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One World, Ten Speed Press Titles Shortlisted for Porchlight Business Book Awards

Porchlight Book Company, formerly 800-CEO-READ, announced its 15th annual Business Book Awards shortlist, including two titles published by Penguin Random House imprints, One World and Ten Speed Press, respectively. Continue reading →

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RHCB Author Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich to Share OPERATION SISTERHOOD Virtually

Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich will discuss her new book, OPERATION SISTERHOOD (Crown Books for Young Readers), in conversation with Meg Medina at a virtual event moderated by educator Julia Torres and hosted by Loyalty Bookstores via Crowdcast tonight, January 6, beginning at 6:00 pm (ET). Continue reading →

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How Putnam Author Danielle Friedman Unlocked the Feminist History of Women’s Workout Culture

Danielle Friedman, © Lindsay May for Classic Kids Photography

With 2022 here and resolutions set, our new Igloo Book Buzz pick is Danielle Friedman’s LET’S GET PHYSICAL: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World, published on January 4 by Putnam and Listening Library. This captivating blend of reportage and personal narrative explores the history of women’s exercise culture–from jogging and Jazzercise to Jane Fonda–and how women have parlayed physical strength into other forms of power. Continue reading →

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There’s a Book for That: Big Ideas for 2022

“For while we have our eyes on the future, history has its eyes on us.” ―Amanda Gorman

Welcome 2022 and with it our hopes and intentions for progress and renewal, both personally and societally. This pivotal time calls for big ideas. The following authors, and their acclaimed books, are renowned for helping us understand our world and ourselves in fresh ways that inform and motivate. New year, new you, new us. Continue reading →

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Designs by Penguin’s Buckley, Pantheon’s Huang Among NYTBR’s Best Book Covers of ‘21

New York Times Book Review Art Director Matt Dorfman selected “The 12 Best Book Covers of 2021,” including Gloria Naylor’s THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE (Penguin Classics), designed by Paul Buckley, SVP & Executive Creative Director, Penguin Publishing Group, and Wole Soyinka’s CHRONICLES FROM THE LAND OF THE HAPPIEST PEOPLE ON EARTH (Pantheon) by Linda Huang, Associate Director, Art/Design, Knopf Doubleday. Continue reading →

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Our Longlisters for the 2022 PEN America Literary Awards

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

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Barack Obama Shares His Favorite Books of 2021

Former President Barack Obama has shared his favorite books of 2021 on his Instagram,
Twitter and Facebook pages. Among the 24 titles he picked are the following books published by Penguin Random House imprints and a PRHPS client publisher:

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Our Winners of the 2021 Kids’ Book Choice Awards

Every Child a Reader, the charitable arm of the Children’s Book Council, announced the winners of its Kids’ Book Choice Awards, formerly known as the Children’s & Teen Choice Book Awards. Among the prize-winning titles were two published by Penguin Random House imprints, and one published by a Penguin Random House Publisher Services client publisher. Launched in 2008 by the Children’s Book Council and Every Child a Reader, this represents the only national book awards competition selected exclusively by young readers. Continue reading →

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Friday Reads: Dysfunctional Families

“I’m not saying I’d make a better CEO. That’s unsaid.” – Conor (Succession)

For those of us caught up in the HBO series Succession and its portrayal of the excesses, powerplays, and sibling rivalries of the Roy family – we can’t get enough! They really know how to put the “fun” in family dysfunction.

As our last hurrah of 2021, we’ve collected books with similar themes and familial roles as played out in Succession: greed; fame; failure; mommy, daddy, and marital issues; drugs; scapegoats; secrets; and scandal; from the serious to the satirical. Happy Holidays! Continue reading →

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In Memoriam: Remembering Penguin Random House Colleagues We Lost in 2021

Amidst our many publishing triumphs and rewards this year, we also shared much sorrow over the passing of present and past colleagues, from Penguin Random House and its predecessor companies, whose careers with us we celebrated with Igloo appreciations.

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