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AJL's Recommended Books for ALL Readers

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2023 AJL Digital Conference: Books by Presenters
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Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody
The Kindness Club: Chloe on the Bright Side
Just One...: Includes Just One Day, Just One Year, and Just One Night
Best Wishes (Best Wishes #1)
The Museum of Lost and Found
Thistlefoot
Atomic Anna
The Light of the Midnight Stars
The Sisters of the Winter Wood
Eating the Bible: Over 50 Delicious Recipes to Feed Your Body and Nourish Your Soul
Eight Nights of Flirting
Some Kind of Hate
My Fine Fellow
Ellen Outside the Lines
Black Bird, Blue Road
AJL Jewish Fiction Award
by AJL's Recommended Books for ALL Readers View all (10)
Thistlefoot
Atomic Anna
How to Find Your Way in the Dark
To Be a Man: Stories
On Division
Memento Park
The Cloister
The Weight of Ink
Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan
A Boy in Winter
The Judaica Reference & Bibliography Awards
by AJL's Recommended Books for ALL Readers View all (34)
Wartime North Africa: A Documentary History, 1934-1950
Early Jewish Cookbooks: Essays on Hungarian Jewish Gastronomical History
Pogroms: A Documentary History
Essays on the Making of the Early Hebrew Book
Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children's Literature
Catalog of the Gerald K. Stone Collection of Judaica: A Bibliographical Resource for Canadian Jewish Studies
Catalog of Catalogs: A Bibliography of Temporary Exhibition Catalogs Since 1876 That Contain Items of Judaica
A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969
Judaica Americana: Set a Bibliography of Publications to 1900/Volume 1, Chronological File 1676 to 1889/Volume 2, Chronological File 1890
Social Justice and Israel/Palestine: Foundational and Contemporary Debates
Historical Atlas of Hasidism
Discovering Second Temple Literature: The Scriptures and Stories That Shaped Early Judaism
The Holocaust: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection [4 Volumes]
Outside the Bible, 3-Volume Set: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture
Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700-1950
Sydney Taylor Book Awards
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The Ghosts of Rose Hill
Ethel's Song: Ethel Rosenberg's Life in Poems
The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner
Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis
Raquela's Seder
Shoham's Bangle
Madame Alexander: The Creator of the Iconic American Doll
Tía Fortuna's New Home: A Jewish Cuban Journey
Eight Nights of Flirting
Some Kind of Hate
My Fine Fellow
Ellen Outside the Lines
Black Bird, Blue Road
Honey and Me
Sitting Shiva
Sydney Taylor Manuscript Awards
by AJL's Recommended Books for ALL Readers View all (7)
The Night of the Burning
The Seventh Handmaiden
Viva, Rose!
When the Hurricane Came
Zayda Was a Cowboy
When the Soldiers Were Gone
The Streets Are Paved with Gold
"Love Your Neighbor" Series
by AJL's Recommended Books for ALL Readers View all (57)
The Golden Rule: Deluxe Edition (Deluxe)
Hannah's Way
Emma's Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty
Never Say a Mean Word Again: A Tale from Medieval Spain
As Good as Anybody: Martin Luther King, Jr., and Abraham Joshua Heschel's Amazing March Toward Freedom
Whispering Town PB
Refugee
The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog
The Hired Girl
Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba
Bubbe's Belated Bat Mitzvah
Drop by Drop: A Story of Rabbi Akiva
In God's Hands
What You Will See Inside a Synagogue
Regina Persisted
Holiday Highlights
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Beni's Tiny Tales: Around the Year in Jewish Holidays
Hanukkah Upside Down
Latke's First Hanukkah
The Moving-Box Sukkah
Big Bad Wolf's Yom Kippur
Tzimmes for Tzipporah
Two New Years
Counting on Shabbat
This Is My Shabbat
Luis de Torres Sails to Freedom
My Family Haggadah
An Invitation to Passover
Afikomen
The Royal Recipe: A Purim Story
The Book of Elsie
AJL Podcasts
by AJL's Recommended Books for ALL Readers View all (23)
Golemcrafters
The Lost Ryu
Ways to Play
Desert Queen
Aviva Vs the Dybbuk
Camp Quiltbag
Ana on the Edge
Ellen Outside the Lines
The Christmas Mitzvah
Red and Green and Blue and White
Florence Adler Swims Forever
Puppet Child
Hotel Moscow
China Doll
Jerusalem Maiden
2021 AJL Digital Conference: Books by Presenters
by AJL's Recommended Books for ALL Readers View all (58)
Summer of Stolen Secrets
Gitty and Kvetch
The Seventh Handmaiden
My Israel and Me
Sorry for Your Loss
Essays and Explorations in the Enigmatic, Esoteric, and Mystical based on Sources in Rabbinic texts ad fontes IX: II
Essays and Explorations in the Enigmatic, Esoteric, and Mystical based on Sources in Rabbinic texts ad fontes IX: I
37 Days at Sea: Aboard the M.S. St. Louis, 1939
Under the Iron Bridge
Manna in the Morning
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 1: Ancient Israel, from Its Beginnings Through 332 Bce
Sarah's Solo
Meet Me at the Well: The Girls and Women of the Bible
Mapping the Bones
Bear Outside
2021 AJL Membership Gala featuring the Foer Family
by AJL's Recommended Books for ALL Readers View all (11)
I Want You to Know We're Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir
Albert A. Foer Liber Amicorum: A Consumer Voice in the Antitrust Arena
New American Haggadah
Here I Am
Everything Is Illuminated
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Eating Animals
How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Feasting and Fasting: The History and Ethics of Jewish Food
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