There are many books that I read prior to The True Adventures that informed me, not to mention podcasts, articles and films. During the writing of The True Adventures of Gidon Lev, I read everything and anything that seemed relevant to me. I believe that sometimes deeper truths reveal themselves in fiction and in poetry but I'm a nonfiction junkie so of course that was a priority. I didn't always like or agree with what I read but a diversity of views and opinions is important. The views in the book reflect my views and also Gidon's. They are, as such, only our interpretation of larger political events. Follow me on Goodreads and we can swap reading lists! 

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• I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity, Izzeldin Abuelaish

• Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Envy, Race Hatred and the Prehistory of the Holocaust, Götz Aly

• Open Closed Open, by Yehuda Amichai

• Hope: A Tragedy, by Shalom Auslander

• The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin

• Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations, Ronen Bergman

• Power and Powerlessness in Jewish History, David Biale

• Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry, Mahmud Darwish, Samih Al-Qasim, Adonis

• Jews, God and History, Max Dimont

• Man’s Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl

• The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Its History in Maps, Martin Gilbert

• We Stand Divided, Daniel Gordis

• Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor, Yossi Klein Halevi

• Like Dreamers, Yossi Klein Halevi

• Memories of a Jewish Extremist, Yossi Klein Halevi

• After Such Knowledge: Memory, History and the Legacy of the Holocaust, Eva Hoffman

• Holy Land, Unholy War: Israelis and Palestinians, Anton La Guardia

• Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege, Amira Hass

• A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past, Lewis Hyde

• Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, Sebastian Junger

• Track Changes, Sayed Kashua

• The Girl on the Fridge, Etgar Keret

• Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel, by Francine Klagsburn

• Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi 

• The Drowned and the Saved, Primo Levi

• My Life, Golda Meir

• Three Floors Up, Eshkol Nevo

• A Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos Oz

• In the Land of Israel, Amos Oz

• The Chosen, Chaim Potok

• The Book of Dirt, Bram Presser

• Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israels Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe, Jo Roberts

• The Plot Against America, Philip Roth

• Palestinian Walks: Forays Into a Vanishing Landscape, Raja Shehadeh

• Casting Lots: Creating A Family in a Beautiful, Broken World, Susan Silverman

• The Mandelbaum Gate, Muriel Spark

• Maus, Volumes I and II, by Art Spiegelman

• The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and The Heart of the Middle East, Sandy Tolan

• A Woman in Jerusalem, A.B. Yehoshua

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