This year’s top fiction and backlist titles your readers will be looking for this holiday season!

Due to ongoing industry-wide printing and shipping complications as a result of COVID-19, we strongly urge you to place your year-end orders now. Shipping and printing times have both been impacted by supply chain issues. We want to be sure you get the front and backlist stock you need in time for holiday gift buying. Please consider ordering up now for any titles you’ll need through January, 2022.

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.

It’s time to stock up on the most giftable books of the year! Due to ongoing industry-wide supply chain complications stemming from COVID-19 and other global factors, ordering stock early is more crucial than ever. Both front and backlist titles are being affected. The fastest and easiest way to ensure you have the stock you need is to place holiday orders now.

The best way to meet demand is to order early.

Find out which Penguin Random House authors have made this year’s Booker Prize Shortlist.

Originally posted on global.penguinrandomhouse.com Penguin Random House Publisher Services will begin Marvel’s Direct Market distribution this October New Marvel comics will continue to be available on Wednesdays at comic shops everywhere International Direct Market Comic Retailers are welcome to download our information kit here and can contact us at  internationalsales@penguinrandomhouse.com for more information Marvel Comics

Worldwide, readers are seeking the comforts of books and live storytelling during this time when we are physically apart, so connecting readers with books and authors is more important than ever.  To help, Penguin Random House is now hosting a wide variety of virtual events each day. Click here to find a partial listing of upcoming events.

Our next One World One Book selection is…

A Promised Land by Barack Obama A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity

Read an exclusive first serial excerpt from Barack Obama’s A PROMISED LAND: Available November 17th!

The 2020 National Book Award judges have selected the five shortlisted titles in their respective literary categories, and their choices were announced the morning of October 6 by the National Book Foundation.

A Promised Land is the first of two volumes of Barack Obama’s presidential memoirs is scheduled for global release on Tuesday, November 17, 2020, and will be issued simultaneously in 25 languages!