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Grupo Editorial Author Eloy Moreno Sets Guinness World Record for Most Book Signed in a Single Day
February 12, 2025
At 5:30 a.m. in Madrid, at the Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial office, Eloy Moreno set out to defeat the previous Guinness World Record for books signed in a single day, which had previously been 6,904 copies. Moreno, an acclaimed author, has a varied audience that ranges from children to teenagers to adults and his fans traveled from far destinations for this once in a lifetime opportunity in Madrid.Phil Stamper-Halpin Receives Honorary Doctorate for His Outstanding Contributions to Literature, Publishing, & Reading Pleasure
February 7, 2025

Friday Reads: Black History Month
February 6, 2025
“For me the history of the place of Black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.” – Toni Morrison, from the documentary film Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am.
Allegra Goodman’s ISOLA is Reese’s Book Club’s February Pick
February 6, 2025
Reese Witherspoon announced on Tuesday that the Reese’s Book Club February pick is ISOLA (The Dial Press), the new novel from Allegra Goodman, nationally bestselling author of SAM. Inspired by the real life of a sixteenth-century heroine, Isola is the gripping story of a woman fighting for survival after she and her lover are marooned on an island.PRH Celebrates 15 Annual World Read Aloud Day™ With LitWorld
February 5, 2025

Dan Brown's New Robert Langdon Novel, THE SECRET OF SECRETS, to be Published by Doubleday
January 29, 2025
Worldwide #1 bestselling author Dan Brown’s new novel, THE SECRET OF SECRETS, will be published by Doubleday on September 9, 2025. Brown is the author of the international publishing phenomenon, THE DA VINCI CODE, featuring Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, and his novels are published in 56 languages internationally with over 250 million copies in print. Brown is also the author of numerous #1 bestsellers, including ORIGIN, INFERNO, THE LOST SYMBOL, ANGELS & DEMONS, DECEPTION POINT, and DIGITAL FORTRESS.There's a Book for That: Lunar New Year
January 29, 2025

Spotlight on Our 2025 ALA Award Winners!
January 28, 2025

Friday Reads: Bob Dylan and Friends
January 23, 2025

HOPE: Celebrating the Global Publication of the First Memoir by a Sitting Pontiff
January 17, 2025
On Tuesday, January 14, Random House Group published HOPE, the autobiography of Pope Francis in the US. The U.S. edition of the first memoir by a sitting pontiff is edited by Molly Turpin, Senior Editor, Random House. HOPE, which took the Pontiff six years to write, is published simultaneously worldwide in principal languages and in over 80 countries in time for the 2025 Jubilee of Hope. An audiobook edition was released simultaneously in English by Penguin Random House Audio.As A LITTLE LIFE Celebrates 10 Years, Actor Matt Bomer Narrates a New Audiobook Edition
January 17, 2025
Ten years after Hanya Yanagihara’s bestselling novel made its debut, actor Matt Bomer (Fellow Travelers, Maestro, Magic Mike) voices a new audiobook edition of A LITTLE LIFE (Random House Audio, on sale February 4, 2025). Bomer performs Yanagihara’s brilliant story of friendship and love in the twenty-first century with masterful skill and nuance.Dutton Author Richard M. Cohen Passes Away After Living With MS for More Than 50 Years
January 15, 2025
Richard M. Cohen, veteran journalist and author of CHASING HOPE (Blue Rider Press then Dutton), the memoir BLINDSIDED, and several other books, has passed away at the age of 76.Pippi Longstocking Celebrates 80 Years & Sutton Foster Voices the Audiobook of the Classic Series
January 15, 2025
Tony Award-winning actress Sutton Foster (Once Upon a Mattress, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Younger) will narrate three of Astrid Lindgren’s classic Pippi Longstocking audiobooks (Listening Library; on sale March 4, 2025) as part of a yearlong celebration of Pippi’s 80th birthday!Felicity Vallence Talks Booktok & Romantasy on WSJ’s “The Journal”
January 10, 2025
With a Supreme Court hearing scheduled for today, Friday, January 10, everyone is talking about the future of TikTok. Amid the buzz, Felicity Vallence, Director of Digital Marketing, Penguin Young Readers, was featured in late December on the Wall Street Journal podcast “The Journal” where she discussed the impact BookTok has had on the publishing industry.
5 Contemporary Authors Writing the Korean American Experience
January 10, 2025

Introducing Thousand Voices x RHPG, a New Publishing Venture from the Random House Publishing Group & Jenna Bush Hager’s Thousand Voices Media
January 8, 2025
The new partnership is to publish debut and emerging authors across the Random House Publishing Group's portfolio of imprints. The Random House Publishing Group and Thousand Voices, the media company of Jenna Bush Hager, are launching an innovative publishing venture: THOUSAND VOICES x RHPG, it was announced today by Sanyu Dillon, President, Random House Publishing Group, and Jenna Bush Hager, the founder of Thousand Voices Media.Penguin Random House Partners With Little Free Library to Celebrate 200,000th Library Launch Milestone
January 8, 2025

In Remembrance of Andrew Pyper
January 7, 2025
Andrew Pyper, the acclaimed author of ten novels, including LOST GIRLS, THE DEMONOLOGIST, and most recently WILLIAM and the forthcoming EXILES (both written under the pseudonym Mason Coile), has passed away at the age of fifty-six due to complications from cancer.There's a Book for That: Best of Art & Photography, 2024
December 17, 2024
Looking for gifts for the art and photography afficionado in your life? Reviewing the “Best of the Year” lists has revealed magnificent books from Penguin Random House imprints and client publishers. Many of the following books are works of art themselves, and for a range of artistic interests:
How Do In-Person Events Tell the PRH Story? Ask Lindsey Elias, Direct of Brand Events, PRH
December 6, 2024
In 2024, Penguin Random House attended three comic-cons nationwide, spent a weekend at Brooklyn’s Afropunk, clinked glasses at the California Wine Festival, and hit the road yet again with the Banned Book Wagon. Our brand events support Penguin Random House in telling our story and we are proud to amplify voices far and wide. Behind these events, you’ll often find Lindsey Elias, Director of Brand Events on the Communications team. Whether it’s coordinating book giveaways, handselling at shows, or staging an author-studded murder mystery, Lindsey is eager to create engaging, authentic moments that drive growth for Penguin Random House.