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Fiction The Oppermanns Lion Feuchtwanger; James Cleugh, trans; Joshua Cohen, translation and introduction
Nonfiction Anna and Dr Helmy: How an Arab Doctor Saved a Jewish Girl in Hitler’s Berlin Ronen Steinke
Fiction Adam: The Story of a German Jewish Family in the Time of the Weimar Republic Christopher Charlton
Nonfiction Games of Deception: The True Story of the First US Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s Germany Andrew Maraniss
Nonfiction Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna Noah Isenberg
Nonfiction A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman’s Harrowing Escape from the Nazis Françoise Frenkel (auth.), Stephanie Smee (trans.), Patrick Modiano (fwd.)