Your Holiday Gift Giving Guide is Here! The Best Fiction and Backlist

It’s time to stock up on the most giftable books of the year! Utilizing proprietary consumer insights data, we’ve compiled the top books in trending categories your readers will be looking for this season. Please enjoy these weekly roundups of top categories, complete with social media assets, author videos, downloadables, and more! A complete order form for all top gift titles can be found here.

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In this roundup:
• Top Fiction Books of 2021
• Bestselling Backlist for Your Readers

Coming next week:
• This Year’s Best Biographies and Autobiographies
• Gift Titles for Every Reader

The Top Fiction Books of 2021

Whether your readers are interested in literary or commercial fiction, far away worlds or alternate reality, Penguin Random House has the perfect fiction book! These are some of our very top fiction books of the year that your readers will be looking for this holiday season. Download social media assets here.

The Lincoln Highway

Amor Towles

Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles’s third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes.

9780593489338
$18 US | Int’l C
US, Canada, Open Mkt
10/05/2021

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Never

Ken Follett

The new must-read epic from master storyteller Ken Follett: more than a thriller, it’s an action-packed, globe-spanning drama set in the present day.

9780593300015
$26 Export Price ~~$36~~ US | Hardcover
US, Canada, Open Mkt
11/09/2021

First Person Singular

Haruki Murakami

Philosophical and mysterious, the stories in First Person Singular all touch beautifully on love and solitude, childhood and memory. . . all with a signature Murakami twist.

9780593318072
$22 Export Price ~~$28~~ US | Hardcover
US, Opn Mkt (no CAN)
04/06/2021

Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone

Diana Gabaldon

#1 New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon returns with the newest novel in the epic Outlander series. The past may seem the safest place to be . . . but it is the most dangerous time to be alive. . . .

9780593497197
$23 US | Int’l C
US, Opn Mkt (no CAN)
11/23/2021

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Harlem Shuffle

Colson Whitehead

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s.

9780385547758
$19 US | Int’l C
US, Opn Mkt (no CAN)
09/14/2021

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Matrix

Lauren Groff

Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furies. Lauren Groff’s new novel, her first since Fates and Furies, is a defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world.

9780593421192
$19 US | Int’l C
US, Canada, Open Mkt
09/07/2021

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The Judge’s List

John Grisham

Investigator Lacy Stoltz follows the trail of a serial killer, and closes in on a shocking suspect—a sitting judge—in “one of the best crime reads of the year.… Bristling with high-tech detail and shivering with suspense…. Worth staying up all night to finish” (Wall Street Journal).

9780385546027
$23 Export Price ~~$29.95~~ US | Hardcover
US, Canada, Open Mkt
10/19/2021

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

From the author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating science—in development as a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling.

9780593355275
$17 US | Int’l C
US, Canada, Open Mkt
05/04/2021

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The Books of Jacob

Olga Tokarczuk; Translated by Jennifer Croft

The Nobel Prize–winner’s richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe.

9780593332528
$21 US | Int’l C
US, Canada, Open Mkt
11/23/2021

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The Very Best of the Backlist

Now is the perfect time for readers around the world to catch up on these backlist bestsellers. From classic children’s books to bestselling memoris, this gift guide has everything you need. Download social media assets to highlight these and other titles here.

Educated

Tara Westover

One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University.

9781984854858
$12 US | Int’l B
US, Opn Mkt (no CAN)
10/30/2018

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Atomic Habits (MR-EXP)

James Clear

No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving–every day. James Clear, one of the world’s leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.

9780593189641
$18 US | Int’l C
US, Canada, Open Mkt
10/01/2019

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The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini

The #1 New York Times bestselling novel beloved by millions of readers the world over. Since its publication in 2003 Kite Runner has become a beloved, one-of-a-kind classic of contemporary literature, touching millions of readers, and launching the career of one of America’s most treasured writers.

9781594631931
$17 US | Trade Paperback
US, Opn Mkt (no CAN)
03/05/2013

Attack on Titan 1

Hajime Isayama

The megahit Attack on Titan anime is back, with Season Three announced for 2018! Winner of the 2011 Kodansha Manga Award (Shonen) and nominated for the prestigious Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize for 2012.

9781612620244
$10.99 US | Trade Paperback
World
06/19/2012

Born a Crime

Trevor Noah

More than one million copies sold! A “brilliant” (Lupita Nyong’o, Time), “poignant” (Entertainment Weekly), “soul-nourishing” (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid.

9780525509028
$10.99 US | Int’l B
US, Opn Mkt (no CAN)
09/19/2017

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Burn After Writing (Pink)

Sharon Jones

Write. Burn. Repeat. Now with new covers to match whatever mood you’re in. Push your limits, reflect on your past, present, and future, and create a secret book that’s about you, and just for you. When you’re finished, toss it, hide it, or Burn After Writing.

9780593329917
$14 US | Trade Paperback
US, Canada, Open Mkt
10/27/2020

One of Us Is Lying

Karen M. McManus

“Pretty Little Liars meets The Breakfast Club” (Entertainment Weekly) in this addictive mystery about what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walk out alive. Everyone has secrets, right? What really matters is how far you would go to protect them.

9781524764722
$10 US | Int’l PB
US, Canada, Open Mkt
05/30/2017

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Wonder

R. J. Palacio

Millions of people have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face—who shows us that kindness brings us together no matter how far apart we are. Read the book that inspired the Choose Kind movement, a major motion picture, and the critically acclaimed graphic novel White Bird.

9780553509977
$9.99 US | Int’l PB
US, Canada, Open Mkt
07/08/2014

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Eric Carle

THE all-time classic picture book, from generation to generation, sold somewhere in the world every 30 seconds! A sturdy and beautiful book to give as a gift for new babies, baby showers, birthdays, and other new beginnings!

Featuring interactive die-cut pages, this board book edition is the perfect size for little hands and great for teaching counting and days of the week.

“Gorgeously illustrated, brilliantly innovative…”—The New York Times Book Review

9780399226908
$10.99 US | Board
US, Canada, Open Mkt
03/23/1994

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