Penguin- Award Winning

• Author(s): Patrick French • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group • BISAC: Literary FiguresThe first major biography of V.S. Naipaul, the controversial and enigmatic Nobel laureate: a ...

• Author(s): Librairie Larousse • Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Clarkson Potter Publishers • BISAC: ReferenceLarousse Gastronomique has been the foremost resource of culinary knowledge since its initial publication in...

• Author(s): Dayton Duncan • Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Knopf Publishing Group • BISAC: United States - GeneralThe companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseb...

• Author(s): Doris Lessing • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group • BISAC: Thrillers - PsychologicalIn this ambitious novel of madness and release, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Dor...

• Author(s): Dexter Filkins • Publisher: Vintage Books USA • Publisher Imprint: Vintage Books USA • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Iraq War (2003-2011)NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The definitive account of Amer...

• Author(s): Caroline B. Cooney • Publisher: Delacorte Press • Publisher Imprint: Delacorte Press • BISAC: Legends, Myths, Fables - Greek & RomanAnaxandra is taken from her birth island at age 6 by King Nicander to be a companion to his cripp...

• Author(s): Joseph O'Neill • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD - "Netherland t...

• Author(s): Aleksandar Hemon • Publisher: Riverhead Books • Publisher Imprint: Riverhead Books • BISAC: LiteraryThe only novel from MacArthur Genius Award winner, Aleksandar Hemon -- the National Book Critics Circle Award winning The Lazarus Pro...

• Author(s): Michael Pollan • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Diet & Nutrition - Nutrition#1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of This is Your Mind on Plants, How to Change Your Mind, The Omnivore'...

• Author(s): Kurt Vonnegut • Publisher: Berkley Books • Publisher Imprint: Berkley Books • BISAC: EssaysThe New York Times bestseller from the author of Slaughterhouse-Five--a "gripping" posthumous collection of Kurt Vonnegut's previously unpubli...

• Author(s): Douglas A. Blackmon • Publisher: Anchor Books • Publisher Imprint: Anchor Books • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyThis groundbreaking historical expose unearths the lost stories of enslaved persons and their descendants who journe...

• Author(s): Hari Kunzru • Publisher: Plume Books • Publisher Imprint: Plume Books • BISAC: Thrillers - Suspense"Powerful" (The New Yorker), "extraordinary" (The New York Times Book Review), and "brilliant" (Entertainment Weekly)--you won't be ab...

• Author(s): Samantha Power • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Social ActivistsNow a Netflix biopic, Sergio, with Narcos star Wagner Moura playing diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello. "The bes...

• Author(s): Carol Shields • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: LiteraryIn celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of its original publication, Carol Shields's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is now available in a ...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Strout • Publisher: Random House Trade • Publisher Imprint: Random House Trade • BISAC: LiteraryWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - The beloved first novel featuring Olive Kitteridge, from the #1 New York Times bestselling autho...

• Author(s): Edwidge Danticat • Publisher: Vintage • Publisher Imprint: Vintage • BISAC: MemoirsWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for AutobiographyA National Book Award FinalistA New York Times Notable Book From the age of four, aw...

• Author(s): Tim Weiner • Publisher: MixBZ • Publisher Imprint: MixBZ • Subject: Law and Criminology • BISAC: Intelligence & EspionageNATIONAL BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers a...

• Author(s): Doris Lessing • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryFrom the Inside FlapA middle class Englishwoman joins a loose-knit group of political vagabonds and fi...

• Author(s): Dinaw Mengestu • Publisher: Riverhead Books • Publisher Imprint: Riverhead Books • BISAC: LiterarySeventeen years ago, Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian Revolution for a new start in the United States. Now he finds himself running a...

• Author(s): Alice Munro • Publisher: Vintage Books USA • Publisher Imprint: Vintage Books USA • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)A "revelatory" (The Boston Globe), "exhilarating" (The New York Times Book Review) collection of twelve stories t...

