Books I've Read , Author, When Read

(bolded items I  strongly advise)

Yesh Yeladim Zigzag, David Grosman, September 2002
Ahavat Itamar, Devorah Omer, July 2002
ha-Bekhor le-Beit Avi, Devorah Omer, June 2002
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Marquez, April 2002
Science on Trial, Angell, January 2002
Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler, December 2001
Last of the Just, Andre Schwartz Bart, July 2001
Lev, Rom Oren, December 2001
A History of the Jews, Paul Johnson
Aspects of Rabbinic Theology, Solomon Schechter
A New Approach to Jewish Life, Mordechai M. Kaplan, May 2001
Get into Medical School, Dr. Kenneth Iserson
The Gospel According to the Son, Norman Mailer, December 2000
The Pharisees (selected), Louis Finkelstein
The Book and the Sword, David Weiss Halivni, November 2000
The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene
The Gospel according to the Son, Norman Mailer, December 2000
The Sabbath, Abraham Joshua Heschel, October 2000
Sacred Fragments, Neil Gillman, August 2000 
Rereading the Rabbis, Judith Hauptman, July 2000
Harry Potter (all four!), J. K. Rowling, December 2000
The Town Beyond the Wall, Elie Wiesel, October 2000
Most of Mishnah Moed, Summer 2000
Wanderings, Chaim Potok, June 2000
The Red Tent, Anita Diamant, June 2000
Revelation Restored, R' David Weiss Halivni, May 2000
Jerusalem OR On Religious Power and Judaism, Moses Mendelssohn (trans Arkush), Spring 2000
Covenant: The History of a Biblical Idea, DB Hillers
The Jew in the Modern World, ed. Mendes-Flohr & Reinharz, Spring 2000
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Kundera, Jan 2000
Conservative Judaism, Neil Gillman, Winter 99
The Sorrows of Young Werther, Goethe
Jewish Life in the Middle Ages, Israel Abrahams, Fall 1999
Understanding Genesis, Nahum Sarna, Fall 1999
The Jews of Islam, Lewis, Fall 1999
The Marx-Engels Reader, Tucker
Exclusiveness and Tolerance, Jacob Katz
The Jewish Dietary Laws, Dresner & Siegel
Time, Love, Memory; Jonathan Weiner, August 1999
Masorti Siddur (prayerbook), ed. R' Simcha Roth
The Making of the Modern Jew, Milton Steinberg, july 99
The Responsa of Professor Louis Ginzberg, ed. R' David Golinkin
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Kurt Vonegut, summer 99
Halakha l'Yamenu: Gishat HaTnuah HaMasoratit l'Halakha, HaRav David Golinkin, spr 99
A Guide to Jewish Religious Practice, Isaac Klein, reference
Tradition and Change, Mordechai Waxman, 1999
Matters of life and death: a Jewish approach to modern medical ethics, R' Elliot N. Dorff
The Sabbath, Dayan Dr. I. Grunfeld, spring 99
Howard Brody, The Healer's Power, winter 98
Platero y Yo, Juan Ramon Jimeniz (half done), winter 98
Sotah, Naomi Regan, winter 98
The Human Cloning Debate, Glenn McGee
The Perfect Baby, Glenn McGee
The Ethics of Authenticity, Charles Taylor, dec 98
The Politics of Postmodernism, Linda Hutcheon, dec 98
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn, nov 98
A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf, nov 98
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka, oct 98
Civilization and its Discontents, Sigmund Freud, oct 98
The Double Helix, Dr. James Watson, Aug 98
Basic Judaism, Milton Steinberg, Aug 98
Exploring Judaism: A Reconstructionist Approach, R. Alpert & J Staub, Aug 98
Emet V'Emunah: A statement of Principles of Conservative Judaism, ed. R. 
Gordis, Aug 98
Jewish Women in Time and Torah, R Eliezer Berkovits z"l, Aug 98
The Lonley Man of Faith, R Joseph Soloveitchik, Aug 98
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard, July
Eichman in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt, July
The Jewish State, Theodore Herzl
The Mishnah, begun june 98, completed ??? quote 1.
Conservative Judaism, Elliot Dorff, Jun98
Jewish Bioethics (selections)
The Way of Man, Martin Buber, Jun 98
Not in Heaven, Eliezer Berkovits, Jun 98
As A Driven Leaf, Milton Steinberg, May 98
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams, May 98
Where Heaven and Earth Touch, Danny Siegel, May 98
In The Beginning, Chaim Potok, Mar 98
My Name is Asher Lev,  Chaim Potok Jan 98
Boss: R. J. Daley of Chicago, Mike Royko, Dec 97
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Fall 97
Arrowsmith, Sinclair Lewis, Sum 97
Catch 22, Joseph Heller, Sum 97
1984, George Orwell, Sum 97
The Turn of the Screw, Henry James, Sum 97
The Magnificent Ambersens, Booth Tarkington, Sum97
Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut, Sum 97
Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt Vonnegut, Sum 97
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemmingway, Sum 97
Lady Chatterly’s Lover,D. H.Lawrence, Sum 97
Yentl The Yeshiva Boy, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Spr 97
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, Spr 97
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, Spr 97
Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare, Spr 97
One day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Dec 96
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet B. Stowe, Dec 96
Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut, Sum 96
He, She, and It, Marge Piercy
Silas Marner, ‘George Eliot’, Sum 96
A Moveable Feast, Earnest Hemmingway, Sum 96
The Lost World, Michael Crichton, Sum 96
Lord of the Flies, William Golding, Spr 96
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, Spr 96
The Crucible, Arthur Miller, Spr 95
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess, Sum 95
O Jerusalem, Larry Collins & Dominique LaPierre, Sum 95
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Dec 95
Animal Farm, George Orwell, Sum 93
Julius Caeser, Shakespeare, Spr 93
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck, Spr 93
The Alvin Maker series(4), Orson Scott Card
The Ender’s Game series(3), Orson Scott Card
Monkey Sonatas, Orson Scott Card
The Chosen, Chaim Potok
Macbeth, Shakespeare
The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton
Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton 
The fantasy series of David Eddings (6)
Hundreds of Hardy Boys, Franklin W. Dixon
Alan Mendelson, the Boy From Mars, Pinkwater
Madeline L’Engle: Wrinkle in Time (4)
the DragonLance series
Runaway Ralph, Beverly Cleary
The Narnia Chronicles (6) by C.S. Lewis
Bridge to Teribithia
Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White
The Storyteller (4), Nissan Mindel
The Velveteen Rabbit
The Mixed-Up Files of Ms. Basil E. Frankwhiller (sp?)
Uncle Misha’s Partisans, Yuri Suhl
The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter
12 Monkeys, Elizabeth Hand
The Shadow, James Luceno
Startide Rising (2), David Brin
Heart of the Comet, Brin w/ Gregory Benford