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But what I think is more notable is how I do it: I read only hardcover or paperback books.

From Slate • Mar. 8, 2026

The audiobook edition of Karin Slaughter’s thriller “We Are All Guilty Here” also outsold the print book—which itself was a hardcover bestseller.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

Various deluxe editions also come with bootleg recordings from a 1975 concert, concert films on Blu-ray, a hardcover book with never-seen photographs, a comic-book tour poster and more.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025

The special hardcover edition of the seminal LGBTQ+ coming of age memoir includes commentary by Kobabe as well as other comic creators and scholars.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2025

A knife, rope, PowerBars, water bottle, compass, first aid kit, a topographical map, my sketchpad, a hardcover novel, and a book Leo gave me on topography.

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes