Monthly Archives: January 2022

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Join Pantheon Author Randall Kennedy and Knopf’s Erroll McDonald for “On America” Event

The Center for Fiction welcomes Pantheon author Randall Kennedy and Alfred A. Knopf VP & Executive Editor Erroll McDonald to discuss the twentieth anniversary edition of Kennedy’s controversial book, N****: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed, at a virtual event via Zoom on Tuesday, February 1 at 7:00 pm (ET). Continue reading →

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A First Look at The All Ways Black Cypher 2022

To celebrate the evolution of Penguin Random House platform All Ways Black, the Consumer Marketing team is thrilled to drop The All Ways Black Cypher 2022! Continue reading →

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Friday Reads: Picture Books in English and Spanish

Following the announcement of the 2022 ALA Youth in Media Awards, we wanted to highlight notable picture books which we publish in English and in Spanish. These are beautiful books to immerse the family in, as well as educational tools for learning a new language: Continue reading →

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Bantam Author Laurie R. King Named 2022 MWA Grand Master + Our Edgar Nominees

The Mystery Writers of America has bestowed this year’s prestigious Grand Master honor to Bantam author Laurie R. King, the prolific novelist widely admired for her Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes novels, which include such titles as CASTLE SHADE, RIVIERA GOLD and ISLAND OF THE MAD. Continue reading →

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Our Finalists for the 2022 PEN America Literary Awards

PEN America has announced the finalists for its 2022 Literary Awards in the categories of debut fiction, nonfiction, essay, biography, poetry, science writing, and translation, plus the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. Our shortlisted titles published by Penguin Random House imprints, and a Penguin Random House Publisher Services client publisher, are presented below. Continue reading →

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National Books Council, Alex ‘21 Best-Of: Mott, Kendi, Ishiguro, More

Amid the American Library Association curation of the numerous January annual Youth Media Awards, is also an occasion for the best of the previous year’s noteworthy library-centric Adult titles to be celebrated. We conclude our Igloo multi-part ALA citations’ coverage with our titles selected for two prominent Honors lists. Continue reading →

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PYR, RHCB, PRH Audio‘22 ALA Youth Media Award Honorees, Part 3

Continuing our coverage of the American Library Association 2022 Youth Media Award winners and honorees, we present more of our books that received literary and cultural awards and citations that`recognize excellence in the previous year’s picture, Children’s, and young adult books and audios, across a variety of categories and genres. Continue reading →

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Penguin Press to Publish New Celeste Ng Novel, OUR MISSING HEARTS, in October 2022

Celeste Ng, photo credit: Kieran Kesner

Penguin Press announced that it will publish Celeste Ng’s new novel, OUR MISSING HEARTS, on October 4, 2022. Ng is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and her work has been published in over thirty languages. Continue reading →

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There’s a Book For That: Putin, Russia, Ukraine

At the time of this writing, an alarming situation continues to develop as Russia has moved tens of thousands of troops near Ukraine. President Biden announced plans to bolster the fuel supply to Europe in case Russia cuts off gas and oil. Russia provides about one-third of the gas and crude oil imported by the European Union. It’s a time when many are seeking to understand Russia’s motives and the following books may provide some context: Continue reading →

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Abdurraqib’s A LITTLE DEVIL IN AMERICA Wins 2022 Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction

The American Library Association announced the winners of the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction at the ALA RUSA (Reference and User Services Association) Book and Media Awards (BMAs) on January 23, with the nonfiction prize going to A LITTLE DEVIL IN AMERICA: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House). Continue reading →

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