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Upon closer inspection, though, the clues were visible: the group’s relaxed pace, the bountiful tote bags, the occasional flash of a paperback.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
The novel, which sold 314,000 print copies so far this year, sits atop the New York Times paperback trade fiction bestseller list.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
“It ranges from like, something you’d read in your freshman year of philosophy to something that was a 1970s airport paperback thriller.”
From Salon • Mar. 23, 2026
It’s fitting, then, that the aesthetic has been adopted by Gen Z fiction writers like Honor Levy, whose paperback edition of “My First Book” includes girlish heart stickers on a hot pink background.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026
A faded paperback with a scaly creature on the front.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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