The Jewish Genre Challenge is the Goodreads group for an annual reading challenge to read genre fiction with Jewish main characters. This listopia is dedicated to the prompt: Read either a Jewish book in translation, or one where a second language is featured in the story/text. Please do not add to or vote on these lists unless you are participating in our reading challenge!

For challenge participants: Please only books featuring Jewish main characters (or with both Jewish author and topic if the book doesn't have characters). For the purposes of this list, a book "in translation" is one that was not written in English and is available to read in English. For books featuring multiple languages, any two languages are acceptable. This absolutely includes books written in English that contain some Yiddish, though in the spirit of the challenge, the Yiddish should be an integral or ongoing part of the story, not just a book where someone says "schlep" one time on one page.

If you can, add the language and whether it was translated or features a second language to the note section when you add it.

This list is community-created, which means it may contain books that don't meet the criteria. Always do your own checking before committing to a book to complete the challenge.