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Historical Fiction

	*Rosedale in Love* (2011; reissued with a new Foreword and Afterword by the author, 2020) Written in a period voice, Rosedale in Love audaciously revisions Edith Wharton's beloved classic The House of Mirth, offering readers a timeless American story of greed, envy, scandal, love and revenge. "Lev Raphael has done his homework in this extremely well-written novel, and includes history and current events of the time period that completely immerse the reader in a world of spectacle, ceremony, gossip and intrigue that makes the era, and the characters, come alive." —Cynthia Darling, indiereader.com Read more about this book - Watch the book trailer Buy it for Kindle, Nook or iBook

	Pride and Prejudice: The Jewess and the Gentile (2011) What happens to pride and what happens to prejudice when Lizzy Bennet's family struggles with being Jewish in a society that looks down on them? Find out in this comic, loving mash-up. Read more about this book Buy it for Kindle or Nook

	The Vampyre of Gotham (2012) Grief-stricken by his wife's untimely death, a wealthy New York banker turns to sexual abandon in the bordellos of 1907 New York. Then one fateful night, after a mysterious attack, he dies to his old life and is reborn a Vampyre. Once obsessed solely with making money and social advancement, he's now driven by a new, perverse hunger for blood. Written in a period voice, this deeply erotic work takes us into dark corners of the psyche as it explores a secret world of power and obsession. Read more about this book Buy it for Kindle or Nook

Fiction

	*Winter Eyes* (St. Martin's Press, 1992; reissued with the "lost" prologue, 2010) The author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning Dancing on Tisha B'av now offers a haunting, remarkable novel about secrets, silence, and revelations—a tale of the terror of the past that controls and divides an immigrant family, most notably from their American-born son... Read more about this book Buy it for Kindle or Nook

	Secret Anniversaries of the Heart: New and Selected Stories (Leapfrog Press, January 2006) In a collection that encompasses over twenty-five years of his award-winning stories, Lev Raphael proves himself a visionary like James Baldwin, and shares Anita Brookner's gift for dramatizing the pain of seemingly quiet lives in stories that are both passionate and precise. Read more about this book Buy it for Kindle or Nook

	The German Money (Leapfrog Press, 2003) Part mystery, part family saga, a new novel in which the problems of a contemporary Jewish family find their roots in the unspeakable secrets of holocaust survivors... Read more about this book Buy it for Kindle or Nook A BookSense 76 pick

	Criminal Kabbalah: An Intriguing Anthology of Jewish Mystery and Detective Fiction (Jewish Lights, 2001) A short story with a second-generation theme by Lev Raphael, "Your Papers, Please," is included in this anthology of Jewish mystery stories.

	Dancing on Tisha B'Av (St. Martin's Press, 1990) Winner of the 1990 Lambda Literary Award "His characters are voices of reason, observers rather than judges... The prose is poetic in its simplicity." —Los Angeles Times Read more about this book

	*Promised Lands* (Brandeis University Press, October 2010) Includes a story about fear, ambivalence and Jewish identity written expressly for the anthology. Buy it for Kindle or Nook

	"Light in Munich" (Agape Review, 2022) In his short story, “Light in Munich,” Lev Raphael depicts a traveler arriving at a surprising, sacred destination. Read the story

	"Revelation" (Foreshadow, 2022) A writer finds his story struggling to make sense of a spiritual experience. Read the story

	"Lost in London" (Bewildering Stories, 2023) A Michigan professor of English literature leading a study-abroad group finds himself haunted. Read the story

	"The Poet With the Crazy Eyes" (Forthcoming in the Winter 2024/2025 Calliope)