NMLP P-043166 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
It Starts with Us
Colleen Hoover · Atria Books (Simon & Schuster), New York — trade paperback original; Simon & Schuster UK, London — first hardback · 2022
Census claim refined. Same-day US/UK publication on 18 October 2022 is confirmed, but the point that matters is format, not date: Atria's US issue is the true first and is a trade paperback, while the Simon & Schuster UK issue of the same day is the first hardback. Both are collected and neither displaces the other. Describing this simply as 'Atria (US) 2022' invites the common error of hunting a US hardcover first that was never published — and of then buying the 2024 Special Collector's Edition in its place.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-043166 for "It Starts with Us" by Colleen Hoover (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-043166, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).