Canongate’s The Myths Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| A Short History of Myth | 2004 | Buy |
| The Myths | 2005 | N/A |
| Lion’s Honey: The Myth of Samson | 2005 | Buy |
| The Penelopiad | 2005 | Buy |
| The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur | 2005 | N/A |
| Weight | 2005 | Buy |
| Lion’s Honey | 2005 | N/A |
| The Helmet of Horror | 2005 | Buy |
| Where Three Roads Meet | 2005 | Buy |
| Dream Angus | 2006 | N/A |
| Anna In w grobowcach świata | 2006 | N/A |
| Baba Yaga Laid an Egg | 2007 | Buy |
| Binu and the Great Wall | 2006 | Buy |
| The Goddess Chronicle | 2013 | Buy |
| Where Three Roads Meet: The Myth of Oedipus | 2005 | N/A |
| O Conto da Deusa | 2008 | N/A |
| Orphans of Eldorado | 2008 | N/A |
| The Hurricane Party | 2007 | N/A |
| The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ | 2009 | N/A |
| Ragnarök | 2011 | N/A |
| The Song of King Gesar | 2013 | N/A |
Non-Fiction
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Yellow Wind | 1987 | Buy |
| Sleeping on a Wire | 1992 | Buy |
| Death as a Way of Life | 2003 | Buy |
| Writing in the Dark | 2008 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Duel | 1982 | Buy |
| The Smile of the Lamb | 1983 | Buy |
| See Under: Love | 1986 | Buy |
| Be My Knife | 1988 | Buy |
| The Book of Intimate Grammar | 1991 | Buy |
| The Zig Zag Kid | 1994 | Buy |
| Someone to Run With | 2000 | Buy |
| To the End of the Land | 2008 | Buy |
| Falling Out of Time | 2014 | Buy |
| A Horse Walks into a Bar | 2016 | Buy |
| More Than I Love My Life | 2021 | Buy |
David Grossman was born in Jerusalem in 1954. He studied philosophy and theater at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and spent nearly 25 years working for the Israel Broadcasting Authority, first as a child actor and later as a journalist and broadcaster. His first novel was published in 1983, and he has been one of the most prominent voices in Israeli literature ever since.
His fiction covers a wide range: novels for children and adults, realistic drama, fabulist narrative, and genre-crossing experiments. Several of his books deal with the Holocaust and its legacy in Israeli life; others focus on childhood, adolescence, and the weight of what families pass down. His 2008 novel To the End of the Land, written in part while his son Uri was serving in the Israeli army, deals with a mother’s attempt to outrun the news of her son’s death. Uri was killed on the last day of the 2006 Lebanon War, before the book was finished.
Grossman is also a prominent public intellectual and peace activist. His non-fiction, including The Yellow Wind (1987) and Sleeping on a Wire (1992), brought the experiences of Palestinians living under occupation and inside Israel’s borders to readers around the world, and both books remain widely read.