Paul Auster

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  • Bibliography:
    35 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1987
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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Paul Benjamin Auster was born on February 3 1947 - died April 30 2024 at the age of 77.

He is survived by his wife, author Siri Hustvedt and by their daughter, the singer Sophie Auster.

Full Series List in Order

The New York Trilogy

1 - City of Glass (Mar-1987)
2 - Ghosts (May-2000)
3 - The Locked Room (Jan-1988)

Book List in Order: 35 titles

  • City of Glass

    The New York Trilogy - 1

    From Paul Auster, author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1:  A novel â€" his debut work of fiction, the first volume in his acclaimed “New York Trilogy” series of novels

    Nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Mystery of the Year, City of Glass in...

  • In the Country of Last Things

    From New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster, a dystopian, post-apocalyptic novel “reminiscent in many ways of Orwell’s 1984” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution). “Powerful, original, imaginative, and handled with artistry . . . One of t...

  • The Locked Room

    The New York Trilogy - 3

    The remarkable, acclaimed series of interconnected detective novels – from the author of 4 3 2 1:  A Novel

    The New York Review of Books has called Paul Auster''s work “one of the most distinctive niches in contemporary lite...

  • Moon Palace

    Marco Stanley Fogg is an orphan, a child of the sixties, a quester tirelessly seeking the key to his past, the answers to the ultimate riddle of his fate. As Marco journeys from the canyons of Manhattan to the deserts of Utah, he encounters a gallery...

  • New York Trilogy

    The remarkable, acclaimed series of interconnected detective novels â€" from the author of 4 3 2 1:  A NovelThe New York Review of Books has called Paul Auster's work “one of the most distinctive niches in contemporary literature.” Moving at...

  • The Music of Chance

    An “exceptional” (Los Angeles Times) novel of fate, loyalty, responsibility, and the real meaning of freedom with “all the suspense and pace of a bestselling thriller” (The New York Times), from renowned author Paul Auster“A rich, dazzling ...

  • Leviathan

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER •  A “compelling” (Los Angeles Times) novel of friendship, betrayal, estrangement, and the unpredictable intrusions of violence in the everyday -- from “a literary original who is perfecting a genre of his own” (The...

  • Mr. Vertigo

    “Nobody -- nobody -- has produced a better parable about the condition of the national consciousness at century’s end.” -- The Boston Globe An enduringly brilliant novel of trial and triumph set in America in the 1920s, from New York Times best...

  • Paul Auster's New York



  • Timbuktu

    Meet Mr. Bones, the canine hero of Paul Auster's (“One of America's most spectacularly inventive writers” -- The TLS) remarkable novel, Timbuktu. Mr. Bones is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, the brilliant, troubled, and altogeth...

  • Ghosts

    The New York Trilogy - 2

    The remarkable, acclaimed series of interconnected detective novels – from the author of 4 3 2 1:  A Novel

    The New York Review of Books has called Paul Auster''s work “one of the most distinctive niches in contemporary lite...

  • The Red Notebook

    The Red Notebook brings together in one volume all of Paul Auster's short, true-life stories -- a remarkable collection of tales that documents the curious, miraculous, and sometimes catastrophic turns of everyday reality. Paul Auster has earned inte...

  • The Book of Illusions

    Six months after losing his wife and two young sons in an airplane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. Then, watching television one night, he stumbles upon a clip from a los...

  • The Story of My Typewriter

    This is the story of Paul Auster's typewriter. The typewriter is a manual Olympia, more than 25 years old, and has been the agent of transmission for the novels, stories, collaborations, and other writings Auster has produced since the 1970s, a body ...

  • Oracle Night

    The discovery of a mysterious notebook turns a man's life upside down in this compulsively page-turning tale by "one of the great writers of our time" (San Francisco Chronicle).Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, thirty-four-...

