10. John Grisham's "The Frum"…. Young JTS prodigy student gets recruited by an elite ultra orthodox sect, only to find out he is not ready to live under all 613 mitzvoth.
9. James Patterson's "Kiss the Shiksas"…. A cat and mouse tale searching for the key to solving the Jewish assimilation problem.
8. Stephen King's "Tallis-man"…. Castle Rock, ME, resident finds out he is Jewish and goes through a horrid search to find a tallis in the state in Maine. It gets gory at the end.
7. John Irving's "The Fourth Hand"… Halachic questions abound when a boy with two extra appendages puts on Tefillin for the first time
6. Faye Kellerman's "The Ritual Bath"…her first non-Jewish book follows a "goy" into the world of baptism.
5. Dean Koontz’s "One Door Away From Shamayim"…. One woman's search for aliens in the Torah
4. JK Rowling’s "Hershel Potter and the Moses Tablets"…Child attends kabalah workshop, accompanied by his pet herring, only to discover he is a tenth generation Kohain without any magical powers.
3. Tom Clancy's "The Hunt for Red Hefer"… the greatest espionage coup in second temple history. Sean Connery searches for a perfect red cow to atone for his people’s sins underwater.
2. Michael Crichton’s "Jewrassic Park" group of Chassidic biochemists hide island of dinosaurs to protect creationist theory of history.
1. John Franzen’s "the Corrections"..A family of Biblical revisionists have to deal with Oprah Winfrey coming over for Shabbat dinner.