Audiobooks by Jewish American Authors

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

One Hundred Saturdays

Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World

By: Michael Frank
Narrated by: Michael Frank
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

“It was such an honor to hear stories from the life of Stella Levi who is now almost one hundred years old. She has seen and lived through so much this past century! Having grown up in a secular Jewish community, La Judería, on the Island of Rhodes, and speaking a barely-known language, Judaeo-Spanish, her childhood home and culture was one... Read more

The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights

A Novel

By: Kitty Zeldis
Narrated by: Karen Gundersen
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

“A haunting meditation on the bonds between mothers and daughters. Zeldis offers a fascinating look into historic New York City and New Orleans, and her skill as a storyteller is matched by her compassion for her characters. What a beautiful read.”—Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Magnolia Palace“By turns heartbreaking and... Read more

Beat the Devils

By: Josh Weiss
Narrated by: Fred Berman
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

This inventive, page-turning crime thriller with "palpable emotional depth" (New York Times Book Review) envisions a world in which the Red Scare never ended.

USA, 1958. President Joseph McCarthy sits in the White House, elected on a wave of populist xenophobia and barely‑concealed anti‑Semitism. The country is in the firm grip of... Read more

Code Name Sapphire

By: Pam Jenoff
Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"A heart-wrenching exploration of the decisions women must make when their loyalties are put to the test.” –Sarah Penner, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Apothecary

A woman must rescue her cousin's family from a train bound for Auschwitz in this riveting tale of bravery and resistance, from the... Read more

As Seen on TV

By: Meredith Schorr
Narrated by: Emily Lawrence
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Fans of the Hallmark Channel and Gilmore Girls will adore this delightful rom‑com about a city girl who goes in search of small-town happiness, only to discover life—and love—are nothing like the TV movies.

Emerging journalist Adina Gellar is done with dating in New York City. If she’s learned anything from made-for-TV romance movies, it’s that... Read more

Zabar's

A Family Story, with Recipes

By: Lori Zabar
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

The fascinating, mouthwatering story (with recipes!) of the immigrant familythat created a New York gastronomic legend: “The most rambunctious andchaotic of all delicatessens, with one foot in the Old World and the other inthe vanguard of every fast-breaking food move in the city.” —Nora Ephron

When Louis and Lilly Zabar rented a counter in a... Read more

Camp QUILTBAG

By: Nicole Melleby & A. J. Sass
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

From the acclaimed authors of Hurricane Season and Ana on the Edge, an unforgettable story about the importance of and joy in finding a community, for fans of Alex Gino and Ashley Herring-Blake.
 
Twelve-year-old Abigail (she/her/hers) is so excited to spend her summer at Camp QUILTBAG, an inclusive retreat for queer and trans kids. She can’t... Read more

The 12th Commandment

By: Daniel Torday
Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Swirling with secrets and their consequences, exploring how revelation and redemption might be accessed through sin, and driven through twists and turns toward a startling conclusion, The 12th Commandment is a brilliant novel by award-winning author Daniel Torday.The Dönme sect―a group of Jewish-Islamic adherents with ancient roots―lives in an... Read more

Once More with Chutzpah

By: Haley Neil
Narrated by: Cady Zuckerman
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

When high-school senior Tally and her twin brother Max head off on an exchange trip to Israel over their winter break, Tally thinks it will be a good distraction for Max; he might be trying to hide it, but she knows he's still struggling in the wake of a car crash that injured him and killed the driver. Maybe this will help him get back on track... Read more

Nazis Knew My Name

A Remarkable Story of Survival and Courage in Auschwitz

By: Magda Hellinger & Maya Lee
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton & Zoe Carides
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

The “thought-provoking…must-read” (Ariana Neumann, author of When Time Stopped) memoir by a Holocaust survivor who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage and kindness—in the vein of A Bookshop in Berlin and The Nazi Officer’s Wife.

In March 1942, twenty-five-year-old kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger and... Read more

I Will Protect You

A True Story of Twins Who Survived Auschwitz

By: Eva Mozes Kor
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

The illuminating and deeply moving true story of twin sisters who survived Nazi experimentation, against all odds, during the Holocaust.

Eva and her identical twin sister, Miriam, had a mostly happy childhood. Theirs was the only Jewish family in their small village in the Transylvanian mountains, but they didn't think much of it until... Read more

Antiquities and Other Stories

By: Cynthia Ozick
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

From one of our most preeminent writers, a tale that captures the shifting meanings of the past and how our experience colors those meanings, now alongside four previously uncollected stories

In Antiquities, Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven elderly trustees of the now-defunct (for thirty-four years) Temple Academy for Boys, is preparing a... Read more

The Whole Story of Half a Girl

By: Veera Hiranandani
Narrated by: Siiri Scott
Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

By the author of the Newbery Honor Book The Night Diary, a thoughtful and relatable story about cultural identity, friendship, and what it means to fit in without losing who you are.



After her father loses his job, Sonia Nadhamuni, half Indian and half Jewish American, finds herself yanked out of private school and thrown into the unfamiliar... Read more

Disguised as Clark Kent

Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero

By: Danny Fingeroth
Narrated by: Danny Fingeroth
Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

In this insightful and provocative book, comics-industry veteran Danny Fingeroth explores the backgrounds of the most well-known superheroes and their creators—largely young American Jewish men from Eastern European backgrounds. These innovators include Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Will Eisner, and Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.Jewish Identity has... Read more

The Letters Project

A Daughter's Journey

By: Eleanor Reissa
Narrated by: Eleanor Reissa
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

In 1986, when her mother died at the age of sixty-four, Eleanor Reissa went through all of her belongings. In the back of her mother’s lingerie drawer, she found an old leather purse. Inside that purse was a large wad of folded papers. They were letters. Fifty-six of them. In German. Written in 1949. Letters from her father to her mother, when... Read more

The Adventures of Herbie Cohen

World's Greatest Negotiator

By: Rich Cohen
Narrated by: Paul Adelstein
Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

The New York Times bestselling author Rich Cohen tells the story of Herbie: the king of Bensonhurst, the world’s best negotiator—and Cohen’s wise, wisecracking father.

Meet Herbie Cohen, World’s Greatest Negotiator, dealmaker, risk taker, raconteur, adviser to presidents and corporations, hostage and arms negotiator, lesson giver and justice... Read more

Season of Love

By: Helena Greer
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik & Emily Lawrence
Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Buzzfeed’s Most Anticipated LGBTQ Romances of 2022
 
Miriam Blum has no choice but to face the past she thought she’d left behind when she inherits her great-aunt’s Christmas tree farm in this witty, glittering, heart-filled romcom with “all of the warm, queer, Jewish holiday vibes you could possibly want” (Jen DeLuca, USA Today bestselling... Read more