Penguin Books imprint: 2816 books
The Crash Detectives
Investigating the World's Most Mysterious Air Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
“Negroni is a talented aviation journalist who clearly understands the critically important part the human factor plays in aviation safety.” —Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, pilot of US Airways 1549, the Miracle on the Hudson
One of The Wall Street Journal’s 3 Books Every...
by Joel Dicker
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
**Instant New York Times Bestseller
Now a 10-part TV series on EPIX, starring Patrick Dempsey, Ben Schnetzer, Damon Wayans Jr., and Virginia Madsen**
“Unimpeachably terrific.” —The New York Times Book Review
The publishing phenomenon topping bestseller lists around the world,...
Tasting Pleasure
Confessions of a Wine Lover
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Even the French admit that Jancis Robinson is the "undisputed mistress of the kingdom of wine" (Le Figaro). Internationally renowned for her work in both television and print, she is the editor of the bestselling Oxford Companion to Wine and has won more than two dozen major awards around...
Conquering Gotham
Building Penn Station and Its Tunnels
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
“Superb. [A] first-rate narrative” (The Wall Street Journal) about the controversial construction of New York’s beloved original Penn Station and its tunnels, from the author of Eiffel's Tower and Urban Forests
As bestselling books like Ron Chernow's Titan and David McCullough's The Great...
There Is Simply Too Much to Think About
Collected Nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
“Bellow’s nonfiction has the same strengths as his stories and novels: a dynamic responsiveness to character, place and time (or era) . . . And you wonder—what other highbrow writer, or indeed lowbrow writer has such a reflexive grasp of the street, the machine, the law courts, the rackets?”...
The End
The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
From the preeminent Hitler biographer, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II.
Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost World War II, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to...
A Place of My Own
The Architecture of Daydreams
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
A captivating personal inquiry into the art of architecture, the craft of building, and the meaning of modern work
“A room of one’s own: Is there anybody who hasn’t at one time or another wished for such a place, hasn’t turned those soft words over until they’d assumed a habitable...
The Accidental Masterpiece
On the Art of Life and Vice Versa
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2006
A New York Times bestseller—a dazzling and inspirational survey of how art can be found and appreciated in everyday life
Michael Kimmelman, the prominent New York Times writer and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, is known as a deep and graceful writer across the disciplines...
by Alejandro Zambra
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
**"Brilliant, innovative, beautiful." —The Guardian
"Dazzling...a work of parody, but also of poetry." —The New York Times Book Review**
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, THE GUARDIAN, AND THE IRISH TIMES
“Latin America’s new literary...
The Invisible History of the Human Race
How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
**• A New York Times Notable Book •
“The richest, freshest, most fun book on genetics in some time.” —The New York Times Book Review**
We are doomed to repeat history if we fail to learn from it, but how are we affected by the forces that are invisible to us? In The Invisible...
A Fragile Future
An Update to Descent into Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
A fascinating up-to-date look at the roots of our financial crisis from the New York Times bestselling author Kevin Phillip*s
Descent into Chaos* is Ahmed Rashid's sweeping, brilliant exploration of the failure of the United States to secure peace and nourish democracy in Pakistan and Afghanistan...
Billie Holiday
The Musician and the Myth
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
**• Kirkus Best Books of 2015 selection for Biography •
Published in celebration of Holiday’s centenary, the first biography to focus on the singer’s extraordinary musical talent**
When Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia’s studios in November 1933, it marked the beginning...
Astral Weeks
A Secret History of 1968
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
A mind-expanding dive into a lost chapter of 1968, featuring the famous and forgotten: Van Morrison, folkie-turned-cult-leader Mel Lyman, Timothy Leary, James Brown, and many more
Van Morrison's Astral Weeks is an iconic rock album shrouded in legend, a masterpiece that has touched generations...
Read the Beatles
Classic and New Writings on the Beatles, Their Legacy, and Why They Still Matter
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
A must-have volume for all Beatles fans-a career-spanning selection of writings about the Fab Four
There are, of course, many books on the Beatles, but this is the only one available that is a comprehensive, career-spanning collection of journalism about the legendary band, before and after...