Reading from "The List"

- Tablet Magazine

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)

The Old Country
• Tevye, Sholem Aleichem (1914)
• The Fixer, Bernard Malamud (1966)
• The Dybbuk, S. Ansky (1914)
• The Family Mashber, Der Nister (1939)
• World of Our Fathers, Irving Howe (1976)
• The Jewish Government, Lamed Shapiro (1919)
• The Yeshiva, Chaim Grade (1968)
• Folk-Style Stories, I.L. Peretz (1908)

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)

What is Judaism?
• The Bible
• Babylonian Talmud (770)
• Birnbaum Siddur, Philip Birnbaum (1977)
• Tsene-Rene (1590s)
• Kaddish, Leon Wieseltier (1998)
• Commentary, Rashi (11th c.)
• Sefer Hasidim, Rabbi Judah of Regensburg (early 13th c.)
• From There Shall You Seek, Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik (1978)
• Sipurei Masiyos, Rebbe Nachman of Breslov (1816)
• Guide for the Perplexed, Maimonides (12th c.)
• Shulchan Aruch, Yosef Karo (1565)
• Man Is Not Alone, Abraham Joshua Heschel (1951)

Please remember that I didn't recommend all of these books, but I think it's fun to accomplish things, and this seemed like a good list to 'accomplish'