Past Picks
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Winter 2025
Happy New Years — Maya Arad, trans. by Jessica Cohen
Upside Down Love — Sari Bashi
Every Body Beloved: A Jewish Embrace of Fatness — Minna Bromberg
Heart of a Stranger — Angela Buchdahl
A Woman Is Responsible for Everything: Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe — Elisheva Carlebach and Debra Kaplan
Carole King: She Made the Earth Move — Jane Eisner
Always Carry Salt: A Memoir of Preserving Language and Culture — Samantha Ellis
Late Blossoms — Merav Fima
Chutzpah: A Memoir of Faith, Sexuality and Daring to Stay — Yehudis Fletcher
Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America (A Love Story) — Deborah Heiligman
As a Jew — Sarah Hurwitz
By the Waters of Paradise — Clare Kinberg
I Wanted to Be Wonderful: A Braided Novel — Lihi Lapid
Jewish Marital Captivity: The Past, Present, and End of a Historic Abuse — Shulamit Magnus
Letters from the Afterlife: The Post-Holocaust Correspondence of Chava Rosenfarb and Zenia Larsson — Goldie Morgentaler, ed., trans. by Krzysztof Majer and Sylvia Soderlind
Antisemitism, An American Tradition — Pamela Nadell
The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz — Anne Sebba
Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp — Tracy Slater
Frontier: A Memoir & A Ghost Story — Erica Stern
Leading with Respect: Adventures of an Off-Price Fashion Pioneer — Marcy Syms
Malka Owsiany Recounts...A Chronicle of Our Time — Marc Turkow, translated by Sandra Chiritescu
Hyphen: Jewish Stories in Our Own Words — Julian Voloj and Fabrice Sapolsky, eds.
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife — Francesca Wade
The Rooster Princess and Other Tales: Jewish Stories Re-populated with Spunky Heroines, Wise Women, Brave Crones, and Powerful Prophetesses — Debra Gordon Zaslow, ed.
One of Them — Kitty Zeldis
Going Out with Knots: My Two Kaddish Years with Hebrew Poetry — Wendy Zierler
Summer 2025
Abzuglutely: Battling Bellowing Bella Abzug by Sarah Aronson
The Anatomy of Exile by Zeeva Bukai
Counting Backwards by Jacqueline Friedland
The Eating Knife by Ayelet Amittay
Go on Pretending by Alina Adams
Gursha: Timeless Recipes for Modern Kitchens, from Ethiopia, Israel, Harlem, and Beyond by Beejhy Barhany and Elisa Ung
I Just Let Life Rain Down on Me: Selected Letters and Reflections by Rahel Levin Varnhagen, selected and translated by Peter Wortsman
Making the Best of What's Left: When We're Too Old to Get the Chairs Reupholstered by Judith Viorst
The Many Lives of Anne Frank by Ruth Franklin
Misophonia by Dana Vowinckel, translated by Adrian Nathan West
Mothers and Other Fictional Characters by Nicole Graev Lipson
Promised Lands: Hadassah Kaplan and the Legacy of American Jewish Women in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine by Sharon Ann Musher
Revolutionary Legacies: Jewish Feminist Political Thinking with Jamaica Kincaid, Golda Meir, Hannah Arendt, Frida Kahlo, Gertrude Stein, and Emma Goldman by Marla Brettschneider
Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore
Sisters of Fortune by Esther Chehebar
Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible edited by Sara Lippman and Seth Rogoff
The Rebel Girls of Rome by Jordyn Taylor
The Red House by Mary Morris
The Roots of the Guava Tree: Growing Up Jewish and Arab in Colombia by Sonia Daccarett
The Story’s Not Over: Jewish Women and Embodied Selfhood in Graphic Narratives edited by Victoria Aarons
Warsaw Testament by Rokhl Auerbach, translated by Samuel Kassow
We Would Never by Tova Mirvis
The Woman Question in Jewish Studies by Susannah Heschel and Sarah Imhoff
Winter 2025
Breath Taking: A Memoir of Family, Dreams, and Broken Genes by Jessica Fein
Camp Jeff By Tova Reich
Chutzpah Girls by Julie Silverstein and Tami Schlossberg Pruwer
The Civil War Diary of Emma Mordecai by Dianne Ashton and Melissa R. Klapper
Desires by Celia Dropkin
Displaced Persons: Stories by Joan Leegant
First Lady of Laughs: The Forgotten Story of Jean Carroll, America's First Jewish Woman Stand-Up Comedian by Grace Kessler Overbeke
Holler Rat: A Memoir by Anya Liftig
Holy Rebellion: Religious Feminism and the Transformation of Judaism and Women's Rights in Israel by Ronit Irshai and Tanya Zion-Waldoks
I Made It Out of Clay by Beth Kander
Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section by Rachel Somerstein
Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir by Sara Glass
Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Matrilineal Dissent: Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History Edited by Annie Atura Bushnell, Lori Harrison-Kahan, and Ashley Walters
On Strike Against God by Joanna Russ, Edited by Alec Pollak
Songs for the Brokenhearted by Ayelet Tsabari
Still Life with Remorse by Maira Kalman
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
The Women's Revolution: How We Changed Your Life by Muriel Fox
Victory Parade by Leela Corman
What Jewish Looks Like by Liz Kleinrock and Caroline Kusin Pritchard, llustrated by Iris Gottlieb
Summer 2024
The Hebrew Teacher by Maya Arad
