• Fiction

Squeeze Play (1984) (Written under pseudonym Paul Benjamin) The New York Trilogy (1987) City of Glass (1985) Ghosts (1986) The Locked Room (1986) In the Country of Last Things (1987) Moon Palace (1989) The Music of Chance (1990) Auggie Wren's Christmas Story (1990) Leviathan (1992) Mr. Vertigo (1994) Timbuktu (1999) The Book of Illusions (2002) Oracle Night (2003) The Brooklyn Follies (2005) Travels in the Scriptorium (2006) Man in the Dark (2008)[34] Invisible (2009)[35] Sunset Park (2010)[36] Day/Night (2013) [n 1]4 3 2 1 (2017)[37]

• Poetry

Unearth (1974) Wall Writing (1976) Fragments from the Cold (1977) Facing the Music (1980) Disappearances: Selected Poems (1988) Ground Work: Selected Poems and Essays 1970-1979 (1991) Collected Poems (2007)

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• Screenplays

The Music of Chance (1993) Smoke (1995) Blue in the Face (1995) Lulu on the Bridge (1998) The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2007) [n 2]

• Essays, memoirs, and autobiographies

The Invention of Solitude (1982) The Art of Hunger (1992) The Red Notebook (1995) (The Red Notebook was originally printed in Granta (44)). (1993). Hand to Mouth (1997) Collected Prose (contains The Invention of Solitude, The Art of Hunger, The Red Notebook, and Hand to Mouth as well as various other previously uncollected pieces) (first edition, 2005; expanded second edition, 2010) Winter Journal (2012) Here and Now: Letters, 2008–2011 (2013) A collection of letters exchanged with J. M. Coetzee. Report from the Interior (2013) A Life in Words: In Conversation with I. B. Siegumfeldt (2017) Talking to Strangers: Selected Essays, Prefaces, and Other Writings, 1967-2017 (2019)

• Edited collections

The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry (1982) [38] True Tales of American Life (First published under the title I Thought My Father Was God, and Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project) (2001)[39]

• Translations

"The Uninhabited: Selected Poems of André du Bouchet" (1976) Life/Situations, by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1977 (in collaboration with Lydia Davis) A Tomb for Anatole, by Stéphane Mallarmé (1983) Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians (1998) (translation of Pierre Clastres' ethnography Chronique des indiens Guayaki) The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (2005) Vicious Circles: Two fictions & "After the Fact", by Maurice Blanchot, 1999 Fits and Starts: Selected Poems of Jacques Dupin, translated by Paul Auster, Living Hand Editions, 1974

• Miscellaneous

The Story of My Typewriter with paintings by Sam Messer (2002) "The Accidental Rebel" (Wed. April 23 article in New York Times)[40] "ALONE" (2015) Prose piece from 1969 published in six copies along with "Becoming the Other in Translation" (2014) by Siri Hustvedt. Published by Danish small press Ark Editions[41]