Moon Palace
by Paul Auster | 
Man in the Dark
by Paul Auster | 
Oracle Night
by Paul Auster | 
Ravelstein
by Saul Bellow | 
Omensetter's Luck
by William H. Gass | 
I Married a Communist
by Philip Roth | 
Travels in the Scriptorium
by Paul Auster | 
The Victim
by Saul Bellow | 
Ship of Fools
by Katherine Anne Porter | 
The Counterlife
by Philip Roth | 
Middle C
by William H. Gass | 
Exit Ghost
by Philip Roth | 
Plexus
by Henry Miller | 
The Dean's December
by Saul Bellow | 
A Frolic of His Own
by William Gaddis | 
The Thirteenth Tale
by Diane Setterfield | 
I Am Watching You
by Teresa Driscoll | 
Plain Truth
by Jodi Picoult | 
Leaving Time
by Jodi Picoult | 
Midwives
by Chris Bohjalian |
New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy) opens Leviathan with the tearing of a bomb explosion and the death of one Benjamin Sachs. Ben's one-time best friend, Peter Aaron, begins to retrospectively investigate the transformation that led Ben from his enviable, stable life to one of a recluse. Both were once intelligent, yet struggling novelists until Ben's near-death experience falling from a fire escape triggers a tumble in which he becomes withdrawn and disturbed, living alone and building bombs in a far-off cabin. That is, until he mysteriously disappears, leaving behind only a manuscript titled Leviathan, pages rustling in the wind.