Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Peter Nichols • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Polar Regions"Peter Nichols has crafted a terrifyingly relevant historical narrative...A terrific read." -Nathaniel Philbrick...

• Author(s): Donald Kagan • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceThe bestselling author of The Peloponnesian War examines Thucydides as the first modern historian. Donald Kag...

• Author(s): Stewart Brand • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Environmental Conservation & Protection - General"Incredible book . . . Best I've read this year." --Jack Dorsey, via Twit...

• Author(s): Greg Mortenson • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: PeaceFrom the author of the #1 bestseller Three Cups of Tea, the continuing story of this determined humanitarian's efforts t...

• Author(s): Nicholas Wade • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Religion & ScienceA New York Times science reporter makes a startling new case that religion has an evolutionary basis. ...

• Author(s): Ken Auletta • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Industries - Media & Communications"The fullest account yet of the rise of one of the most profitable, most powerful, and od...

• Author(s): Richard Overy • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - General"Thought-provoking and illuminating...Overy's study of British culture between the wars is abs...

• Author(s): Robert Lacey • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Middle East - General "It's all here-Islam, the family tree, a sea of oil and money to match, palace intrigue...This is high drama and an...

• Author(s): Andrea Camilleri • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural"You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven't read him yet. Each novel in thi...

• Author(s): Graham Coleman • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Buddhism - TibetanSelections from Penguin's authoritative first complete translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead One of...

• Author(s): Carrie Fountain • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: American - General Selected for the 2009 National Poetry Series by Natasha Trethewey Set in southern New Mexico, where her family's ...

• Author(s): John Mortimer • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)"Rumpole is one of the immortals of mystery fiction." --San Francisco Chronicle Of the late Sir ...

• Author(s): William Trevor • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Literary"Unbearably moving" - Spectator (London) "A subtle, surprising, sometimes agonizing tale of young love and passion." ...

• Author(s): David L. Marcus • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Counseling - Academic DevelopmentAn engrossing profile of an extraordinary guidance counselor who helps kids get into the right colleg...

• Author(s): Maureen Howard • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryThe magnificent conclusion of Maureen Howard's ambitious quartet of novels. Maureen Howard is one of America's most ...

• Author(s): Alexander Aciman • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Form - ParodiesPerhaps while reading Shakespeare you've asked yourself, What exactly is Hamlet trying to tell me? Why must he mince w...

• Author(s): Ron Carlson • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Literary"The Signal accelerates like an avalanche...If men can't be brought back to fiction by books as fine as this one, it's t...

• Author(s): Stella Gibbons • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Humorous - GeneralA sly and satirical fairytale by the author of Cold Comfort Farm Unavailable for decades, Stella Gibbons's Nighting...

• Author(s): Rafe Esquith • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Parenting - GeneralThe New York Times bestselling author of Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire shares his proven methods for creati...

• Author(s): Penelope Lively • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Family Life - General"In this haunting new novel, the act of forgetting is as strange and interesting as the power of remembering." --...

• Author(s): Frank Bruni • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Memoirs The New York Times restaurant critic's heartbreaking and hilarious account of how he learned to love food just enough ...

• Author(s): Shane Jones • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: LiteraryA poignant and fantastical first novel by a timeless new literary voice. With all the elements of a classic fable, vivid descrip...

• Author(s): Alice Eve Cohen • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Memoirs"Darkly hilarious...an unexpected bundle of joy." -O, The Oprah Magazine Alice Cohen was happy for the first time in years. ...

• Author(s): Bich Minh Nguyen • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: WomenWinner of an American Book AwardNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by Library Journal A novel about two Vietnames...

• Author(s): Sholem Aleichem • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Literary"An uproarious, sprawling masterpiece by a grand Yiddish storyteller." --O, The Oprah Magazine Translated in full fo...

• Author(s): Jim Powell • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Humorous - GeneralRead Jim Powell's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. The Breaking of Eggs is the story of the cu...

• Author(s): Robert Sabbag • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: MemoirsAround midnight on June 17, 1979, Air New England Flight 248, en route from New York, crashed into the woods on Cape Cod. The pil...

• Author(s): Hobson Woodward • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775) "At once a penetrating work of literary analysis and a riveting historical narra...

• Author(s): Rennie Airth • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - Historical"[Rennie Airth's] meticulously detailed procedural mysteries are beautifully written . . . ...

• Author(s): Barbara Ras • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: American - General A third collection from a poet whose "beautiful sentences weave the miraculous and mundane into a single, lum...

