It’s a well-known fact that Israelis love books, so it comes as no surprise that the National Library of Israel puts out a yearly statistical analysis of what and how much we’ve all been reading. Here are some interesting tidbits:
- 8,411 new publications were published in Israel in 2013 – an increase of 5% compared to 2012.
- 82% of the books are original works by Israeli authors and only 18% are translated.
- The most popular subjects in Israeli prose are: married life and domestic relationships. The least popular: suspense and spy novels.
- There was a significant decrease in the number of books that deal with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- About 10% of children’s books published this year deal with animals. The most common animal is cat.
- The most productive children’s books authors this year were Galila Ron-Feder-Amit and Menucha Fox (an ultra-Orthodox author who has published over 120 books in the last 7 years).
- 20% of the publications in Israel are published by independent publishing houses.
- 215 e-books were published in Israel in 2013 (an increase of more than 100% from last year).
Those of you who are fans of The Rosie Project, the international bestseller by Graham Simsion – the Hebrew translation of which is pictured above – will be happy to hear that a sequel has recently been published, The Rosie Effect. I was unsuccessful in my attempts to discover when it will be out in Hebrew. However, by all accounts (OK, I read it last week so “all” really just means my account, but I do consider myself a discerning literary critic) it’s a somewhat disappointing sequel. It’s currently out on loan however, so don’t bother asking to borrow it.
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