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“Strip Rules” has a bracing pace and the aftershave tang of a great 1950s paperback.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
A few months ago I found a paperback copy of George Orwell’s “1984” on a city bus.
From Salon ● May 31, 2026
They are often derided for their cost, and customers declare they will wait till the paperback comes out.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
"Then we'll buy the paperback when it comes out," she added.
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
Then there was a battered paperback entitled Murder at Twelve Thousand Feet, a guidebook to New York, brand-new, with no creases, and a tiny address book.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
For the next few months, I’m setting aside my beach bag’s slender paperbacks and picking up “Middlemarch.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
"But I love the smell of a new book and holding them. I love the colours, some of the covers are just so beautiful, I buy those as paperbacks."
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
A short distance away is a shelf of vintage mystery paperbacks that, when pressed in the correct spots, opens onto a kind of grotto.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
The ones that aren’t so nice to look at, like dog-eared paperbacks, are stored in the cabinets.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
So there she was, in the library on her knees in the narrow fiction stacks, with three copies of the novel, two paperbacks and one hardcover, on the shelf in front of her.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
