Books like 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster

Philip K. Dick’s Hugo Award‑winning alternate‑history novel imagines a world where World War II ends with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan ruling the former United States, exploring the political intrigue and daily life under this totalitarian regime.

In Matt Haig’s Midnight Library, Nora Seed explores an infinite library in which every book records a life she could have lived, challenging her to confront regret, choice, and the meaning of a fulfilled existence.

Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy weaves three interlinked detective‑style narratives that explore identity and the city’s uncanny parallels, turning ordinary clues into profound questions of human existence.

Celestial and Roy, a young couple embodying the American Dream, are torn apart when Roy is wrongfully convicted and sent to prison. Five years later, his conviction is overturned, forcing Celestial to confront the fractured life she must rebuild.

After losing the man she loves, Louisa Clark must rebuild her life and find herself again while navigating grief and new relationships.

A son uncovers his family's hidden past as his grandfather’s deathbed confessions span a mail-order novelty business, World War II, and the space program.

On a day she vows to change, Eleanor’s plans unravel as her son fakes illness, her husband hides a vacation, and a former colleague’s memoir threatens to expose a family secret, forcing her to confront her past and reinvent herself.

Jende Jonga’s dream of a new life in New York turns into a struggle as his family faces the rigors of immigration law and the hidden dangers of working for a powerful executive.

A sharp, dazzling collection of ten short stories that flip assumptions about class, relationships, and gender roles in contemporary America.

294 pages ; 22 cm

"Jazz Lenox had her reasons for giving up her babies for adoption. So she can't burst into their lives after eight years. Yet there's no doubt these kids are hers. No one could mistake that unique hair. She knows she should walk away. Especially when she meets the twins' uncle - sexy, shoot-from-the-hip Matt Caminetti. But how does she leave a man who's so persistent ... and so ruggedly appealing? Most surprising of all, Matt believes in her. Believes in them. A future together means coming clean about her past. All of it. It's the only way to find out if she really has a second shot at the life she's always wanted"--Page 2 of cover.

Three former college bandmates in their fifties navigate marriage, career, and parenthood in gentrified Brooklyn while confronting how their youthful identities evolve and how secrets from their past finally surface.

"Leviathan begins when a woman finds an address book and steals a new identity. Or it begins with a sudden, violent death. Or it begins as Peter Aaron sits down to tell the story of his best friend, Benjamin Sachs - to take us, through a life, to the road in rural Wisconsin where Sachs has accidentally blown himself up. Aaron's sole aim is to tell the truth and preserve it, before those who are investigating the case invent a story of their own.". "Aaron's clues are the small mysteries of any lifetime. Sachs had a marriage Aaron envied, an intelligence he admired, a circle of friends he shared. And then suddenly, after a near-fatal fall that might or might not have been intentional, Sachs disappears. For a while, Aaron's only link to him is through Maria Turner, an artist, and the one witness to Sachs's balcony plunge. Periodically, Sachs reappears, talks manically, and vanishes again - in pursuit of mercy or salvation, in thrall to an idea.". "Since the first book in his brilliant and acclaimed "New York Trilogy," Paul Auster's "rare combination of talent, scope, and audacity" (The New Republic) has given us worlds in which chance and destiny collide, in which solitary protagonists take us on mysterious, soul-wrenching journeys unparalleled in contemporary fiction. His seventh novel is about friendship and betrayal, sexual desire and estrangement, and the unpredictable intrusions of violence in the everyday. Rooted in American mythology and archetype, Leviathan is both timeless and resolutely about this moment. It is a daring and immensely moving story by "one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers" (The Times Literary Supplement)."--BOOK JACKET.

Frieda, a 35‑year‑old grieving widow and single mother, seeks love for herself and her son while navigating family advice, unexpected romance, and the quest for a "perfect" partner.

Shirley Kaszenbowski, a middle‑aged Toronto woman, searches for a lost lover connected to a mysterious agency, while revisiting her Jewish immigrant past in the city’s Spadina‑Dundas neighbourhood.

Four women in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood navigate friendship, love, and family life—two widowed war survivors, a tenant mother, and an art historian—capturing intergenerational bonds and the city’s quiet resilience.