Simon is the protagonist’s first name in Becky Albertalli’s young-adult novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda.
Simon Spier is a high-school student who is secretly exchanging emails with an anonymous classmate known online as Blue. When another student discovers the messages, Simon faces pressure to reveal Blue’s identity while also dealing with his own feelings about coming out. The novel follows his friendships, romantic uncertainty, and changing understanding of honesty.
Becky Albertalli’s novel was first published in 2015. It is set at Creekwood High School, a fictional school in suburban Atlanta, Georgia. Simon’s close friends include Leah Burke and Nick Eisner, while Martin Addison’s discovery of the emails creates the central conflict.
Readers sometimes confuse the title with the 2018 film adaptation, Love, Simon. The film is based on the novel, but the book’s original title is Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda. Albertalli later wrote Leah on the Offbeat, which focuses on Leah Burke, another Creekwood student.