New Paperback Books to Read in 2023
If you’re looking for the latest books in paperback, we’ve got the perfect list for you. Pick up beloved fiction and nonfiction reads for 2023.
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Add to BookshelfConstructing a Nervous System
by Margo Jefferson
From “one of our most nuanced thinkers on the intersections of race, class, and feminism” (Cathy Park, author of Minor Feelings) comes a memoir “as electric as the title suggests” (Maggie Nelson, author of On Freedom).
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Go Your Own Way
by Meera Lee Patel
Even in the best of times, it’s easy to lose your way. From the author of Start Where You Are, a beautiful and empowering journal for embracing what makes you special — and charting your own path.
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Woman of Light
by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
A “dazzling, cinematic, intimate, lyrical” (Roxane Gay) epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award finalist Sabrina & Corina.
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The Enigma of Garlic
by Alexander McCall Smith
The latest installment in the charming and congenial 44 Scotland Street series finds all our favorite residents of Scotland’s most celebrated address up to their usual hilarious hijinks.
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The Good Left Undone
by Adriana Trigiani
From a “master of visual and palpable detail” (The Washington Post), comes a lush, immersive novel about three generations of Tuscan artists with one remarkable secret. Epic in scope and resplendent with the glorious themes of identity and belonging, The Good Left Undone unfolds in breathtaking turns.
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Once More with Feeling
by Elissa Sussman
A former pop star finds herself back in the spotlight — along with an old flame from her past — in this friends-to-lovers meets enemies-to-lovers story from the bestselling author of Funny You Should Ask, the sensational TikTok romance!
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Paradise Falls
by Keith O’Brien
The staggering story of an unlikely band of mothers in the 1970s who discovered Hooker Chemical’s deadly secret of Love Canal — exposing one of America’s most devastating toxic waste disasters and sparking the modern environmental movement as we know it today.
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Portrait of a Thief
by Grace D. Li
Ocean’s Eleven meets The Farewell in Portrait of a Thief, a lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums; about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity.
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Practice Makes Perfect
by Sarah Adams
A small-town sweetheart and an emotionally unavailable bad boy try to find some common ground in this chemistry-filled romance from the author of The Cheat Sheet and When in Rome.
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The Boys from Biloxi
by John Grisham
John Grisham returns to Mississippi with the riveting story of two sons of immigrant families who grow up as friends but ultimately find themselves on opposite sides of the law. Grisham’s trademark twists and turns will keep you tearing through the pages until the stunning conclusion.
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The Wife of Willesden
by Zadie Smith
In her stage-writing debut, celebrated novelist and essayist Zadie Smith brings to life a comedic and cutting twenty-first-century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer’s classic The Wife of Bath. A thoughtful reimagining of an unforgettable narrative of female sexual power, written with singular verve and wit, The Wife of Willesden shows why Zadie Smith is one of the sharpest and most versatile writers working today.
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The Second Ending
by Michelle Hoffman
A former prodigy who refuses to believe her best years are behind her and a young virtuoso searching for his passion both get an unlikely shot at their dreams in this sparkling debut about second chances, unexpected joys, and the miraculous power of music.
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To Paradise
by Hanya Yanagihara
From the award-winning, bestselling author of the classic A Little Life — a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss, and the elusive promise of utopia.
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Same Time Next Summer
by Annabel Monaghan
The ultimate summer nostalgia read, about an engaged woman who comes face to face with her first love who she hasn’t seen in fourteen years, but who she spent every summer with from age five to seventeen when he broke her heart, calling into question everything she thought she knew about their love story, and herself.
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Lucky Girl
by Irene Muchemi-Ndiritu
Longing for independence, a young sheltered Kenyan woman flees the expectations of her mother for a life in New York City that challenges all her beliefs about race, love, and family. Lucky Girl is a fierce and tender debut about the lives and loves we choose — what it meant to be an African immigrant in America at the turn of the millennium, and how a young woman finds a place for herself in the world.
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River of the Gods
by Candice Millard
The harrowing story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time and its complicated legacy. In River of the Gods, Candice Millard has written another peerless story of courage and adventure, set against the backdrop of the race to exploit Africa by the colonial powers.
