Paperbacks new and noteworthy

■ ‘State: A Team, a Triumph, a Transformation,’ by Melissa Isaacson. (Agate, 320 pp., $17.) According to Times reviewer Juliet Macur, the “most engaging character” in this sports journalist’s memoir about playing on her (state championship) high school basketball team in the late 1970s, thanks to Title IX, is the team’s first coach. A supportive gym teacher “seemingly stuck” on feminine stereotypes, she directed her players on the bench to sip water out of Dixie cups rather than drink from bottles like the boys.

■ ‘The Travelers,’ by Regina Porter. (Hogarth, 320 pp., $17.) Times reviewer Elisabeth Egan called this novel about two families — “white and Black, scattered across the North and the South” — a “poetic, spare, sometimes funny tale of ordinary people pining for meaningful connections.”

■ ‘Berlin,’ by Jason Lutes. (Drawn & Quarterly, 580 pp., $39.95.) The “magic” of this graphic novel “opus,” 20 years in the making, about the fall of the Weimar Republic, is the way the American author “conjures” an era and a place “so remote from him.” In its last pages, after fascism takes hold, the book “pitches” forward through time “as though to meet us” — Ed Park, one of the Times’ graphic content columnists, marveled — with “an ending so electrifying that I gasped.”

■ ‘Supper Club,’ by Lara Williams. (Putnam, 320 pp., $17.) In this “tart” debut novel, two female friends start a secret club for “hungry” women and host “bacchanals” that serve as “reprieves” from their subordinate everyday lives. As a writer, Williams “shines” in the kitchen, Times reviewer Andrea Long Chu declared. “The food in this book eats you.”

■ ‘On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal,’ by Naomi Klein. (Simon & Schuster, 336 pp., $18.) Updated with a foreword on climate change in the age of COVID-19, the Canadian journalist and activist’s book, while flawed — Times reviewer Jeffrey Goodell wrote — makes “a strong case” for the Green New Deal as our best hope to inspire people to get involved.

■ ‘The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care,’ by Anne Boyer. (Picador, 320 pp., $18.) This Pulitzer Prize-winning takedown of the “respectability politics” around breast cancer is an “extraordinary and furious” book, in Times critic Jennifer Szalai’s words. It doesn’t just “unfasten” the pink ribbon’s “dainty loop”; it “feeds it through a shredder and lights it on fire, incinerating its remains.”