Penguin Books imprint: 2816 books
The Municipalists
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
**A novel about an unlikely pair of lonely outsiders--one human, one AI--on an adventure to save the great American city of Metropolis written by "one of the most exciting new voices in fiction" (Charles Yu)
*Named one of the best books of the month by Library Journal ("Debut...
Losing My Cool
Love, Literature, and a Black Man's Escape from the Crowd
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
A pitch-perfect account of how hip-hop culture drew in the author and how his father drew him out again-with love, perseverance, and fifteen thousand books.
Into Williams's childhood home-a one-story ranch house-his father crammed more books than the local library could hold. "Pappy"...
Undocumented
A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
An undocumented immigrant’s journey from a New York City homeless shelter to the top of his Princeton class
Dan-el Padilla Peralta has lived the American dream. As a boy, he came here legally with his family. Together they left Santo Domingo behind, but life in New York City was harder than...
Revelations
Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
A startling exploration of the history of the most controversial book of the Bible, by the bestselling author of Beyond Belief.
Through the bestselling books of Elaine Pagels, thousands of readers have come to know and treasure the suppressed biblical texts known as the Gnostic Gospels. As...
White Trash
The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
**The New York Times bestseller
A New York Times Notable and Critics’ Top Book of 2016
Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction
One of NPR's 10 Best Books Of 2016 Faced Tough Topics Head On
NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2016’s Great Reads
San Francisco Chronicle's Best...
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3
The War Years and After, 1939-1962
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
**One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2016
One of NPR's 10 Best Books of 2016
"Heartachingly relevant...the Eleanor Roosevelt who inhabits these meticulously crafted pages transcends both first-lady history and the marriage around which Roosevelt scholarship has traditionally pivoted."...
The Friendly Jane Austen
A Well-Mannered Introduction to a Lady of Sense and Sensibility
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
What's so friendly about Jane Austen?
Every generation rediscovers Jane Austen with a renewed enthusiasm for her timeless novels. In recent years, Austen has become more popular than ever as nearly every one of her books has been gorgeously filmed and reinterpreted to reflect today's sensibilities....
What We Lose
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
**A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree
NBCC John Leonard First Book Prize Finalist
Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist
California Book Award First Fiction Finalist
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Debut Novel Nominee
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction & the Brooklyn...
Their Promised Land
My Grandparents in Love and War
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
A family history of surpassing beauty and power: Ian Buruma’s account of his grandparents’ enduring love through the terror and separation of two world wars
During the almost six years England was at war with Nazi Germany, Winifred and Bernard Schlesinger, Ian Buruma’s grandparents, and...
Fiasco
The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2006
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
One of the Washington Post Book World's 10 Best Books of the Year
One of Time's 10 Best Books of the Year
USA Today's Nonfiction Book of the Year
A New York Times Notable Book
The definitive account of the American military's tragic experience in Iraq
Fiasco...
American Prison
A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
**New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018
One of President Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2018
Winner of the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
Winner of the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism
Winner of the 2019 RFK Book and Journalism Award
A...
What She Ate
Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
**A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2017
One of NPR Fresh Air's "Books to Close Out a Chaotic 2017"
NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2017’s Great Reads
“How lucky for us readers that Shapiro has been listening so perceptively for decades to the language of food.” *—*Maureen...
by Timothy Keller
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
New York Times bestselling author of The Prodigal Prophet Timothy Keller—whose books have sold millions of copies to both religious and secular readers—explores one of the most difficult questions we must answer in our lives: Why is there pain and suffering?
Walking with God through Pain...
How I Became a North Korean
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
**"Lee takes us into urgent and emotional novelistic terrain: the desperate and tenuous realms defectors are forced to inhabit after escaping North Korea.” –Adam Johnson, author of The Orphan Master’s Son
"The more confusing and horrible our world becomes, the more critical...