Across So Many Seas by Ruth Behar
A Winding Line: Three Hebrew Poets by Maya Bejerano, Sharron Hass, and Anat Zecharia
Mazaltob: A Novel by Blanche Bendahan, translated and edited by Yaëlle Azagury and Frances Malino
Jewcy: Jewish Queer Lesbian Feminisms for the Twenty-First Century by Marla Brettschneider
The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance by Rebecca Clarren
Green World by Michelle Ephraim
The Madwoman in the Rabbi's Attic: Rereading the Women of the Talmud by Gila Fine
City of Laughter by Temim Fruchter
When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary by Alice Hoffman
The Color of Sound by Emily Barth Isler
unalone by Jessica Jacobs
Sweet Malida: Memories of a Bene Israel Woman by Zilka Joseph
Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust by Robin Judd
Henrietta Szold: Hadassah and the Zionist Dream by Francine Klagsbrun
Places We Left Behind: A Memoir in Miniature by Jennifer Lang
All-Night Pharmacy by Ruth Madievsky
As a Burning Flame: The Dream of Regina Jonas by Noa Mishkin
The Goldie Standard by Simi Monheit
Rimonim by Aurora Levins Morales
My Life in Recipes by Joan Nathan
The Singer Sisters by Sarah Seltzer
We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience by Lyndsey Stonebridge
The Counterfeit Countess by Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa
Tap Dancing on Everest by Mimi Zieman
2022-2023 Bookshelf
Let There Be Light by Liana Finck
Dinners with Ruth by Nina Totenberg
Atomic Anna by Rachel Barenbaum
Shanda by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Growing up Jewish in India edited by Ori Soltes
Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America by Dahlia Lithwick
On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
Even God Had Bad Parenting Days by Alicia Jo Rabins
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
The Modern Loss Handbook by Rebecca Soffer
She Persisted: Clara Lemlich by Deborah Heiligman
The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet by Nell McShane Wulfhart
Dirshuni by Tamar Biala
Pure Colourr by Sheila Heti
Shmutz by Felicia Berliner
Loss of Memory is Only Temporary rby Johanna Kaplan
Shekhinah Speaksr by Joy Ladin
Freefall by Cindy Kaplan
From the Jewish Provinces by Fredl Shtok, translated by Allison Schachter
Her Birth and Later Years New and Collected Poems, 1971-2021 by Irena Klepfisz
Frankly Feminist: Short Stories from Lilith Magazine
Blood Lines by Ann Bookman
The Flying Camel by Loolwa Khazzoom
One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World by Michael Frank
When Rabbis Abuse by Elana Sztokman
The Only Woman in the Room: Golda Meir and Her Path to Power by Pnina Lahav
Love by Maayan Eitan
The Lives of Jessie Sampter by Sarah Imhoff
2021-2022 Bookshelf
Vera Rubin: A Life by Jacqueline Mitton, Simon Mitton
Concealed by Esther Amini
Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero by E. Lockhart
Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland
Hope Valley by Haviva Ner-David
The Rabbi Who Prayed With Fire by Rachel Sharona Davis
Sarahland by Sam Cohen
They'll Never Catch Us by Jessica Goodman
Cheeky: A Head to Toe Memoir by Ariella Elovic
Rebel Daughter by Lori Kaufman
The Hidden Palace: A Novel of the Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
Asylum: A Memoir of Family Secrets by Judy Bolton-Fasman
Everybody (Else) Is Perfect: How I Survived Hypocrisy, Beauty, Clicks, and Likes by Gabrielle Korn
Golem Girl: A Memoir by Riva Lehrer
Lilyville by Tovah Feldshuh
Black Widow by Leslie Gray Streeter
Praying with Jane Eyre: Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice by Vanessa Zoltan
Not Your All-American Girl by Wendy Wan-Long Shang, Madelyn Rosenberg
Recipe for Disaster by Aimee Lucido
From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family by June Cummins, Alexandra Dunietz
Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture by Annelise Heinz
The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams by Jonathan Ned Katz
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption by Gabrielle Glaser
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos by Judy Batalion
Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews by Deatra Cohen, Adam Siegel
Spilt Milk: Memoirs by Courtney Zoffness
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn
The Papercutter (The Split, #1) by Cindy Rizzo
AfterMath by Emily Barth Isler
The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction by Julie Klam
2020-2021 Bookshelf
Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
Red Rosa by Kate Evans
The Color of Love by Marra B. Gad
Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine by Amelia Glaser
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner
The Wolf of Baghdad by Carol Isaacs
Nobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Kalb
The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World by Janice Kaplan
High Risk: Stories of Pregnancy, Birth, and the Unexpected by Dr. Chavi Eve Karkowsky
The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects by Laura Leibman
