Deborah Sills
October
September
The World to Come
Dara Horn
August
People of the Book
Geraldine Brooks
July
June
May
Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith
Studs Terkel
April
An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba
Ruth Baher
March
Away
Amy Bloom
February
Writing a Jewish Life
Lev Raphael
January
The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith
Irshad Manji
2007
Title
Author
December
The Far Euphrates
Aryeh Lev Stollman
November
October
Disobedience
Naomi Alderman
September
August
Lost in America
Sherwin Nuland
July
The Genizah at the House of Sepher
Tamar Yellin