Error while using Crealytics package to read Excel file

Question

I'm trying to read an Excel file from HDFS location using Crealytics package and keep getting an error (Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:org.apache.spark.sql.connector.catalog.TableProvider). My code is below. Any tips? When running the below code, the spark session initiates fine and the Crealytics package loads without error. The error only comes when running the "spark.read" code. The file location I'm using is accurate.

def spark_session(spark_conf):

    conf = SparkConf()
    for (key, val) in spark_conf.items():
        conf.set(key, val)

    spark = SparkSession \
        .builder \
        .enableHiveSupport() \
        .config(conf=conf) \
        .getOrCreate()
    return spark

spark_conf = {"spark.executor.memory": "16g", 
              "spark.yarn.executor.memoryOverhead": "3g",
              "spark.dynamicAllocation.initialExecutors": 2,
              "spark.driver.memory": "16g", 
              "spark.kryoserializer.buffer.max": "1g",
              "spark.driver.cores": 32,
              "spark.executor.cores": 8,
              "spark.yarn.queue": "adhoc",
              "spark.app.name": "CDSW_basic",
              "spark.dynamicAllocation.maxExecutors": 32,
              "spark.jars.packages": "com.crealytics:spark-excel_2.12:0.14.0"
             }


df = spark.read.format("com.crealytics.spark.excel") \
          .option("useHeader", "true") \
          .load("/user/data/Block_list.xlsx")

I've also tried loading it outside of the session function with the code below yielding the same error once I try to read the file.

crealytics_driver_loc = "com.crealytics:spark-excel_2.12:0.14.0"
os.environ['PYSPARK_SUBMIT_ARGS'] = '--packages ' + crealytics_driver_loc + ' pyspark-shell'