Announcing Penguin Random House’s 2025 National Book Award Winner 🎉

By Rafa Ashraf | November 20 2025 | General

We are proud to announce that our Knopf author Omar El Akkad was recognized as a winner in the Nonfiction category!

Please join us in a heartfelt congratulations for not only our author, but the publishers, editors, and everyone in between who made this into a reality.

Check out the winner announcement HERE!

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values. "[A] bracing memoir and manifesto." —The New York Times"I can’t think of a more important piece of writing to read right now. I found hope here, and help, to face what the world is now, all that it isn’t anymore. Please read this. I promise you won’t regret it." —Tommy Orange, bestselling author of Wandering Stars and There ThereA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • PALESTINE BOOK AWARD WINNER • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM
$28.00 US
Feb 25, 2025
Hardcover
208 Pages
Knopf
US, Opn Mkt (no CAN)