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| | Title | Phil | | Author | Shipnuck, Alan | | Sub-Imprint | Avid Reader press | | Format | Paperback | | Category Full 1 | SPORTS & RECREATION / Golf | | Category Full 2 | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports | | Category Full 3 | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Rich & Famous |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781476797106 | | On Sale | 05/02/23 | | Title Status | AS | | US Price | $18.99 | | CDN Price | $25.99 | | Pages | 272 | | Cover Status | Final |
| NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “A rollicking good time.” —Golfweek * “Thoroughly engaging.” —The Washington Post
Now with a new afterword: a juicy and freewheeling biography of legendary golf champion Phil Mickelson—who has led a big, controversial life—as reported by longtime Sports Illustrated writer and bestselling author Alan Shipnuck. |
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| | Title | Delphi | | Author | Pollard, Clare | | Sub-Imprint | Avid Reader Press | | Format | Paperback | | Category Full 1 | FICTION / Literary | | Category Full 2 | FICTION / Family Life/General | | Category Full 3 | FICTION / Disaster |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781982197902 | | On Sale | 05/09/23 | | Title Status | AS | | US Price | $17 | | CDN Price | $23 | | Pages | 224 | | Cover Status | Final |
| A Guardian Best Book of 2022 * “Clever and surprising.” —BuzzFeed * “Brilliantly funny.” —San Francisco Chronicle * “Ingenious.”—The Millions * “Powerful.” —Harper’s Bazaar
A captivating debut novel about a classics professor immersed in research for a new book on a prophecy in the ancient world who confronts chilling questions about her own life just as the pandemic descends—for readers of Jenny Offill, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Sally Rooney. |
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| | Title | Life on the Mississippi | | Author | Buck, Rinker | | Sub-Imprint | Avid Reader press | | Format | Paperback | | Category Full 1 | HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries | | Category Full 2 | HISTORY / United States/General | | Category Full 3 | TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781501106385 | | On Sale | 05/16/23 | | Title Status | AS | | US Price | $19.99 | | CDN Price | $26.99 | | Pages | 416 | | Cover Status | Final |
| NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “Audacious…Life on the Mississippi sparkles.” —The Wall Street Journal * “A rich mix of history, reporting, and personal introspection.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch * “Both a travelogue and an engaging history lesson about America’s westward expansion.” —The Christian Science Monitor
The eagerly awaited return of master American storyteller Rinker Buck, Life on the Mississippi is an epic, enchanting blend of history and adventure in which Buck builds a wooden flatboat from the grand “flatboat era” of the 1800s and sails it down the Mississippi River, illuminating the forgotten past of America’s first western frontier. |
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| | Title | Drowning | | Author | Newman, T. J. | | Sub-Imprint | Avid Reader Press | | Format | Hardcover | | Category Full 1 | FICTION / Thrillers/Suspense | | Category Full 2 | FICTION / Thrillers/Psychological | | Category Full 3 | FICTION / Thrillers/Technological |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781982177911 | | On Sale | 05/30/23 | | Title Status | AS | | US Price | $28 | | CDN Price | $32 | | Pages | 304 | | Cover Status | Final |
| NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES * “Reads like Apollo 13 underwater.” —Don Winslow * “Masterful.” —Patricia Cornwell * “A stunningly vivid tour de force!” Gripping. Shocking.” —Brad Thor
Flight attendant turned New York Times bestselling author T. J. Newman’s adrenaline-fueled thriller about a commercial jetliner that crashes into the ocean and sinks to the bottom with passengers trapped inside—and the extraordinary rescue operation to save them. |
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| | Title | Pretty Baby | | Author | Belcher, Chris | | Sub-Imprint | Avid Reader Press | | Format | Paperback | | Category Full 1 | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBTQ+ | | Category Full 2 | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women | | Category Full 3 | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781982175832 | | On Sale | 06/06/23 | | Title Status | AS | | US Price | $18 | | CDN Price | $25 | | Pages | 272 | | Cover Status | Final |
| “Absolutely not to be missed.” —Vogue
