The Greatest Books of All Time on Jews

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
241 Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth 1969 American English
262 Austerlitz W. G. Sebald 2001 German German
420 The Human Stain Philip Roth 2000 American English
468 Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1876 British English
477 Fateless or Fatelessness Imre Kertész 1975 Hungarian Hungarian
519 Call It Sleep Henry Roth 1934 American English
573 Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Judy Blume 1970 American English
848 Der Judenstaat Theodor Herzl 1896 Austro-Hungarian German
918 The Plot Against America Philip Roth 2004 American English
1028 Schindler's List Thomas Keneally 1982 Australian English
1337 A Legacy Sybille Bedford 1956 German English
1501 The Magician of Lublin Isaac Bashevis Singer 1960 Polish Yiddish
1885 Little Disturbances Grace Paley 1959 American English
1902 The Physician Noah Gordon 1986 American English
2025 The Chosen Chaim Potok 1967 American English
2133 The Man in the High Castle Philip K. Dick 1962 American English
2166 Bread Givers Anzia Yezierska 1925 American English
2613 The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare 1600 British English
2799 Goodbye, Columbus Philip Roth 1959 American English
2866 Gimpel the Fool Isaac Bashevis Singer 1953 Polish Yiddish
2886 Everything Is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer 2002 American English
3623 Sepharad Antonio Muñoz Molina 2001 Spanish Spanish
4502 How Should a Person Be? Sheila Heti 2010 Canadian English
4768 The Yiddish Policemen's Union Michael Chabon 2007 American English
4871 Music and Silence Rose Tremain 1999 British English
5086 Short Friday Isaac Bashevis Singer 1964 Polish Yiddish
5448 The Burn Vassily Aksyonov 1975 Russian Russian
6442 The Magic Barrel Bernard Malamud 1958 American English
6508 The Triple Mirror of the Self Zulfikar Ghose 1992 Pakistani English
7151 The Shawl Cynthia Ozick 1989 American English
7216 The Island Within Ludwig Lewisohn 1928 American English
9758 The Years of Extermination Saul Friedlander 2007 Israeli English
11630 Everyman Philip Roth 2006 American English
11941 Days of Sorrow and Pain Leonard Baker 1978 American English
14458 Nog Rudy Wurlitzer 1969 American English
14667 The Finkler Question Howard Jacobson 2010 British English
14985 Shadows on the Hudson Isaac Bashevis Singer 1997 American Yiddish
14985 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne 2006 Irish English
15718 The Elected Member Bernice Rubens 1969 British English
17164 Kaaterskill Falls Allegra Goodman 1998 American English
17164 Live Bodies Maurice Gee 1998 New Zealander English
17164 When I Lived In Modern Times Linda Grant 2000 British English