Spring 2023 Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Catalog
TitleHang the Moon
AuthorWalls, Jeannette
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1FICTION / Literary
Category Full 2FICTION / Historical/20th Century/General
Category Full 3FICTION / Sagas
ISBN-139781501117299
On Sale03/28/23
Title StatusAS
US Price$28
CDN Price$37
Pages368
Cover StatusFinal
“A rollicking tale.” —The Washington Post *“Propulsive.” —Associated Press * “Wild, smart, energetic.” —Los Angeles Times * “Brilliant and effervescent.” —NPR

From the #1 bestselling author of The Glass Castle, the instant New York Times bestseller a “rip-roaring, action-packed” (The New York Times) novel about an indomitable young woman in prohibition-era Virginia.
TitleBig Swiss
AuthorBeagin, Jen
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1FICTION / Literary
Category Full 2FICTION / Women
Category Full 3FICTION / Humorous/General
ISBN-139781982153083
On Sale02/07/23
Title StatusAS
US Price$28.99
CDN Price$37.99
Pages336
Cover StatusFinal
NATIONAL BESTSELLER AND CULT FAVORITE

Named a Best Book of the Year by the New Yorker, Time, NPR, Vogue, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Huffington Post, NBC News, Lit Hub, theSkimm, Condé Nast Traveler, Town & Country, and more!

“One of the funniest books of the last few years” (Los Angeles Times) about a sex therapist’s transcriptionist and her affair with one of the patients.
TitleA Guest At the Feast
AuthorToibin, Colm
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
Category Full 2BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures
Category Full 3LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European/English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN-139781476785202
On Sale01/17/23
Title StatusAS
US Price$28
CDN Price
Pages336
Cover StatusFinal
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by LitHub and The Millions!

From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a “not to be missed” (LitHub) collection of eleven essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature.
TitleYou Could Make This Place Beautiful
AuthorSmith, Maggie
Sub-ImprintAtria/One Signal Publishers
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
Category Full 2FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting/Motherhood
Category Full 3BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Inspiration & Personal Growth
ISBN-139781982185855
On Sale04/11/23
Title StatusAS
US Price$28
CDN Price$37
Pages320
Cover StatusFinal
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NPR Best Book of the Year Time Best Book of the Year Oprah Daily Best Memoir of the Year

“A bittersweet study in both grief and joy.” ­—Time

“A sparklingly beautiful memoir-in-vignettes” (Isaac Fitzgerald, New York Times bestselling author) that explores coming of age in your middle age—from the bestselling poet and author of Keep Moving.
TitleBFF
AuthorTate, Christie
Sub-ImprintAvid Reader Press
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
Category Full 2BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
Category Full 3FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Friendship
ISBN-139781668009420
On Sale02/07/23
Title StatusAS
US Price$28
CDN Price$34.99
Pages304
Cover StatusFinal
* “A love story about the miracle of friendship.” —Maggie Smith * “Fearless and unflinching.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette *

From the author of Group, a New York Times bestseller and Reese’s Book Club Pick, a poignant, funny, and emotionally satisfying memoir about Christie Tate’s lifelong struggle to sustain female friendship, and the extraordinary friend who changed everything.
TitleMurder Your Employer
AuthorHolmes, Rupert
Sub-ImprintAvid Reader Press
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1FICTION / Mystery & Detective/General
Category Full 2FICTION / Humorous/Black Humor
Category Full 3FICTION / Action & Adventure
ISBN-139781451648218
On Sale02/21/23
Title StatusAS
US Price$29.99
CDN Price$39.99
Pages400
Cover StatusFinal
A New York Times bestseller! From Edgar Award–winning novelist, playwright, and story-songwriter Rupert Holmes comes a diabolical thriller with a killer concept: The McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts, “a fantasy academy laid out like a combination of Hogwarts, Downton Abbey, and a White Lotus–style resort” (Los Angeles Times) dedicated to the art of murder where students study how best to “delete” their most deserving victim.
TitleThe Thick and the Lean
AuthorPorter, Chana
Sub-ImprintSaga Press
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1FICTION / Science Fiction/Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
Category Full 2FICTION / Feminist
Category Full 3FICTION / Science Fiction/General
ISBN-139781668000199
On Sale04/18/23
Title StatusAS
US Price$28.99
CDN Price$38.99
Pages384
Cover StatusFinal
In Lambda Award finalist Chana Porter’s highly anticipated new novel, an aspiring chef, a cyberthief, and a kitchen maid each break free of a society that wants to constrain them.
TitleThe Deluge
AuthorMarkley, Stephen
Sub-ImprintSimon & Schuster
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1FICTION / Literary
Category Full 2FICTION / Disaster
Category Full 3FICTION / Dystopian
ISBN-139781982123093
On Sale01/10/23
Title StatusAS
US Price$32.5
CDN Price$44
Pages896
Cover StatusFinal
A New York Times Notable Book
“This book is, simply put, a modern classic. If you read it, you'll never forget it. Prophetic, terrifying, uplifting.” —Stephen King

From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching collapse and a nascent but strengthening solidarity.
TitleThe House Is on Fire
AuthorBeanland, Rachel
Sub-ImprintSimon & Schuster
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1FICTION / Historical/General
Category Full 2FICTION / Women
Category Full 3FICTION / Psychological
ISBN-139781982186142
On Sale04/04/23
Title StatusAS
US Price$28.99
CDN Price$38.99
Pages384
Cover StatusFinal
A “wildly entertaining” (NPR), “gripping” (The Washington Post) work of historical fiction about an incendiary tragedy that shocked a young nation and tore apart a community in a single night, from the author of Florence Adler Swims Forever.
TitleThe Good Life
AuthorWaldinger, Robert
Sub-ImprintSimon & Schuster
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1SELF-HELP / Personal Growth/Happiness
Category Full 2FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Friendship
Category Full 3HEALTH & FITNESS / Longevity
ISBN-139781982166694
On Sale01/10/23
Title StatusAS
US Price$28.99
CDN Price$38.99
Pages352
Cover StatusFinal
A New York Times Bestseller

What makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? In their “captivating” (The Wall Street Journal) book, the directors of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest scientific study of happiness ever conducted, show that the answer to these questions may be closer than you realize.