Audiobooks by Jewish American Authors

The Art of Inventing Hope

Intimate Conversations with Elie Wiesel

By: Howard Reich
Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

The Art of Inventing Hope offers an unprecedented, in-depth conversation between the world’s most revered Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, and a son of survivors, Howard Reich. During the last four years of Wiesel’s life, he met frequently with Reich in New York, Chicago, and Florida—and spoke often on the phone—to discuss the subject that... Read more

My Jewish Year

18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew

By: Abigail Pogrebin
Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

In the tradition of The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs and Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses by Bruce Feiler comes Abigail Pogrebin's My Jewish Year, a lively chronicle of the author's journey into the spiritual heart of Judaism.



Although she grew up following some holiday rituals, Pogrebin realized... Read more

New York Jew

By: Alfred Kazin
Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
Length: 16 hours 49 minutes

In this book, Alfred Kazin, who for more than thirty years has been one of the central figures of America's intellectual life, takes us into his own life and times. His autobiography encompasses a personal story openly told; an inside look at New York's innermost intellectual circles; strong and intimate revelations of many of the most important... Read more

My Name Is Barbra

By: Barbra Streisand
Narrated by: Barbra Streisand
Length: 48 hours 7 minutes

“It must be said that I am a die-hard, life-long Barbra Streisand fan. I've always emulated her - her courageous choices in roles, her seemingly effortless ability to inhabit whatever role she is playing, her commitment to human rights and especially those of women, and of course, THE VOICE. To me, she is the greatest singer of this time and... Read more

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

A Novel

By: James McBride
Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

“Brilliant! A skeleton found in 1972 sets the stage for a story 40 years earlier among the immigrant Eastern European Jews and African Americans in the Chicken Hill neighborhood of Potsdam, PA, who all lived on the fringes of society and were discriminated against. There are many truths about race and prejudice, but also much humor and hope in... Read more

All-Night Pharmacy

A Novel

By: Ruth Madievsky
Narrated by: Moniqua Plante
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

On the night of her high school graduation, a young woman follows her older sister Debbie to Salvation, a Los Angeles bar patronized by energy healers, aspiring actors, and all-around misfits. After the two share a bag of unidentified pills, the evening turns into a haze of sensual and risky interactions—nothing unusual for two sisters bound in... Read more

Holler Rat

A Memoir

By: Anya Liftig
Narrated by: Anya Liftig
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Anya Liftig grew up with a foot in two very different worlds: While her mother's upbringing was so rural that the other kids called her "holler rat," her father came from a comfortable, upper-middle-class Jewish family. Anya spent school years in affluent Connecticut and summers in the holler. Shaped by the experience, she would go on to win a... Read more

Hope

A Novel

By: Andrew Ridker
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

A New York Times Editors' Choice

A Boston Globe, Forward, and Times of Israel Best Book of the Year

“Riotous. . . . Hilarious . . . impeccably written . . . . Intelligent, bighearted, spew-your-gefilte-fish-funny.” —The New York Times Book Review

“A writer with this much talent can take his readers anywhere.” —The Washington Post

“Painfully funny.... Read more

Künstlers in Paradise

By: Cathleen Schine
Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

“The first Künstler family member we meet is Julian, who at 24 is having a hard time finding himself and becoming an adult. After his parents refuse to foot his bill, he travels to LA to visit his grandmother. Then COVID hits and he finds himself staying with her for the duration. Through their relationship we learn of his grandmother’s escape... Read more

The Latecomer

A Novel

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 16 hours 19 minutes

“The Latecomer is a story about the most dysfunctional family you will ever meet. Salo and his triplets can not relate at all to each other or to strangers and each has a weird obsession that others find hard to understand. Salo at least has a reason for his behavior… a tragic accident during college, for which he has never forgiven himself.... Read more

Happily

A Personal History-with Fairy Tales

By: Sabrina Orah Mark
Narrated by: Gilli Messer
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

