Penguin- Award Winning

• Author(s): Blake Bailey • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group • BISAC: Literary FiguresJohn Cheever spent much of his career impersonating a perfect suburban gentleman, the better to...

• 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): Marlon James • Publisher: Riverhead Books • Publisher Imprint: Riverhead Books • BISAC: LiteraryFrom the author of the National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf and the WINNER of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for A Brief Histo...

• Author(s): Martha A. Sandweiss • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Cultural & RegionalRead Martha A. Sandweiss's posts on the Penguin Blog The secret double life of the man who mappe...

• Author(s): Philipp Meyer • Publisher: Spiegel & Grau • Publisher Imprint: Spiegel & Grau • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - GeneralNOW A HIT STREAMING SERIES - A "bold, absorbing novel" (The New York Times Book Review) of the lost Ameri...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): Barack Obama • Publisher: Broadway Books • Publisher Imprint: Broadway Books • BISAC: Essays#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Barack Obama's lucid vision of America's place in the world and call for a new kind of politics that builds up...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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...