Penguin Books imprint: 2816 books
The House of Rothschild
Volume 2: The World's Banker: 1849-1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
A major work of economic, social and political history, Niall Ferguson's The House of Rothschild: The World's Banker 1849-1999 is the second volume of the acclaimed, landmark history of the legendary Rothschild banking dynasty.
Niall Ferguson's House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets 1798-1848...
by Shirley Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
Shirley Jackson, author of the classic short story The Lottery, was known for her terse, haunting prose. But the writer possessed another side, one which is delightfully exposed in this hilariously charming memoir of her family's life in rural Vermont. Fans of Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Cheaper...
After the Music Stopped
The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
New York Times** Bestseller**
One of our wisest and most clear-eyed economic thinkers offers a masterful narrative of the crisis and its lessons.
Many fine books on the financial crisis were first drafts of history—books written to fill the need for immediate understanding. Alan S....
An American Sickness
How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
**A New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017
"This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The...
How Music Got Free
A Story of Obsession and Invention
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
**Finalist for the 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the 2016 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year
One of Billboard’s 100 Greatest Music Books of All Time
A *New York Times *Editors’ Choice
ONE OF THE YEAR'S...
by Rebecca Makkai
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
A NEW YORK TIMES Selection for BEST 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR
A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK
A PICK FOR THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S 2018 BEST BOOKS
THE PERFECT HOLIDAY GIFT FOR READERS
“A page turner...An absorbing and emotionally riveting story...
The Perfect Nanny
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
***One of the 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR of The New York Times Book Review*
*National Bestseller*
“A great novel . . . Incredibly engaging and disturbing . . . You read the entire novel knowing something terrible is coming. In that, Slimani has us in her thrall.” —Roxane Gay, New...
Changing My Mind
Occasional Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
"[These essays] reflect a lively, unselfconscious, rigorous, erudite, and earnestly open mind that's busy refining its view of life, literature, and a great deal in between." —Los Angeles Times
Split into five sections--Reading, Being, Seeing, Feeling, and Remembering--Changing My Mind finds...
Chuck Klosterman X
A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
New York Times-bestselling author and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman sorts through the past decade and how we got to now.
Chuck Klosterman has created an incomparable body of work in books, magazines, newspapers, and on the Web. His writing spans the realms of culture and sports, while also...
First Impressions
A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
A thrilling literary mystery costarring Jane Austen from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Bookman’s Tale. Charlie Lovett’s new book, The Lost Book of the Grail, is now available.
Book lover and Austen enthusiast Sophie Collingwood has recently taken a job at an antiquarian...
The Well of Lost Plots
A Thursday Next Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2004
The third installment in Jasper Fforde’s New York Times bestselling series follows literary detective Thursday Next on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England—from the author of Early Riser
Jasper Fforde has done it again in this genre-bending blend of...
The Bookman's Tale
A Novel of Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
A mysterious portrait ignites an antiquarian bookseller’s search through time and the works of Shakespeare for his lost love. Charlie Lovett’s new book, The Lost Book of the Grail, is now available.
Guaranteed to capture the hearts of everyone who truly loves books, The Bookman’s Tale...
Feel Free
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
**Winner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
A New York Times Notable Book
From Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved authors of her generation, a new collection of essays**
Since she burst spectacularly into view with her debut novel almost two decades...
Ghachar Ghochar
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
**ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOKS OF 2017
ONE OF VULTURE'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
FINALIST FOR THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN FICTION
“A modern classic.” —The New York Times Book Review**
A young man's close-knit family is nearly destitute when his uncle...