Colson Whitehead

“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

Here are the new Penguin Random House and distribution client entries on the New York Times Bestseller list for the week of October 1, 2017.

This is the fourth consecutive year that a Penguin Random House title has won the National Book Award Prize for Fiction.

Three Penguin Random House titles made their way onto President Obama’s summer reading list this year.

This week saw four new Penguin Random House titles added to the Hardcover Fiction Bestseller list: Sweet Tomorrows by Debbie Macomber (Random House), The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday), Smooth Operator by Stuart Woods and Parnell Hall (Putnam), and Dark Carousel by Christine Feehan (Berkley).

“This book has kept me up at night, had my heart in my throat, almost afraid to turn the next page,” Oprah says.