Rabbi Herman's Summer Reading List

The following are an assortment of books both fiction and non-fiction that will tantalize, harmonize, and energize you both spiritually and personally.

I have been running this list every June for the past 28 years. I have received innumerable reviews, comments, criticisms, agreements, disagreements, and the like letting me know that you all take this list pretty seriously.

So after putting in a great deal of thought these are the picks for the summer of ‘08. I would love to hear from you as to what you thought about what you read.As always these books are not in any particular order at all.

• Genesis-The Book With Seventy Faces-A Guide for the Family, Takac, Esther, Pitspopany Press
• People of the Book, Brooks, Geraldine, Viking Press
• A Pidgeon and a Boy, Shalev, Meir, Schocken Books
• Abraham's Children-Race, Identity and the DNA of the Chosen People, Entine, John, Grand Central Publishing
• Away, Bloom, Amy, Random House
• A Woman in Jerusalem, Yehoshua, Harcourt Inc.
• The Reluctant Fundamentalists, Hamid, Mohsin, Harcourt Inc.
• The Book Thief, Zusak, Markus, Alfred A Knopf Publishing
• The World to Come, Horn, Dara
• Funny Boys, Adler, Warren, Overlook Press
• Power, Faith, and Fantasy:America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present,Oren, Michael B., W.W. Norton and Company Press

Enjoy the reading! Have a wonderful relaxing peaceful summer.