• Author(s): Nick Rosen • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Sustainable LivingA look inside the subculture of off-grid living, taking readers across the ideological spectrum and across Amer...

• Author(s): Shawna Yang Ryan • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Literary A mesmerizing debut novel that weaves history and mythology around a community of Chinese immigrants and the ghost...

• Author(s): John Steinbeck • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: American - GeneralOccupied by enemy troops, a small, peaceable town comes face-to-face with evil imposed from the outside--an...

• Author(s): Patrick Neate • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Regional Studies An inspiring mission to rescue young people from drugs and violence with music At a time when interest in Brazilian c...

• Author(s): Julie Greene • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: United States - 20th Century A revelatory look at a momentous undertaking-from the workers' point of view The Panama Canal has...

• Author(s): Christos Tsiolkas • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: LiteraryThe basis for the NBC event series directed by Lisa Cholodenko and starring Uma Thurman, Peter Sarsgaard, and Zachary Quinto...

• Author(s): John Steinbeck • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Film - GeneralThe novelist who wrote The Grapes of Wrath and the director who produced Crisis and Lights Out in Europe combin...

• Author(s): Robin Ryan • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Careers - Job Hunting"Robin Ryan has the inside track on how to get hired."- ABC NEWS If you are over 40 and struggling to land a new job,...

• Author(s): Thomas E. Ricks • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Iraq War (2003-2011) Thomas E. Rick's news-breaking follow up to the #1 New York Times bestseller Fia...

• 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): Jeanne Fitzpatrick • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Death, Grief, Bereavement The fail-safe plan for ensuring one's final wishes are respected Advanced directives and livi...

• Author(s): Norah Vincent • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Memoirs From the author of The New York Times bestseller Self- Made Man, a captivating expose of depression and mental illness in Americ...

• Author(s): Joe Queenan • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Memoirs An affecting memoir from one of America's most provocative humorists Over the past two decades, Joe Queenan has established himse...

• Author(s): Matt McCarthy • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Baseball - Essays & WritingsA hilairious inside baseball account of year in the minor leagues Odd Man Out captures the gri...

• Author(s): Adam Cohen • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: General "A fascinating account of an extraordinary moment in the life of the United States." --The New York Times With the worl...

• Author(s): Nandan Nilekani • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: International - Economics & Trade A visionary look at the evolution and future of India In this momentous book, Nandan Nilekani ...

• Author(s): Wang Gang • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Literary"I loved this book and can't stop talking about it. . . . Transcendent." --Carolyn See, The Washington Post In the tradit...

• Author(s): Azhar Abidi • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Literary A haunting novel about a mother and son and the emotional consequences of leaving home The matriarch Bilqis Khan, a w...

• Author(s): Charles Esdaile • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Military - GeneralA glorious and conclusive chronicle of the wars waged by one of the most polarizing figures in military hi...

• Author(s): Martin Page • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Literary Another mordantly hysterical tale from the author of the cult favorite How I Became Stupid A funny yet poignant tour ...

• Author(s): Joseph Boyden • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Literary A haunting novel of love, identity, and loss-from the internationally acclaimed author of Three Day Road Beautifull...

• Author(s): Philip Kerr • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Thrillers - CrimeIn this riveting historical mystery novel from New York Times bestselling author Philip Kerr, Bernie Gunther tr...

• Author(s): Jedediah Berry • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Literary "This debut novel weaves the kind of mannered fantasy that might result if Wes Anderson were to adapt Kafka." --The New Yorker...

• Author(s): C. J. Sansom • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - HistoricalThe fourth novel in the Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery series--the inspiration for the Hulu original...

• Author(s): Jon Fasman • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryA gripping novel about the dangers and draws of contemporary Russia--from the author of The Geographer's Library With The...

• Author(s): Louis Auchincloss • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of StateA portrait of a century's greatest political mastermind Our tw ent y-eighth president was, says Loui...

• Author(s): Charles Seife • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Physics - NuclearWith his knack for translating science into understandable, anecdotal prose and his trademark dry humor, awar...

• Author(s): Amy Gerstler • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: American - GeneralA surreal new collection from an acclaimed poet Hallucinogenic plants chant in chorus. A thoughtful dog grant...

• Author(s): Ann B. Ross • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Humorous - General Miss Julia faces a double dose of trouble-this time right under her own roof. Miss Julia's iron will and kin...

• Author(s): Ian Buruma • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryFrom Shanghai before and during the Second World War to U.S. occupied Tokyo, and, finally, to the Middle East in the earl...