Audiobooks by Jewish American Authors

The Sequel

A Novel

The Book Series: Book #2

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 10 hours

“With her inimitable pitch-perfect interpretation, Julia Whelan assumes the role of Anna Williams-Bonner, literary widow, bestselling novelist, and eerily deceptive sympathetic protagonist, as she plots to bury her past and ensure her future. A send-up of the publishing industry and an intricate mystery, The Sequel is a delicious follow-up to The... Read more

Magical Meet Cute

By: Jean Meltzer
Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg
Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

“A laugh-out-loud funny romance with depth and heart, readers will love this spellbinding novel!” —Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Is he the real deal…or did she truly summon a golem?

Faye Kaplan used to be engaged. She also used to have a successful legal practice. But she much prefers her new life as a potter in Woodstock,... Read more

The Free People's Village

By: Sim Kern
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

“Penned by #TransRightsReadathon founder Sim Kern! In an alternate 2020, in which Al Gore once won the presidency and Democrats have held court for 20 years…we still live in an economically and racially unjust, imperialist, carceral state (now with more greenwashing!), and teacher and punk band guitarist Maddie Ryan finds herself and her... Read more

Expiration Dates

A Novel

By: Rebecca Serle
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

“I came for Rebecca Serle’s signature magical realism and romance, and stayed for the free will vs. determinism conversation. A quick, enjoyable read that I cried during. Love is a net. It can catch you long after someone is gone. Read more

Other People We Married

By: Emma Straub
Narrated by: Kristen Sieh, Barrie Kreinik & Marin Ireland
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

The beloved story collection from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Vacationers, All Adults Here and This Time Tomorrow

In Other People We Married, Straub creates characters as recognizable as a best friend, and follows them through moments of triumph and transformation with wit, vulnerability, and dazzling insight. In “Some People... Read more

Worry

A Novel

By: Alexandra Tanner
Narrated by: Helen Laser
Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

“Worry is brilliant. Jules and Poppy's characters could be your sister, your friend, or even, you. The storyline time placement is genius. All Jules and Poppy appear to want is to move their lives forward – together and apart. But with setting this story a year before the pandemic, the reader knows it really doesn't matter what they are planning.... Read more

Love in the Library

By: Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Narrated by: Sura Siu
Length: 14 minutes

To fall in love is already a gift. But to fall in love in a place like Minidoka, a place built to make people feel like they weren’t human—that was miraculous. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tama is sent to live in a War Relocation Center in the desert. All Japanese Americans from the West Coast—elderly people, children, babies—now live in... Read more

The Light of Seven Days

A Novel

By: River Adams
Narrated by: River Adams
Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Living with her Babby after her parents’ death, ten-year-old Dinah Ash is invited to train at Leningrad’s legendary Vaganova Ballet School. In the world of elite dance, she works hard, falls in love, and weathers the Soviet Union’s ubiquitous antisemitism, but despite an impressive talent, she quickly learns that dancers of her “profile” don’t... Read more

The Family Morfawitz

By: Daniel H. Turtel
Narrated by: Assaf Cohen
Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

From acclaimed author Daniel H. Turtel, winner of the Faulkner Society Award for Best Novel, comes The Family Morfawitz, a gripping Jewish family saga inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses. When Hadassah Morfawitz flees Nazi Germany with her siblings and arrives in New York, she is determined to turn the city into her own Mount Olympus—at any cost.... Read more

Pig

Poems

By: Sam Sax
Narrated by: Sam Sax
Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third collection of poems that uses the humble pig as a lens to explore the body, faith, desire, and power.

This imaginative and singular poetry collection interrogates the broadest ideas surrounding the humble pig—farm animal, men/masculinity, police and... Read more

You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah!

By: Fiona Rosenbloom
Narrated by: Fiona Rosenbloom
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Now a hit Netflix film!

