Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel is an American political activist, professor, writer, and Nobel Peace Prize winner. The author was born in Sighet, Romania in 1928, a small Jewish community that had settled in the area since the mid-17th century. They had settled there seeking refuge from the persecution and pogroms against Jews in Ukraine.

The best place to start is The Night Trilogy series, the earliest of Elie Wiesel's multi-book series: it opens with Night (1956) and runs to 3 books across 1956–1961, ending with Day (1961). Elie Wiesel's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Elie Wiesel has 77 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1956 and 2023. 30 of them belong to 3 named series — the largest being the Jewish Encounters series with 25 books — and 47 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Elie Wiesel's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are The Night Trilogy (1956–1961, 3 books), The Memoirs (1994–1998, 2 books) and Jewish Encounters (2005–2016, 25 books).

This guide splits Elie Wiesel's 77 books into 3 named series and 47 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Jewish Encounters (25 books, 2005–2016); The Night Trilogy (3 books, 1956–1961); The Memoirs (2 books, 1994–1998).