10. Portnoy Is No Longer Complaining: Philip Roth writes this sequel about his hero, Alexander Portnoy in which he has nothing to complain about. In fact, for a whole 312 pages, Portnoy reassures us that in fact he “is fine and pretty well adjusted.”
9. War and a Piece of Cheesecake: Herman Wouk’s attempt to write about the Goldstein family and their fight over the last piece of cheesecake in the fridge left from Shavuoth.
8. Michael and Me, the Strangest Pairing Since Borscht and Sour Cream: Rabbi Shmuely Boteach explores the relationship he has with Michael Jackson
7. Mein Camp: Mel Brooks writes a “campy” version of Mein Kampf in which he desperately looks for the jokes that were unused in the Producers.
6. Crime and guilt: Confessions of a Jewish Boy who eats a ham sandwich on Yom Kippur who is wracked with guilt but washes it down with a tall glass of cream soda anyway.
5. In My Father’s Basketball Court: Isaac Bashevis Singer discusses how he “got schooled” by his father in a one-on-one game with his “Tatti.” The problem is that Singer discusses this one 7-point game for 745 pages, which makes for very boring reading.
4. How To Marry The Asian Teenager of Your Dreams: Woody Allen’s dating tips.
3. How High: The unauthorized biography of Reb Shlomo Carlebach brought to you by the writers of VH1’s Behind the Music.
2. The Red Tent: a story of one woman’s plight to stand up to her mother about the colors for her wedding canopy.
1. Chicken Schmaltz for the Soul: A collection of vignettes about gaining weight around the Jewish holidays