Audiobooks by Jewish American Authors

The Girl Under the Flag

Monique - The Story of a Jewish Heroine Who Never Gave Up

WW2 Girls

By: Alex Amit
Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Running for her life from the Nazis, Monique, a seventeen-year-old Jewish girl, escapes through the streets of Paris, searching for a place to hide.



In a dark basement deep within the city, Philip, a man of the Resistance, offers her a deal in order to save her life by changing her identity. In return, she needs to provide information about the... Read more

Abigail of Venice

By: Leigh Russell
Narrated by: Charlie Albers
Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

A sixteenth-century Jewish woman flees persecution and an abusive marriage in this historical saga from "a brilliant talent" (Jeffery Deaver).



When soldiers attack the inhabitants of a Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Lithuania, Abigail manages to escape both the attack and her abusive husband, Reuven. She travels over land and sea to Venice,... Read more

The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton

By: Andrew Porwancher
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

In The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Porwancher debunks a string of myths about the origins of this founding father to arrive at a startling conclusion: Hamilton, in all likelihood, was born and raised Jewish. For more than two centuries, his youth in the Caribbean has remained shrouded in mystery. Hamilton himself wanted it that... Read more

The Singing Forest

By: Judith McCormack
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

In attempting to bring a suspected war criminal to justice, a lawyer wrestles with power, accountability, and her Jewish identity.



In a quiet forest in Belarus, two boys stumble across a long-kept secret: the mass grave where Stalin's police secretly murdered thousands in the 1930s. The results of the subsequent investigation have far-reaching... Read more

Burning Girls and Other Stories

By: Veronica Schanoes
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

“This short story collection blew me away. Our protagonists, in true fairytale fashion (but perhaps better than I’ve ever seen it) are pushed by circumstance and historical context and prejudice and sometimes cruelty, into situations where they seem to have no choices left. It’s then that the fantastical elements of the stories come in. Through... Read more

The Way Back

By: Gavriel Savit
Narrated by: Allan Corduner
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A SYDNEY TAYLOR NOTABLE BOOK

Perfect for readers of Neil Gaiman and Philip Pullman, a sweeping historical fantasy that follows two teens on a journey through the Far Country, a Jewish land of spirits and demons.

For the Jews of Eastern Europe, demons are everywhere: dancing on the rooftops in the darkness of... Read more

Forest Dark

A Novel

By: Nicole Krauss
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

“No surprise: Forest Dark was worth the wait. Tapping into intellectual and deeply personal moments, the two main characters are ones to identify with even as the circumstances they find themselves in are fantastic. Krauss' reflections about marriage are poignant, and there is a lot to contemplate. At first, I enjoyed having moments when I wasn't... Read more

Dinner at the Center of the Earth

A novel

By: Nathan Englander
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 7 hours

The best work yet from the Pulitzer finalist and best-selling author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges--a political thriller that unfolds in the highly charged territory of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and pivots on the complex relationship between a secret prisoner and his guard.

A prisoner in a secret cell. The guard who has watched... Read more

Just One Night

By: Kyra Davis
Narrated by: Grace Grant
Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

You should sleep with a stranger, her best friend whispered in her ear—and so begins the intense, erotic journey of Kasie Fitzgerald in Book One of the Just One Night series, a blockbuster bestseller and “an uplifting story in which sex is presented both as freedom and as a metaphor for power” (Publishers Weekly).

Kasie Fitzgerald knows who she’s... Read more

Bee Season

By: Myla Goldberg
Narrated by: Myla Goldberg
Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable nine-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her autodidact father, Saul, absorbed in his study of Jewish mysticism; her brother, Aaron, the vessel of his father's spiritual ambitions; and her brilliant but distant lawyer-mom, Miriam. But when Eliza sweeps her school and district spelling... Read more

Foreign Bodies

By: Cynthia Ozick
Narrated by: Tandy Cronyn
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Pulitzer Prize finalist Cynthia Ozick's fiction has been awarded multiple O. Henry Prizes. In Foreign Bodies, Ozick crafts a remarkable retelling of Henry James' The Ambassadors-deftly using its plot, yet boldly infusing the novel with an all new place, time, and meaning. It's 1952, and middle-aged Bea Nightingale reluctantly agrees to fly to... Read more

Adé

A Love Story

By: Rebecca Walker
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

In this stunning debut novella, Rebecca Walker turns her attention to the power of love and the limitations of the human heart. When Farida, a sophisticated college student, falls in love with Adé, a young Swahili man living on an idyllic island off the coast of Kenya, the two plan to marry and envision a simple life together—free of worldly... Read more

Color Me In

By: Natasha Díaz
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

A powerful coming-of-age novel pulled from personal experience about the meaning of friendship, the joyful beginnings of romance, and the racism and religious intolerance that can both strain a family to the breaking point and strengthen its bonds.

Growing up in an affluent suburb of New York City, sixteen-year-old Nevaeh Levitz never thought... Read more

The Flight Portfolio

By: Julie Orringer
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 19 hours 29 minutes

The long-awaited new work from the best-selling author of The Invisible Bridge takes us back to occupied Europe in this gripping historical novel based on the true story of Varian Fry's extraordinary attempt to save the work, and the lives, of Jewish artists fleeing the Holocaust In 1940, Varian Fry--a Harvard educated American... Read more

Selected Stories of Grace Paley - Abridged

A Selection

By: Grace Paley
Narrated by: Grace Paley
Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Now available for the first time in audio as a digital download, a selection of stories from Grace Paley.

Whether writing about relationships, little girls, loving and bickering couples, angry suburbanites, frustrated job-seekers, or Jewish children performing a Christmas play, GRACE PALEY captured the loneliness, poignancy, and humor of the... Read more

The Party Upstairs

A Novel

By: Lee Conell
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

An electrifying debut novel that unfolds in the course of a single day inside one genteel New York City apartment building, as tensions between the building's super and his grown-up daughter spark a crisis that will, by day's end, change everything.

Ruby has a strange relationship to privilege. She grew up the super's daughter in the basement of... Read more

Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted

By: Gary Barwin
Narrated by: Allen Lewis Rickman & Gabi Epstein
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

A middle-aged Jewish man who fantasizes about being a cowboy goes on an eccentric quest across Europe after the 1941 Nazi invasion of Lithuania in this wild and witty yet heartrending novel from the bestselling author of Yiddish for Pirates, shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Motl is middle-aged, poor, nerdy, Jewish and in desperate... Read more

Squirrel Hill

The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood

By: Mark Oppenheimer
Narrated by: Mark Oppenheimer
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

A piercing portrait of the struggles and triumphs of one of America's renowned Jewish neighborhoods in the wake of unspeakable tragedy that highlights the hopes, fears, and tensions all Americans must confront on the road to healing.

Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, is one of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in the country, known for its tight-knit... Read more

Old Truths and New Clichés

Essays by Isaac Bashevis Singer

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Old Truths and New Clichés collects nineteen essays—most of them previously unpublished in English—by Isaac Bashevis Singer on topics that were central to his artistic vision throughout an astonishing and prolific literary career spanning more than six decades. Expanding on themes reflected in his best-known work, the book illuminates in new... Read more

Flirty Little Secret

By: Jessica Lepe
Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez & Will Collyer
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

You’ve Got Mail meets Abbott Elementary in this sweet, sexy romantic comedy for fans of Lynn Painter and Lyssa Kay Adams. 

School counselor Lucy Galindo has a secret.

To her coworkers, friends, and even family, she’s shy, sweet, and constantly struggling to hold off disaster (read: manage her anxiety and depression). But online? She’s bold,... Read more