New Releases by Jewish Authors

The Sequel

A Novel

The Book Series: Book #2

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

“If you thought "The Plot" was clever, you haven't heard the half of it. Wipe your calendar and prepare to chew your cuticles, because Anna is much scarier - and funnier - than you could possibly have guessed, and author Korelitz is definitely not done shocking and satirizing the literary sphere. (Narrator Julia Whelan should win a world prize... Read more

Magical Meet Cute

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

“I loved this book! The characters are very relatable and hysterical. The plot is also one I haven't seen in any other book, really keeps you interested. Highly recommend! 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

The Sins on Their Bones

Book one of The Cursed Crown series

The Cursed Crown Duology: Book #1

By: Laura R. Samotin
Narrated by: Aaron Willis, Daniel Chichagov & Robin Wilcock
Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

Set in a Jewish folklore-inspired reimagining of 19th century Eastern Europe, this queer dark fantasy debut pits two estranged husbands and a daring spymaster on opposite sides of a civil war. Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo, C.S. Pacat, and Katherine Arden.

Dimitri Alexeyev used to be the Tzar of Novo-Svitsevo. Now, he is merely a broken man,... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My Name Is Barbra

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

“I am a diehard Streisand fan and was over the moon when she finally released her memoir. I started with the physical hardcover but found it was literally too heavy to read comfortably. I decided to download the audiobook for an upcoming drive and no decision has ever made me happier! This is audio perfection. From snippets of the songs she is... 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

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

A Novel

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

“Depression-era Pottsdown, PA. Immigrant Jews and Blacks who moved from the South cope with discrimination from the White Christian community. Moshe runs an integrated musical theater, assisted by Nate, while his wife Chona runs the local grocery store, assisted by Nate's wife Addie, catering to the black community, in the 'Chicken Hill'... 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

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

My Last Innocent Year

A Novel

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

“Isabel Rosen, daughter of an appetizing store owner on New York’s Lower East Side, has always felt out of place at her prestigious New Hampshire university. Not only is she of a different socioeconomic background than most other students at Wilder, but she is also one of only a handful of Jewish students. Finally, as she enters her final... Read more