Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elsewhere, Perhaps | 1966 | Amos Oz | Buy |
| 2 | My Michael | 1968 | Amos Oz | Buy |
| 3 | Touch the Water, Touch the Wind | 1974 | Amos Oz | Buy |
| 4 | Soumchi | 1980 | Amos Oz | Buy |
| 5 | A Perfect Peace | 1982 | Amos Oz | Buy |
| 6 | Black Box | 1986 | Amos Oz | Buy |
| 7 | To Know a Woman | 1989 | Amos Oz | Buy |
| 8 | Fima | 1991 | Amos Oz | Buy |
| 9 | Under This Blazing Light | 1995 | Amos Oz | Buy |
| 10 | Don’t Call It Night | 1996 | Amos Oz | Buy |
| 11 | Panther in the Basement | 1997 | Amos Oz | Buy |
| 12 | The Same Sea | 2001 | Amos Oz | Buy |
| 13 | A Tale of Love and Darkness | 2004 | Amos Oz | Buy |
| 14 | Rhyming Life and Death | 2009 | Amos Oz | Buy |
| 15 | Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest | 2010 | Amos Oz | Buy |
| 16 | Between Friends | 2013 | Amos Oz | Buy |
| 17 | Judas | 2014 | Amos Oz | Buy |
Amos Oz’s standalone novels cover the full range of Israeli experience: the kibbutz, Jerusalem, the Six-Day War, the peace movement, biblical history, and the texture of everyday domestic life. His early novels like My Michael (1968) and Touch the Water, Touch the Wind (1974) have a lyrical intensity. Later books such as Black Box (1986), an epistolary novel about a failed marriage, and Don’t Call It Night (1996) move toward a more austere prose.
A Tale of Love and Darkness (2004) stands apart as his single most important book — part memoir, part social history of Mandate Palestine and the early state of Israel, part meditation on his mother’s depression and death. It brought him new readers worldwide who had not encountered his fiction. Judas (2014) was his final novel, a theological and political meditation set in Jerusalem in the 1950s. The full arc of the seventeen books shows a writer consistently willing to test his own assumptions about the country he both loved and argued with.