“In Happily, Mark spins magically surreal sketches of motherhood, art, and life. Woven from fairy tales refracted into reality, each essay shimmers with wit, candor, and whimsy. As sharp as a spindle, as ethereal as an eggshell - this gem like collection of memoir-fables will leave you enchanted. Read more

The Cost of Free Land

Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

By: Rebecca Clarren
Narrated by: Rebecca Clarren
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Winner of the Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Nonfiction
Finalist for The Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize
Shortlisted for The William Saroyan International Prize
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year

"Sharply insightful . . . A monumental piece of work."—The Boston Globe

An award-winning author investigates the entangled... Read more

The Pomegranate Gate

By: Ariel Kaplan
Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny
Length: 19 hours 30 minutes

The first adventure in the Mirror Realm Cycle, a Spanish Inquisition–era fantasy trilogy inspired by Jewish folklore, with echoes of Naomi Novik and Katherine Arden.

Toba Peres can speak, but not shout; sleep, but not dream. She can write with both hands at once, in different languages, but she keeps her talents hidden at her grandparents’... Read more

My Last Innocent Year

A Novel

By: Daisy Alpert Florin
Narrated by: Sarah Bierstock
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

“Academic/Campus novels (novels set in and around universities) are my favorite genre, so I couldn't wait to get my hands on this one. Set in 1990s New England, this quietly propulsive novel explores an artist coming-of-age as she navigates the grey areas between agency and coercion, desire and power, loyalty and betrayal. Incredible. Read more

Unearthed

A Lost Actress, a Forbidden Book, and a Search for Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust

By: Meryl Frank
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

A thrilling mystery woven into a beautifully constructed family memoir: Meryl Frank’s journey to seek the truth about a beloved and revolutionary cousin, a celebrated actress in Vilna before World War II, and to answer the question of how the next generation should honor the memory of the Holocaust.

As a child, Meryl Frank was the chosen... Read more

A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness

Stories

By: Jai Chakrabarti
Narrated by: Sharmila Devar & Shawn K. Jain
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • “As impeccable as [the] title story is, every entry astonishes” (The New York Times), from the National Jewish Book Award-winning author of A Play for the End of the World

"Whether in Brooklyn, Kolkata, upstate New York or elsewhere, these characters captured my heart and endure in my memory like loved ones.”... Read more

At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf

By: Tara Ison
Narrated by: Christa Lewis
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf is the story of a twelve-year-old Parisian Jewish girl in World War II France, living "in hiding" as a Catholic orphan with a family in a small village.



When Danielle Marton's father is killed during the early days of the German Occupation, her mother sends her to live in a quiet farming town near Limoges in Vichy... Read more

Death of a Dancing Queen

A Billie Levine Mystery

Billie Levine

By: Kimberly G. Giarratano
Narrated by: Caitlin Shannon
Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Veronica Mars meets Serial in this detective novel, where a female Jewish P.I finds herself involved in a deadly gang war while looking for a murder suspect...

Crimereads Most Anticipated Crime Fiction 2023,  Hey Alma’s 23 Jewish Books in 23 Selection, Featured in ITW’s Big Thrill Magazine, Book Riot’s 12 New Mystery & Thrillers To Get... Read more

Take What You Need

A Novel

By: Idra Novey
Narrated by: Christina Delaine & Idra Novey
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023

A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, L.A. Times, Boston Globe, NPR, The Guardian Author Pick, and Today

Longlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award

Longlisted for 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize

“A heart-rending book, but also a beautiful celebration of ‘the glorious pleasure of erecting something new,’ be... Read more

How the Talmud Can Change Your Life

Surprisingly Modern Advice from a Very Old Book

By: Liel Leibovitz
Narrated by: Liel Leibovitz
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

For numerous centuries, the Talmud—an extraordinary work of Jewish ethics, law, and tradition—has compelled readers to grapple with how to live a good life. Full of folk legends, bawdy tales, and rabbinical repartee, it is inspiring, demanding, confounding, and thousands of pages long. As Liel Leibovitz enthusiastically explores the Talmud, what... Read more