  • Auggie Wren's Christmas Story

    A timeless, utterly charming Christmas fable, beautifully illustrated and destined to become a classicWhen Paul Auster was asked by The New York Times to write a Christmas story for the Op-Ed page, the result, "Auggie Wren's Christmas Story," led to ...

  • The Brooklyn Follies

    From the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of Oracle Night and 4 3 2 1, an exhilarating, whirlwind tale of one man's accidental redemption.Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, estranged from his only daughter, the retired lif...

  • Collected Poems

    Paul Auster's penetrating and charged verse resembles little else in recent American poetry. Taut, densely lyrical, and everywhere informed by a powerful and subtle music, this collection begins with the compact fragments of Spokes and Unearth....

  • Travels in the Scriptorium

    A man pieces together clues to his past--and the identity of his captors--in this fantastic, labyrinthine novel An old man awakens, disoriented, in an unfamiliar chamber. With no memory of who he is or how he has arrived there, he pores over the r...



  • The Inner Life of Martin Frost

    Searching for solitude, the writer Martin Frost borrows a friend's country house. Waking up one morning, he is shocked to find a nearly naked young woman beside him in bed. She also has a key to the house and claims to be the owner's niece. Martin's ...

  • Man in the Dark

    Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget--his...

  • Invisible

    The internationally bestselling author of The New York Trilogy, “one of America’s greatest living novelists,” dazzlingly reinvents the coming-of-age story (The Observer).Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster’s fifteent...

  • Collected Prose

    The expanded edition of an essential collection of writings, essays, and interviews from Paul Auster, one of the finest thinkers and stylists in contemporary letters. The celebrated author of The New York Trilogy, The Book of Illusions, and 4 3 2 1 p...

  • Sunset Park

    Luminous, passionate, expansive, an emotional tour de force Sunset Park follows the hopes and fears of a cast of unforgettable characters brought together by the mysterious Miles Heller during the dark months of the 2008 economic collapse. An e...

  • Invention Of Solitude Ome

    This book's first section is a moving personal meditation on the life and sudden death of the author's father; the second section reveals a narrator's separation from his young son while nursing his dying grandfather...

  • Collected Novels Volume Four

  • A Life in Words

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    "Paul Auster's A Life in Words--a wide-ranging dialogue between Auster and the Danish professor I. B. Siegumfeldt--is a remarkably candid and often surprising celebration of one writer's art, craft, and life. It includes many revelations that have ne...

  • 4 3 2 1

    Paul Auster’s greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel―a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself. Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital ...

  • Talking to Strangers

    Talking to Strangers is a freshly curated collection of prose, spanning fifty years of work and including famous as well as never-before-published early writings, from 2018 Man Booker Prizeâ€"finalist Paul Auster. Beginning with a short philosophi...



  • Collected Screenplays

  • Baumgartner

    A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning author and “one of the great American prose stylists of our time"  â€" New York TimesPaul Auster’s brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a sc...

  • Hand To Mouth

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    Paul Auster's Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure is a fascinating and often funny memoir about his early years as a writer struggling to be published, and to make enough money to survive.This is the story of a young man's struggle to stay af...

  • Here And Now

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    The high-spirited correspondence between New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster and Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee

    Although Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee had been reading each other’s books for years, the two writers did not meet until ...

  • Lulu On The Bridge

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    The insider's guide and perfect companion to Paul Auster's film starring Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, and Vanessa Redgrave. Stunning and surreal, Lulu on the Bridge is a romantic mystery with a lot on its mind. It is the story of Izzy and Celia, two ...

  • Winter Journal

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    From the bestselling novelist and author of The Invention of Solitude, 4 3 2 1, and The New York Trilogy, Winter Journal presents a moving and highly personal meditation on the body, time, and language itself."That is where the story begins, in your ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Paul Auster has published 35 books.

Paul Auster does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Baumgartner, was published in November 2023.

The first book by Paul Auster, City of Glass, was published in March 1987.

Yes. Paul Auster has 1 series.
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