• Author(s): Stanley N. Alpert • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Organized CrimeOn January 21, 1998, the night before his thirty-eighth birthday, federal prosecutor Stanley N. Alpert was ...

• Author(s): Claire Tomalin • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Literary Figures"A masterful portrait" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) from a Whitbread Award-winning biographer, and author of A Life of M...

• Author(s): Gabriel Garcia Marquez • Publisher: Vintage • Publisher Imprint: Vintage • BISAC: LiteraryINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - "A love story of astonishing power" (Newsweek), the acclaimed modern literary classic by the beloved Nobel Prize-win...

• Author(s): Gene Roberts • Publisher: Vintage Books USA • Publisher Imprint: Vintage Books USA • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyAn unprecedented examination of how news stories, editorials and photographs in the American press--and the journ...

• Author(s): Lawrence Wright • Publisher: Vintage Books USA • Publisher Imprint: Vintage Books USA • BISAC: United States - 21st CenturyNATIONAL BESTSELLER - PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - A "heart-stopping account of the events leading up to 9/11" (The...

• Author(s): E. L. Doctorow • Publisher: Random House Trade • Publisher Imprint: Random House Trade • BISAC: Historical - GeneralWinner of the National Book Award - "Marvelous . . . You get lost in World's Fair as if it were an exotic adventure. ...

• Author(s): E. L. Doctorow • Publisher: Random House Trade • Publisher Imprint: Random House Trade • BISAC: ClassicsSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of w...

• Author(s): Viola Canales • Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books • Publisher Imprint: Wendy Lamb Books • BISAC: School & Education - Boarding School & Prep SchoolSofia comes from a family of storytellers. Here are her tales of growing up in the b...

• Author(s): Ken Follett • Publisher: New American Library • Publisher Imprint: New American Library • BISAC: Thrillers - EspionageIn his own bestselling tradition of Eye of the Needle and The Key to Rebecca, Ken Follett delivers a breathtaking n...

• Author(s): Gabriel Garcia Marquez • Publisher: Vintage Books USA • Publisher Imprint: Vintage Books USA • BISAC: LiteraryA New York Times Notable Book On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love ...

• Author(s): Francine Du Plessix Gray • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: MemoirsTatiana du Plessix, the wife of a French diplomat, was a beautiful, sophisticated "white Russian" who had be...

• Author(s): Salman Rushdie • Publisher: Random House Trade • Publisher Imprint: Random House Trade • BISAC: LiteraryThe iconic masterpiece of India that introduced the world to "a glittering novelist--one with startling imaginative and intellect...

• Author(s): Imre Kertész • Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Knopf Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryFrom the Inside FlapA masterly new novel from the 2002 Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature: the story of a Hungarian writer ...

• Author(s): Joan Bauer • Publisher: MixIG • Publisher Imprint: MixIG • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: Girls & WomenA Newbery Honor Book Joan Bauer's beloved Newbery Honor book--now with a great new look for middle grade readers!...

• Author(s): Ha Jin • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryFrom the Inside FlapHa Jin's masterful new novel casts a searchlight into a forgotten corner of modern histor...

• Author(s): Ron Chernow • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: PoliticalThe #1 New York Times bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow present...

• Author(s): Diarmaid MacCulloch • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: GeneralThe National Book Critics Circle Award-winning history of the Reformation--from the New York Times bestselling author of Christianity ...

• Author(s): Halldor Laxness • Publisher: Vintage • Publisher Imprint: Vintage • BISAC: LiteraryFrom the Inside FlapNobel laureate Halldor Laxness's Under the Glacier" is a" one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once earthy and ...

• Author(s): Steve Coll • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - GeneralWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction - A New York Times bestseller "The CIA itself would be hard put to beat his g...

• Author(s): Daniel Okrent • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD,In this hugely appealing book, a finalist for the Pulitzer Pri...

