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  • Bibliography:
    35 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1987
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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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 the author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1:  A Novel â€" a spare, powerful, intensely visionary novel about the bare-bones conditions of survivalIn a distant and unsettling future, Anna Blume is on a mission in an unnamed city of chaos and disas...

  • 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) tale of fate, loyalty, responsibility, and the real meaning of freedom, from the author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1:  A NovelA finalist for the PEN/Faulkner AwardThis “rich and dazzling” (Wall Street J...

  • Leviathan

    A “compelling” (Los Angeles Times) tale of friendship, betrayal, estrangement, and the unpredictable intrusions of violence in the everyday â€" from the author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1:  A Novel"Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the s...

  • Mr. Vertigo

    An enduringly brilliant tale of trial and triumph, set in America in the 1920s, from the author of 4 3 2 1:  A NovelPaul Auster, the New York Times-bestselling author of The New York Trilogy, presents a dazzling, picaresque novel set in the late...

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  • Timbuktu

    Meet Mr. Bones, the canine hero of Paul Auster's remarkable new novel, Timbuktu. Mr. Bones is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, the brilliant, troubled, and altogether original poet-saint from Brooklyn. Like Don Quixote and Sancho Pan...

  • 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

    Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, thirty-four-year-old novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr wi...

  • 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 bestselling author of Oracle Night and The Book of Illusions, 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 life insur...

  • 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

    "One of America's greatest novelists" dazzlingly reinvents the coming-of-age story in his most passionate and surprising book to dateSinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster's fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring ...

  • Collected Prose

    An essential collection from one of the finest thinkers and stylists in contemporary letters.The celebrated author of The New York Trilogy, The Book of Illusions, and Oracle Night presents here a highly personal collection of essays, prefaces, true s...

  • 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" (New York Times)Paul Auster’s brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a scorched p...

  • Hand To Mouth

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    This is the story of a young man's struggle to stay afloat. By turns poignant and comic, Paul Auster's memoir is essentially an autobiographical essay about money--and what it means not to have it. From one odd job to the next, from one failed schem...

  • 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 the 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 lonely, wou...

  • Winter Journal

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    "That is where the story begins, in your body and everything will end in the body as well." On January 3, 2011, exactly one month before his sixty-fourth birthday, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster sat down and wrote the first entry of W...

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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