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Just My Type
by Falon Ballard
To win the job of her dreams, a relationship-prone journalist needs to learn how to stay single in this heartwarming and hilarious new romantic comedy from the beloved author of Lease on Love.
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The Palace Papers
by Tina Brown
The “addictively readable” (The Washington Post) inside story of the British royal family’s battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana years — only to confront new, twenty-first-century crises. Tina Brown has been observing and chronicling the British monarchy for three decades, and her sweeping account is full of powerful revelations, newly reported details, and searing insight gleaned from remarkable access to royal insiders. Stylish, witty, and erudite, The Palace Papers will irrevocably change how the world perceives and understands the royal family.
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The Lifestyle
by Taylor Hahn
A heartwarming and hilarious novel about swinging, marriage, and the complexities of the heart. Perfect for fans of Jennifer Weiner and Sophie Kinsella, The Lifestyle is a playful homage to Jane Austen’s Emma Woodhouse and an outrageously fun read.
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Trust
by Hernan Diaz
Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? At once an immersive story and a brilliant literary puzzle, Trust engages the reader in a quest for the truth while confronting the deceptions that often live at the heart of personal relationships, the reality-warping force of capital, and the ease with which power can manipulate facts.
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Yearbook
by Seth Rogen
A collection of funny personal essays from actor, writer, producer, director, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Seth Rogen. Throughout, he talks about his grandparents, doing stand-up comedy as a teenager, bar mitzvahs, Jewish summer camp, his adventures in Los Angeles, and way more stories about doing drugs than his mother would like.
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The Lost Kings
by Tyrell Johnson
Twins Jeanie and Jamie King are inseparable. Stuck in a cabin with their alcoholic father, they cling to one another for safety and companionship. Until one night, when their father comes home covered in blood. The next day, he is gone … and so is Jamie. At once a propulsive, heart-pounding mystery and an affecting exploration of love and the familial ties that bind us, The Lost Kings will transport, move, and shock you.
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The Last White Man
by Mohsin Hamid
One morning, a man wakes up to find himself transformed. Overnight, Anders’s skin has turned dark, and the reflection in the mirror seems a stranger to him. Soon, reports of similar events begin to surface. Across the land, people are awakening in new incarnations, uncertain how their neighbors, friends, and family will greet them. In Mohsin Hamid’s “lyrical and urgent” prose (O Magazine), The Last White Man powerfully uplifts our capacity for empathy and the transcendence over bigotry, fear, and anger it can achieve.
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How to Tell a Story
by The Moth, Meg Bowles, Catherine Burns, Jenifer Hixson, Sarah Austin Jenness and Kate Tellers
How to Tell a Story is the definitive guide to telling an unforgettable story in any setting, from the storytelling experts at The Moth. Featuring new prompts for engaging storytelling and filled with empowering, easy-to-follow tips for crafting stories that forge lasting bonds with friends, family, and colleagues alike, this book will help you connect authentically with the world around you and unleash the power of story in your life.
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Sea of Tranquility
by Emily St. John Mandel
The award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.
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The Midnight Library
by Matt Haig
Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe, there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?
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How Civil Wars Start
by Barbara F. Walter
A leading political scientist examines the dramatic rise in violent extremism around the globe and sounds the alarm on the increasing likelihood of a second civil war in the United States.
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Mean Baby
by Selma Blair
Selma Blair has played many roles: Ingénue in Cruel Intentions. Preppy ice queen in Legally Blonde. Muse to Karl Lagerfeld. Advocate for the multiple sclerosis community. But before all of that, Selma was known best as … a mean baby. In a memoir that is as wildly funny as it is emotionally shattering. Blair tells the captivating story of growing up and finding her truth.
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The Lincoln Highway
by Amor Towles
The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America.
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Prisoners of the Castle
by Ben Macintyre
The “entertaining yet objective and often-moving account” (The Wall Street Journal) of one of history’s most notorious prisons — and the remarkable cast of POWs who tried relentlessly to escape their captors. Bringing together the wartime intrigue of his acclaimed Operation Mincemeat and keen psychological portraits of his bestselling true-life spy stories, Macintyre has breathed new life into one of the greatest war stories ever told.
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