Fall 2024 Avid Reader Press Catalog
TitleThree Women
AuthorTaddeo, Lisa
Sub-ImprintAvid Reader Press
FormatPaperback
Category Full 1HISTORY / Social History
Category Full 2SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality
Category Full 3SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
ISBN-139781668011713
On Sale09/03/24
Title StatusNYP
US Price$18.99
CDN Price$25.99
Pages336
Cover StatusNo Cover
SOON TO BE A SERIES ON STARZ STARRING SHAILENE WOODLEY * BETTY GILPIN * DeWANDA WISE * GABRIELLE CREEVY * with BLAIR UNDERWOOD

“Staggeringly intimate...Groundbreaking.” —Entertainment Weekly
“A breathtaking and important book.” —Cheryl Strayed
“Extraordinary...A nonfiction literary masterpiece.” —Elizabeth Gilbert

#1 New York Times Bestseller and a Best Book of the Year by: The Washington Post * NPR * The Atlantic * New York Public Library * Vanity Fair * PBS * Time * Economist * Entertainment Weekly * Financial Times * Shelf Awareness * Guardian * Sunday Times * BBC * Esquire * Good Housekeeping * Elle * Real Simple * And more

A riveting true story about the sex lives of three real American women “who are carnal, brave, and beautifully flawed” (People, Book of the Week), based on nearly a decade of reporting.
TitleCreep
AuthorGurba, Myriam
Sub-ImprintAvid Reader Press
FormatPaperback
Category Full 1BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional/Hispanic & Latino
Category Full 2BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBTQ+
Category Full 3BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
ISBN-139781982186487
On Sale09/03/24
Title StatusNYP
US Price$19.99
CDN Price$26.99
Pages368
Cover StatusReady to Feed
A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE FINALIST
A LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST

“Quite simply one of the best books of the decade.” —Los Angeles Review of Books * “The mother of intersectional Latinx identity.” —Cosmopolitan * “Brilliant…a hopeful book…rooted in the steadfast belief other worlds are possible.” —The New York Observer * “Witty, confident, and effortlessly provocative.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer * “The most fearless writer in America.” Luis Alberto Urrea, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of Good Night, Irene

A ruthless and razor-sharp essay collection that tackles the pervasive, creeping oppression and toxicity that has wormed its way into society—in our books, schools, and homes, as well as the systems that perpetuate them—from one of our fiercest, foremost explorers of intersectional Latinx identity.
TitleNext Stop
AuthorResnick, Benjamin
Sub-ImprintAvid Reader Press
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1FICTION / Literary
Category Full 2FICTION / Jewish
Category Full 3FICTION / Dystopian
ISBN-139781668066638
On Sale09/10/24
Title StatusNYP
US Price$28
CDN Price$37
Pages304
Cover StatusReady to Feed
For readers of Leave the World Behind and Exit West, an astonishingly resonant novel that explores the precariousness of Jewish American life through one family after a black hole consumes the State of Israel and similar strange events occur in major cities around the world, ushering in a time of chaos as well as miracles.
TitleThe Four Tests
AuthorBaer, Daniel
Sub-ImprintAvid Reader Press
FormatPaperback
Category Full 1POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government/National
Category Full 2POLITICAL SCIENCE / Commentary & Opinion
Category Full 3POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations/General
ISBN-139781668006597
On Sale09/10/24
Title StatusNYP
US Price$20
CDN Price$27
Pages272
Cover StatusReady to Feed
A “lucidly argued” (Kirkus Reviews), illuminating, and ultimately optimistic roadmap for America’s future and the “tests” the United States must meet to maintain leadership and power in the 21st century—from the former US Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
TitleCherished Belonging
AuthorBoyle, Gregory
Sub-ImprintAvid Reader Press
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1SELF-HELP / Motivational & Inspirational
Category Full 2BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious
Category Full 3RELIGION / Faith
ISBN-139781668061855
On Sale10/08/24
Title StatusNYP
US Price$30
CDN Price$39.99
Pages256
Cover StatusReady to Feed
At a time when society is more fractured than ever before, beloved Jesuit priest Gregory Boyle invites us to see the world through a new lens of connection and build the loving community that we long to live in—a perfect message for readers of Anne Lamott, Mary Oliver, and Richard Rohr.
TitleIn the Form of a Question
AuthorSchneider, Amy
Sub-ImprintAvid Reader Press
FormatPaperback
Category Full 1BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBTQ+
Category Full 2SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
Category Full 3SCIENCE / Essays
ISBN-139781668013311
On Sale10/08/24
Title StatusNYP
US Price$18.99
CDN Price$25.99
Pages272
Cover StatusReady to Feed
“Warm and funny.” —The New York Times * “Refreshingly no-holds-barred.” —USA TODAY * “Delightful.” —San Francisco Chronicle

An inspirational, witty, and bold memoir from the most successful woman ever to compete on Jeopardy!—an exploration of what it means to ask questions of the world and of yourself as well as a passionate “ode to learning” (People).
TitleThe Eagle and the Hart
AuthorCastor, Helen
Sub-ImprintAvid Reader Press
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1HISTORY / Europe/Great Britain/Norman Conquest to Late Medieval
Category Full 2BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Royalty
Category Full 3BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
ISBN-139781982139209
On Sale10/15/24
Title StatusNYP
US Price$35
CDN Price$47
Pages688
Cover StatusReady to Feed
From an acclaimed historian and author comes an epic history: the dual biography of Richard II and Henry IV, two cousins whose lives played out in extraordinary parallel, until Henry deposed the tyrant Richard and declared himself King of England.
TitleOne Woman Show
AuthorCoulson, Christine
Sub-ImprintAvid Reader Press
FormatPaperback
Category Full 1FICTION / Literary
Category Full 2FICTION / Women
Category Full 3FICTION / Historical/World War I
ISBN-139781668027790
On Sale10/15/24
Title StatusNYP
US Price$17.99
CDN Price$24.99
Pages224
Cover StatusReady to Feed
A “modern masterwork” (NPR)—remarkably told through museum wall labels—about a 20th-century woman who transforms herself from a precious object into an unforgettable protagonist.
TitleThese Walls
AuthorFedderly, Eva
Sub-ImprintAvid Reader Press
FormatPaperback
Category Full 1SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology
Category Full 2HISTORY / United States/21st Century
Category Full 3POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy/City Planning & Urban Development
ISBN-139781982193928
On Sale10/22/24
Title StatusNYP
US Price$18.99
CDN Price$25.99
Pages224
Cover StatusReady to Feed
“A critical intervention in the high stakes debate about the social value of jails and what we could do instead to create safety and justice.” —Alex Vitale, author of The End of Policing

In the tradition of Locking Up Our Own and The New Jim Crow, a rarely seen, thought-provoking journey into Rikers Island and the American justice system that “reframes the debate the country’s incarceration crisis, with a compelling focus on architecture as a path forward (Tony Messenger, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Profit and Punishment).
TitleBen Hogan's Five Lessons
AuthorHogan, Ben
Sub-ImprintAvid Reader Press
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1SPORTS & RECREATION / Golf
Category Full 2SPORTS & RECREATION / Reference
Category Full 3SPORTS & RECREATION / Coaching/General
ISBN-139781668024119
On Sale11/05/24
Title StatusNYP
US Price$28.99
CDN Price$38.99
Pages192
Cover StatusReady to Feed
The first completely updated and refreshed edition of the timeless golf classic that has sold over a million copies—now with never-before-seen photos, original material, and memorabilia, hand-selected from the Hogan estate archive.