• Author(s): J. M. Coetzee • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: LiteraryJ.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available Jan...

• Author(s): Nathaniel Philbrick • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: United States - 19th Century"A treasure of a book."--David McCullough The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to m...

• Author(s): Robert Cormier • Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers • Publisher Imprint: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers • BISAC: Social Themes - Peer PressureFrom the Inside FlapIN 1974, AFTER SUFFERING rejections from seven...

• Author(s): Imre Kertesz • Publisher: Vintage • Publisher Imprint: Vintage • BISAC: Historical - GeneralFrom the Inside FlapAt the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without any particular malice, ...

• Author(s): Aidan Chambers • Publisher: Speak • Publisher Imprint: Speak • BISAC: Historical - Military & WarsSeventeen-year-old Jacob Todd is about to discover himself. Jacob's plan is to go to Amsterdam to honor his grandfather who died du...

• Author(s): Valerie Martin • Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Knopf Publishing Group • BISAC: Historical - GeneralFrom the Inside FlapValerie Martin's Property delivers an eerily mesmerizing inquiry into slavery's venomous ...

• Author(s): Anne Applebaum • Publisher: Anchor Books • Publisher Imprint: Anchor Books • BISAC: Russia - GeneralPULITZER PRIZE WINNER - This magisterial and acclaimed history offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its orig...

• Author(s): Paul Hendrickson • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group • BISAC: DiscriminationFrom the Inside FlapThey stand as unselfconscious as if the photograph were being taken at a ...

• Author(s): Shirley Ann Grau • Publisher: Vintage • Publisher Imprint: Vintage • BISAC: ClassicsFrom the Inside FlapWinner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, The Keepers of the House" is Shirley Ann Grau's masterwork, a many-layered indictment of ra...

• Author(s): Robert A. Caro • Publisher: MixIG • Publisher Imprint: MixIG • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of StateMaster of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson's story thr...

• Author(s): Nicholson Baker • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group • BISAC: Media StudiesFrom the Inside FlapThe ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But fo...

• Author(s): Joseph J. Ellis • Publisher: Vintage Books USA • Publisher Imprint: Vintage Books USA • BISAC: HistoricalFrom the Inside FlapIn this landmark work of history, the National Book Award--winning author of "American Sphinx explores how a...

• Author(s): Justin Cronin • Publisher: Random House Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Random House Publishing Group • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)From the Inside FlapMary and O'Neil frequently marveled at how, of all the lives they m...

• Author(s): Ted Conover • Publisher: Vintage • Publisher Imprint: Vintage • BISAC: PenologyFrom the Inside FlapAcclaimed journalist Ted Conover sets a new standard for bold, in-depth reporting in this first-hand account of life inside the penal ...

• Author(s): V. S. Naipaul • Publisher: Vintage • Publisher Imprint: Vintage • BISAC: LiteraryFrom the Inside FlapThe early masterpiece of V. S. Naipaul's brilliant career, A House for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul's fa...

• Author(s): Thomas Mann • Publisher: Vintage • Publisher Imprint: Vintage • BISAC: ClassicsFrom the Inside Flap"John E. Woods is revising our impression of Thomas Mann, masterpiece by masterpiece." --The New Yorker "Doctor Faustus is Mann's deep...

• Author(s): John Irving • Publisher: Ballantine Books • Publisher Imprint: Ballantine Books • BISAC: LiteraryFrom the Inside FlapRuth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character--a "difficult" woman. By no means is she conventionally "...

• Author(s): Joseph J. Ellis • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of StateFrom the Inside FlapFor a man who insisted that life on the public stage was ...

• Author(s): Jack N. Rakove • Publisher: Vintage • Publisher Imprint: Vintage • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)

• Author(s): Yasunari Kawabata • Publisher: Vintage • Publisher Imprint: Vintage • BISAC: LiteraryNOBEL PRIZE WINNER - The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko, a young woman w...