Reader's Digest

We looked to our group of experts to recommend the favorite books they read over the past year. Here’s an eclectic assemblage of books you shouldn’t miss reading.

Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler’s Germany (Melville House), by Rudolph Herzog

“An appallingly serious and sober study of the most politically incorrect question of all time -- was anything ever funny if you were a Jew under Nazism? —John Waters