August 1, 2010
Summer reading: Jewish bestsellers on Amazon
Jewish bestsellers on Amazon are almost always surprising. I’m always amused by the books that end up in Amazon’s Jewish categories.
That said, I take no responsibility for how Amazon categorizes these titles. That said, the lists always demonstrate some interesting reads. I got to catch up on my reading list.
Without further ado, here are the results of the Amazon category listings sorted according to ‘bestselling’:
Top Ten under Literature and Fiction > World Literature > Jewish
1. A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz and Nicholas de Lange (Paperback – Nov 1, 2005)
2. Wiesel’s Night (Cliffs Notes) by Maryam Riess (Paperback – Sep 5, 1996)
3. Cliff Notes on The Chosen by Stephen J. Greenstein (Paperback – Sep 15, 1999)
4. Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number (The Americas) by Jacobo Timerman, Toby Talbot, Ilan Stavans, and Arthur Miller (Paperback – Aug 30, 2002)
5. The Blue Mountain: A Novel by Meir Shalev (Hardcover – Jun 1991)
6. A Journey to the End of the Millennium – A Novel of the Middle Ages by Abraham B. Yehoshua (Paperback – Jun 15, 2000)
7. Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson (Kindle Edition – Aug 17, 2009)
8. Shakespeare and the Jews by James S. Shapiro (Paperback – Apr 15, 1997)
9. A Walker in the City by Alfred Kazin (Paperback – Mar 19, 1969)
10. Badenheim 1939 by Aron Appelfeld (Hardcover – Nov 1980)
Top Ten under Literature and Fiction > United States > Jewish-American
1. Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum (Hardcover – Apr 5, 2004)
2. Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer (Paperback – Sep 30, 2008)
3. Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska and Alice Kessler-Harris (Paperback – May 1999)
4. Rich Boy by Sharon Pomerantz (Hardcover – Aug 2, 2010)
5. Away: A Novel by Amy Bloom (Paperback – Jun 24, 2008)
6. Peep Show by Joshua Braff (Paperback – Jun 1, 2010)
7. Rashi’s Daughters, Book II: Miriam: A Novel of Love and the Talmud in Medieval France by Maggie Anton (Paperback – Jul 31, 2007)
8. The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff: And Other Stories by Joseph Epstein (Hardcover – Jun 14, 2010)
9. Sima’s Undergarments for Women (Wheeler Large Print Book Series) by Ilana Stanger-Ross (Hardcover – May 7, 2009)
10. Dawn by Elie Wiesel and Frances Frenaye (Paperback – Mar 21, 2006)
Top Ten under Literature and Fiction > World Literature > Yiddish
1. Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories (Library of Yiddish Classics) by Sholem Aleichem (Paperback – Oct 1, 1996)
2. The I. L. Peretz Reader by I. L. Peretz and Professor Ruth Wisse
(Paperback – Jun 1, 2002)
3. Ineffable Name Of God: Poems by Abraham Joshua Heschel and Morton M. Leifman (Hardcover – Dec 2004)
4. The Family Mashber: A Novel by “Der Nister”/”the Hidden One” by Nister and Leonard Wolf (Hardcover – Jun 1987)
5. The Dybbuk and Other Writings by S. Ansky by S. Ansky, David G. Roskies, and Golda Werman (Paperback – Sep 1, 2002)
6. The Penguin Book of Modern Yiddish Verse by Ruth R. Wisse, Khone Shmeruk, and Irving Howe (Hardcover – Sep 23, 1987)
7. A Dybbuk and Other Tales of the Supernatural by Tony Kushner and Joachim Neugrochel (Paperback – Dec 1, 1997)
8. Great Works of Jewish Fantasy by Joachim Neugroschel (Hardcover – Feb 8, 1986)
9. I Keep Recalling: The Holocaust Poems of Jacob Glatstein by Jacob Glatstein and Barnett Zumoff (Hardcover – Oct 1993)
10. Treasury of Jewish Love: Poems, Quotations & Proverbs : In Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino and English (Treasury of Love) by David C. Gross (Hardcover – Nov 1, 1994)
Top Ten under Religion and Spirituality > Judaism
1. Have a Little Faith: A True Story by Mitch Albom (Hardcover – Sep 29, 2009)
2. Introduction to the Old Testament by John Edgar McFadyen M.A. (Paperback – Sep 23, 2003)
3. When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold S. Kushner (Paperback – Dec 1, 1983)
4. Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money by Daniel Lapin (Paperback – Feb 8, 2005)
5. Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People by Washington Gladden (Kindle Edition – Jun 18, 2010) – Kindle Book
6. Sacred (Patrick Kenzie/Angela Gennaro Novels) by Dennis Lehane (Hardcover – May 1, 2001)
7. The New Jerusalem by G. K. Chesterton (Paperback – Apr 27, 2009)
8. Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi (Paperback – Sep 13, 1993)
9. The Blessing Of A Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children by Wendy Mogel (Paperback – Dec 2, 2008)
10. The Jewish Bible: Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures–The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text: Torah * Nevi’im * Kethuvim by The Jewish Publication Society (Paperback – Nov 1985)
Biographies & Memoirs › Ethnic & National › Jewish
1. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (Hardcover – Sep 30, 1992)
2. Night by Elie Wiesel and Marion Wiesel (Library Binding – Apr 25, 2008)
3. Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman (Paperback – Aug 12, 1986)
4. The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom, John and Elizabeth Sherrill, and Nadia May (Audio CD – Mar 1, 2009)
5. The Diary of a Young Girl (Penguin Modern Classics) by Anne Frank, Otto Frank, Mirjam Pressler, and Susan Massotty (Paperback – Mar 30, 2000)
6. High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg by Niall Ferguson (Hardcover – Jun 24, 2010)
7. Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People by Washington Gladden (Kindle Edition – Jun 18, 2010) – Kindle Book
8. Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride (Paperback – Jan 15, 1998)
9. Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman (Paperback – Sep 1, 1992)
10. Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi (Paperback – Aug 20, 2007)
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It’s an excellent listing of books, many of which I have read.
Take care.
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