Jewish Author or Story

Stories about Jewish lives or written by Jewish authors

Updated May 29, 2024
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American gods : a novel
Gaiman, Neil.
Paper Book
Laugh all year long with this hilarious, highly illustration collection of jokes from the author of the #1 bestselling Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for Kids series. With gags for every day of the year, it's the book perfect book to keep the whole family laughing no matter what the weather's...
American pastoral
Roth, Philip.
Paper Book
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century--a compulsively readable elegy for America's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss, and "one of Roth's most powerful novels ever" (The New York Times)....
The dovekeepers : a novel
Hoffman, Alice.
Paper Book
Over five years in the writing, The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing novel, a tour de force of imagination and research, set in ancient Israel. In 70 C.E., nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a...
Find me
Aciman, André
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name revisits its complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meeting. No novel in...
Foundation
Asimov, Isaac
Paper Book
For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and...
Great house
Krauss, Nicole.
Paper Book
For twenty-five years, a reclusive American novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited from a young Chilean poet who disappeared at the hands of Pinochet's secret police; one day a girl claiming to be the poet's daughter arrives to take it away, sending the writer's life reeling. Across the...
Herzog
Bellow, Saul.
Ebook
Man's search for meaning
Frankl, Viktor E.
Paper Book
A book for finding purpose and strength in times of great despair, the international best-seller is still just as relevant today as when it was first published. "This is a book I reread a lot . . . it gives me hope . . . it gives me a sense of strength." -Anderson...
Moonglow : a novel
Chabon, Michael
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the Sophie Brody Medal * An NBCC Finalist for 2016 Award for Fiction * ALA Carnegie Medal Finalist for Excellence in Fiction * Wall Street Journal's Best Novel of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book of the...
The New York trilogy : City of glass, Ghosts, The locked room
Auster, Paul
Paper Book
The remarkable, acclaimed series of interconnected detective novels City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room, from New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster.   This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition includes an introduction from author and...
The particular sadness of lemon cake : a novel
Bender, Aimee.
Paper Book
The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse. On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents' attention, bites into her...
The power : a novel
Alderman, Naomi
Paper Book
In this stunning bestseller praised as "our era's Handmaid's Tale," a fierce new power has emerged--and only women have it (Washington Post).  In The Power, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around...
Uncomfortable conversations with a Jew
Acho, Emmanuel
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From two New York Times bestselling authors, a timely, disarmingly honest, and thought-provoking investigation into antisemitism that connects the dots between the tropes and hatred of the past to our current complicated moment.

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