Stacy Friedman is getting ready for one of the most important events of her young life - her bat mitzvah. All she wants is the perfect dress to wear, her friends by her side, and her biggest crush ever, Andy Goldfarb, to dance with her (and maybe even make out with her on the dance floor). But Stacy's well-laid plans... Read more

For Never & Always

By: Helena Greer
Narrated by: Mara Wilson & Emil Benjamin
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

One surprise inheritance, two best friends (now bitter exes), and three months to prove he loves her, forever and always, in this swoony second-chance romance for fans of Alexandria Bellefleur and Ashley Herring Blake.
 
Hannah Rosenstein should be happy: after a lonely childhood of traipsing all over the world, she finally has a home as the... Read more

Marry Me by Midnight

Once Upon the East End: Book #1

By: Felicia Grossman
Narrated by: Justine Eyre
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

From an author known for her “powerful and passionate” work comes a story with an enchanting twist on Cinderella (Eva Leigh, bestselling author): a charming heiress must marry to save her family’s business, but the man she dreams of is the one she can’t have. ​
 
London, 1832: Isabelle Lira may be in distress, but she's no damsel. Since her... Read more

City of Laughter

By: Temim Fruchter
Narrated by: Mara Wilson
Length: 13 hours 39 minutes

Ropshitz, Poland, was once known as the City of Laughter. As this story opens, an 18th century badchan, a holy jester whose job is to make wedding guests laugh, receives a visitation from a mysterious stranger—bringing the laughter the people of Ropshitz desperately need and triggering a sequence of events that will reverberate across the coming... Read more

The Key to Forever

Secret Ties: Book #3

By: Kelly Cain
Narrated by: Chance Smolders & Joy Beharie
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Tori Matheny comes from a family of strong women who are all close and happily single. She plans to live the same way—an occasional fling, but never settling down. What’s the need? She is, however, curious about her birth family despite her adoptive mom and aunts strongly discouraging her search. Tori’s always known she was adopted and has never... Read more

The Inn at Lake Devine

By: Elinor Lipman
Narrated by: Piper Goodeve
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

It's 1962, and all across America barriers are collapsing. But when Natalie Marx's mother inquires about summer accommodations in Vermont, she gets the following reply: The Inn at Lake Devine is a family-owned resort, which has been in continuous operation since 1922. Our guests who feel most comfortable here, and return year after year, are... Read more

A Kiss from the Past

Secret Ties: Book #1

By: Kelly Cain
Narrated by: Joy Beharie & Chance Smolders
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Nichelle Sampson is living the life she always dreamed of. She’s a political-science professor like her father, is in her sorority’s leadership like her mother, and has wonderful friends. The only thing missing is romance. But when a letter and mysterious ring arrive, Nichelle’s perfect life is shattered. She’s shocked to learn that she’s... Read more

Two Sides of a Secret

Secret Ties: Book #2

By: Kelly Cain
Narrated by: Joy Beharie & Chance Smolders
Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Lauren Steele has always been grateful for her adoptive family’s love and support. So much so that she takes over the family floral business when her parents retire, despite her dreams of working on political campaigns. Instead of crafting clever speeches, she spends her days writing out romantic messages on behalf of her clients—a bittersweet... Read more

Tears Over Russia

A Search for Family and the Legacy of Ukraine's Pogroms

By: Lisa Brahin
Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Between 1917 and 1921, twenty years before the Holocaust began, an estimated 100,000 to 250,000 Jews were murdered in anti-Jewish pogroms across the Ukraine. Lisa grew up transfixed by her grandmother Channa’s stories about her family being forced to flee their hometown of Stavishche, as armies and bandit groups raided village after village,... Read more

The Rye Bread Marriage

How I Found Happiness with a Partner I'll Never Understand

By: Michaele Weissman
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Experience a beautiful, humorous, universal love story with this memoir about learning to live with another human being and how every relationship is a mystery—and a miracle. 
 
When they first meet, John, a dashing European, a Latvian refugee, a physics PhD, is hoping to settle down. Michaele, a fast-talking American college student, is hungry... Read more