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July 27, 2001
One day I'd like to go into a bookstore and pick up whatever title I wanted. Even
better, I'd run a shopping cart through the aisles, tossing in books willy-nilly. Maybe I
even could have a cute stock boy to follow me around, his arms loaded down with hefty
hardcover bestsellers, thick biographies, and weighty tomes about the rise and fall of
something or other. But until the day when my as yet unknown millionaire relative dies and
leaves me everything, I will be an unabashed paperback buyer. I have trained myself to
hold out until books arrive in this smaller, cheaper, more accessible form.
For my fellow softcover devotees, here are the best new and notable paperback titles for
you to read while fantasizing about the day when you will snap your fingers and your
lackeys will come running with big, pricey hardcovers.
--- by Jennifer Abbots
ASLEEP
Banana Yoshimoto
Grove Press
ISBN: 0802138209
Pages: 192
A BLIND MAN CAN SEE HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU
Amy Bloom
Vintage Books
ISBN: 0375705570
Pages: 208
AN INVISIBLE SIGN OF MY OWN
Aimee Bender
Anchor Books
ISBN: 0385492243
Pages: 256
 THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY
Michael Chabon
Picador USA
ISBN: 0312282990
Pages: 656
A DENSITY OF SOULS
Christopher Rice
Talk Miramax Books
ISBN: 0786886463
Pages: 288
DROWNING RUTH
Christina Schwarz
Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345439104
Pages: 352
SWIMMING SWEET ARROW
Maureen Gibbon
Back Bay Books
ISBN: 0316355569
Pages: 240
FIONA RANGE
McGarry Morris
Penguin Books
ISBN: 0141001844
Pages: 432
PASTORALIA: Stories
George Saunders
Riverhead Books
ISBN: 1573228729
THE RIVER KING
Alice Hoffman
Berkley Publishing Group
ISBN: 0425179672
Pages: 352
HOT SIX
Janet Evanovich
St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 0312976275
Pages: 352
CONFESSIONS OF A WINDOW DRESSER: Tales from A Life in Fashion
Simon Doonan
Viking Studio
ISBN: 0141003626
Pages: 240
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