As 2026 gets underway, readers and booksellers around the world are already buzzing about the literary year ahead! From heavyweight literary fiction and award winning front and backlist authors to transformative nonfiction and boundary-pushing debuts, your customers are sure to find their next favorite read on the Penguin Random House list. Here are a few

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!

A beach trip is the perfect time to dive headfirst into a new book, and with us, there’s no shortage of excellent choices to keep you entertained under the sun. Whether you prefer thrilling mysteries, heartwarming romances, or enchanting fantasy tales, there’s something for everyone. From the suspenseful twists of a gripping detective novel to

On Monday, May 5, three Penguin Random House authors were honored with a Pulitzer Prize. Established in 1917, the Pulitzer Prizes are the most prestigious awards in American letters. To date, PRH has 143 Pulitzer Prize winners, including William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Josh Steinbeck, Ron Chernow, Anne Applebaum, Colson Whitehead, and many more. Take a look at our 2025 Pulitzer Prize

On October 5, the respective 2021 National Book Award judges for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature revealed their short-list selections in each category.

Welcome to this month’s installment to the PRH international Sales website! ICYMI: Cover Reveals is a round up of all the exciting cover reveals announced in the last month. In this post, expect the newest World of Warcraft Dragonflight edition and a new cookbook from the Dungeons and Dragons universe!   COVER REVEALS: World of

From the official James Beard Foundation website: “The James Beard Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to celebrate, support, and elevate the people behind America’s food culture and champion a standard of good food anchored in talent, equity, and sustainability.” This year, Penguin Random house is proud to be the publishing home for many

From the New York Times bestselling writer David Grann comes this haunting murder mystery of a true life horrific crime. The story follows a series of gruesome murders in the 1920s on the Osage nation after discovering oil on the indigenous land. In a tweet viewed by over 10 million people, Leonardo DiCaprio shared the trailer for

Welcome to this month’s installment to the PRH international Sales website! ICYMI: Cover Reveals is a round up of all the exciting cover reveals announced in the last month. In this post, expect the return of beloved author Sophia Kinsella with The Burnout and James Sturm’s adaptation of Watership Down: The Graphic Novel. For April Cover

If you are a lover of stories of courage, survival, and the kindness of others, you are sure to love the story White Bird. Based on the graphic novel of the same name, White Bird is a movie that centers around two characters from the Wonder series Julian and his Grandmère Sara. Here, Palacio makes

The National Book Critics Circle was founded in 1974 by a group of the most influential critics of the day. It was awarded its first set of honors the following year. Now comprising of more than 600 critics and book editors throughout the country, the NBCC annually bestows its awards in six categories, honoring the

It was a great night for film but also for literature. Sarah Polley, author of #1 national bestseller Run Towards Danger won an Oscar for her film Women Talking. This film was directly sourced and inspired by the 2018 novel of the same name by Canadian author Miriam Toews (Fight Night). Congrats Sarah! And Sarah