Audiobooks for Jewish Heritage Month
It’s May now and… it’s complicated but Oy sooo much, sooo many to celebrate! The Jewish American experience, the writers (Eeeeeeven if they’ve changed their names... Sidney Sheldon -OR- have decided to support Humanists UK... we’re looking at you, Jon Ronson—and honoring your background mightily!), the stories, the history the world over!
Every week we’ll be adding an audiobook (Or two... or threeeee...?!) to our JHM Library during this Month, tacking on throughout the year as authors, stories come our way.
Have we made any mistakes? Have you any suggestions? Have you any Faves?
Do send me an email, at Gillian@AudiobookAccomplice.com, and your voice shall be heard!
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Jewish Heritage Fiction:
By: Gordon Korman / Narrated By: Sarah Beth Goer, Oliver Wyman, Josh Hurley, Tristan Morris, Chris Gebauer, Sean Welsh Brown, Pete Larkin, Fred Berman, Jennifer Nittoso
Length: 6 hrs
Perfect narration with a lovingly crafted story makes this one an absolute charmer. Bad Day? Listen to this…
Series: Buck Schatz, Book 1
By: Daniel Friedman / Narrated By: Nick Sullivan
Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
Fairly enjoyable Listen, but WHOOPSIE! did I miss the mark on this one, or what?!?
By: Michael Chabon / Narrated By: Chris Andrew Ciulla
Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
Yeh yeh yeh—obviously a first novel, but I liked it quite a bit… so sue me!
Series: Summer of My German Soldier, Book 1
By: Bette Greene / Narrated By: Dale Dickey
Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
Better than the TV flick… sweet… devastating… sweet… devastating
Adapted from the Journals of John H. Watson, M.D.
By: Nicholas Meyer / Narrated By: David Robb, Nicholas Meyer
Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
Not much fun, but enlightening and… disturbing…
A Novel
By: Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, André Aciman / Narrated By: Philip Boehm, Neil Hellegers
Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
Horrifyingly prescient… but verrrry problematic as well…
A Novel
By: David Duchovny / Narrated By: David Duchovny, Tea Leoni
Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
Not Duchovny’s best, but still a good solid Listen, a wildly inventive novel
By: Jean Meltzer / Narrated By: Dara Rosenberg
Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
Dude… Hard-Up for Hanukkah here
By: Joseph Skibell / Narrated By: Allen Lewis Rickman
Length: 7 hrs
Exceptional; just drop dead, or kinda dead, gorgeous
Series: Rabbi Small, Book 1
By: Harry Kemelman / Narrated By: George Guidall
Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
Slow, leisurely pacing, grand character development, excellent narration—What a charmer!
By: Chaim Potok / Narrated By: Jonathan Davis
Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
Understated and slow crafting did NOT have me prepared for a tear-filled ending…!
By: Antonio Iturbe / Translator: Lilit Thwaites / Prologue: Dita Kraus / Narrated by: Marisa Calin
Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
Is it EVER possible to say one Likes a piece of Holocaust fiction/literature…?
By: Alan Gratz / Narrated By: Michael Goldstrom, Kyla Garcia, Assaf Cohen
Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
Definitely a MUST if you wanna raise awareness in kids… Or, heck, in adults
A Modern-Day Dairy Tale
Written and Narrated By: David Duchovny
Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
So sue me! Duchovny’s narration has grown on me with this “udderly” (…groan…) wonderful tale!
A Novel
Written and Narrated By: David Duchovny
Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
What a great book! Laughter, tears, you name it…!
An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
By: Caroline Moorehead / Narrated By: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
Takes a while to get rolling but then picks up speed and never lets go
Joel ben Izzy Spins Hanukkah Tales
Written and Narrated By: Joel ben Izzy
Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
A very short review for a very short and delightful audiobook
By: Liora Barash Morgenstern / Narrated By: J Robin Ward
Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
A philosophy dissertation thaaat… goes nowhere…
Written and Narrated By: Neil Gaiman
Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
You can tell it’s an early effort by Gaiman. But hell! It’s Neil Gaiman for crying out loud, so of COURSE it’s good!
A Novel
By: Heather Morris / Narrated By: Richard Armitage
Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
Hmmm… I didn’t like it, but then I realized it was true, and now I feel all guilty…
By: Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett / Narrated By: Martin Jarvis
Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
Heavenly writing. Wickedly funny!
By: Sharon Kahn / Narrated By: Suzanne Toren
Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
A cozy mystery without mystery, and certainly without coziness
Written and Narrated By: Neil Gaiman
Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
A short masterpiece of fantasy and good old-fashioned horror!
By: Natasha Solomons / Narrated By: Justine Eyre
Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
An emotional journey that I was totally in the mood for!
Jewish Heritage Nonfiction:
American Soldiers' Remarkable Escape from Berga Concentration Camp
By: Mark Felton / Narrated By: Fred Sanders
Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
Pretty good, but Curses! to the Ever-Misleading Publisher’s Summary!!!
