The Hebrew Tabernacle Book Club, open to the community, meets on the second Wednesday evening of the month year-round, usually at 7 pm, and is volunteer led. We read a variety of fiction and non-fiction genres, and have had local authors join us!
We welcome all for a light nosh, and guarantee lively discussion! Come meet your neighbors, and join us to learn and exchange opinions about various Jewish issues.
Suggestions for books are appreciated. Please contact convener Susan Gellert (susan_gellert@yahoo.com).
We’re back to meeting in person at Hebrew Tabernacle!
| Date | Title | Author | Year | Leader |
| 1/14/2026 | The Underground Library | Jennifer Ryan | 2024 | |
| 12/10/2025 | City of Laughter | Temim Fruchter | 2024 | |
| 11/12/2025 | Hush | Eishes Chayil | 2010 | |
| 10/8/2025 | The Marriage Box | Corie Adjmi | 2022 | |
| 9/10/2025 | Conan Doyle for the Defense | Margalit Fox | 2018 | |
| 8/13/2025 | The Last Ships from Hamburg | Steven Ujifusa | 2023 | |
| 7/9/2025 | The Hebrew Teacher | Maya Arad | 2018 | |
| 6/11/2025 | The Promise of a Pencil | Adam Braun | 2014 | |
| 5/14/2025 | The Genius of Israel | Dan Senor and Saul Singer | 2023 | |
| 4/9/2025 | Stranger in the Desert | Jordan Salama | 2024 | Ellen |
| 3/12/2025 | The Saturday Wife | Naomi Ragen | 2007 | Hilary |
| 2/12/2025 | The Best Place on Earth | Ayelet Tsabari | 2013 | Celia |
| 1/8/2025 | The Best Strangers in the World | Ari Shapiro | 2023 | Trudi |
| 12/18/2024 | The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store | James McBride | 2023 | Nancy |
| 11/13/2024 | Love and War in the Jewish Quarter | Dora Levy Mossanen | 2022 | Lilia |
| 10/9/2024 | The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902 | Scott D Seligman | 2020 | Marissa |
| 9/10/2024 | Kantika | Elizabeth Graver | 2023 | Sara |
| 8/14/2024 | And They Shall Be My People | Paul Wilkes | 1994 | Hilary |
| 7/10/2024 | Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World | Naomi Klein | 2023 | Trudi |
| 6/12/2024 | The Ghost Writer | Philip Roth | 1979 | Nancy |
| 5/8/2024 | One Hundred Saturdays | Michael Frank | 2022 | Marissa |
| 4/10/2024 | Rachel Calof’s Story | J. Sanford Rikoon | 1995 | Ellen |
| 3/20/2024 | The Island of Extraordinary Captives | Simon Parkin | 2022 | Celia |
| 2/14/2024 | Once We Were Home | Jennifer Rosner | 2023 | Sara |
| 1/10/2024 | Bluebird | Sharon Cameron | 2021 | Lois |
| 12/13/2023 | The Escape Artist | Jonathan Freedland | 2022 | Lilia |
| 11/8/2023 | Dark of Night | Barbara Nickless | 2022 | Hilary |
| 10/11/2023 | Signal Fires | Dani Shapiro | 2022 | Marissa |
| 9/13/2023 | Daniel Deronda, Part 2 | George Eliot | 1876 | Trudi |
| 7/12/2023 | Daniel Deronda, Part 1 | George Eliot | 1876 | Nancy |
| 6/13/2023 | A Play for the End of the World | Jai Chakrabarti | 2021 | Lois |
| 5/10/2023 | The Hyena Murders | Ellen Frankel | 2022 | Marissa |
| 4/12/2023 | The Third Daughter | Talia Carner | 2019 | Sara |
| 3/8/2023 | The Wartime Sisters | Lynda Cohen Loigman | 2019 | Hilary |
| 2/8/2023 | The Art of Leaving | Ayelet Tsabari | 2019 | Deb |
| 1/11/2023 | My Jewish Year | Abigail Pogrebin | 2017 | Celia |
| 12/14/2022 | The Latecomer | Jean Hanff Korelitz | 2022 | Lois |
| 11/9/2022 | The Jew in the Lotus | Rodger Kamenetz | 1994 | Nancy |
| 10/12/2022 | The Immortalists | Chloe Benjamin | 2018 | Marissa |
| 9/14/2022 | Unorthodox | Deborah Feldman | 2012 | Hilary |
| 8/10/2022 | The Yellow Bird Sings | Jennifer Rosner | 2020 | Judy |
| 7/13/2022 | People Love Dead Jews | Dara Horn | 2021 | Celia |
| 6/8/2022 | They Left It All Behind | Hannah Hahn | 2020 | Sarah |
| 5/18/2022 | Ethel Rosenberg | Anne Sebba | 2021 | Ellen |
