Best Books of the Year

Observation · December 20, 2023
The Best Books of 2023, Part I
By Elliott Abrams, Cynthia Ozick, Neil Rogachevsky, Dr. Ruth Wisse
Featuring prime ministers, kidnappings, popes, silences, exiled shadows, portraits, intellectual origins, the best minds, and more.
Observation · December 19, 2022
The Best Books of 2022, Chosen by Mosaic Authors
By Elliott Abrams, Tamara Berens, Andrew Koss, Daniel Polisar, Neil Rogachevsky, Sarah Rindner, Jonathan Silver
Featuring wars, peacemakers, two cultures, pogroms, plays, four ages, wild problems, caves, magic, letters, American conservatives, liberal parents, radical children, and more.
Observation · December 15, 2021
The Best Books of 2021, Chosen by Mosaic Authors (Part II)
By Tamara Berens, Andrew Koss, Moshe Koppel, Eli Spitzer
Four more of our writers pick several favorites each, featuring two Ruths, passengers, Lincoln, Verdun, chief rabbis, Jewish Montreal, sweet spots, a fortress, and more.
Observation · December 14, 2021
The Best Books of 2021, Chosen by Mosaic Authors (Part I)
By Elliott Abrams, Richard Goldberg, Neil Rogachevsky, Jonathan Silver, Dr. Ruth Wisse
Five of our writers pick several favorites each, featuring a duke's children, Jewish treasures, zealots and emancipators, revolts, dual allegiances, spies, and more.
Observation · December 18, 2020
The Best Books of 2020, Chosen by Mosaic Authors (Part III)
By Gary Saul Morson, Yehoshua Pfeffer, Daniel Polisar, Neil Rogachevsky, Michael Weingrad
Five more of our regular writers pick several favorites each, featuring Stalingrad, the master, Margarita, parasitic minds, infectious ideas, dust, heaven, Zoom, traveling light, and more.
Observation · December 17, 2020
The Best Books of 2020, Chosen by Mosaic Authors (Part II)
By Haviv Rettig Gur, Ed Husain, Martin Kramer, Robert W. Nicholson, Dr. Ruth Wisse, David Wolpe
Five more of our regular writers pick several favorites each, featuring what Jews are for, magicians, assassins, call signs, chaos, separated siblings, and more.
Observation · December 16, 2020
The Best Books of 2020, Chosen by Mosaic Authors (Part I)
By Matti Friedman, Daniel Johnson, Moshe Koppel, Sarah Rindner
Five of our regular writers pick several favorites each, featuring Turkish denial, Jesus's wife, coffeehouse culture, angst, WEIRDness, and Judaism straight up.
Observation · December 19, 2019
The Best Books of 2019, Chosen by Mosaic Authors (Part II)
By Martin Kramer, Sarah Rindner, Neil Rogachevsky, Michael Weingrad, Dr. Ruth Wisse, David Wolpe
Six more Mosaic writers share their favorites, featuring shadow strikes, orchards, gleanings, constitutional evolutions and revolutions, serotonin, odd women, and more.
Observation · December 18, 2019
The Best Books of 2019, Chosen by Mosaic Authors (Part I)
By Elliott Abrams, Diana Muir Appelbaum, Matti Friedman, Haviv Rettig Gur, Daniel Johnson, Moshe Koppel, Daniel Polisar
Seven of our regular writers pick several favorites each, featuring sieges, spies, cultural revolutions, family papers, useful enemies, new fields of inquiry, and more.
Observation · December 12, 2018
The Best Books of 2018, Chosen by Mosaic Authors
By Elliott Abrams, Haviv Rettig Gur, Moshe Koppel, Daniel Polisar, Sarah Rindner, Neil Rogachevsky, Michael Weingrad, Dr. Ruth Wisse, David Wolpe
Letters, antidotes, eternal lives, outcasts, secret worlds, pogroms, and more.