Best New Paperbacks Now Available
The spring time kicks off the an early start to the reading season, and one of the most popular formats readers enjoy are paperback books.They’re less expensive, easily portable, and more accessible for avid, budget-conscious bookworms. If you’ve been wanting to read a popular book from the last year or so, you’re in luck!
Discover 18 bestselling and award-winning must-reads in a variety of genres releasing in paperback, with many of these titles under $20!
Find your next great read today!
A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
by Lawrence Ingrassia
Reader Type: Lifelong Learner
Hardcover Release: May 14, 2024 | Paperback Release: May 13, 2025
Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction and named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon and NPR, this gripping tale by the author of Billion Dollar Brand Club weaves Ingrassia’s own moving family history of losing several members to cancer with a sweeping chronology of cancer research. A must-read for fans of memoirs and medical mysteries.
The Midnight Feast
by Lucy Foley
Reader Type: Serial Reader and Beach Reader
Hardcover Release: June 18, 2024 | Paperback Release: May 6, 2025
This instant New York Times bestseller—"an absolute bonkers delight" (NPR Best Books of the Year)—from the author of The Paris Apartment and The Hunting Party is a deliciously twisty locked-room murder mystery set at a luxe coastal retreat that will tantalize thriller readers and fans obsessed with The White Lotus.
Sandwich
by Catherine Newman
Reader Type: Bookworm and Leading Lady
Hardcover Release: June 18, 2024 | Paperback Release: May 27, 2025
Offering “a beach novel to pass on to your best friends" (Oprah Magazine, Best Books of 2024), Newman’s latest New York Times instant bestseller follows a middle-aged woman on her annual family vacation on Cape Cod. Sandwiched between her half-grown kids and her aging parents, she experiences love, change, and loss all in a week’s time.
The Covenant of Water
by Abraham Verghese
Reader Type: Bookworm
Hardcover Release: May 2, 2023 | Paperback Release: May 6, 2025
An Oprah’s Book Club pick, an instant New York Times bestseller, and the subject of a six-part Super Soul podcast series hosted by Oprah Winfrey, this stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine from the acclaimed author of Cutting for Stone is set in Kerala, South India, and follows three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. Ideal for readers of family sagas and historical fiction.
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
by Zoë Schlanger
Reader Type: Self-Starter and Maverick
Hardcover Release: May 7, 2024 | Paperback Release: May 13,2025
Named to several magazines’ lists of Top 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024, including New York, TIME, and Smithsonian, this groundbreaking, New York Times bestselling work of science from an award-winning Atlantic staff writer explores the hidden world of plant intelligence. Schlanger immerses you into the drama of green life and the complexity of this wild world that challenges our very understanding of agency, consciousness, and intelligence.
The Daughters' War
by Christopher Buehlman
Reader Type: Dragon Slayer and Stunt Double
Hardcover Release: June 25, 2024 | Paperback Release: May 20, 2025
Enter the fray in this luminous instant USA Today bestseller, set during the war-torn, goblin-infested years just before The Blacktongue Thief. “Beuhlman bursts through the confines of modern fantasy with a story by turns profane, brutal, beautiful, devastating (that) shows what fantasy can be in the hands of a master. Prepare yourself.”—John Hornor Jacobs, author of A Lush and Seething Hell
You Are Here
by David Nicholls
Reader Type: Modern Romantic
Hardcover Release: May 28, 2024 | Paperback Release: May 27, 2025
The Amazon and Apple Best Book of the Year, an Oprah Daily Best Summer Book to Read on Vacation, and instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller from the internationally bestselling and Booker Prize-longlisted author of One Day. “A gorgeous, grown-up love story… it's one of the saddest stories I've ever read, and one of the funniest. A future classic—Daisy Buchanan, author of Insatiable
Very Bad Company
by Emma Rosenblum
Reader Type: Trendsetter and Serial Reader
Hardcover Release: May 14, 2024 | Paperback Release: May 27, 2025
The White Lotus meets Succession in this slick send-up of corporate culture wrapped in a captivating mystery from the national bestselling author of Bad Summer People—a gripping, darkly comic novel about a team of wealthy and powerful executives on retreat in Miami when one of them goes missing. A beach read sure to bewilder thriller fans.
Hip-Hop Is History
by Questlove Questlove - Ben Greenman
Reader Type: Lifelong Learner
Hardcover Release: June 11, 2024 | Paperback Release: May 27, 2025
Multiple award-winning musician, filmmaker, and author Questlove explores the 50+-year history of hip-hop in this New York Times bestseller, tracing the creative and cultural forces that made and shaped hip-hop. “There's no one better to take us on this fun, informative journey through hip-hop's evolution.”—Michelle Obama
The Great Divide
by Cristina Henriquez
Reader Type: Bookworm
Hardcover Release: March 5, 2024 | Paperback Release: May 27, 2025
A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club pick, the first novel since 2014 from the acclaimed author of The Book of Unknown Americans is a searing, empathetic, and powerful epic about the construction of the Panama Canal, telling the stories of the migrant laborers, locals, and others affected by the project in 1907. Perfect for those interested in little-known chapters of history.
