A new must-read epic from master storyteller Ken Follett.

Becoming by Michelle Obama is Coming in Trade Paperback and Young Readers Edition on March 2, 2021!

Wonderful news from the January 25 session of the ALA Midwinter Meeting, an annual convocation, held virtually this year, dear to the nation’s library community. One of its most anticipated highlights is the bestowal of numerous prizes and recognition for previous year’s children’s and young adult fiction and nonfiction deemed to be of resonant literary and cultural importance. Chief among them is the Newbery Medal, awarded yearly to “the most distinguished American children’s book.” This year’s Newbery Medal went to WHEN YOU TRAP A TIGER by Tae Keller.

Due to overwhelming demand, Penguin Young Readers will publish a special hardcover edition of “The Hill We Climb,” the poem written and delivered by Amanda Gorman at the inauguration of the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden.  At age 22, Ms. Gorman is the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration.

Having completed the established 95 years of copyright protection granted books registered under the U.S. Copyright Act, as of this January 1, F. Scott Fitzergald’s THE GREAT GATSBY, first published in 1925, has become a public domain literary property, which can be published or reprinted without restriction.

Jordan B. Peterson’s sequel to 12 Rules for Life offers further guidance on the perilous path of modern life. Peterson delivers twelve more lifesaving principles for resisting the exhausting toll that our desire to order the world inevitably takes.

The National Book Awards ceremony took place virtually last night and two Penguin Random House titles were chosen as winners! We are honored and proud that TOKYO UENO STATION by Yu Miri, translated by Morgan Giles, was the winner in the Translated Literature category, and INTERIOR CHINATOWN by Charles Yu, was the choice for Fiction.

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

Oprah Winfrey has announced a new version of Oprah’s Book Club, a special collection of seven meaningful books dubbed “The Books That Help Me Through”. This collection represents titles that have helped Oprah herself through life’s challenging moments, which she hopes will spark impactful conversation and unite our global community.

The fate of peculiardom hangs in the balance in this epic conclusion to the #1 bestselling Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series.

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

Bill Gates’ HOW TO AVOID A CLIMATE DISASTER: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need is to be published by Knopf on February 16, 2021.