Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter

Jan­u­ary is one of my favorite months at the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil. Not only do we announce the Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award win­ners and final­ists (soon…), but we also get to browse dozens of cat­a­logs and hun­dreds of review copies to pre­pare for our year in Jew­ish books. Our lists are already full of promis­ing soon-to-be-pub­lished titles, so be sure to keep tabs on us for the lat­est in all things Jew­ish lit­er­ary. How do you keep tabs on us, you ask? Good ques­tion. A few ideas:

• Par­tic­i­pate in our month­ly Twit­ter Book Club with Jew​cy​.com
• Check out new Vis­it­ing Scribe posts each week, where authors share the back­sto­ry behind their books, items that just did­n’t make the cut, read­ing lists, thoughts on cur­rent events, excerpts, pre­views, Q&As, and more
• Sign up for our week­ly email and receive rec­om­mend­ed read­ing and updates on the newest JBC reviews
• Browse our Pin­ter­est boards
• Check our cal­en­dar for Jew­ish lit­er­ary events in your area
• Need a theme for you book club this year? Look no fur­ther.
• For addi­tion­al resources, vis­it here.

Now, to start the year off right…a few titles I’m most look­ing for­ward to this spring (a small sam­pling of what’s to come!):

Search­ing for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Dias­po­ra, Emi­ly Raboteau (Jan­u­ary 2013, Atlantic Month­ly Press)

The Tin Horse: A Nov­el, Jan­ice Stein­berg (Jan­u­ary 2013, Ran­dom House)

Hand-Dry­ing in Amer­i­ca: And Oth­er Sto­ries, Ben Katchor (Feb­ru­ary 2013, Pantheon)

The Want­i­ng: A Nov­el, Michael Lav­i­gne (Feb­ru­ary 2013, Schock­en Books)

In the Land of the Liv­ing, Austin Rat­ner (March 2013, Rea­gan Arthur Books)

The Ret­ro­spec­tive, A. B. Yehoshua (March 2013, Houghton Mif­flin Harcourt)

Russ & Daugh­ters: Reflec­tions and Recipes from the House That Her­ring Built, Mark Russ Fed­er­man (March 2013, Schock­en Books)

A Near­ly Per­fect Copy: A Nov­el, Alli­son Amend (April 2013, Nan A. Talese)

Moth­ers: A Nov­el, Jen­nifer Gilmore (April 2013, Scribner)

Har­vard Square: A Nov­el, André Aci­man (April 2013, W. W. Nor­ton & Company)

The Golem and the Jin­ni: A Nov­el, Helene Weck­er (April 2013, Harper)

Tomor­row There Will Be Apri­cots, Jes­si­ca Sof­fer (April 2013, Houghton Mif­flin Harcourt)

I Can’t Com­plain: (All Too) Per­son­al Essays, Eli­nor Lit­man (April 2013, Houghton Mif­flin Harcourt)

Hel­ga’s Diary: A Young Girl’s Account of Life in a Con­cen­tra­tion Camp, Hel­ga Weiss; Neil Bermel, trans. (May 2013, W. W. Nor­ton & Company)

The Short, Strange Life of Her­schel Gryn­sz­pan: A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplo­mat, and a Mur­der in Paris, Jonathan Kirsch (May 2013, Liveright)

Who Will Die Last: Sto­ries of Life in Israel, David Ehrlich (May 2013, Syra­cuse Uni­ver­si­ty Press)

A Sum­mer 2013 Preview:

Clau­dia Sil­ver to the Res­cue, Kathy Ebel (June 2013, Houghton Mif­flin Harcourt)

God in Proof: The Sto­ry of a Search from the Ancients to the Inter­net, Nathan Schnei­der (June 2013, Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia Press)

Paris France, Gertrude Stein (June 2013, Liveright)

A Fall 2013 Preview:

A Guide for the Per­plexed, Dara Horn (Sep­tem­ber 2013, W. W. Nor­ton & Company)

The Oath, Mar­tin Fletch­er (Fall 2013, Thomas Dunne Books/St.Martin’s Press)

The Worlds of Sholem Ale­ichem, Jere­my Dauber (Octo­ber 2013, Schock­en Books/​Nextbook Press)