Bendy Reading! Check Out These 30 New Paperbacks

Posted by Cybil on February 9, 2022


There's no feeling like cracking the spine on a new paperback!

These 30 new paperback releases will let you catch up with literary legends, award winners, celeb book club books, and more reads that you've been hearing great buzz about. We always like to point out paperback are good for catching up on those buzzy books, are more affordable for book clubs, and can easily 'grab and go' when you're on the move!

Both loyal and new readers of Joan Didion will Want to Read Let Me Tell You What I Mean, ten pieces never before collected by the literary legend who died late last year. And speaking of superstars, acclaimed actor and writer Ethan Hawke's ironically titled A Bright Ray of Darkness is out telling the fictitious story of an actor who caught cheating on his rock star wife with press and PR fallout.

Virtual bookclub members waiting for the paperback version of recent picks have more than a dozen titles to choose from here, including with The Last Story of Mina Lee and The Sanatorium (both selected for Reese Witherspoon's book club), while Jenna Bush Hager's Read with Jenna's highlighted What's Mine and Yours and Black Buck. Also, Good Morning America's book club chose The Push, Of Women and Salt!  

Scroll over the book covers to learn more about each title, and add the ones that pique your interest to your Want to Read shelf


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message 1: by Lady (new)

Lady Dazy Interesting selection of books.


message 2: by May (new)

May Noooo don't hurt the spines!


Marc *Dark Reader with a Thousand Young! Iä!* May wrote: "Noooo don't hurt the spines!"

It’s taken me a long time to get past the book-as-physical-object-is-precious stage. I don’t abuse them, but I don’t concern myself as much if they show signs of life happening. Except some books; some are still special.


message 4: by Gerhard (new)

Gerhard '...cracking the spine on a new paperback' is a phrase that always gives me the heebie-jeebies. As if you have to hobble a book into submission before you read it. But I do get what GR means: Opening that cover, the smell of fresh pages, the heft of the physical object in your hands, the promise...


message 5: by Gerhard (new)

Gerhard May wrote: "Noooo don't hurt the spines!"

Ha my feeling exactly!


message 6: by C.A. (new)

C.A. Phipps Adore a new paperback, but will read any way I can get!


message 7: by Jodi (new)

Jodi The drop-down "MORE" description for Of Women and Salt is written in GERMAN! Maybe someone could change that to an English version?


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