AL Debuts
TitleThrillville, USA
AuthorKoekkoek, Taylor
Sub-ImprintSimon & Schuster
FormatPaperback
Category Full 1FICTION / Short Stories
Category Full 2FICTION / Small Town & Rural
Category Full 3FICTION / Literary
ISBN-139781982155612
On Sale03/21/23
Title StatusAS
US Price$16.99
CDN Price$22.99
Pages208
Cover StatusFinal
A raw and remarkable debut story collection concerning substance abuse, societal alienation, and doomed romance from a writer whose work has appeared in prestigious literary journals including The Paris Review.
TitleAt Sea
AuthorFedor, Emma
Sub-ImprintGallery Books
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1FICTION / Women
Category Full 2FICTION / Family Life/General
Category Full 3FICTION / Romance/Suspense
ISBN-139781982171544
On Sale03/07/23
Title StatusAS
US Price$27.99
CDN Price$36.99
Pages320
Cover StatusFinal
What happens when the man you love most in the world unexpectedly disappears and takes your small child with him? Emma Fedor’s “wonderful, haunting, and original” (Katherine Faulkner, author of Greenwich Park) debut explores the fierceness of first love and how far one woman will go to learn the truth about her family.
TitleThe Shamshine Blind
AuthorPardo, Paz
Sub-ImprintAtria Books
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1FICTION / Literary
Category Full 2FICTION / Crime
Category Full 3FICTION / Alternative History
ISBN-139781982185329
On Sale02/14/23
Title StatusAS
US Price$28
CDN Price$37
Pages320
Cover StatusFinal
A beguiling blend of noir detective story and science fiction perfect for fans of Michael Chabon and Emily St. John Mandel, this unputdownable debut imagines a world where emotions have been weaponized, and a small-town law enforcement agent uncovers a conspiracy to take down what’s left of American democracy.
TitleA Likely Story
AuthorMcMullan Abramson, Leigh
Sub-ImprintAtria Books
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1FICTION / Family Life/General
Category Full 2FICTION / Coming of Age
Category Full 3FICTION / Literary
ISBN-139781982199241
On Sale03/14/23
Title StatusAS
US Price$27.99
CDN Price$36.99
Pages352
Cover StatusFinal
CBS New York Book Club with Mary Calvi and Belletrist Book Club Pick

“Raw, complex, and utterly unforgettable.” —Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author

The only child of a famous American novelist discovers a shocking family secret that upends everything she thought she knew about her parents, her gilded childhood, and her own stalled writing career in this standout debut, perfect for fans of Pineapple Street and The Plot.
TitleThe Writing Retreat
AuthorBartz, Julia
Sub-ImprintEmily Bestler Books / Atria Books
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1FICTION / Thrillers/Psychological
Category Full 2FICTION / Thrillers/Suspense
Category Full 3FICTION / Women
ISBN-139781982199456
On Sale02/21/23
Title StatusAS
US Price$27
CDN Price$36
Pages320
Cover StatusFinal
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Sex, suspense, and the supernatural fuel this propulsive debut.” —People

A young author is invited to an exclusive writer’s retreat that soon descends into a pulse-pounding nightmare—in the vein of The Plot and Please Join Us.
TitleThe New Life
AuthorCrewe, Tom
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1FICTION / LGBTQ+/General
Category Full 2FICTION / Historical/General
Category Full 3FICTION / Family Life/Marriage & Divorce
ISBN-139781668000830
On Sale01/03/23
Title StatusAS
US Price$28
CDN Price$37
Pages400
Cover StatusFinal
Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, the Prix du Premier Roman Étranger, and the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature • A New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, and Times (London) Best Book of the Year • The Sunday Times (London) Novel of the Year • Shortlisted for the 2023 Nero Book Award for Debut Fiction and the Polari Prize • Selected for Kirkus Review’s Best Fiction Books of the Year

A captivating and “remarkable” (The Boston Globe) debut that “brims with intelligence and insight” (The New York Times), about two marriages, two forbidden love affairs, and the passionate search for social and sexual freedom in late 19th-century London.
TitleThe Golden Spoon
AuthorMaxwell, Jessa
Sub-ImprintAtria Books
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1FICTION / Mystery & Detective/Cozy/General
Category Full 2FICTION / Thrillers/Domestic
Category Full 3FICTION / Literary
ISBN-139781668008003
On Sale03/07/23
Title StatusAS
US Price$27
CDN Price$36
Pages288
Cover StatusFinal
“This delicious combination of Clue and The Great British Bake Off kept me turning the pages all night!” —Janet Evanovich, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Only Murders in the Building meets The Maid in this darkly beguiling locked-room mystery where someone turns up dead on the set of TV’s hottest baking competition—perfect for fans of Nita Prose, Richard Osman, and Anthony Horowitz.
TitleLooking for Jane
AuthorMarshall, Heather
Sub-ImprintAtria Books
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1FICTION / Historical/General
Category Full 2FICTION / Women
Category Full 3FICTION / Friendship
ISBN-139781668013687
On Sale02/07/23
Title StatusBO
US Price$27.99
CDN Price
Pages400
Cover StatusFinal
This “clever and satisfying” (Associated Press) #1 international bestseller for fans of Kristin Hannah and Jennifer Chiaverini follows three women who are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother’s love, and a secret network of women fighting for the right to choose—inspired by true stories.
TitleCamp Zero
AuthorSterling, Michelle Min
Sub-ImprintAtria Books
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1FICTION / Dystopian
Category Full 2FICTION / Science Fiction/Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
Category Full 3FICTION / Literary
ISBN-139781668007563
On Sale04/04/23
Title StatusAS
US Price$28
CDN Price
Pages304
Cover StatusFinal
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick

In a near-future northern settlement, the fates of a young woman, a professor, and a mysterious collective of researchers collide in this mesmerizing and transportive debut that “delivers its big ideas with suspense, endlessly surprising twists, and abundant heart” (Jessamine Chan, New York Times bestselling author).
TitleButts
AuthorRadke, Heather
Sub-ImprintAvid Reader Press
FormatPaperback
Category Full 1SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
Category Full 2SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
Category Full 3BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
ISBN-139781982135492
On Sale06/13/23
Title StatusAS
US Price$18.99
CDN Price$25.99
Pages320
Cover StatusFinal
“Winning, cheeky, and illuminating….What appears initially as a folly with a look-at-this cover and title becomes, thanks to Radke’s intelligence and curiosity, something much meatier, entertaining, and wise.” —The Washington Post

“Lively and thorough, Butts is the best kind of nonfiction.” —Esquire, Best Books of 2022

A “carefully researched and reported work of cultural history” (The New York Times) that explores how one body part has influenced the female—and human—experience for centuries, and what that obsession reveals about our lives today.