| 4/13/2022 | Caste | Isabel Wilkerson | 2020 | Marissa |
| 3/23/2022 | The Hare With Amber Eyes | Edmund De Waal | 2011 | Lois |
| 2/9/2022 | Apeirogon | Colum McCann | 2020 | Tsila |
| 1/12/2022 | The Book of Lost Names | Kristin Harmel | 2020 | Celia |
| 12/8/2021 | Concealed | Esther Amini | 2020 | Tsila |
| 11/17/2021 | Being Heumann | Judith Heumann | 2020 | Shelly |
| 10/13/2021 | Barren Island | Carol Zoref | 2017 | Hilary |
| 9/22/2021 | The Nesting Dolls | Alina Adams | 2020 | Lilia |
| 8/11/2021 | Mother Land | Leah Franqui | 2020 | Marissa |
| 7/14/2021 | Florence Adler Swims Forever | Rachel Beanland | 2020 | Rose Ellen |
| 6/9/2021 | The Last Kings of Shanghai | Jonathan Kaufman | 2020 | Celia |
| 5/12/2021 | For You Mom, Finally | Ruth Reichl | 2009 | Ellen |
| 4/22/2021 | Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor | Yossi Klein Halevi | 2018 | Tsila |
| 3/10/2021 | Among the Living | Jonathan Rabb | 2016 | Lois |
| 2/10/2021 | Serenade for Nadia | Zülfü Livaneli | 2011 | Hilary |
| 1/13/2021 | The Last Watchman of Old Cairo | Michael David Lukas | 2018 | Deb |
| 12/9/2020 | Tehran Children | Mikhal Dekel | 2019 | Judith |
| 11/11/2020 | The Family Tabor | Cherise Wolas | 2018 | Celia |
| 10/14/2020 | Spies of No Country | Matti Friedman | 2019 | Tsila |
| 9/16/2020 | Such Good Girls | R. D. Rosen | 2014 | Marissa |
| 8/19/2020 | The Color of Water | James McBride | 1995 | Ellen |
| 7/22/2020 | Three Floors Up | Eshkol Nevo | 2015 | Tsila |
| 6/24/2020 | Becoming Eve | Abby Chava Stein | 2019 | Leah |
| 5/27/2020 | If All the Seas were Ink | Ilana Kurshan | 2017 | Rebecca |
| 4/29/2020 | Violins of Hope | James A. Grymes | 2014 | Susan |
| 3/25/2020 | Joshua: A Brooklyn Tale | Andrew Kane | 2011 | Marissa |
| 2/19/2020 | A Remarkable Kindness | Diana Bletter | 2015 | Tsila |
| 1/15/2020 | Shanghai Diary | Ursula Bacon | 2004 | Lois |
| 12/11/2019 | Cilka’s Journey | Heather Morris | 2019 | Celia |
| 11/13/2019 | Henna House | Nomi Eve | 2014 | Susan |
| 10/16/2019 | Outwitting History | Aaron Lansky | 2004 | Deb |
| 9/25/2019 | The Strangers We Became | Cynthia Kaplan Shamash | 2015 | Marissa |
| 8/21/2019 | The Coffee Trader | David Liss | 2004 | Lilia |
| 7/31/2019 | Kaddish.com | Nathan Englander | 2019 | Hilary |
| 6/19/2019 | Unorthodox Practices | Marissa Piesman | 1989 | Amy |
| 5/15/2019 | Peony | Pearl S. Buck | 1948 | Ellen |
| 4/17/2019 | The Nazi Officer’s Wife | Edith Hahn Beer | 1999 | Susan |
| 3/27/2019 | The Jew Store | Stella Suberman | 1998 | Judith |
| 2/20/2019 | The Fortuneteller’s Kiss | Brenda Serotte | 2006 | |
| 1/23/2019 | My Russian Grandmother and her American Vacuum Cleaner | Meir Shalev | 2011 | |
| 12/19/2018 | A Terrible Country | Keith Gessen | 2018 | |
| 11/14/2018 | The Mystics of Mile End | Sigal Samuel | 2015 | |
| 10/24/2018 | Snow in August | Pete Hamill | 1997 | |
| 9/24/2018 | The Cloister | James Carroll | 2017 | |
| 8/27/2018 | Young Jane Young | Gabrielle Zevin | 2017 | |
| 7/25/2018 | Gateway to the Moon | Mary Morris | 2018 | |
| 6/18/2018 | Ester and Ruzya: How my grandmothers survived Hitler’s war and Stalin’s peace | Masha Gessen | 2004 | |
| 5/23/2018 | The Victim’s Fortune | John Authers and Richard Wolffe | 2002 | |
| 4/23/2018 | The Hours Count | Jillian Carter | 2015 | |
| 3/28/2018 | The Pious Ones | Joseph Berger | 2014 | |
| 2/26/2018 | Out of Egypt: a memoir | André Aciman | 2007 | |
| 1/31/2018 | The Marriage of Opposites | Alice Hoffman | 2015 | |
| 1/3/2018 | All Other Nights | Dara Horn | 2010 | |
| 11/29/2017 | Letting it Go | Miriam Katin | 2013 | |
| 11/1/2017 | Crossing Broadway | Robert Snyder | 2015 |