Spring 2024 Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Catalog
TitleA Short Walk Through a Wide World
AuthorWesterbeke, Douglas
Sub-ImprintAvid Reader Press
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1FICTION / Action & Adventure
Category Full 2FICTION / Magical Realism
Category Full 3FICTION / Coming of Age
ISBN-139781668026069
On Sale04/02/24
Title StatusAS
US Price$28.99
CDN Price$36.99
Pages400
Cover StatusFinal
“Imagine The Life of Pi, The Alchemist, and The Midnight Library rolled into one fantastical fable.” —The New York Times Book Review * “An epic adventure…rich with all the possibilities the world can hold.” —People

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A dazzlingly epic debut that charts the incredible, adventurous life of one woman as she journeys the globe trying to outrun a mysterious curse that will destroy her if she stops moving.
TitleExpiration Dates
AuthorSerle, Rebecca
Sub-ImprintAtria Books
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1FICTION / Women
Category Full 2FICTION / Romance/Contemporary
Category Full 3FICTION / Literary
ISBN-139781982166823
On Sale03/19/24
Title StatusBSB
US Price$27
CDN Price$36
Pages272
Cover StatusFinal
The New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years and One Italian Summer returns with “a romantic gem” (Laura Dave, New York Times bestselling author) about a young woman who decides to finally live for herself rather than rely on the universe for answers.
TitleThe Age of Magical Overthinking
AuthorMontell, Amanda
Sub-ImprintAtria/One Signal Publishers
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
Category Full 2PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
Category Full 3SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
ISBN-139781668007976
On Sale04/09/24
Title StatusAS
US Price$28.99
CDN Price$38.99
Pages272
Cover StatusFinal
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A BookPage Best Nonfiction Book of 2024

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking.
TitleThe Year of the Locust
AuthorHayes, Terry
Sub-ImprintEmily Bestler Books / Atria Books
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1FICTION / Thrillers/Suspense
Category Full 2FICTION / Thrillers/General
Category Full 3FICTION / Political
ISBN-139781668055786
On Sale02/06/24
Title StatusAS
US Price$32
CDN Price$39.99
Pages800
Cover StatusFinal
In this “absolutely brilliant, tension-filled tour de force” (Brad Thor) from New York Times bestselling author Terry Hayes, CIA spy Kane confronts an evil that could bring the world to a cataclysmic end.
TitleFruit of the Dead
AuthorLyon, Rachel
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1FICTION / Literary
Category Full 2FICTION / Women
Category Full 3FICTION / Coming of Age
ISBN-139781668020852
On Sale03/05/24
Title StatusAS
US Price$28
CDN Price$37
Pages320
Cover StatusFinal
Named a Best Book of the Year by Oprah Daily

* “Mesmerizing.” —Town & Country * “Twisty and unsettling.” —People * “Ancient Greece meets Succession by way of Emma Cline…deliciously dark.” —Ruth Gilligan *

A “superb…refreshing” (The New York Times Book Review) reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set on a lush private island, exploring themes of addiction and sex, family, independence, and who holds the power in a modern underworld.
TitleClear
AuthorDavies, Carys
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1FICTION / Literary
Category Full 2FICTION / Historical/General
Category Full 3FICTION / World Literature/Scotland/19th Century
ISBN-139781668030660
On Sale04/02/24
Title StatusAS
US Price$24
CDN Price$29.99
Pages208
Cover StatusFinal
“Tender, riveting, and inventive is Clear, the newest offering and masterpiece from the brilliant Carys Davies. It will take your breath away…What a thrill.” —Sarah Jessica Parker

A New York Times Book Review Top 10 Historical Fiction Book of 2024

A Vogue, The Washington Post, NPR, Kirkus Reviews, The Guardian, and The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Best Book of the Year

Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the 2024 Bookmark Festival Book of Year
Finalist for the Libby Book of the Year in Historical Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2024 Books Are My Bag Award, the Historical Writers’ Association Gold Crown Award, the Saltire Society Literary Award, and Wales Book of the Year
Longlisted for Blackwell’s Book of the Year
, the Highland Book Prize, the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and the Europese Literatuurprijs

A “daring and necessary…sophisticated and playful” (The New York Times) novel from an award-winning writer, Clear is the story of a minister dispatched to a remote island to “clear” its last remaining inhabitant—an unforgettable tale of resilience, change, and hope.
TitleThe Wives
AuthorGorrindo, Simone
Sub-ImprintScout Press
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
Category Full 2BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
Category Full 3BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military
ISBN-139781982178499
On Sale04/09/24
Title StatusAS
US Price$29.99
CDN Price$39.99
Pages416
Cover StatusFinal
“[Simone] Gorrindo’s prose is inviting and fluid, and her storytelling is intimate and vivid...[an] engaging, evocative memoir.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A hopeful, unifying memoir.” —People

This profoundly intimate memoir about marriage, friendship, and the power of human connection tells the story of one woman’s experience of joining a community of army wives after leaving her New York City job.
TitleIsland Rule
AuthorFlynn, Katie M.
Sub-ImprintScout Press
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1FICTION / Dystopian
Category Full 2FICTION / Literary
Category Full 3FICTION / Science Fiction/General
ISBN-139781982122201
On Sale03/05/24
Title StatusAS
US Price$27.99
CDN Price$36.99
Pages288
Cover StatusFinal
From the author of the “urgent and heartfelt” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel The Companions, a genre-bending collection of interconnected short stories in the tradition of Jennifer Egan and Karen Russell.
TitleThe Bullet Swallower
AuthorGonzalez James, Elizabeth
Sub-ImprintSimon & Schuster
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1FICTION / Hispanic & Latino
Category Full 2FICTION / Magical Realism
Category Full 3FICTION / Literary
ISBN-139781668009321
On Sale01/23/24
Title StatusAS
US Price$26.99
CDN Price$35.99
Pages272
Cover StatusFinal
A “mesmerizing...wildly entertaining” (The Boston Globe) magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to rob a train, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, finally, to collect a cosmic debt generations in the making.
TitleSay Hello to My Little Friend
AuthorCapó Crucet, Jennine
Sub-ImprintSimon & Schuster
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1FICTION / Humorous/General
Category Full 2FICTION / Literary
Category Full 3FICTION / Hispanic & Latino
ISBN-139781668023327
On Sale03/05/24
Title StatusAS
US Price$27.99
CDN Price$36.99
Pages304
Cover StatusFinal
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize | Winner of the 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prize | Finalist for the Kirkus Prize

“A blistering, hilarious, tragic novel that is simultaneously absurd and painfully real.” —The Miami Herald

Scarface meets Moby Dick in Say Hello to My Little Friend following a young man’s attempt to capitalize on his mother’s murky legacy—a story steeped in Miami’s marvelous and sinister magic.