Book Club Sampler from SIMON & SCHUSTER January—April 2018
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A SpringBook Club Sampler FROM SIMON & SCHUSTER January—April 2018 LOVE AND OTHER WORDS BEARTOWN By Christina Lauren By Fredrik Backman AVAILABLE AS A PAPERBACK ORIGINAL ON APRIL 10 AVAILABLE NOW IN HARDCOVER, PAPERBACK ON FEBRUARY 6 Childhood sweethearts reunite after a decade—and many unresolved issues—have The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A come between them. The first women’s fiction Man Called Ove returns with a winning novel novel from New York Times bestselling author about a forgotten town fractured by scandal, and the amateur hockey team that might just Christina Lauren. change everything. For readers of: Jojo Moyes, Taylor Jenkins For readers of: The Ocean at the End of the Reid, Jennifer Weiner, and Nights in Lane, Miller’s Valley, The Readers of Broken Rodanthe Wheel Recommend, and Empire Falls 9781501128011 9781501160769 ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL THE PERFECT STRANGER By Sarah Vaughan By Megan Miranda AVAILABLE IN HARDCOVER ON JANUARY 23 AVAILABLE NOW IN PAPERBACK Part courtroom drama, part portrait of a From New York Times bestselling author of All marriage, Anatomy of a Scandal is an incisive, the Missing Girls, the dark and twisty story of suspenseful page-turner about a scandal a journalist who sets out to find her missing among Britain’s privileged elite that couldn’t friend, a friend who may never have existed be more timely. at all. For readers of: The Kept Woman, For readers of: The Woman in Cabin 10, Defending Jacob, Notes on a Scandal, Gone Girl, The Winter People, and Luckiest Hausfrau, and John Grisham’s courtroom Girl Alive dramas 9781501172168 9781501108006 EVERY NOTE PLAYED THE TEA GIRL OF By Lisa Genova HUMMINGBIRD LANE AVAILABLE IN HARDCOVER ON MARCH 20 By Lisa See From neuroscientist and New York Times AVAILABLE NOW IN HARDCOVER, PAPERBACK ON APRIL 3 bestselling author of Still Alice, a powerful and heartbreaking novel about a divorced couple An unforgettable novel from New York Times whose relationship is redefined in the wake of bestselling author Lisa See that explores the a devastating ALS diagnosis. lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American For readers of: Me Before You, The couple. Descendants, My Sister’s Keeper, and Small Great Things For readers of: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, The Japanese Lover, The Signature of All Things, and The Valley of Amazement 9781476717807 9781501154836 ASYMMETRY THE GLASS FOREST By Lisa Halliday By Cynthia Swanson AVAILABLE IN HARDCOVER ON FEBRUARY 6 AVAILABLE IN HARDCOVER ON FEBRUARY 6 A bold, ambitious work of literary fiction that From the New York Times bestselling author follows a young American editor who has an of The Bookseller comes a gripping literary affair with a much older writer and an Iraqi- suspense novel about a deeply troubled family American man who is detained by immigration and three women who will reveal its dark officers at the Heathrow airport. truths. For readers of: Dept. of Speculation, A Visit For readers of: The Widow, What Was Mine, from the Goon Squad, The Flamethrowers, The Girl Before, and The Weight of Water and Euphoria 9781501166761 9781501172090 BACHELOR GIRL GOLDEN HILL By Francis Spufford By Kim van Alkemade AVAILABLE NOW IN HARDCOVER, PAPERBACK ON AVAILABLE AS A PAPERBACK ORIGINAL FEBRUARY 6 ON MARCH 6 An award-winning, spectacular historical novel From the New York Times bestselling author following the adventures of a mysterious of Orphan #8, a must-read historical fiction young man in mid-eighteenth century novel inspired by the true story of Jacob Manhattan, thirty years before the American Ruppert, the millionaire owner of the New Revolution. York Yankees, and his mysterious bequest to an unknown actress in 1939. For readers of: Manhattan Beach, Lincoln in the Bardo, A Gentleman in Moscow, and The For readers of: The World of Tomorrow, Last Days of Night Brooklyn, Girl with a Pearl Earring, and The Dollhouse 9781501173349 9781501163883 THE BRIGHT HOUR: HEADS OF THE COLORED A Memoir of Living and Dying PEOPLE By Nina Riggs By Nafissa Thompson-Spires AVAILABLE NOW IN HARDCOVER, PAPERBACK ON AVAILABLE IN HARDCOVER ON APRIL 10 FEBRUARY 6 A collection of moving, timely, and darkly Brilliantly written, disarmingly funny, and funny stories that examine the concept of deeply moving, this exquisite bestselling black identity in this so-called post-racial era. memoir reminds us how to live and love every For readers of: The Fire This Time, Bad day—from a woman who was diagnosed with Feminist, Drown, The Sellout, and Loving Day breast cancer at thirty-seven years old. For readers of: When Breath Becomes Air, The Middle Place, The Best of Us, Year of Magical Thinking, Small Victories, and The Last Lecture 9781501169373 9781501167997 GIRL IN SNOW THE LAST EQUATION OF By Danya Kukafka ISAAC SEVERY AVAILABLE NOW IN HARDCOVER, PAPERBACK ON By Nova Jacobs APRIL 3 AVAILABLE IN HARDCOVER ON MARCH 6 A compulsively