Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jephte’s Daughter | 1988 | Naomi Ragen | Buy |
| 2 | Sotah | 1992 | Naomi Ragen | Buy |
| 3 | A Woman Under Suspicion | 1992 | Naomi Ragen | Buy |
| 4 | The Sacrifice of Tamar | 1994 | Naomi Ragen | Buy |
| 5 | The Ghost of Hannah Mendes | 1998 | Naomi Ragen | Buy |
| 6 | Chains Around the Grass | 2001 | Naomi Ragen | Buy |
| 7 | The Covenant | 2004 | Naomi Ragen | Buy |
| 8 | The Saturday Wife | 2007 | Naomi Ragen | Buy |
| 9 | The Tenth Song | 2010 | Naomi Ragen | Buy |
| 10 | The Sisters Weiss | 2012 | Naomi Ragen | Buy |
| 11 | The Devil in Jerusalem | 2015 | Naomi Ragen | Buy |
| 12 | An Unorthodox Match | 2019 | Naomi Ragen | Buy |
| 13 | An Observant Wife | 2021 | Naomi Ragen | Buy |
| 14 | The Enemy Beside Me | 2023 | Naomi Ragen | Buy |
Naomi Ragen’s fourteen standalone novels span thirty-five years and explore Jewish life from multiple angles. Her early books — Jephte’s Daughter, Sotah, The Sacrifice of Tamar — focus on women trapped by the strictest interpretations of Orthodox Judaism, and they earned Ragen a reputation as a fearless critic of religious patriarchy.
Her middle-period novels like The Ghost of Hannah Mendes and Chains Around the Grass take on broader historical themes while maintaining her interest in Jewish identity and family. More recent books, including The Enemy Beside Me and An Observant Wife, continue to grapple with faith, community, and what it means to be a Jewish woman in a changing world. Ragen’s novels are informed by her own life in Jerusalem and read as both fiction and cultural testimony.