[1] Shaked's major oeuvre is his Hebrew Narrative Fiction: 1880–1980,[2] a series of five volumes that were published between 1977 and 1998.

In these volumes he coined the term "The Zionist super-plot" and offered a broad perspective on the modern Hebrew literary system, its inner logic and development.

Shaked was a member of Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and published about twenty books, hundreds of articles and also autobiographical writing.

Yehoshua, as well as general currents in modern Hebrew literature – both in retrospect and in real time, as they were evolving.

In addition to his many publications in Hebrew, he also wrote more than thirty books of criticism in other languages.