Elie Wiesel was a Romanian-American author, professor, and political activist. He was a Holocaust survivor and wrote over fifty books during his life. Elie is best known as the the author of Night which was based on his own experiences as a Jewish prisoner during the Holocaust at the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.

Wiesel also served as a professor of humanities at Boston University. In 1986, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his struggle in the concentration camps and his work afterward in helping to bring peace to the world. His commitment to peace started with his own people, but he ended up embracing all repressed peoples and races.

Publication Order of The Night Trilogy Books

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

The Town Beyond the Wall (1962)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Gates of the Forest (1964)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Beggar in Jerusalem (1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Oath (1970)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Testament (1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Golem (1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Fifth Son (1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Twilight (1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Forgotten (1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Judges (1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Time of the Uprooted (2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Mad Desire to Dance (2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Sonderberg Case (2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Hostage (2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Plays

Zalman Madness God (1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Trial of God (1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Collections

An Ethical Compass (2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Tale of a Niggun (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Filled with Fire and Light (2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of The Memoirs Books

All Rivers Run to the Sea (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
And the Sea is Never Full (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Souls on Fire (1958)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Jews of Silence (1966)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Legends of Our Time (1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
One Generation After (1970)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Messengers of God (1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Jew Today (1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Four Hasidic Masters (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Five Biblical Portraits (1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Somewhere A Master (1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Against Silence (1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Evil and Exile (With: Jon Rothschild,Jody Gladding,Michael de Saint-Cheron) (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Six Days of Destruction (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
From the Kingdom of Memory (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Journey of Faith (With: John JosephO'Connor) (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sages and Dreamers (1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Conversations with Elie Wiesel (With: Richard D. Heffner) (1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
In Dialog and Dilemma With Elie Wiesel (1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Passover Haggadah (1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Memoir in Two Voices (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Wise Men and Their Tales (2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
After the Darkness (2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rashi (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Open Heart (2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Jewish Encounters Books

The Wicked Son (By: David Mamet) (2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rashi (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Jewish Body (By: Melvin Konner) (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Hillel: If Not Now, When? (By: Joseph Telushkin) (2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Yehuda Halevi (By: Hillel Halkin) (2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Burnt Books (By: Rodger Kamenetz) (2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ben-Gurion (By: Shimon Peres,David Landau) (2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sacred Trash (By: Adina Hoffman) (2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
When General Grant Expelled the Jews (By: Jonathan Sarna) (2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem (By: Jeremy Dauber) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Menachem Begin (By: Daniel Gordis) (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Anthologies

Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology(1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Writers on Writing(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
I Am Jewish(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Post-Holocaust Jewish–Christian Dialogue: After the Flood, before the Rainbow(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
One for Each Night(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

If You Like Elie Wiesel Books, You’ll Love…

Night is the first book in the Night trilogy. The book is a gruesome accounting of the experiences at Nazy Germany death camps. The story is told form the perspective of 14-year-old Eliezer from the small town of Sighet. The people in the town did not believe the stories of anti-Semitic atrocities, even as they were in cattle cars on their way to Auschwitz. As they arrive, the awful truth sinks in. Wiesel’s classic back recounts all of the evils of the Holocaust. It also asks how mankind could allow something like this to happen while also questioning if it could happen again.

Dawn is the second book in the series and follows a young Jewish man named Elisha who fights for Isreali freedom in British-controlled Palestine. Elisha will murder an English officer named John Dawson at dawn as retribution for the death of another Israeli freedom fighter. The story is told hour-by-hour as Elisha wrestles with guilt, ghosts, and God before he will commit the act of murder. Wiesel’s novel is a meditation on the compromises, justifications, and sacrifices people make when taking other lives.

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