Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In the Land of Israel | 1982 | Amos Oz | Buy |
| 2 | Israeli Literature | 1985 | Amos Oz | Buy |
| 3 | The Slopes Of Lebanon | 1987 | Amos Oz | Buy |
| 4 | The Silence of Heaven: Agnon’s Fear of God | 1993 | Amos Oz | Buy |
| 5 | The Tanner Lectures on Human Values | 1994 | Amos Oz | Buy |
| 6 | Israel, Palestine and Peace | 1995 | Amos Oz | Buy |
| 7 | The Story Begins: Essays on Literature | 1996 | Amos Oz | Buy |
| 8 | How to Cure a Fanatic | 2002 | Amos Oz | Buy |
| 9 | Help Us To Divorce | 2003 | Amos Oz | Buy |
| 10 | Dear Zealots | 2017 | Amos Oz | Buy |
| 11 | What Makes an Apple? | 2022 | Amos Oz | Buy |
Oz’s nonfiction is inseparable from his fiction in one important sense: both are driven by the same moral intelligence and the same conviction that understanding other people’s inner lives is a political as well as a literary act. In the Land of Israel (1982), based on a tour of the country in which he interviewed Jews and Arabs from many different backgrounds, remains one of the most honest portraits of Israeli society produced in that era.
His later essays, collected in Dear Zealots (2017), address the rise of religious and nationalist extremism with the clarity of a writer who has been thinking about these problems for fifty years. A History of God it is not, but Oz is not writing theology — he is writing from the inside of a conflict he lived with every day. What Makes an Apple? (2022) appeared posthumously and shows the warmth and reflectiveness of his final years.