Jewish Books That Aren't Depressing

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The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1) 4.13 avg rating — 129,521 ratings
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The Meyersons of Meryton
The Meyersons of Meryton 4.06 avg rating — 117 ratings
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The Rabbi's Cat (The Rabbi's Cat, #1-3)
The Rabbi's Cat (The Rabbi's Cat, #1-3) 4.06 avg rating — 7,186 ratings
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Becoming Malka
Becoming Malka 4.30 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins
Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins 4.32 avg rating — 3,337 ratings
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Joheved (Rashi’s Daughters #1)
Joheved (Rashi’s Daughters #1) 3.98 avg rating — 3,844 ratings
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Destiny by Design- Leah's Journey
Destiny by Design- Leah's Journey 4.28 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Miriam (Rashi’s Daughters #2)
Miriam (Rashi’s Daughters #2) 4.03 avg rating — 1,947 ratings
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Celestial Persuasion
Celestial Persuasion 4.54 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Matchmaker's Gift
The Matchmaker's Gift 4.15 avg rating — 22,174 ratings
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An Open Heart
An Open Heart 3.92 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Torah Told Different: Stories for a Pan/Poly/Post-Denominational World
Torah Told Different: Stories for a Pan/Poly/Post-Denominational World 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Jews of Donwell Abbey: An Emma Vagary
The Jews of Donwell Abbey: An Emma Vagary 4.50 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Look to the Stars
Look to the Stars 3.44 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Fragments of the Brooklyn Talmud
Fragments of the Brooklyn Talmud 4.56 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story
The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story 4.15 avg rating — 2,973 ratings
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The Queen's Fool (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #13)
The Queen's Fool (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #13) 3.88 avg rating — 99,890 ratings
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Rebel Daughter
Rebel Daughter 4.13 avg rating — 966 ratings
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Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories
Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories 4.18 avg rating — 1,481 ratings
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Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories
Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories 3.94 avg rating — 883 ratings
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The Second Mango (Mangoverse, #1)
The Second Mango (Mangoverse, #1) 3.70 avg rating — 827 ratings
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Neurotica: Jewish Writers on Sex
Neurotica: Jewish Writers on Sex 3.32 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Threads of the Covenant : The Jews of Red Jacket
Threads of the Covenant : The Jews of Red Jacket 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Small Town Is a World: The "Rabbi Stories" of David Kossoff
Small Town Is a World: The "Rabbi Stories" of David Kossoff 4.07 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Anarchist Kosher Cookbook
The Anarchist Kosher Cookbook 3.95 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Leper Messiah
The Leper Messiah
by: R.M. L.
4.62 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Reflecting on the Rabbis: Sage Insight into First-Century Jewish Thought
Reflecting on the Rabbis: Sage Insight into First-Century Jewish Thought it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Thong of Thongs: 69 Sexy Jewish Stories
Thong of Thongs: 69 Sexy Jewish Stories 3.42 avg rating — 12 ratings
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El salón de los artistas exiliados en California: Salka Viertel acogió en su exilio a actores, intelectuales prominentes y personas anónimas huidas del nazismo
El salón de los artistas exiliados en California: Salka Viertel acogió en su exilio a actores, intelectuales prominentes y personas anónimas huidas del nazismo 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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At the End of the World, Turn Left
At the End of the World, Turn Left 3.52 avg rating — 332 ratings
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Escaping the Whale: The Holocaust is over. But is it ever over for the next generation?