What We Will Become: A Mother, a Son, and a Journey of Transformation by Mimi Lemay
A Ceiling Made of Eggshells by Gail Carson Levine
My Life As A Villianess by Laura Lippman
All My Mother's Lovers by Ilana Masad
And the Bride Closed the Door by Ronit Matalon
The Yellow Bird Sings by Jennifer Rosner
Pretty Bitches: On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and All the Other Words That Are Used to Undermine Women Edited by Lizzie Skurnick
Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir By Rebecca Solnit
The Book of V. By Anna Solomon
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas By Gertrude Stein, Illustrated by Maira Kalman
Sharing the Work: What My Family and Career Taught Me about Breaking Through (and Holding the Door Open for Others) By Myra Strober
Cosella Wayne: Or, Will and Destiny By Cora Wilburn
2019-2020 Bookshelf
A Bend in the Stars by Rachel Barenbaum
Naamah by Sarah Blake
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Color Me In by Natasha Diaz
Wounds into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma by Tirzah Firestone
I Want You to Know We're Still Here by Esther Foer
The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman
We Ate Wonder Bread by Nicole Hollander
Here All Along by Sarah Hurwitz
Good Talk by Mira Jacob
Diary of a Lonely Girl, or the Battle Against Free Love by Miriam Karpilove, translated by Jessica Kirzane
I Like to Watch by Emily Nussbaum
Little Weirds by Jenny Slate
Becoming Eve by Abby Stein
Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner
The Woman's Hour by Elaine Weiss
SoundMachine by Rachel Zucker
2018-2019 Bookshelf
Jewish Radical Feminism by Joyce Antler
Fruit Geode by Alicia Jo Rabins
Regina Persisted: An Untold Story by Sandy Sasso
Gateway to the Moon by Mary Morris
Never a Native by Alice Shalvi
A River Could be a Tree by Angela Himsel
Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger by Rebecca Traister
Eternal Life by Dara Horn
I Might Regret This by Abbi Jacobson
The Best Place on Earth by Ayelet Tsabari
The Waiting Room by Leah Kaminsky
America's Jewish Women by Pamela Nadell
Disobedience by Naomi Alderman
If All the Seas Were Ink by Ilana Kurshan
The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt by Ken Krimstein
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss
2017-2018 Bookshelf
My Jewish Year by Abigail Pogrebin (Discussion Questions)
The Book of Separation by Tova Mirvis (Discussion Questions)
He, She, and It by Marge Piercy (Discussion Questions)
Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey (Discussion Questions)
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg (Discussion Questions)
Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All by Jaclyn Friedman (Discussion Questions)
Ester and Ruzya: How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace by Masha Gessen (Discussion Questions)
The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit (Discussion Questions)
Leaving Lucy Pear by Anna Solomon (Discussion Questions)
The Fortunate Ones by Ellen Umansky (Discussion Questions)
The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish (Discussion Questions)
The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe (Discussion Questions)
2016-2017 Bookshelf
You'll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein (Discussion Questions)
Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw by Elissa Altman (Discussion Questions)
Modern Girls by Jennifer S. Brown (Discussion Questions)
My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Discussion Questions)
A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York by Liana Finck (Discussion Questions)
The Imperial Wife by Irina Reyn (Discussion Questions)
All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister (Discussion Questions)
The Beautiful Possible by Amy Gottlieb (Discussion Questions)
Mamaleh Knows Best: What Jewish Mothers Do to Raise Successful, Creative, Empathetic, Independent Children by Marjorie Ingall (Discussion Questions)
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg (Discussion Questions)
All the Rivers by Dorit Rabinyan (Discussion Questions)
How to be a Person in the World: Ask Polly's Guide Through the Paradoxes of Modern Life by Heather Havrilesky (Discussion Questions)
Almost a Minyan by Lori S. Kline
2015-2016 Bookshelf
Single Jewish Male Seeking Soul Mate by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club by Eileen Pollack
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik
The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
Unterzakhn by Leela Corman
Women in Clothes by Sheila Heti
All Our Worldly Goods by Irene Nemirovsky
White Walls: A Memoir About Motherhood, Daughterhood, and the Mess In Between by Judy Batalion
Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen by Alix Kates Shulman
I’ll Drink to That by Betty Halbreich and Rebecca Paley
The Little Bride by Anna Solomon
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
Who Do You Love by Jennifer Weiner
The Hours Count by Jillian Cantor
