Our book club began 10 years ago, inspired and hosted by several members affiliated with Congregation Shaare Zion, Montreal. It has evolved over the years to include a wide variety of book lovers,  who share a desire to meet regularly to discuss books, authors and ideas related to Jewish life and values. Here is a list of the titles we have read and discussed over the years.

2009 - 2010

The Cello Suites by Eric Siblin

Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan

The Covenant by Naomi Ragen

Faultlines by Nancy Huston

The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God by Etgar Keret

The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

Yiddishlands by David Roskies

Friendly Fire by A. B. Yehoshua

 2008 - 2009

The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman.

The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon.

The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander.

The Liberated Bride by A.B. Yehoshua.

 2007 - 2008

Outwitting History by Aaron Lansky

The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Aleppo Tales by Haim Sabato

Rashi's Daughter by Maggie Anton

The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

2006 - 2007

Suite Française by Iréne Nemirovsky

David Golder by Iréne Nemirovsky

Seduction by Catherine Gildener

A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz

Room for Thought by Avi Friedman

The Russian Debutant's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Davita's Harp by Chaim Potok

2004 - 2005

Abraham : A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths by Bruce Feiler (Read in 2005)

Natasha : And Other Stories by David Bezmozgis (Read in 2005)

2003 - 2004

Ten Thousand Lovers : A Novel by Edeet Ravel.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon.

The Liberated Bride by A.B.Yehoshua.

Your Mouth Is Lovely : A Novel by Nancy Richler.

The Coffee Trader : A Novel by David Liss.

The Trouble with Islam : A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith by Irshad Manji.

Lola by Night by Norman Ravvin.

The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis.

The Liberated Bride by A.B.Yehoshua.

Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen by Kate Taylor.

Other great reads from the Annals of the Shaare Zion Book Club:

• Stones From the River by Ursula Hegi (1994)
• The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (1997)
• Miriam's Kitchen: A Memoir by Elizabeth Ehrlich (1997)
• Moonlight On The Avenue Of Faith by Gina B.Nahai(1997)
• The Golems of Gotham by Thane Rosenbaum.
• Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer.
• For the Relief of Unbearable Urges by Nathan Englander.
• The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride. 
• Black Box by Amos Oz.
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant.
• Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler.
• The Second Scroll by A.M.Klein.
• Open Heart by A.B.Yehoshua.
• The Periodic Table by Primo Levi.
• As a Driven Leaf by Milton Steinberg.
• Turbulent Souls: : A Catholic Son's Return To His Jewish Family by Stephen Dubner.
• The Ladies Auxiliary by Tova Mirvis.
• Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman.
• American Pastoral by Philip Roth.
• The Romance Reader by Pearl Abraham.
• The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi by Jacqueline Parks.
• Ravelstein by Saul Bellow.
• The Rosendorf Quartet by Nathan Shaham.
• A Journey to the End of the Millennium - A Novel of the Middle Ages by A.B.Yehoshua.
• Journey to Vaja: Reconstructing the World of a Hungarian Jewish Family by Elaine Kalman Naves.
• In the Memory of the Forest by Charles T.Powers.
• The Gifts of the Jews : How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (Hinges of History) by Thomas Cahill.
• The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara by David I.Kertzer.  
  
• The Mezuzah in the Madonna's Foot: Marranos and Other Secret Jews--A Woman Discovers Her Spiritual Heritage by Trudi Alexi.

Future Reads:

• Roth, Phillip. Exit Ghost (2007)
• The Illuminated Soul by Aryeh Lev Stollman
• Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII by John Cornwell
• Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews -- A History by James Carroll