“Whether you’re looking for a distraction or just spending a lot more time at home, you can’t beat reading a book.”—Bill Gates Bill Gates included The Great Influenza by John M. Barry, Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, and The Ride of a Lifetime by Bob Igeron on his summer reading list. Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua

Here’s to the stories that inspire us and the authors keeping us connected. Here’s to being readers and to this wonderful, universal truth: #BooksConnectUs

This year’s One World, One Book pick is ENEMY OF ALL MANKIND by Steven Johnson! Most confrontations, viewed from the wide angle of history, are minor disputes, sparks that quickly die out. But every now and then, someone strikes a match that lights up the whole planet

On May 9th at 5 PM EST, join the Becoming Global Watch Party on Twitter! Tweet using #WatchBecoming And stock up on the book that started it all, Becoming and Becoming: A Guided Journal now! Details below. The new Netflix documentary follows Michelle Obama’s 2018 Becoming book tour, which spanned 34 cities around the world is

Penguin Random House author Jacqueline Woodson was named the 2020 Recipient of the Hans Christian Anderson Award! The Hans Christian Andersen Award is the highest international recognition given to an author and an illustrator of children’s books. Given every other year by IBBY, the award recognize lifelong achievement and is presented to an author and an

“A spare and devastating exploration of abuse at a reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida that is ultimately a powerful tale of human perseverance, dignity and redemption.” – The Pulitzer Prize citation for Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead has won his second Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, this time for The Nickel Boys. He