Anita Diamant Books in Order
Anita Diamant has written 21 books, published between 1986 and 2021. The first book is How to Find and Work with a Literary Agent (1986) and the newest is Period. End of Sentence (2021). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 21
- Published
- 1986–2021
- Confirmed
- 1 of 21 titles
- Pages on record
- 4,724 in 18 of 21 books
- Reading time
- 79–118 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,724 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 18 of 21 titles with a page count on record.
Anita Diamant is an American journalist and author of fiction and nonfiction, born June 27, 1951. The Red Tent (1997) became a best seller and a book club favourite, and The Boston Girl, the most recent of five Diamant novels, reached the New York Times best seller list. Diamant has also written six guides to contemporary Jewish practice, such as Living a Jewish Life, plus the essay collection Pitching My Tent. The catalogue lists 21 books from How to Find and Work with a Literary Agent (1986) to Period. End of Sentence (2021), with tags for Judaism, Jewish weddings and baby names.
How many Anita Diamant books are there?
Anita Diamant has 21 books, released between 1986 and 2021.
Anita Diamant Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 21 Anita Diamant books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1How to Find and Work with a Literary Agent1986 · confirmed 2/41986–2/4
- 2New Jewish Wedding1986 · 270 pages · confirmed 2/419862702/4
- 3The Jewish Baby Book1988 · 268 pages · confirmed 2/419882682/4
- 4What to Name Your Jewish Baby1989 · 117 pages · confirmed 2/419891172/4
- 5Living a Jewish Life1991 · 308 pages · confirmed 2/419913082/4
- 6The New Jewish Baby Book1993 · 277 pages · confirmed 2/419932772/4
- 7Bible Baby Names1996 · 123 pages · confirmed 2/419961232/4
- 8The Red Tent1997 · 321 pages · confirmed 2/419973212/4
- 9Choosing a Jewish Life1998 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/419983202/4
- 10Saying Kaddish1998 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/419982882/4
- 11How to Be a Jewish Parent2000 · 291 pages · confirmed 2/420002912/4
- 12Good Harbor2001 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/420012562/4
- 13Pitching My Tent2003 · 240 pages · confirmed 2/420032402/4
- 14The Last Days of Dogtown2005 · 263 pages · confirmed 2/420052632/4
- 15How to Raise a Jewish Child2008 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/420083202/4
- 16Day After Night2009 · 294 pages · confirmed 2/420092942/4
- 17The Boston Girl2014 · 336 pages · confirmed 2/420143362/4
- 182016–3/4
- 19Life and Death in the Nursery2016 · confirmed 2/42016–2/4
- 20The Jewish Wedding Now2017 · 224 pages · confirmed 2/420172242/4
- 21Period. End of Sentence2021 · 208 pages · confirmed 2/420212082/4
Anita Diamant books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Instaread Summary in order
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20 books20 Anita Diamant titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Anita Diamant books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 21 Anita Diamant books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Anita Diamant
Start with How to Find and Work with a Literary Agent (1986), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Anita Diamant book?
Period. End of Sentence (2021) is the newest Anita Diamant book released so far.
Is there a new Anita Diamant book coming?
No next Anita Diamant book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Anita Diamant at a glance
- Paused
- No new Anita Diamant title has appeared for 5 years. The last was published in 2021.
- Release pace
- Anita Diamant books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 4,724 pages across the 18 of 21 books with a recorded length, a median of 274 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Anita Diamant books, 6 of 21, were published in the 2000s.
What the Anita Diamant books are about
18 of the 21 Anita Diamant books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: judaism is tagged on 8 of 18. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Judaism 8 of 18 books
- Customs and practices 3 of 18 books
- History 3 of 18 books
- Jewish 3 of 18 books
- Jewish women 3 of 18 books
- Jews 3 of 18 books
- Personal Names 3 of 18 books
- Baby books 2 of 18 books
- Berit milah 2 of 18 books
- Child rearing 2 of 18 books
- Dictionaries 2 of 18 books
- Fasts and feasts 2 of 18 books