Current/recent fiction books that feature characters who are Jewish?

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<p>Joanna Hershon, especially *The German Bride<a href=“historical%20fiction”>/I</a> and A Dual Inheritance.</p>

<p>Also check jbooks.com</p>

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<p>I second Nicole Kraus “History of Love” and “Great House.” Also Geraldine Brooks “People of the Book.” Amazing all!</p>

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<p>Thanks for all of the suggestions! My librarian is going to love me tomorrow.</p>

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<p>Just a personal interest. I was talking to my daughter about the Chiam Potok novels I read when I was about her age, and I realized that I had not come across any novels lately that featured Jewish characters.</p>

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<p>If you like light mysteries, there’ the Rabbi Small mysteries by Harry Kemelman ("Friday the Rabbi Slept Late, Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry, etc. Of course, they’re older books, so perhaps not “contemporary” enough.</p>

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<p>Seconding Dara Horn (especially The World to Come), and Nathan Englander. They’re brilliant writers.</p>

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<p>This one’s not current, but it’s one of my favorite books, so if you’ve never read it, you might want to: Evergreen, by Belva Plain.</p>

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<p>The Romance Reader by Pearl Abraham</p>

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<p>If you like graphic novels:
Fagin the Jew: A Graphic Novel by Will Eisner (very much based on Dickens and Jews in industrial London)
A Contract with God and other Tenement Stories by Will Eisner
The Rabbi’s Cat by Joann Sfar
The Adventures of Yaakov and Yosef by Joe Kubert
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Quitter by Harvey Pekar
We Are On Our Own by Miriam Katan
Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword by Barry Deutsch</p>

<p>You can also find books here: [url=&lt;a href=“http://www.jewishlibraries.org%5DAJL%5B/url”&gt;http://www.jewishlibraries.org]AJL[/url</a>]</p>

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<p>Just walked through a bookstore and see that Dara Horn has a new novel: A Guide for the Perplexed. Characters are set in the time of Moses Maimonides.</p>

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<p>I’m reading A Guide to the Perplexed right now, and it’s quite well done. I was initially skeptical because i had started reading “All Other Nights” by Horn and stopped because the characters and dialogue were so awful, but this book is exponentially better.</p>