The Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction Announces Its 2024 Finalists!

On February 15, the Women’s Prize announced their 2024 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction Longlist, including seven titles from Penguin Random House authors. This is the first ever Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, celebrating “exceptional narrative non-fiction by women” and promoting “excellence in writing, robust research, original narrative voices and accessibility,” according to their website. To be

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The PEN/Faulkner Foundation Shares Its 2024 Fiction Award Longlist

On February 6, The PEN/Faulkner Foundation announced the longlist for the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, honoring “the best published works of fiction by American permanent residents in a calendar year,” according to the foundation. Four Penguin Random House titles received spots on the list of ten books. Five finalists from the longlist will be

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The 2024 Edgar Awards Shares Its Finalists For Best Mystery Titles

According to the Mystery Writers of America, the 2024 Edgar Allan Poe awards honor “the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television published or produced in 2023.” On January 18, the Edgars announced that eleven Penguin Random House titles were finalists across six different categories. The winners of the 78th Annual Edgar Awards will be

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NBCC Announces 2023 Awards Finalists

On January 25, the National Book Critics Circle announced that nine Penguin Random House titles were finalists for its 2023 awards. Additionally, Penguin Random House author Judy Blume has received the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award. “Blume… has inspired generations of young readers by tackling the emotional turbulence of girlhood and adolescence with authenticity, candor

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Congratulations to these 2023 Goodreads Awards Winners!

Every year, the popular book-logging and book-reviewing platform Goodreads, owned by Amazon, releases its round of nominated books. According to Goodreads’ eligibility criteria, the site “analyzes statistics from the millions of books added, rated, and reviewed on Goodreads to nominate 20 books in each category.” Nominations are assorted in categories. This year’s categories are altered

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ICYMI: Cover Reveals! October & November 2023

Welcome to this month’s installment of ICYMI: Cover Reveals is a round-up of all the exciting cover reveals announced in the last month. In this month’s post, we’ve got two months‘ worth of cover reveals to share. Anticipate a new young adult novel from Adam Sass, CNN anchor Poppy Harlow and TODAY’s Laura Jarrett’s picture book,

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Congratulations to Our 2023 Hugo Award Winners!

According to the Hugo Awards official website, “The Hugo Awards, first presented in 1953 and presented annually since 1955, are science fiction’s most prestigious award. The Hugo Awards are voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Convention (“Worldcon”), which is also responsible for administering them.” Congratulations to our Penguin Random House authors on

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