Why I'm Better Than You and You're Better Than Someone Who Didn't Buy This Book
Written and Narrated By: Joel Stein
Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
Below? Thoughts and a summation. Not stated: Sudden snorts of laughter, coffee spewed everywhere…
How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift
Written and Narrated By: Steve Leder
Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
BeYONd Lovely
The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor
By: Eddie Jaku / Narrated By: Raphael Corkhill
Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
Less contemplative than Frankl, but oh, that smiling!
The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer
By: Margalit Fox / Narrated By: Peter Forbes
Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
WOW…! That was ONLY 7-hrs and 41-mins…?!
The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
By: Jonathan Kaufman / Narrated By: Joel Richards
Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
Engaging, a real treat!
By: Marilyn Yalom, Irvin D. Yalom / Narrated By: Jim Frangione, Pam Ward
Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
Sooo going against the reviews but: This is what happens when an Existentialist faces death, and it ain’t pretty…
In Spite of Everything
By: Viktor E. Frankl / Introduction By: Daniel Goleman / Narrated By: David Rintoul
Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
Much to my shame, I fell asleep a couple of times but was then whacked sensible by extraordinary affirmations
An Attempted Memoir
Written and Narrated By: H. Jon Benjamin
Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
A Review of Warning for the Faint-Hearted… :)
A Memoir
Written and Narrated By: Alice Cohen
Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
Oy, the crud we choose to hold onto…
Written and Narrated By: Jon Ronson
Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
Deep and fraught; shallow and histrionic: Ronson always, ALWAYS provides a hilarious descent into Hell
A Journey into the Trump Campaign and the "Alt-Right"
Written and Narrated By: Jon Ronson
Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
It’s like this, see: I LOVE Jon Ronson, so I loved this book… even tho’ I was ready to shoot m’self by the end…
By: Helen Fremont / Narrated By: Gabra Zackman
Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
So “unsparing” that Fremont should feel some sense of shame…
Series: Night Trilogy, Book 1
By: Elie Wiesel / Narrated By: George Guidall
Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
As haunting now as it was the first time I read it—so very long ago
Written and Narrated By: Jon Ronson
Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
Not Jon Ronson’s best, but still: Jon Ronson!!!
Written and Narrated By: David Sedaris
Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
Sedaris takes on language, France, America, and drugs. Oh and art! Oh and the Ugly American! Oh and fat! Oh and…!
Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
By: Sue Klebold / Narrated By: Andrew Solomon, Sue Klebold
Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
For Mother’s Day, I’ll try not to be toooo vitriolic about this one…
A Woman Survivor’s True Story of Auschwitz
By: Olga Lengyel / Narrated By: Jennifer Wydra
Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
ANOTHER book that starts off exasperating but ends with a bang!
The Further Adventures of Norton, the Cat Who Went to Paris, and His Human
By: Peter Gethers / Narrated By: David Laundra
Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
Oh man! How I wish my own cats were as inquisitive and mellow as Norton!
A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War
By: Neal Bascomb / Narrated By: LJ Ganser
Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
Little known story of some genuine heroes
The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb
By: Neal Bascomb / Narrated By: Chris Sorensen
Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
Narration rather hinders what is a breathless account
By: Eva Schloss, Evelyn Julia Kent / Narrated By: Ann Richardson
Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
Ultimately uplifting, tho’ it really should have a European narrator
A Journey Through the Madness Industry
Written and Narrated By: Jon Ronson
Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
Ronson’s hilarious take on psychopathology
The Holocaust:
A Novel
By: Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, André Aciman / Narrated By: Philip Boehm, Neil Hellegers
Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
Horrifyingly prescient… but verrrry problematic as well…
In Spite of Everything
By: Viktor E. Frankl / Introduction By: Daniel Goleman / Narrated By: David Rintoul
Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
Much to my shame, I fell asleep a couple of times but was then whacked sensible by extraordinary affirmations
By: Joseph Skibell / Narrated By: Allen Lewis Rickman
Length: 7 hrs
Exceptional; just drop dead, or kinda dead, gorgeous
By: Antonio Iturbe / Translator: Lilit Thwaites / Prologue: Dita Kraus / Narrated by: Marisa Calin
Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
Is it EVER possible to say one Likes a piece of Holocaust fiction/literature…?
By: Alan Gratz / Narrated By: Michael Goldstrom, Kyla Garcia, Assaf Cohen
Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
Definitely a MUST if you wanna raise awareness in kids… Or, heck, in adults
An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
By: Caroline Moorehead / Narrated By: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
Takes a while to get rolling but then picks up speed and never lets go
Series: Night Trilogy, Book 1
By: Elie Wiesel / Narrated By: George Guidall
Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
As haunting now as it was the first time I read it—so very long ago
A Novel
By: Heather Morris / Narrated By: Richard Armitage
Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
Hmmm… I didn’t like it, but then I realized it was true, and now I feel all guilty…
A Woman Survivor’s True Story of Auschwitz
By: Olga Lengyel / Narrated By: Jennifer Wydra
Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
ANOTHER book that starts off exasperating but ends with a bang!
By: Eva Schloss, Evelyn Julia Kent / Narrated By: Ann Richardson
Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
Ultimately uplifting, tho’ it really should have a European narrator