Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Duel | 1982 | David Grossman | Buy |
| 2 | The Smile of the Lamb | 1983 | David Grossman | Buy |
| 3 | See Under: Love | 1986 | David Grossman | Buy |
| 4 | Be My Knife | 1988 | David Grossman | Buy |
| 5 | The Book of Intimate Grammar | 1991 | David Grossman | Buy |
| 6 | The Zig Zag Kid | 1994 | David Grossman | Buy |
| 7 | Someone to Run With | 2000 | David Grossman | Buy |
| 8 | To the End of the Land | 2008 | David Grossman | Buy |
| 9 | Falling Out of Time | 2014 | David Grossman | Buy |
| 10 | A Horse Walks into a Bar | 2016 | David Grossman | Buy |
| 11 | More Than I Love My Life | 2021 | David Grossman | Buy |
Grossman published his first novel, Duel, in 1982, and his second, The Smile of the Lamb, in 1983, a novel set in the occupied territories that anticipated many of the debates that would dominate Israeli society for the following four decades. See Under: Love (1986) brought him international recognition with its formally daring treatment of the Holocaust and the children of survivors.
His fiction from the 1990s includes The Book of Intimate Grammar (1991), which follows an adolescent boy through 1960s Jerusalem as he finds language inadequate to everything happening around him, and The Zig Zag Kid (1994), a more playful novel about identity and family. More recent work includes To the End of the Land (2008), a long novel built around a mother’s walk through the Galilee while her son fights in Lebanon, and Falling Out of Time (2014), a genre-defying work about parental grief written after the death of Grossman’s son Uri.
A Horse Walks into a Bar (2017) won the Man Booker International Prize. Set in a single evening at a comedy club in the Israeli city of Netanya, it follows a stand-up comedian as his performance collapses into a raw account of a choice he made as a boy. More Than I Love My Life (2021), his most recent novel, continues his exploration of how violence and trauma cross generations.