Picks and Pans Review: Great Reads New in Paperback

By KYLE SMITH, JOANNA POWELL, MEREDITH MARAN, ANDREW ABRAHAMS, CARLOS GREER, LIZ MCNEIL

UPDATED 12/06/2010 at 01:00 AM EST • Originally published 12/06/2010 at 01:00 AM EST

JUST KIDS

by Patti Smith

Smith's memoir about her youth with BFF Robert Mapplethorpe just won a National Book Award.

TOO MUCH HAPPINESS

by Alice Munro

Another batch of astute, transporting short stories from the undisputed queen of the form.

HALF BROKE HORSES

by Jeannette Walls

From The Glass Castle author, a novel about her indomitable grandma.