Paperbacks new and noteworthy

■ “Y/N,” by Esther Yi. (Astra House, 224 pages, $18.) This novel, one of The New York Times’ Notable Books of 2023, follows a Korean American woman whose life is upended when she becomes obsessed with a K-pop band member. As Alexandra Jacobs wrote in her review, “Y/N” plumbs “the precarity of love, and how the modern self is forged less in community than mass consumption.”

■ “The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family,” by Kerri K. Greenidge. (Liveright, 432 pages, $21.99.) In the 1800s, Angelina and Sarah Grimke left their slaveholding family in the South and gained fame as abolitionists. Outlining their lives and those of their Black relatives and descendants, this history takes the sisters “off their pedestal so that we understand them as pieces of a tapestry that could only be sewn in America,” the Times’ reviewer wrote.

■ “Revelator,” by Daryl Gregory. (Vintage, 352 pages, $17.) In mountainous rural Tennessee, Stella comes from a line of women who worship a monstrous cave-dwelling god. Her communions with him go deep, so deep that she must flee. Returning years later, Stella contends with both her past and her power in this work of Gothic fiction that the Times’ former horror columnist called “a thing of beauty, brutal in the vein of Cormac McCarthy.”

■ “Happy Place,” by Emily Henry. (Berkley, 416 pages, $19.) Henry’s novel traces the stories we tell — both to others and to ourselves. Harriet and Wyn, along with their college friends, convene yearly for a vacation in Maine. This year’s no different, except for one thing: After a decade together, they’ve broken up — but can’t find the right way to let the group know.