Escaping the Whale: The Holocaust is over. But is it ever over for the next generation? 4.04 avg rating — 53 ratings
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The Holy Land
The Holy Land 3.10 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Whale Surfaces: Prequel to Escaping The Whale
The Whale Surfaces: Prequel to Escaping The Whale 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Sailor's Delight
Sailor's Delight 3.95 avg rating — 428 ratings
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Naomi Teitelbaum Ends the World
Naomi Teitelbaum Ends the World 4.18 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Betty Friedan and the Making of "The Feminine Mystique": The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism
Betty Friedan and the Making of "The Feminine Mystique": The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism 3.68 avg rating — 72 ratings
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The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels
The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels 3.87 avg rating — 5,054 ratings
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Without Feathers
Without Feathers 3.90 avg rating — 10,469 ratings
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Safekeeping
Safekeeping 3.64 avg rating — 2,795 ratings
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The Shocking Adventures of Jewish Lightning #1 The San Francisco Snatch
The Shocking Adventures of Jewish Lightning #1 The San Francisco Snatch really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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A Bunch of Jews
A Bunch of Jews 3.70 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000: The Book
The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000: The Book 3.77 avg rating — 202 ratings
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Ellen Outside the Lines
Ellen Outside the Lines
by: A.J. Sass
4.33 avg rating — 1,339 ratings
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Mr. Perfect on Paper
Mr. Perfect on Paper 3.74 avg rating — 6,087 ratings
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Children of the Book: A Memoir of Reading Together
Children of the Book: A Memoir of Reading Together 4.18 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Solomon Gursky Was Here
Solomon Gursky Was Here 3.98 avg rating — 3,142 ratings
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My Basmati Bat Mitzvah
My Basmati Bat Mitzvah 3.73 avg rating — 741 ratings
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Picture Stories From The Bible: The Old Testament in Comic-Strip Form
Picture Stories From The Bible: The Old Testament in Comic-Strip Form really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Scapegoated
Scapegoated 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Meet Rebecca (American Girls: Rebecca, #1)
Meet Rebecca (American Girls: Rebecca, #1) 4.02 avg rating — 3,178 ratings
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Suddenly, a Knock on the Door
Suddenly, a Knock on the Door 3.92 avg rating — 7,970 ratings
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Chelm for the Holidays
Chelm for the Holidays 4.03 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Rebecca and the Movies (American Girls: Rebecca, #4)
Rebecca and the Movies (American Girls: Rebecca, #4) 4.03 avg rating — 1,489 ratings
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Goliath as Gentle Giant: Sympathetic Portrayals in Popular Culture
Goliath as Gentle Giant: Sympathetic Portrayals in Popular Culture 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Rachel (Rashi’s Daughters #3)
Rachel (Rashi’s Daughters #3) 4.01 avg rating — 1,352 ratings
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More Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Outstanding Stories of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction
More Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Outstanding Stories of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction
by: Jack Dann
3.64 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Rebecca and Ana (American Girls: Rebecca, #2)
Rebecca and Ana (American Girls: Rebecca, #2) 4.06 avg rating — 1,575 ratings
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The Spell of Time: A Tale of Love in Jerusalem
The Spell of Time: A Tale of Love in Jerusalem 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Apprentice (Rav Hisda's Daughter #1)
Apprentice (Rav Hisda's Daughter #1) 4.06 avg rating — 798 ratings
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Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1945: Immigrants in the Golden Age
Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1945: Immigrants in the Golden Age 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Candlelight for Rebecca (American Girls: Rebecca, #3)
Candlelight for Rebecca (American Girls: Rebecca, #3) 4.04 avg rating — 1,544 ratings
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Star Trek: Creative Couplings, Book 1 (Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers 47)
Star Trek: Creative Couplings, Book 1 (Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers 47) 3.71 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Enchantress (Rav Hisda's Daughter, #2)
Enchantress (Rav Hisda's Daughter, #2) 3.97 avg rating — 460 ratings
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People of the Book: A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction & Fantasy
People of the Book: A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction & Fantasy 3.81 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Rebecca to the Rescue (American Girls: Rebecca, #5)
Rebecca to the Rescue (American Girls: Rebecca, #5) 3.99 avg rating — 1,205 ratings
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Short Stories: Collected Works of A.M. Klein
Short Stories: Collected Works of A.M. Klein really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Fifty Shades of Talmud: What the First Rabbis Had to Say about You-Know-What
Fifty Shades of Talmud: What the First Rabbis Had to Say about You-Know-What 3.81 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction
Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction
by: Jack Dann
3.70 avg rating — 236 ratings
67.
