With novels tracing sweeping family sagas across the world, insightful essay collections on antisemtism, and books highlighting little-known facets of Jewish history, and more, 2023 has been a year filled with mesmerizing and heart-pounding reads. Below is a list of the ten most-read reviews this year. (And you can read the “Ten Most-Read PB Daily Stories of 2023″ here!)
Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro
Künstlers in Paradise by Cathleen Schine
Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew by Michael W. Twitty
Kantika by Elizabeth Graver
The Night Travelers by Armando Lucas Correa
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland
Simona is the Jewish Book Council’s managing editor of digital content and marketing. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a concentration in English and History and studied abroad in India and England. Prior to the JBC she worked at Oxford University Press. Her writing has been featured in Lilith, The Normal School, Digging through the Fat, and other publications. She holds an MFA in fiction from The New School.