Penguin- Award Winning

• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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...

• Author(s): Ralph Ellison • Publisher: MIXBZ • Publisher Imprint: MIXBZ • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - In this deeply compelling novel and epic milestone of American literature, ...

• Author(s): Sigrid Undset • Publisher: Vintage • Publisher Imprint: Vintage • BISAC: Historical - GeneralFrom the Back CoverSoaringly romantic and psychologically nuanced, Undest's novel is also a meticulous re-creation of a world split between ...

• Author(s): David Remnick • Publisher: Vintage • Publisher Imprint: Vintage • BISAC: Russia - GeneralFrom the Inside FlapIn the tradition of John Reed's classic Ten Days That Shook the World, this bestselling account of the collapse of the Sovie...

• 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): 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): Sigrid Undset • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group • BISAC: Historical - GeneralFrom the Inside FlapVolume one of the trilogy; Kristin's girlhood.

• Author(s): Art Spiegelman • Publisher: Pantheon Books • Publisher Imprint: Pantheon Books • BISAC: Jewish - GeneralFrom the Inside FlapA story of a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his...