Changes for Rebecca (American Girls: Rebecca, #6)
Changes for Rebecca (American Girls: Rebecca, #6) 3.99 avg rating — 1,187 ratings
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The Magicians of Night (Sun-Cross, #2)
The Magicians of Night (Sun-Cross, #2) 3.72 avg rating — 527 ratings
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The Stars of David: Jewish Science Fiction, Vol. 1
The Stars of David: Jewish Science Fiction, Vol. 1 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Kalyna the Soothsayer (Failures of Four Kingdoms, #1)
Kalyna the Soothsayer (Failures of Four Kingdoms, #1) 3.60 avg rating — 291 ratings
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The Jewish Collection, Science Fiction Romance/Fantasy Volume Two
The Jewish Collection, Science Fiction Romance/Fantasy Volume Two 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Bookman Histories (The Bookman Histories, #1-3)
The Bookman Histories (The Bookman Histories, #1-3) 3.66 avg rating — 146 ratings
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Queering the Text: Biblical, Medieval, and Modern Jewish Stories
Queering the Text: Biblical, Medieval, and Modern Jewish Stories 4.38 avg rating — 21 ratings
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How Mirka Met a Meteorite
How Mirka Met a Meteorite 3.87 avg rating — 3,389 ratings
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The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon (The Sephardic Cycle, #1)
The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon (The Sephardic Cycle, #1) 3.86 avg rating — 4,292 ratings
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The Red Tent
The Red Tent 4.20 avg rating — 623,978 ratings
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Zion's Fiction: A Treasury of Israeli Speculative Literature
Zion's Fiction: A Treasury of Israeli Speculative Literature 3.66 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Torah Codes
The Torah Codes 3.45 avg rating — 188 ratings
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My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew
My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew 4.05 avg rating — 915 ratings
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A Ceiling Made of Eggshells
A Ceiling Made of Eggshells 3.72 avg rating — 960 ratings
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How Good Do We Have to Be? A New Understanding of Guilt and Forgiveness
How Good Do We Have to Be? A New Understanding of Guilt and Forgiveness 4.05 avg rating — 1,078 ratings
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The Cardinal's Snuffbox
The Cardinal's Snuffbox 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Eternal Life
Eternal Life
by: Dara Horn
3.80 avg rating — 6,614 ratings
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A Shout in the Sunshine
A Shout in the Sunshine 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Mystery Midrash: An Anthology of Jewish Mystery & Detective Fiction
Mystery Midrash: An Anthology of Jewish Mystery & Detective Fiction 3.42 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Shlemazel and the Remarkable Spoon of Pohost
Shlemazel and the Remarkable Spoon of Pohost 4.20 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Milk and Honey: A Year of Jewish Holidays
Milk and Honey: A Year of Jewish Holidays 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Power to Yield and Other Stories
Power to Yield and Other Stories 4.26 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Einstein and the Rabbi: Searching for the Soul
Einstein and the Rabbi: Searching for the Soul 4.27 avg rating — 1,132 ratings
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The Way Back
The Way Back 3.67 avg rating — 1,300 ratings
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Friday the Rabbi Slept Late (The Rabbi Small Mysteries, #1)
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late (The Rabbi Small Mysteries, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 8,506 ratings
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Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion
Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion 4.15 avg rating — 502 ratings
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The Radical Element (A Tyranny of Petticoats, #2)
The Radical Element (A Tyranny of Petticoats, #2) 3.75 avg rating — 1,025 ratings
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The Ninth Day (The Blue Thread Saga)
The Ninth Day (The Blue Thread Saga) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Vulcan's Forge
Vulcan's Forge 3.89 avg rating — 1,224 ratings
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The Grail of Hearts
The Grail of Hearts 3.29 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Shards of Empire (Shards of Empire, #1)
Shards of Empire (Shards of Empire, #1) 3.41 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Trouble with Good Ideas
The Trouble with Good Ideas 4.02 avg rating — 105 ratings
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