Reading from "The List"
Appetites
- Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth (1969)
- The Savage Mind, Claude Lévi-Strauss (1962)
- Satan in Goray, Isaac Bashevis Singer (1955)
- The Armies of the Night, Norman Mailer (1968)
- The Dialectic of Sex, Shulamith Firestone (1970)
- The Power Broker, Robert Caro (1974)
- Fear of Flying, Erica Jong (1973)
Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak (1963)- Justine, Lawrence Durrell (1957)
- Dr. Ruth’s Guide to Good Sex, Dr. Ruth Westheimer (1983)
- What Makes Sammy Run?, Budd Schulberg (1941)
- Auto-da-Fé, Elias Canetti (1935)
- The Mind-Body Problem, Rebecca Goldstein (1993)
- The Passion According to GH, Clarice Lispector (1964)
Authenticity & Experimentation
- The Counterlife, Philip Roth (1986)
- The Rise of David Levinsky, Abraham Cahan (1917)
The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank (1947)- Call It Sleep, Henry Roth (1934)
- Two Concepts of Liberty, Isaiah Berlin (1958)
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon (2000)
- The Memoir of Glückel of Hamelin, Glückel of Hamelin (1700)
- Correspondence, Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem (1992)
- Making It, Norman Podhoretz (1967)
- The Adventures of K’Ton Ton, Sadie Rose Weilerstein (1935)
- Exodus, Leon Uris (1958)
- Altneuland, Theodor Herzl (1902)
The Chosen, Chaim Potok (1967)- In Dreams Begin Responsibilities, Delmore Schwartz (1938)
- Really the Blues, Mezz Mezzrow (1946)
- Only Yesterday, S.Y. Agnon (1945)
- Adventures in the Screen Trade, William Goldman (1983)
- Marjorie Morningstar, Herman Wouk (1955)
Laughing & Complaining
- Herzog, Saul Bellow (1964)
- The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan (1963)
- Auto-Emancipation, Leo Pinsker (1882)
- Without Feathers, Woody Allen (1975)
- Das Kapital, Karl Marx (1867)
- Adam Resurrected, Yoram Kaniuk (1971)
- The Anxiety of Influence, Harold Bloom (1973)
- Ethics, Baruch Spinoza (1677)
Catch-22, Joseph Heller (1961)- Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1953)
- Breakdown and Bereavement, Joseph Haim Brenner (1920)
- The Street of Crocodiles, Bruno Schulz (1934)
- Hungry Hearts, Anzia Yezierska (1920)
The Jew in the World
- The Norton Anthology of English Literature, edited by M.H. Abrams (1962)
- All-of-a-Kind Family, Sydney Taylor (1951)
Ulysses, James Joyce (1922)- Red Cavalry, Isaac Babel (1920s)
- Swann’s Way, Marcel Proust (1913)
- Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud (1900)
- Foundation Series, Isaac Asimov (1951)
- History of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz (1891)
- Beginning to See the Light, Ellen Willis (1981)
- Samson the Nazerite, Ze’ev Jabotinsky (1927)
- The Puttermesser Papers, Cynthia Ozick (1997)
- Daniel Deronda, George Eliot (1876)
- The Boys of Summer, Roger Kahn (1972)
- On Photography, Susan Sontag (1977)
- Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt (1963)
Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret, Judy Blume (1970)- A Walker in the City, Alfred Kazin (1951)
- Writing and Difference, Jacques Derrida (1967)
- Later the Same Day, Grace Paley (1985)
Suffering & Loss
- Ringelblum Archive (1944)
- A Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos Oz (2002)
- The Destruction of the European Jews, Raul Hilberg (1961)
- Life and Fate, Vasily Grossman (1959)
- Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi (1947)
- The Jewish War, Flavius Josephus (75)
- King of the Jews, Leslie Epstein (1979)
- The Ghetto Fights, Marek Edelman (1945)
- The Trial, Franz Kafka (1915)
- Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl (1946)
- Night, Elie Wiesel (1960)
- Dolly City, Orly Castel-Bloom (1992)
- The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Giorgio Bassani (1962)
- Maus, Art Spiegelman (1991)
- Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, Jacobo Timerman (1981)
- Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler (1940)
- The Iron Tracks, Aharon Appelfeld (1998)
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