Spring 2024 Scribner Catalog
TitleChildren of the State
AuthorHobbs, Jeff
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatPaperback
Category Full 1BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional/General
Category Full 2SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
Category Full 3LAW / Criminal Law/Juvenile Offenders
ISBN-139781982116378
On Sale01/02/24
Title StatusAS
US Price$19.99
CDN Price$26.99
Pages384
Cover StatusFinal
From the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace comes “an eye-opening, fully humanizing, deeply affecting look at the often-misunderstood juvenile justice system and its inhabitants—young people of earnestness, disappointment, hope, and resilience” (Booklist, starred review).
TitleA Guest At the Feast
AuthorToibin, Colm
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatPaperback
Category Full 1LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
Category Full 2BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures
Category Full 3LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European/English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN-139781476785219
On Sale01/09/24
Title StatusAS
US Price$18
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.
TitleAmerican Girls
AuthorRoy, Jessica
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
Category Full 2POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism
Category Full 3FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Abuse/General
ISBN-139781982151317
On Sale01/16/24
Title StatusAS
US Price$29
CDN Price$39
Pages352
Cover StatusFinal
Named a Best Book of the Year by Elle

A CNN, NPR, and Today Most-Anticipated Book of 2024

A “gripping” (CNN), true account of religious extremism, radicalization, and the bonds of family: the story of an American woman who traveled to ISIS-controlled Syria with her two children and extremist husband and the sister back home who worked tirelessly to help her escape.
TitleWitchcraft
AuthorGibson, Marion
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1HISTORY / Social History
Category Full 2HISTORY / Women
Category Full 3BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Witchcraft
ISBN-139781668002421
On Sale01/16/24
Title StatusAS
US Price$28
CDN Price$37
Pages320
Cover StatusFinal
National Bestseller
A New Yorker Best Book of 2024

A “thought-provoking and timely” (The Times, London) global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told through thirteen distinct trials that illuminate a pattern of demonization and conspiratorial thinking that has profoundly shaped human history.
TitleSex with a Brain Injury
AuthorLiontas, Annie
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
Category Full 2BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
Category Full 3BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBTQ+
ISBN-139781668015544
On Sale01/16/24
Title StatusAS
US Price$28
CDN Price$37
Pages304
Cover StatusFinal
Winner of the Stonewall Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award

This powerful and deeply personal memoir in essays “reflects on history, philosophy, and love while living with head trauma” (The New York Times Book Review).

“An infuriatingly gorgeous, important book.” —Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties * “A riveting book about embodiment, pain, identity, and intimacy…this book is a stunning achievement.” —Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood
TitleThe New Life
AuthorCrewe, Tom
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatPaperback
Category Full 1FICTION / LGBTQ+/General
Category Full 2FICTION / Historical/General
Category Full 3FICTION / Family Life/Marriage & Divorce
ISBN-139781668000847
On Sale01/16/24
Title StatusAS
US Price$18
CDN Price$25
Pages416
Cover StatusFinal
Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, the Prix du Premier Roman Étranger, the Sunday Times Young Writer Award, the Betty Trask Prize, and the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature • Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and The Times (London) • The Sunday Times (London) Novel of the Year • Shortlisted for the 2023 Nero Book Award for Debut Fiction, the Polari Prize, and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction • Selected for Kirkus Reviews’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.
TitleFluke
AuthorKlaas, Brian
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1SELF-HELP / Personal Growth/Success
Category Full 2PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology
Category Full 3BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Forecasting
ISBN-139781668006528
On Sale01/23/24
Title StatusAS
US Price$30
CDN Price$39.99
Pages336
Cover StatusFinal
This “captivating illustration of the follies of trying to model and forecast the unpredictable world” (Financial Times) is both “empowering” (The New Statesman, UK) and “compelling” (New Scientist) as it challenges our most fundamental assumptions—by social scientist and Atlantic writer Brian Klaas, whom Prospect magazine has named one of the world’s “Top 25 Thinkers.”
TitleLast Acts
AuthorSammartino, Alexander
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1FICTION / Literary
Category Full 2FICTION / Family Life/General
Category Full 3FICTION / Small Town & Rural
ISBN-139781982196745
On Sale01/23/24
Title StatusAS
US Price$27
CDN Price$36
Pages224
Cover StatusFinal
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • Winner of the 2025 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award • National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree • “An astonishing baller of a book…pitch perfect in voice (Tony Soprano meets Samuel Beckett)…Unputdownable.” —Mary Karr • “Hilarious, exceptional.” —The New York Times Book Review

A riotous, irreverent yet big-hearted debut novel about a broke father-son duo who go all-in on some of America’s deadliest obsessions.
TitleThe Talisman
AuthorKing, Stephen
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatMass Market Paperbound
Category Full 1FICTION / Thrillers/Suspense
Category Full 2FICTION / Occult & Supernatural
Category Full 3FICTION / Fantasy/General
ISBN-139781668035061
On Sale01/23/24
Title StatusAS
US Price$11.99
CDN Price$14.99
Pages944
Cover StatusFinal
Soon to be a Netflix series! The iconic, “extraordinary” (The Washington Post) collaboration between bestselling authors Stephen King and Peter Straub—an epic #1 New York Times bestselling fantasy thriller about a young boy’s quest to save his mother’s life.
TitleRoot Fractures
AuthorNguyen, Diana K.
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatPaperback
Category Full 1POETRY / Subjects & Themes/Death, Grief, Loss
Category Full 2POETRY / Subjects & Themes/Family
Category Full 3POETRY / American/Asian American & Pacific Islander
ISBN-139781668031308
On Sale01/30/24
Title StatusAS
US Price$18
CDN Price$25
Pages128
Cover StatusFinal
*One of Time’s Must-Read Books of 2024*
*One of Electric Lit’s Best Poetry Collections of 2024*
*One of LitHub’s Poetry Books to Read in 2024*
*One of The Millions’s Must-Read Poetry Books of Winter 2024*

National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen’s second poetry collection, a haunting of a family’s past upon its present, and a frank reckoning with how loss and displacement transform mothers and daughters across generations.