City Boy
by Herman Wouk | 
Songs for the Butcher's Daughter
by Peter Manseau | 
The Puttermesser Papers
by Cynthia Ozick | 
The Outsider
by Howard Fast | 
Heir to the Glimmering World
by Cynthia Ozick | 
The Translator
by John Crowley | 
Old Men at Midnight
by Chaim Potok | 
Loon Lake
by E. L. Doctorow | 
The Dean's Watch
by Elizabeth Goudge | 
The Other Side of the Sun
by Madeleine L'Engle | 
The Singing Fire
by Lilian Nattel |
Sins of the Fathers
by Susan Howatch | 
Signals of Distress
by Jim Crace | 
The River Road
by Frances Parkinson Keyes | 
The Right Hand of Sleep
by John Wray | 
A City of Bells
by Elizabeth Goudge | 
Orphan Train
by Christina Baker Kline | 
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon | 
The Invention of Wings
by Sue Monk Kidd | 
Year of Wonders
by Geraldine Brooks |
Herman Wouk's classic novel moves on from the grand themes which have won him international acclaim - war, the fate of nations, and the indomitable spirit of man - to the quest for identity, in the clash between the Inside of faith and family and the Outside of the glittery American dream. Inside, Outside sweeps through more than sixty years, from the pre-war, pre-atomic innocence of the twenties and thirties to the turbulent immediate past. Scenes of rollicking family humour and show-business comedy alternate with sudden tragedy, the spectacle of a falling President and the explosion of war. A bittersweet first love, relived after forty years, and a tense secret wartime mission between Washington and Jerusalem call forth the author's renowned storytelling gift. An intense, personal book about intimate things, Inside, Outside is a merry, poignant, sometimes ribald picture of the American Jewish experience, by a master at the peak of his powers.