Celia Gurevitch Jewish Community Library

Earlier today five regular members of our bookclub gathered to discuss what books to read in the 2010/2011 season. Altogether we suggested 18 books. After we voted for them the following books did not make it for this year, but they might be reconsidered  for later year:

• Mary Lowenthal Felstiner: Out of Joint: A Private and Public Story of Arthritis
• Toobin Jeffrey: The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
• Rodger Kamenetz: Burnt Books: Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav and Franz Kafka (to be published in October 2010)
• Mitchell Kaplan: By Fire, By Water
• Greg Mortenson: Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
• Rachel Shukert: Everything Is Going to Be Great: An Underfunded and Overexposed European Grand Tour
• Burton L. Visotzky: A Delightful Compendium of Consolation: A Fabulous Tale of Romance, Adventure and Faith in the Medieval Mediterranean

The following books got top votes and nine of them will make it to the bookclub’s program. The following table includes information about two additional criteria for our selection: whether the book is available in paperback and whether the public library has a copy of it or not.