Abraham, Pearl.The Romance Reader.Riverhead Books, 1995.
The Romance Reader is a coming-of-age story about the bonds of family and religion within the Hasidic community juxtaposed with the desire for independence. Rachel Benjamin is the eldest daughter of a strict rabbi. She defies the rules set by her family and religion, applying for a library card so she can read her romance novels. Rachel dreams of being one of the heroines in her novels, but reality has her lined up with an impending arranged marriage. Will she remain within the Hasidic community or abandon it for a different world?

Diamant, Anita.The Boston Girl.Scribner Book Company, 2014.
Addie Baum is born in 1900 to immigrant Jewish parents in Boston. The story begins when her twenty-two year old granddaughter asks, “How did you get to be the woman you are today?” Addie describes coming of age in a time when the role of women was drastically different than it is today.

Ragen, Naomi.The Sisters Weiss.St. Martin’s Press, 2013.
In 1950's Brooklyn, sisters Rose and Pearl Weiss grow up in a loving but strict ultra-Orthodox family, never dreaming of defying their parents or their community's unbending and intrusive demands. Then, a chance meeting with a young French immigrant turns Rose's world upside down, its once bearable strictures suddenly tightening like a noose around her neck. In rebellion, she begins to live a secret life—a life that shocks her parents when it is discovered.

Rich, Roberta.The Midwife of Venice. Simon and Schuster, 2012.
Hannah Levi is renowned throughout Venice for her gift at coaxing reluctant babies from their mothers using her secret “birthing spoons.” When a count implores her to attend his dying wife and save their unborn son, she is torn. A Papal edict forbids Jews from rendering medical treatment to Christians, but his payment is enough to ransom her husband Isaac, who has been captured at sea. Can she refuse her duty to a woman who is suffering?