Penguin- Award Winning

• Author(s): Rajat Parr • Publisher: Ten Speed Press • Publisher Imprint: Ten Speed Press • BISAC: Beverages - Alcoholic- GeneralA fascinating exploration of the inside world of sommeliers, sharing their unique perspectives, extensive expertise, ...

• Author(s): Orhan Pamuk • Publisher: Vintage • Publisher Imprint: Vintage • BISAC: LiteraryFrom the Nobel Prize winner and "one of the great novelists" (The Washington Post) comes a stirring exploration of the nature of romance in late 1970s Ist...

• Author(s): Libba Bray • Publisher: Delacorte Press • Publisher Imprint: Delacorte Press • BISAC: Boys & MenFrom the author of the Gemma Doyle trilogy and The Diviners series, this groundbreaking New York Times bestseller and winner of the M...

• Author(s): Connie Willis • Publisher: Random House Worlds • Publisher Imprint: Random House Worlds • BISAC: Time TravelOxford in 2060 is a chaotic place, with scores of time-traveling historians being sent into the past. Michael Davies is prepp...

• Author(s): David Hoffman • Publisher: MixBZ • Publisher Imprint: MixBZ • Subject: History • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - GeneralWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE The first full account of how the Cold War arms race finally came to a close, this ri...

• Author(s): T. J. Stiles • Publisher: Vintage Books USA • Publisher Imprint: Vintage Books USA • BISAC: BusinessNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In this groundbreaking biography, T.J. Stiles tells the dramatic story of Cornel...

• Author(s): Richard Holmes • Publisher: Vintage Books USA • Publisher Imprint: Vintage Books USA • BISAC: HistoryThe Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of th...

• Author(s): David Almond • Publisher: Laurel Leaf Library • Publisher Imprint: Laurel Leaf Library • BISAC: Boys & MenBobby Burns knows he's a lucky lad. Growing up in sleepy Keely Bay, Bobby is exposed to all manner of wondrous things: star...

• Author(s): Kim Barnes • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryA powerful novel of young love and rural isolation from the acclaimed author of In the Wilderness. Thomas...

• Author(s): Leslie T. Chang • Publisher: Spiegel & Grau • Publisher Imprint: Spiegel & Grau • BISAC: Women's StudiesAn eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factor...

• Author(s): Jon Meacham • Publisher: Random House Trade • Publisher Imprint: Random House Trade • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of StateThe definitive biography of a larger-than-life president who defied norms, divided a nation, and changed Wash...

• Author(s): Mark Harris • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismOne of The Hollywood Reporter's 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time "Pictures at a Revolution is probably one of the bes...

• Author(s): Stephanie Hemphill • Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers • Publisher Imprint: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers • BISAC: BiographicalYour Own, Sylvia draws on Plath's writing and extensive nonfiction sources, chr...

• Author(s): Peter Matthiessen • Publisher: Modern Library • Publisher Imprint: Modern Library • BISAC: LiteraryNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - "Altogether gripping, shocking, and brilliantly told, not just a tour de force in its stylistic range, bu...

• Author(s): J. M. Coetzee • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: LiteraryDiary of a Bad Year takes on the world of politics--a new topic for Coetzee--and explores the role of the writer in our times wi...

• Author(s): John Green • Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Young Readers Group • BISAC: Humorous - GeneralFrom the #1 bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars Michael L. Printz H...

• Author(s): Grant Achatz • Publisher: Achatz • Publisher Imprint: Achatz • BISAC: Regional & Cultural - American - GeneralThe debut cookbook from the restaurant Gourmet magazine named the best in the country. A pioneer in American cuisine, c...

• Author(s): Junot Diaz • Publisher: Riverhead Books • Publisher Imprint: Riverhead Books • BISAC: LiteraryWinner of: The Pulitzer Prize The National Book Critics Circle Award The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize ...

• Author(s): Doris Lessing • Publisher: Everyman's Library • Publisher Imprint: Everyman's Library • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)This wide-ranging collection of the stories by the renowned Nobel Laureate--spanning more than two decades of...

• Author(s): Robert MacFarlane • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: EssaysFrom the author of The Old Ways and Underland, an "eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though we're laying waste the world...

• Author(s): Martha Hall Foose • Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Clarkson Potter Publishers • BISAC: Regional & Cultural - American - Southern StatesGifted chef and storyteller Martha Hall Foose invites you into her...

• Author(s): Gary Paulsen • Publisher: Laurel Leaf Library • Publisher Imprint: Laurel Leaf Library • BISAC: BiographicalBorn into slavery, Bass Reeves became the most successful US Marshal of the Wild West.Many "heroic lawmen" of the Wild West, ...

• Author(s): Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • Publisher: Vintage • Publisher Imprint: Vintage • BISAC: LiteraryNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST - From the award-winning, bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists--a haun...

• Author(s): Alison Lurie • Publisher: Random House Trade • Publisher Imprint: Random House Trade • BISAC: LiteraryWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Virginia Miner, a fifty-something, unmarried tenured professor, is in London to work on her new book a...

• Author(s): Alice Munro • Publisher: Everyman's Library • Publisher Imprint: Everyman's Library • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)A dazzling selection of seventeen stories from Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro--featuring an Introductio...

• Author(s): E. L. Doctorow • Publisher: Random House Trade • Publisher Imprint: Random House Trade • BISAC: Historical - GeneralWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDWINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARDNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In 1864, Un...

• Author(s): Christopher Paul Curtis • Publisher: Rh Childrens Books • Publisher Imprint: Rh Childrens Books • BISAC: Family - ParentsLuther T. Farrell has got to get out of Flint, Michigan. As his best friend Sparky says, "Flint's nothing but th...

