Pho­to by Robert Anasch on Unsplash

With grip­ping his­tor­i­cal fic­tion, cap­ti­vat­ing nov­els trans­lat­ed from Hebrew, and illu­mi­nat­ing texts on con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish life, 2024 has bestowed on us so many gor­geous and evoca­tive sto­ries. Below is a list of the ten most-read reviews this year. 

(And check out some forth­com­ing books we’re already kvel­ling over in our JBC Book­shelf: Win­ter 2025.)

We Were the Lucky Ones by Geor­gia Hunter

The Hebrew Teacher by Maya Arad and trans­lat­ed by Jes­si­ca Cohen

On Her Own by Lihi Lapid and trans­lat­ed by Son­dra Silverston

The Safe­keep by Yael van der Wouden

The Wolf Hunt by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

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 LilithThe Nor­mal School, Dig­ging through the Fat, and oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. She holds an MFA in fic­tion from The New School.