January-February

  • The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
  • Xenogenesis Trilogy (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, & Imago) by Octavia E. Butler 
  • Thoughts From a Unicorn: 100% Black. 100% Jewish. 0% Safe. by MaNishtana Rishon 
  • Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

March-April

  • Perfect Peace by Daniel Black
  • God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism by Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Green by Jay Lake
  • When She Woke: A Novel by Hillary Jordan
  • The Birth of African-American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective by Richard Price

May-June

  • Rashi’s Daughters Trilogy (Joheved, Miriam, & Rachel) by Maggie Anton
  • My Soul to Take by Tananarive Due
  • Words of Fire: an Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought by Beverly Guy-Sheftall
  • Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Jon D. Levenson

July-August

  • The Earthsea Cycle (A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, Tehanu, Tales from Earthsea, & The Other Wind) by Ursula K. LeGuin
  • The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
  • From Eve to Esther: Rabbinic Reconstructs of Biblical Women by Leila Leah Bronner

September-October

  • The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  • NW: A Novel by Zadie Smith
  • The Namesake: A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008 by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

November-December

  • The Dune Series (Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, & Chapterhouse: Dune) by Frank Herbert

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