The Sophie Brody Award (Sophie Brody Meda) is an annual award of the American Library Association, administered by the Reference and User Services Association RUSA.[1] It is given for outstanding achievement in Jewish literature, for works published the previous year, in the US. [2] It was established in 2006.The award is named after Sophie Brody and was established by her husband, Arthur Brody, and the Brodart Foundation.
| Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Talking to the Enemy | Seven Stories Press | Winner | ||
| Born to Kvetch | St. Martin's Press | Honor | |||
| Not Me | Random House | ||||
| The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life | Random House | ||||
| 2007 | HarperCollins | Winner | |||
| LemonTree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East | Bloomsbury | Honor | |||
| The Book Thief | Alfred A. Knopf | ||||
| The World to Come | W. W. Norton & Company | ||||
| 2008 | The Ministry of Special Cases | Alfred A. Knopf | Winner | ||
| Foreskin’s Lament: A Memoir | Riverhead Books | Honor | |||
| The Zookeeper's Wife | W. W. Norton & Company | ||||
| You Never Call! You Never Write | A History of the Jewish Mother | Oxford University Press | |||
| 2009 | Songs for the Butcher's Daughter | Free Press | Winner | ||
| Beaufort | Delacorte Press | Honor | |||
| Friendly Fire: A Duet | Mariner Books | ||||
| From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books | Jewish Publication Society | ||||
| 2010 | The Book of the Unknown: Tales of the Thirty-Six | Random House | Winner | ||
| A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy | Little Brown | Honor | |||
| and Stephen Gantz | Clara’s War One Girl’s Story of Survival | Ecco Press | |||
| The Jewish Body | Schocken Books | ||||
| 2011 | The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time | Random House | Winner | ||
| Homesick | Dalkey Archive Press | Honor | |||
| 2012 | and Peter Cole | Sacred Trash: the Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza | Schocken Books | Winner | |
| Jerusalem: the Biography | Alfred A. Knopf | Honor | |||
| MetaMaus | Pantheon Books | ||||
| Quiet Americans: Stories | Last Light Studio Books | ||||
| 2013 | The Aleppo Codex A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible | Algonquin Books | Winner | ||
| I Am Forbidden | Hogarth Press | Honor | |||
| The Lawgiver | Simon & Schuster | ||||
| What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank | Alfred A. Knopf | ||||
| 2014 | Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation | HarperCollins | Winner | ||
| My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel | Spiegel & Grau | Honor | |||
| The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem: The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man Who Created Tevye | Schocken Books | ||||
| 2015 | A Replacement Life | HarperCollins | Winner | ||
| In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist | The New York Review of Books | Honor | |||
| The Mathematician’s Shiva | Penguin | ||||
| 2016 | The Book of Aron A Novel | Alfred A. Knopf | Winner | ||
| After Abel and Other Stories | Prospect Park Books | Honor | |||
| Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel | W. W. Norton & Company | ||||
| The Complete Works of Primo Levi | Liveright | ||||
| The House of Twenty Thousand Books | The New York Review of Books | ||||
| 2017 | Moonglow A Novel | HarperCollins | Winner | ||
| Have I got a Story For You: More than a Century of Fiction from the Forward | W. W. Norton & Company | Honor | |||
| In the Land of Armadillos | Charles Scribner's Sons | ||||
| Pumpkinflowers A Soldier’s Story | Algonquin Books | ||||
| Vilna My Vilna | Syracuse University Press | ||||
| 2018 | If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir | St. Martin’s Press | Winner | ||
| Heretics | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Honor | |||
| Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler | William Morrow | ||||
| 2019 | The Last Watchman of Old Cairo | Spiegel & Grau | Winner | ||
| Rise and Kill First The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations | Random House | Honor | |||
| The Stone Crusher: The True Story of a Father and Son’s Fight for Survival in Auschwitz | Chicago Review Press | ||||
| 2020 | The Nightingale’s Sonata: The Musical Odyssey of Lea Luboshutz | Pegasus Books | Winner | ||
| Strangers and Cousins | Riverhead Books | Honor | |||
| The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians and Other European Immigrants Out of America | Simon & Schuster | ||||
| The World That We Knew | Simon & Schuster | ||||
| 2021 | The Memory Monster | Restless Books | Winner | ||
| House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family | Simon & Schuster | Honor | |||
| The Lost Shtetl | HarperVia | ||||
| The Tunnel | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | ||||
| When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains | Scribner | ||||
| 2022 | Jane Yolen | Kaddish Before the Holocaust and After: Poems | Holy Cow Press | Winner | |
| 2023 | Michael Frank | One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World | Avid Reader Press | Winner | |
| 2024 | James McBride | The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store | Riverhead | Winner |