Paul Auster

Paul Benjamin Auster is an American writer and film director. His notable works include The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), The Brooklyn Follies (2005), Invisible (2009), Sunset Park (2010), Winter Journal (2012), and 4 3 2 1 (2017). His books have been translated into more than forty languages.

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Genres:Biography, Memoir, Philosophy +6 more

Biography

Memoir

Philosophy

Mystery

Literary Fiction

Books by Paul Auster

11 books available

2014

Moon Palace

by Paul Auster

Fiction

4.0(20,840)

After the moon landing, an orphaned young man named Marco Stanley Fogg travels across America, uncovering a family mystery of love, loss, and identity while searching for his own origins.

2009

Invisible

by Paul Auster

Fiction

Young Adult

3.7(808)

A young poet's coming-of-age takes a dark turn when a twisted love triangle with a mysterious Frenchman and his seductive girlfriend explodes in a shocking act of violence that will haunt him for decades across continents.

2008

The New York Trilogy

by Paul Auster

Fiction

Mystery

3.9(61,768)

In New York City, a detective's search for a missing person turns into an investigation of identity, coincidence, and existence.

Man in the Dark

by Paul Auster

Fiction

Literary Fiction

3.6(9,147)

After a family tragedy, a 72-year-old insomniac creates an alternate America at war, finding the violence of his imagined world reflects his grief.

2005

The Brooklyn Follies

by Paul Auster

Fiction

Literary Fiction

3.8(23,224)

A retired, disillusioned man moves to Brooklyn to die. He unexpectedly finds himself drawn into a world of eccentric characters, literary scams, and the humorous parts of human life, which makes him want to live and write again.

1999

Timbuktu

by Paul Auster

Fiction

Literary Fiction

3.7(12,381)

Through the eyes of a loyal and philosophical dog, Mr. Bones, we follow the final journey of his brilliant, homeless owner, Willy G. Christmas, as they travel from Brooklyn to Baltimore to find Mr. Bones a new home before Willy dies.

1990

The Music of Chance

by Paul Auster

Fiction

Literary Fiction

3.9(9,851)

After a fireman squanders an inheritance on aimless wandering, he and a brash gambler lose everything in a rigged poker game, forcing them to repay their debt by building a mysterious stone wall for two eccentric millionaires in a desolate Pennsylvania field.

1987

In the Country of Last Things

by Paul Auster

Fiction

Science Fiction

3.9(11,498)

In a city where the living scavenge and the dead are fuel, a young woman searches for her vanished brother, documenting humanity's last stand in a world near collapse.

1986

The Locked Room

by Paul Auster

Fiction

Literary Fiction

3.9(3,982)

A writer's disappearance sends his childhood friend on a quest to understand the literary legacy and hidden life he left behind.

1982

The Invention of Solitude

by Paul Auster

Non-fiction

Biography

3.8(11,570)

After his emotionally distant father's sudden death uncovers a sixty-year-old murder mystery, Paul Auster confronts inherited silences and the challenge of defining himself as a father and a writer.

1900

Sunset Park

by Paul Auster

Fiction

Literary Fiction

3.6(12,360)

After the 2008 economic collapse, a young man's photographs of abandoned items connect squatters, artists, and dreamers in Brooklyn, all dealing with their pasts and an uncertain future in a broken America.