“A muscular, canny memoir about labor and power and gender…I couldn’t put it down. What a fucking gorgeous book.” —Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House
A queer teen rebel escapes small-town Appalachia and becomes Los Angeles’s Renowned Lesbian Dominatrix in this searing and darkly funny memoir that upends our ideas about desire, class, and power. |
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| | Title | How to Stay Married | | Author | Key, Harrison Scott | | Sub-Imprint | Avid Reader Press | | Format | Hardcover | | Category Full 1 | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs | | Category Full 2 | HUMOR / Topic/Marriage & Family | | Category Full 3 | HUMOR / Topic/Religion |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781668015506 | | On Sale | 06/13/23 | | Title Status | AS | | US Price | $28.99 | | CDN Price | $38.99 | | Pages | 320 | | Cover Status | Final |
| | Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, tells the shocking, “shot through with sharp humor” (The Washington Post), spiritually profound story of his journey through hell and back when infidelity threatens his marriage. |
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| | Title | Ghost Lover | | Author | Taddeo, Lisa | | Sub-Imprint | Avid Reader press | | Format | Paperback | | Category Full 1 | FICTION / Literary | | Category Full 2 | FICTION / Women | | Category Full 3 | FICTION / Short stories (single author) |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781982122195 | | On Sale | 06/13/23 | | Title Status | AS | | US Price | $18.99 | | CDN Price | $25.99 | | Pages | 240 | | Cover Status | Final |
| “Raw and searching...Taddeo returns with more ruthless explorations of the feminine mystique.” —Entertainment Weekly, “The Best New Books of the Month” * “Provocative.” —Los Angeles Times
From the #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Three Women and “our most eloquent and faithful chronicler of human desire” (Esquire), comes an electrifying collection of nine fearless and ferocious short stories. |
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| | Title | Butts | | Author | Radke, Heather | | Sub-Imprint | Avid Reader Press | | Format | Paperback | | Category Full 1 | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies | | Category Full 2 | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture | | Category Full 3 | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781982135492 | | On Sale | 06/13/23 | | Title Status | AS | | US Price | $19.99 | | CDN Price | $26.99 | | Pages | 320 | | Cover Status | Final |
| “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. |
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| | Title | The Fight to Save the Town | | Author | Wilde Anderson, Michelle | | Sub-Imprint | Avid Reader press | | Format | Paperback | | Category Full 1 | POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government/Local | | Category Full 2 | HISTORY / United States/21st Century | | Category Full 3 | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Government & Business |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781501195990 | | On Sale | 06/20/23 | | Title Status | AS | | US Price | $18.99 | | CDN Price | $25.99 | | Pages | 368 | | Cover Status | Final |
| | A sweeping and eye-opening study of wealth inequality and the dismantling of local government in four working-class US cities that passionately argues for reinvestment in people-centered leadership and offers “a welcome reminder of what government can accomplish if given the chance” (San Francisco Chronicle). |
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| | Title | Human Blues | | Author | Albert, Elisa | | Sub-Imprint | Avid Reader Press | | Format | Paperback | | Category Full 1 | FICTION / Literary | | Category Full 2 | FICTION / Feminist | | Category Full 3 | FICTION / Family Life/General |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781982167875 | | On Sale | 07/11/23 | | Title Status | AS | | US Price | $18.99 | | CDN Price | $25.99 | | Pages | 432 | | Cover Status | Final |
| “Crackling and bighearted...A powerhouse [that] echoes with the truth that we find harmony when we listen first to ourselves.” —Oprah Daily * “Takes off with magnificent speed and never lets up.” —The New York Times * “Revolutionary.” —NPR’s Morning Edition * A Los Angeles Times and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A provocative and “darkly funny” (Cosmopolitan) novel about a woman who desperately wants a child but struggles to accept the use of assisted reproductive technology—a “riotous, visceral” (Vanity Fair) send-up of feminism, fame, art, commerce, and autonomy. |
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