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Amos Oz Books in Order

34 books are credited to Amos Oz, published between 1965 and 2022; 1 of them appeared after Amos Oz's death in 2018. The first book is Where the Jackals Howl (1965) and the newest is What Makes an Apple? (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
34
Published
1965–2022
Pages on record
6,964 in 32 of 34 books
Reading time
116–174 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 6,964 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 32 of 34 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Amos Oz, author

Amos Oz, born Amos Klausner on 4 May 1939 and dead on 28 December 2018, was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual, and a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 1967 onward Oz argued publicly for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Forty books carry the name, across novels, short story collections, children's books and essays, and the work has been published in 45 languages, more than that of any other Israeli writer. This listing holds 34 of them, from Where the Jackals Howl (1965) to What Makes an Apple? (2022), with Fania Oz-Salzberger sharing the credit on one title.

How many Amos Oz books are there?

Amos Oz has 34 books, released between 1965 and 2022. 1 of them were published after Amos Oz's death in 2018.

Amos Oz Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 34 Amos Oz 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.

  1. Cover of Where the Jackals Howl by Amos Oz (1965)
  2. Cover of Elsewhere, Perhaps by Amos Oz (1966)
  3. Cover of My Michael by Amos Oz (1968)
  4. Cover of Touch the Water, Touch the Wind by Amos Oz (1974)
  5. Cover of Soumchi by Amos Oz (1980)
  6. Cover of Black Box by Amos Oz (1986)
  7. Cover of To Know a Woman by Amos Oz (1989)
  8. Cover of Fima by Amos Oz (1991)
  9. Cover of Israel, Palestine and Peace by Amos Oz (1995)
  10. Cover of Under This Blazing Light by Amos Oz (1995)
  11. Cover of The Story Begins: Essays on Literature by Amos Oz (1996)
  12. Cover of Don't Call It Night by Amos Oz (1996)
  13. Cover of Panther in the Basement by Amos Oz (1997)
  14. Cover of The Same Sea by Amos Oz (2001)
  15. Cover of How to Cure a Fanatic by Amos Oz (2002)
  16. Cover of A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz (2004)
  17. Cover of The Amos Oz Reader by Amos Oz (2009)
  18. Cover of Rhyming Life and Death by Amos Oz (2009)
  19. Cover of Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest by Amos Oz (2010)
  20. Cover of Scenes from Village Life by Amos Oz (2011)
  21. Cover of Between Friends by Amos Oz (2013)
  22. Cover of Judas by Amos Oz (2014)
  23. Cover of What Makes an Apple? by Amos Oz (2022)
  1. 1
    Where the Jackals Howl1965 · 217 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1965217
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  2. 2
    Elsewhere, Perhaps1966 · 324 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1966324
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  3. 3
    My Michael1968 · 253 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1968253
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  4. 4
    Unto Death1969 · 176 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1969176
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  5. 5
    Touch the Water, Touch the Wind1974 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1974160
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  6. 6
    The Hill of Evil Counsel1976 · 210 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1976210
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  7. 7
    Soumchi1980 · 71 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198071
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  8. 8
    In the Land of Israel1982 · 275 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1982275
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  9. 9
    A Perfect Peace1982 · confirmed 1/4
    1982–
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  10. 10
    Israeli Literature1985 · 18 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198518
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  11. 11
    Black Box1986 · 259 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1986259
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  12. 12
    The Slopes Of Lebanon1987 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1987240
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  13. 13
    To Know a Woman1989 · 264 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1989264
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  14. 14
    Fima1991 · 322 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1991322
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  15. 15
    The Silence of Heaven: Agnon's Fear of God1993 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1993304
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  16. 16
    The Tanner Lectures on Human Values1994 · 400 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1994400
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  17. 17
    Israel, Palestine and Peace1995 · 129 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1995129
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  18. 18
    Under This Blazing Light1995 · 205 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1995205
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  19. 19
    The Story Begins: Essays on Literature1996 · 118 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1996118
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  20. 20
    Don't Call It Night1996 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1996208
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  21. 21
    Panther in the Basement1997 · 122 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1997122
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  22. 22
    The Same Sea2001 · 216 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001216
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  23. 23
    How to Cure a Fanatic2002 · 95 pages · confirmed 1/4
    200295
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  24. 24
    Help Us To Divorce2003 · 64 pages · confirmed 1/4
    200364
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  25. 25
    A Tale of Love and Darkness2004 · 560 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004560
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  26. 26
    The Amos Oz Reader2009 · 392 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2009392
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  27. 27
    Rhyming Life and Death2009 · 117 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2009117
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  28. 28
    Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest2010 · 137 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2010137
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  29. 29
    Scenes from Village Life2011 · 182 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011182
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  30. 30
    Jews and WordsPosen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization #12012 · 248 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2012248
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  31. 31
    Between Friends2013 · 198 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013198
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  32. 32
    Judas2014 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014320
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  33. 33
    Dear Zealots2017 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017160
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  34. 34
    What Makes an Apple?2022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022–
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Amos Oz 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.

Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization in order

1 book
  1. 1. Jews and Words

Standalone books

33 books

33 Amos Oz titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Amos Oz books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 34 Amos Oz books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Amos Oz

Start with Where the Jackals Howl (1965), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Amos Oz book?

What Makes an Apple? (2022) is the newest Amos Oz book released so far.

Is there a new Amos Oz book coming?

No next Amos Oz book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Awards Amos Oz has won

Wikidata records 14 awards and 2 nominations for Amos Oz. The most recent 12 are listed here. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Siegfried Lenz Prize2014Won
  • Franz Kafka Prize2013Won
  • Newman Prize2013Won
  • Siegfried Unseld Preis2010Won
  • Stefan Heym International Award2008Won
  • Heinrich Heine Prize2008Won
  • Princess of Asturias Literary Prize2007Won
  • Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt2005Won
  • Prix France-Culture de littérature étrangère2004Won
  • Prix Femina étranger1988Won
  • Bialik Prize1986Won
  • Bernstein Prize1983Won

Amos Oz at a glance

Died
Amos Oz died in 2018, according to Wikidata.
After death
Books credited to Amos Oz are still being published after Amos Oz's death in 2018; the newest appeared in 2022.
Release pace
Amos Oz books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
6,964 pages across the 32 of 34 books with a recorded length, a median of 209 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Amos Oz books, 8 of 34, were published in the 1990s.

What the Amos Oz books are about

32 of the 34 Amos Oz books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: arab-israeli conflict is tagged on 5 of 32. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Arab-Israeli conflict 5 of 32 books
  • Israel 5 of 32 books
  • Israeli Authors 5 of 32 books
  • Authors, Israeli 4 of 32 books
  • Hebrew Short stories 4 of 32 books
  • History and criticism 4 of 32 books
  • Jerusalem 4 of 32 books
  • Jews 4 of 32 books
  • Fanaticism 3 of 32 books
  • Politics and government 3 of 32 books
  • Social life and customs 3 of 32 books
  • Arab-Israeli conflict, -- 1993- 2 of 32 books