The 50 Most Essential Works Of Jewish Fiction Of The Last 100 Years

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50 Works 312,099 Books 6,653 Reviews ½ 3.9
WorkOrder Label
The Metamorphosis (1915) by Franz Kafka
1
In Search of Lost Time (1913) by Marcel Proust
2
Portnoy's Complaint (1967) by Philip Roth
3
Death of a Salesman (1948) by Arthur Miller
4
The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger
5
The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka
6
Herzog (1964) by Saul Bellow
7
The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories (Library of Modern Jewish Literature) (1971) by Cynthia Ozick
8
A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories (1978) by Will Eisner
9
Call It Sleep (1934) by Henry Roth
10
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Parts 1 & 2 (1991) by Tony Kushner
11
The Collected Stories (1982) by Isaac Bashevis Singer
12
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (2000) by Michael Chabon
13
American Pastoral (1997) by Philip Roth
14
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (1970) by Judy Blume
15
Odessa Tales (1931) by Isaac Babel
16
The Assistant (1957) by Bernard Malamud
17
Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller
18
The Brothers Ashkenazi (1970) by Israel Joshua Singer
19
Where the Wild Things Are (1963) by Maurice Sendak
20
The Day of the Locust (1939) by Nathanael West
21
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (1986) by Art Spiegelman
22
Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories (1959) by Philip Roth
23
The New York Trilogy (1985) by Paul Auster
24
The History of Love (2005) by Nicole Krauss
25
The Pawnbroker (1961) by Edward Lewis Wallant
26
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) by Mordecai Richler
27
Everything Is Illuminated (2001) by Jonathan Safran Foer
28
Absurdistan (2006) by Gary Shteyngart
29
The Nimrod Flipout: Stories (2002) by Etgar Keret
30
The Man with the Golden Arm (1949) by Nelson Algren
31
The Street of Crocodiles (1963) by Bruno Schulz
32
The Lazarus Project (2008) by Aleksandar Hemon
33
The Mind-Body Problem (1983) by Rebecca Goldstein
34
The Tenants of Moonbloom (1963) by Edward Lewis Wallant
35
Motherless Brooklyn (1999) by Jonathan Lethem
36
The Instructions (2010) by Adam Levin
37
The Trial of God (1979) by Elie Wiesel
38
Bech: A Book (1970) by John Updike
39
The Best of Everything (1958) by Rona Jaffe
40
What Makes Sammy Run? (1941) by Budd Schulberg
41
Comedy in a Minor Key (2010) by Hans Keilson
42
Landscape in Concrete (1963) by Jakov Lind
43
The Finkler Question (2010) by Howard Jacobson
45
Home Land (2004) by Sam Lipsyte
45
Seize the Day (1956) by Saul Bellow
46
The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg (2010) by Deborah Eisenberg
47
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories (1999) by Nathan Englander
48
Witz (2010) by Joshua Cohen
49
The extra man (1998) by Jonathan Ames
50

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