Penguin Books imprint: 2816 books
The Kid
What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2000
Dan Savage's nationally syndicated sex advice column, "Savage Love," enrages and excites more than four million people each week. In The Kid, Savage tells a no-holds-barred, high-energy story of an ordinary American couple who wants to have a baby. Except that in this case the couple happens...
The Opposite of Fate
Memories of a Writing Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2003
Delve into the stories from Amy Tan's life that inspired bestselling novels like The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement and the new memoir, Where the Past Begins
Amy Tan has touched millions of readers with haunting and sympathetic novels of cultural complexity and profound empathy....
The Girls of Murder City
Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
The true story of the murderesses who became media sensations and inspired the musical Chicago
Chicago, 1924.
There was nothing surprising about men turning up dead in the Second City. Life was cheaper than a quart of illicit gin in the gangland capital of the world. But two murders...
Minor Characters
A Beat Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1999
**Named one of the 50 best memoirs of the past 50 years by The New York Times
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
“Among the great American literary memoirs of the past century . . . a riveting portrait of an era . . . Johnson captures this period with deep clarity and...
Going Solo
The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
A revelatory examination of the most significant demographic shift since the Baby Boom—the sharp increase in the number of people who live alone—that offers surprising insights on the benefits of this epochal change
In 1950, only 22 percent of American adults were single. Today, more than...
The Bohemians
Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
An extraordinary portrait of a fast-changing America—and the Western writers who gave voice to its emerging identity
At once an intimate portrait of an unforgettable group of writers and a history of a cultural revolution in America, The Bohemians reveals how a brief moment on the far western...
Dancing Fish and Ammonites
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
The beloved and bestselling author takes an intimate look back at a life of reading and writing
“The memory that we live with . . . is the moth-eaten version of our own past that each of us carries around, depends on. It is our ID; this is how we know who we are and where we have been.”
Memory...
The Most Dangerous Book
The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
**Recipient of the 2015 PEN New England Award for Nonfiction
“The arrival of a significant young nonfiction writer . . . A measured yet bravura performance.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times**
James Joyce’s big blue book, Ulysses, ushered in the modernist era and changed the...
by Gretchen Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
In the wake of Gretchen Carlson’s lawsuit against former Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes, her memoir of her time at Fox—working alongside Megyn Kelly, Bill O’Reilly, Steve Doocy, and other prominent conservative news personalities—is more relevant than ever.
In this candid memoir,...
When in French
Love in a Second Language
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
A language barrier is no match for love. Lauren Collins discovered this firsthand when, in her early thirties, she moved to London and fell for a Frenchman named Olivier—a surprising turn of events for someone who didn’t have a passport until she was in college. But what does it mean to love someone...
Dorothy Parker
What Fresh Hell Is This?
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 1989
Marion Meade's engrossing and comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's most captivating women
In this lively, absorbing biography, Marion Meade illuminates both the charm and the dark side of Dorothy Parker, exploring her days of wicked wittiness at the Algonquin Round Table...
Brown
The Last Discovery of America
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2003
In his dazzling new memoir, Richard Rodriguez reflects on the color brown and the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America today. Rodriguez argues that America has been brown since its inception-since the moment the African and the European met within the Indian eye. But more than simply a book...
Bukowski in a Sundress
Confessions from a Writing Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
**“Somewhere between Jo Ann Beard’s The Boys of My Youth and Amy Schumer’s stand-up exists Kim Addonizio’s style of storytelling . . . at once biting and vulnerable, nostalgic without ever veering off into sentimentality.” —Refinery29
“Always vital, clever, and seductive, Addonizio...
Self-Made Man
One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2006
A journalist’s provocative and spellbinding account of her eighteen months spent disguised as a man.
Norah Vincent became an instant media sensation with the publication of Self-Made Man, her take on just how hard it is to be a man, even in a man’s world. Following in the tradition of John...