readably thriller about a A literary mystery about a struggling beloved high schooler found murdered in her bookseller whose recently deceased sleepy Colorado suburb and the secret lives of grandfather, a famed mathematician, left three people connected to her. behind a dangerous equation for her to find For readers of: All the Missing Girls, and protect before it falls into the wrong Everything I Never Told You, Girls on Fire, hands. Everything You Want Me to Be, and The For readers of: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Burning Girl Bookstore, The Family Fang, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, and The Book of Speculation 9781501144387 9781501175121 THE LIFE LIST OF ADRIAN THE ROOM ON RUE AMÉLIE MADRICK By Kristin Harmel By Chris White AVAILABLE IN HARDCOVER ON MARCH 27 AVAILABLE IN HARDCOVER ON MARCH 17 Set in the dramatic days of the French An evocative debut novel about a pill-popping occupation, Kristin Harmel’s entrancing, anesthesiologist and avid birder who embarks heartbreaking novel follows a young American on a quest to find one of the world’s rarest ex-pat in a loveless marriage, a dashing RAF species, allowing nothing to get in his way. pilot, and a Jewish girl whose fate entwines them both. For readers of: Fourth of July Creek, The Atomic Weight of Love, Freedom, and Grief For readers of: The Nightingale, All the Is the Thing with Feathers Light We Cannot See, The Lilac Girls, Everyone Brave Is Forgiven, and The Women in the Castle 9781501174308 9781501171406 THE LYING GAME THE SCRIBE OF SIENA By Ruth Ware By Melodie Winawer AVAILABLE NOW IN HARDCOVER, PAPERBACK ON AVAILABLE NOW IN PAPERBACK MARCH 6 Equal parts transporting love story and From the New York Times bestselling author gripping historical conspiracy, The Scribe of of The Woman in Cabin 10, a blockbuster Siena takes readers deep into medieval Italy, thriller about four girls who play a dangerous where the past and present blur and a twenty- game with deadly consequences. first century woman discovers a plot. For readers of: Luckiest Girl Alive, You, The For readers of: Outlander, The Time Good Girl, and The Girls in the Garden Traveler’s Wife, The Lake House, and The Da Vinci Code 9781501156205 9781501152269 MIDNIGHT AT THE BRIGHT THE SECRET TO SOUTHERN IDEAS BOOKSTORE CHARM By Matthew Sullivan By Kristy Woodson Harvey AVAILABLE NOW IN PAPERBACK AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK ON APRIL 3 When a bookshop patron commits suicide, his After finding out her military husband is favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle missing in action, middle sister Sloane’s world he left behind in this fiendishly clever debut crumbles as her worst nightmare comes true. novel. But with the help of her family, she finds the For readers of: Magpie Murders, The Little support and courage she needs to chase her Paris Bookshop, The Thirteenth Tale, and biggest dreams—and face her deepest fears. Murder on the Orient Express For readers of: Mary Alice Monroe, Elin Hilderbrand, and Mary Kay Andrews 9781501116858 9781501195242 SCHOOL FOR PSYCHICS THE SECRETS SHE KEEPS By K.C. Archer By Michael Robotham AVAILABLE AS A PAPERBACK ORIGINAL AVAILABLE NOW IN PAPERBACK ON APRIL 3 A psychological thriller about an unlikely A magical new series starring a funny, friendship between two pregnant women impulsive young woman who discovers she that asks: how far would you go to create the has psychic abilities—and then must decide perfect family? whether or not she will use her skills for good. For readers of: The Girl on the Train, Big For readers of: the Harry Potter series, Neil Little Lies, The Couple Next Door, and In a Gaiman, The Magicians, and The Discovery Dark, Dark Wood of Witches 9781501159336 9781501170324 THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF THEN SHE WAS GONE EVELYN HUGO By Lisa Jewell By Taylor Reid Jenkins AVAILABLE IN HARDCOVER ON APRIL 24 AVAILABLE NOW IN HARDCOVER, PAPERBACK ON Ten years after her teenage daughter MAY 29 disappears, a woman crosses paths with A mesmerizing journey through the splendor a charming single father whose young of old Hollywood into the harsh realities of child feels eerily familiar, in this evocative, the present day as two women struggle with suspenseful drama from a New York Times what it means—and what it costs—to face the bestselling author. truth. For readers of: Truly Madly Guilty, The Good For readers of: The Heiresses, Crazy Rich Girl, Mary Higgins Clark, and Tana French Asians, and The After Party 9781501161933 9781501154645 SHE REGRETS NOTHING UNRAVELING OLIVER By Andrea Dunlop By Liz Nugent AVAILABLE AS A PAPERBACK ORIGINAL ON AVAILABLE NOW IN HARDCOVER, PAPERBACK ON FEBRUARY 6 FEBRUARY 2 The forgotten granddaughter of one of New A brilliant, compulsively readable debut York’s wealthiest men is reunited with her novel about the truth behind a shocking family just as she comes of age—and once she’s act of savagery, and the profound lies and had a glimpse of their glittering world, she deceptions that come to light in its wake.