Happy New Year! We are officially a week into the new year, which usually means new goals, new planners, and most importantly… new books! Take a look at our first round of newest releases in 2023 (and maybe spend a little bit of that leftover holiday money while you’re at it). ADULT FICTION: ADULT NON

The Random House Group publicity department, the Random House Live Events team, and the Penguin Random House Video Team presented a special virtual event celebrating George R. R. Martin and House Targaryen, the fictional family at the center of Martin’s books FIRE & BLOOD (Bantam Books) and THE RISE OF THE DRAGON (Ten Speed Press)— and the focus of HBO’s blockbuster show House of the Dragon.  The

A couple who broke up months ago make a pact to pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.

Thirteen semi-finalists were announced today for the Booker Prize, with five authors from Penguin Random House making this year’s longlist.

In an inspiring follow-up to her critically acclaimed, #1 bestselling memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today’s highly uncertain world. There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life’s big challenges, but Michelle Obama believes that we can all locate

Disney Publishing Worldwide, Marvel Publishing, and Penguin Random House Publisher Services (PRHPS), a division of trade publisher Penguin Random House, today announced a multi-year exclusive worldwide sales and distribution agreement for Disney’s newly published and backlist adult and children’s physical books across all mass, trade and independent bookselling sales channels. Distribution commences April 1, 2023.

#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham returns to Mississippi in his most gripping thriller yet.

Bono—artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2—has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him.

Check out the cover for Taylor Jenkins Reid’s upcoming book CARRIE SOTO IS BACK and watch a special message from the author.

THE BOOKS OF JACOB, written by Olga Tokarczuk, and translated by Jennifer Croft, follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe.

Actor and producer Omar Epps (This Is Us, House, Juice, Shooter) will publish his debut novel, NUBIA: THE AWAKENING on November 8, 2022. 

Prominent historian, philosopher, and author Yuval Noah Harari (Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind) will publish a new illustrated middle-grade book, UNSTOPPABLE US: How Humans Took Over the World, this Fall.