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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

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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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Drum Roll: PYR, RHCB, PRH Audio ‘22 ALA Youth Media Award Honorees, Part 2

The American Library Association customarily begins each new year by organizing and hosting the presentation of numerous of literary and cultural awards and citations which recognize excellence in the previous year’s picture, Children’s, and young adult books and audios, across a variety of categories and genres. As previously reported, Kyle Lukoff’s TOO BRIGHT TO SEE and WONDER WALKERS by Micha Archer received Newbery and Caldecott Honors, respectively, and Malinda Lo and Lisa Fipps were named winners of Michael L. Printz Honors for LAST NIGHT AT THE TELEGRAPH CLUB and STARFISH.

Presenting a 2022 tidal wave of Penguin Random House‘s American Library Association Youth Media Award recipients: Continue reading →

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New Ian McEwan Novel, LESSONS, Coming from Knopf in September 2022

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Alfred A. Knopf and Vintage Books will publish Ian McEwan’s new novel, LESSONS. Knopf EVP and Publisher Reagan Arthur acquired US rights from Georges Borchardt at Georges Borchardt, Inc. Literary Agency for publication on September 13, 2022 with an announced first printing of 100,000 copies. The book will be published in hardcover and as an eBook, and in audio by Penguin Random House; it will be published in trade paper by Vintage the following year. Jonathan Cape in the UK and Alfred A. Knopf Canada will publish simultaneously. Continue reading →

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NYT Praise for Julie Kim’s WHERE’S HALMONI? Picture Book Sparks Sales Jump

WHERE’S HALMONI? , the debut picture book by author/illustrator Julie Kim, published in 2017 by Little Bigfoot, the children’s imprint of Sasquatch Books (a wholly-owned PRHPS client publisher), recently earned praise in a New York Times Opinion column by Jay Caspian Kang. This NYT recommendation sparked a nice sales jump for the title. Continue reading →

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Presenting Our 2022 Newbery, Caldecott, Printz Honors Winners: Lukoff, Archer, Lo, Fipps

The 2022 literary awards year has begun glowingly for Penguin Random House, with more than one dozen of our titles receiving coveted American Library Association (ALA) Youth Media Awards, announced January 24. Continue reading →

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