New paperbacks: Neil Young, Andy Cohen

This month's critic's pick is Hope by Richard Zoglin (Simon & Schuster, non-fiction, reprint) Reviewer Bill Desowitz called this biography of entertainer Bob Hope “invaluable” and “vital.” ***1/2 stars out of four

Also recently released:

Special Deluxe by Neil Young (Plume, non-fiction, reprint)

The rocker subtitles his book “A Memoir of Life & Cars.”

Faceoff, edited by David Baldacci (Simon & Schuster, fiction, reprint)

Twenty-three best-selling thriller writers (including Lee Child and Dennis Lehane) contribute stories in which iconic characters go head-to-head.

The Andy Cohen Diaries by Andy Cohen (St. Martin’s Griffin, non-fiction, reprint)

The host of Watch What Happens Live keeps a dishy diary for a year.

Winter Street by Elin Hilderbrand (Back Bay, fiction, reprint)

Members of the Quinn family, who run an inn on Nantucket, navigate Christmas.

Let Me Be Frank With You by Richard Ford (Ecco, fiction, reprint)

Frank Bascombe (of The Sportswriter) narrates four stories set after Hurricane Sandy.

The Wild Truth by Carine McCandless (HarperOne, non-fiction, reprint)

Chris McCandless’s sister fills out the story of her brother, first told in Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild.

Guantanamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi (Back Bay, non-fiction, reprint)

Diary kept by a detainee at the U.S. military prison.

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story by Barbara Leaming (Thomas Dunne Books, non-fiction, reprint)

Makes the case that Jackie suffered from PTSD after the assassination of her husband, President Kennedy.

How About Never – Is Never Good for You? by Bob Mankoff (Picador, non-fiction, reprint)

An illustrated memoir by the cartoon editor of The New Yorker.

Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy (Spiegel & Grau, non-fiction, reprint)

Tells of the murder of a young black man in L.A. and the detectives who worked on the case.

Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer (Speak, fiction, reprint)

Young-adult novel about a girl at a therapeutic boarding school who takes a class on Sylvia Plath.