• Author(s): Markus Zusak • Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers • Publisher Imprint: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers • BISAC: Mysteries & Detective StoriesFrom the Inside FlapMeet Ed Kennedy--underage cabdriver, patheti...

• Author(s): Kai Bird • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group • BISAC: Science & TechnologyFrom the Inside Flap"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Opp...

• Author(s): Carl Hiaasen • Publisher: Yearling Books • Publisher Imprint: Yearling Books • BISAC: Mysteries & Detective StoriesFrom the Inside FlapA book for young readers. It involves new kids, bullies, alligators, eco-warriors, pancakes, a...

• Author(s): Ann Cameron • Publisher: Rh Childrens Books • Publisher Imprint: Rh Childrens Books • BISAC: Places - Caribbean & Latin AmericaFrom the Inside FlapWhen Tzunun was little, her mother nicknamed her Colibri, Spanish for "hummingbird...

• Author(s): Thomas Mann • Publisher: Everyman's Library • Publisher Imprint: Everyman's Library • BISAC: Christian - GeneralThis remarkable new translation of the Nobel Prize-winner's great masterpiece is a major literary event. Thomas Mann rega...

• Author(s): Nancy Osa • Publisher: Ember • Publisher Imprint: Ember • BISAC: Hispanic & LatinoFor fans of Matt de la Peña and Sandra Cisneros comes a novel about family and identity, where Violet Paz prepares for her quinceañero and learns...

• Author(s): K. L. Going • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Performing Arts - MusicA Michael L. Printz Honor Book Troy Billings is seventeen, 296 pounds, friendless, utterly miserable, and about to step off a N...

• Author(s): Gabriel García Márquez • Publisher: Everyman's Library • Publisher Imprint: Everyman's Library • BISAC: LiteraryFrom the Inside FlapGeneral Simon Bolivar, "the Liberator" of five South American countries, takes a last melancholy jour...

• Author(s): Gabriel Garcia Marquez • Publisher: Vintage • Publisher Imprint: Vintage • BISAC: Literary FiguresFrom the Inside FlapNo writer alive today exerts the magical appeal of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Now, in the long-awaited first volume of...

• Author(s): Imre Kertész • Publisher: Vintage • Publisher Imprint: Vintage • BISAC: LiteraryFrom the Inside FlapThe first word in this mesmerizing novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is "No." It is how the novel's narrator, a m...

• Author(s): Rebecca Solnit • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing ArtsA New York Times Notable Book Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, The Mark Lynton Hi...

• Author(s): Peter Dickinson • Publisher: Random House Children's Books • Publisher Imprint: Random House Children's Books • BISAC: Fantasy - EpicFrom the Inside FlapTilja has grown up in the peaceful Valley, which is protected from the fearsome ...

• Author(s): Irene Hunt • Publisher: Berkley Books • Publisher Imprint: Berkley Books • BISAC: Coming of AgeThe beloved author of Across Five Aprils and No Promises in the Wind presents one of her most cherished novels, the Newbery Award-winning ...

• Author(s): Naguib Mahfouz • Publisher: Everyman's Library • Publisher Imprint: Everyman's Library • BISAC: LiteraryFrom the Inside FlapNaguib Mahfouz's magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. Th...

• Author(s): Stacy Schiff • Publisher: Modern Library • Publisher Imprint: Modern Library • BISAC: WomenFrom the Inside FlapWinner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and hailed by critics as both "monumental" (The Boston Globe) and "utterly...

• Author(s): Ian McEwan • Publisher: Anchor Books • Publisher Imprint: Anchor Books • BISAC: LiteraryFrom the Inside FlapOn a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly...

• Author(s): Henry Adams • Publisher: Modern Library • Publisher Imprint: Modern Library • BISAC: HistoricalFrom the Inside Flap'I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams, ' said Gore Vidal. 'He was remarkably prescient about the...

• Author(s): Jonathan Harr • Publisher: Vintage Books USA • Publisher Imprint: Vintage Books USA • BISAC: Law EnforcementFrom the Inside Flap"The legal thriller of the decade." --Cleveland Plain Dealer Now a Major Motion Picture! In this true sto...

• Author(s): Nick Hornby • Publisher: Riverhead Books • Publisher Imprint: Riverhead Books • BISAC: LiteraryFrom the bestselling author of About a Boy, A Long Way Down and Dickens and Prince, a wise and hilarious novel about love, heartbreak, an...

• Author(s): Thomas Mann • Publisher: Everyman's Library • Publisher Imprint: Everyman's Library • BISAC: ClassicsFrom the Inside FlapIntroduction by T. J. Reed; Translation by John E. Woods

• Author(s): Gordon S. Wood • Publisher: Vintage • Publisher Imprint: Vintage • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-...

• Author(s): Albert Camus • Publisher: Everyman's Library • Publisher Imprint: Everyman's Library • BISAC: ClassicsFrom the Inside FlapIntroduction by Peter Dunwoody; Translation by Matthew Ward

• Author(s): Art Spiegelman • Publisher: Pantheon Books • Publisher Imprint: Pantheon Books • BISAC: Jewish - GeneralFrom the Inside FlapMAUS was the first half of the tale of survival of the author's parents, charting their desperate progress fr...

• Author(s): Willa Cather • Publisher: Vintage • Publisher Imprint: Vintage • BISAC: ClassicsFrom the Inside FlapWilla Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative of the making of a young American soldier Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring pro...

• Author(s): Robert A. Caro • Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Knopf Publishing Group • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of StateFrom the Inside FlapRobert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaime...

• Author(s): Alan Brinkley • Publisher: Vintage • Publisher Imprint: Vintage • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyFrom the Inside FlapThe study of two demagogues, whose vast popularity explains much about Depression-era America.From the Back Cove...