Etgar Keret Books in Order

After dying by suicide, a young man lands in an afterlife populated by others who made the same choice. When he learns his girlfriend may be somewhere in this shabby next world, he sets off on a strange, sad, and darkly comic search.

When their father disappears to join the circus, two children narrate the mix of worry, wonder, and hurt he leaves behind. The picture book turns family disruption into something funny, bittersweet, and oddly hopeful.

This early English collection gathers Keret's brief, darkly funny stories alongside the novella Kneller's Happy Campers. Everyday frustration, desire, violence, and absurdity keep colliding in pieces that move fast and leave a sting behind.

This joint volume with Samir El-Youssef brings Israeli and Palestinian lives into the same book without smoothing over the tension. The stories are darkly funny, politically charged by circumstance, and deeply interested in ordinary people under pressure.

In this graphic retelling of Kneller's Happy Campers, a heartbroken young man lands in an afterlife for suicides and goes looking for the girlfriend he lost. The setup is bizarre, funny, and sad in equal measure.

These stories begin in ordinary frustration and veer into the absurd, whether the subject is love, bodies, memory, or military life. Keret keeps them short, strange, and surprisingly tender, even when the ground keeps shifting.

Five of Keret's short stories become graphic novellas here, each drawn by a different artist. The result is a moody, visually varied set of tales where love, violence, and absurdity keep folding into each other.

Keret's breakthrough collection is packed with very short stories about soldiers, awkward desire, humiliation, and flashes of grace. The tone is cool, funny, and bruised, and the pieces often turn from silliness to pain in a line or two.

This selection from Keret's early work is full of magicians, failed lovers, odd children, and people one step from disaster. The stories are brisk, surreal, and emotionally precise, even when the premises sound like jokes.

This slim booklet pairs Keret's lecture Second Generation with four stories, including Siren and Foreign Language. It works as a compact introduction to his mix of humor, memory, family history, and moral unease.

A fast-food world starts sliding into the bizarre as ordinary people chase money, meaning, and a little grace. Keret turns the setup into a darkly comic jolt, brief, absurd, and sharper than it first looks.

An upbeat would-be investor tries to rescue a depressed friend with promises of easy money and a brighter future. The plan is shaky from the start, which makes the story funny, uneasy, and unexpectedly sad.

A man with a gun demands a story, and that opening shock sets the tone for a collection where the living and the dead, the comic and the cruel, sit side by side. These stories are playful, strange, and deeply human.

Left to amuse himself at the zoo while his father talks business, a tired little boy turns the day into a wild adventure of escaped animals and airships. It is funny, sweet, and very clearly a plea to be heard.

Keret's memoir follows the years between the birth of his son and the death of his father, with war, illness, and family chaos always close by. The pieces are brief, funny, and more moving than their light touch first suggests.

Todd asks a writer friend for a story that will help him get women into bed. What follows is a funny, meta exchange about loneliness, performance, and the gap between the stories people want and the ones they need.

In these later stories, Keret keeps the absurd humor but adds even more tenderness and dread. Parents, lovers, and lonely drifters move through warped versions of everyday life, trying to connect before the moment slips away.

This collection brings Keret's short fiction into the digital age, using alternate realities, future tech, and small everyday glitches to ask what still makes us human. The stories are funny, uneasy, and warmer than their setups might suggest.