Selected Works:
Novels and novellas:
The Bridal Canopy - 1931, an epic describing Galician Judaism at the start of the 19th century.
In the Heart of the Seas - 1933, a short novel about a group of ten men who travel from Eastern Europe to Jerusalem.
A Simple Story - 1935, a short novel about a young man, his search for a bride, and the lessons of marriage.
Ore'ah Noteh Lalun - "A Guest for the Night" - 1938, a novel about the decline of eastern European Jewry. The narrator visits his old hometown and discovers that great changes have occurred since World War I.
Betrothed - 1943, a short novel.
Only Yesterday - 1945, an epic novel set in the Second Aliyah period. It follows the story of the narrator from Galicia to Jaffa to Jerusalem.
Edo and Enam - 1950, a short novel.
To This Day - 1952, a tale of a young writer stranded in Berlin during World War I.
Shira - 1971, a novel set in Jerusalem in the 1930s and 1940s.
Short stories:
Of Such and Of Such, a collection of stories, including "And the Crooked Shall Be Made Straight", "Forsaken Wives", and "Belevav Yamim" - "In the Heart of the Seas" from 1933.
At the Handles of the Lock - 1923, a collection of love stories, including "Bidmay Yameha" - "In the Prime of Her Life", "A Simple Story", and "The Dune".
Near and Apparent, a collection of stories, including "The Two Sages Who Were In Our City", "Between Two Cities", "The Lady and the Peddler", the collection "The Book of Deeds", the satire "Chapters of the National Manual", and "Introduction to the Kaddish: After the Funerals of Those Murdered in the Land of Israel".
Thus Far, a collection of stories, including "Thus Far", "Prayer", "Oath of Allegiance", "The Garment", "Fernheim", and "Ido ve-Inam" - Edo and Enam.
The Fire and the Wood, a collection of stories including Hasidic tales, a semi-fictional account of Agnon's family history and other stories.
English translations:
Two Tales: Betrothed & Edo and Enam, contains two short novellas.
Twenty-One Stories, a collection of translated stories from "The Book of Deeds" and elsewhere.
Israeli Stories, ed. Joel Blocker. Contains the stories "Tehilah" - 1950 and "Forevermore" - 1954.
New Writing in Israel, ed. Ezra Spicehandler and Curtis Arnson. Contains the story "Wartime in Leipzig", an excerpt from "In Mr. Lublin's Store".
A Dwelling Place of My People, contains 16 short stories about the Hassidim of Poland, from the Hebrew Volume "These and Those" - 1932.
Jaffa, belle of the seas: Selections from the works of S.Y. Agnon
Tehilah, Israel Argosy, trans. by Walter Lever, Jerusalem Post Press, Jerusalem, 1956.
Anthologies:
Days of Awe - 1938, a book of customs, interpretations, and legends for the Jewish days of mercy and forgiveness: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and the days between.
Present at Sinai: The Giving of the Law - 1959, an anthology for the festival of Shavuot.
Posthumous publications:
Ir Umeloah - "A City and the Fullness Thereof" - 1973, a collection of stories and legends about Buczacz, Agnon's hometown.
In Mr. Lublin's Shop - 1974, set in Germany of the First World War.
Within the Wall - 1975, a collection of four stories.
From Myself to Myself - 1976, a collection of essays and speeches.
Introductions - 1977, stories.
Book, Writer and Story - 1978, stories about writers and books from the Jewish sources.
The Beams of Our House - 1979, two stories, the first about a Jewish family in Galicia, the second about the history of Agnon's family.
Esterlein Yakirati - "Dear Esther: Letters 1924–1931" - 1983, letters from Agnon to his wife.
A Shroud of Stories - 1985.
The Correspondence between S.Y. Agnon and S. Schocken - 1991, letters between Agnon and his publisher.
Agnon's Alef Bet Poems - 1998, a children's guide to the Hebrew Alphabet.
A Book That Was Lost: Thirty Five Stories - 2008
In 1977 the Hebrew University published Yiddish Works, a collection of stories and poems that Agnon wrote in Yiddish during 1903–1906.
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