Raw Dog: The Naked Truth about Hot Dogs
by Jamie Loftus
Reader Type: Maverick and The Hobbyist
Hardcover Release: May 23, 2023 | May 13, 2025
A New York Times and Indie bestseller, and a 2023 NPR and Vulture Best Book of the Year. Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique—comedian Loftus’s “wise and funny” (Andy Richter) debut takes you on a cross-country road trip in the summer of 2021, and reveals what the creation, culture, and class influence of hot dogs says about America now. Now in paperback with Loftus's road trip map and illustrations throughout and a brand-new author introduction.
One Deadly Eye: A Doc Ford Novel (First Time Trade)
by Randy Wayne White
Reader Type: Stunt Double
Hardcover Release: June 6,2024 | Paperback Release: May 13, 2025
The 27th novel in White’s New York Times bestselling Doc Ford series is perfect for fans of crime fiction and thrillers. After the deadliest hurricane to hit Sanibel Island in a century, Doc must stop a gang of thieves—and worse—during the 12 hours of chaos that follow the passing of a storm’s eye. “[White’s] best book ever? How about one of the best thrillers ever?"—Joe Soucheray, host of the Garage Logic podcast
When We Were Silent
by Fiona McPhillips
Reader Type: Serial Reader & Beach Reader
Hardcover Release: May 21, 2024 | Paperback Release: May 6, 2025
An outsider threatens to expose the secrets of an elite private school in this suspenseful debut novel that “absolutely nails what it feels like to be young, female, powerless, and dead set on redemption” (Julia Heaberlin, bestselling author of We Are All the Same in the Dark). Perfect for fans of dark academia and such thrillers as My Dark Vanessa and Dare Me.
Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics
by Ernesto Londoño
Reader Type: The Hobbyist and Self-Starter
Hardcover Release: May 7, 2024 | Paperback Release: May 6, 2025
A riveting look at the tremendous promise and inherent risks of the use of psychedelics in mental health treatment through the lens of a New York Times reporter whose journalistic exploration of this emerging field began with a personal crisis. This fascinating account will interest medical professionals and patients, mental health care providers, and policymakers.
Fifteen Wild Decembers
by Karen Powell
Reader Type: Time Traveler
Paperback Release: April 1, 2025
A Sunday Times Best Historical Fiction Book of 2023 and shortlisted for the 2023 Nero Book Award—the acclaimed reimagining of the life of beloved English novelist Emily Brontë and her siblings from the author of The River Within. Powell’s fictionalized account Emily’s early life explores the phenomenon that fused her imaginary world with the landscape of her beloved Yorkshire and changed the literary world forever. ““Wild and captivating, this takes us right to the heart of the Brontës’ story of creativity, sisterhood and survival.”—Samantha Ellis, author of How to Be a Heroine
You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
by Ada Limón
Reader Type: The Hobbyist
Hardcover Release: April 2, 2024 | Paperback Release: April 8. 2025
The #1 national bestselling and beloved poetry anthology, now in paperback! A singular collection of poemsreflecting on our relationship to the natural world by 50 of our most celebrated contemporary writers, Published in association with the Library of Congress and edited by the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States, “this beautifully curated anthology of 50 previously unpublished poems challenges preconceptions about ‘nature poetry’ as it meditates on humanity's relationship to the planet. As Limón writes in the introduction: ‘these poems represent the full spectrum of how we human animals connect to the natural world’.” (Publishers Weekly)
I Cheerfully Refuse
by Leif Enger
Reader Type: Galactic Guru and Bookworm
Hardcover Release: April 2, 2024 | Paperback Release: April 1, 2025
From the acclaimed author of Peace Like a River comes this national bestseller and Washington Post Notable Book of the Year—the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife, set in a not-too-distant dystopian America. “A heart-racing ballad of escape, shot-through with villainy and dignity, humor and music. Like Mark Twain, Enger gives us a full accounting of the human soul, scene by scene, wave by wave."—Josh Ritter, singer and author of The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All
Go as a River
by Shelley Read
Reader Type: Leading Lady
Hardcover Release: February 28, 2023 | Paperback Release: June 3, 2025
A national bestseller, winner of the 2023 Reading the West Book Award, finalist for the Goodreads Choice Award, and a Colorado Public Radio 2023 Books We Love selection. Set amid Colorado's wild beauty, the heartbreaking coming-of-age story of a resilient young woman whose life is changed forever by one chance encounter. A tragic and uplifting novel of love and loss, family and survival—and hope—for readers of Great Circle, The Four Winds, and Where the Crawdads Sing. “A force of nature…tragic, uplifting—and completely unforgettable.”—Bonnie Garmus, author of the multi-award-winning international bestseller Lessons in Chemistry, basis for the Apple TV+ miniseries starring Brie Larson
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