Order of Elie Wiesel Books
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
Dawn | (1960) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Day | (1961) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Night | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
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
Publication Order of Jewish Encounters Books
The Wicked Son | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Rashi | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Jewish Body | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Hillel: If Not Now, When? | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Yehuda Halevi | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Burnt Books | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Ben-Gurion | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Sacred Trash | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
When General Grant Expelled the Jews | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Menachem Begin | (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.