Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Cal Ripken • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Baseball - HistoryThere aren't many Americans who didn't feel a lump in their throat watching Cal Ripken, Jr. take a historic jog...

• Author(s): Lois Battle • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryFrom turn-of-the-century New Orleans, a city renowned for sin, seduction, and sex, comes a tale of two women inextricabl...

• Author(s): Steven Levenkron • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: SportsJust looking at Katie Roskova, you'd think she had it all: she was pretty, popular, an A-student at an exclusive priv...

• Author(s): J. M. Coetzee • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Literary Figures"Fiercely revealing, bluntly unsentimental. . .a telling portrait of the artist as a young man that illuminates the hidd...

• Author(s): Jan Willem Honig • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralFrom the Back CoverIn July 1995, despite clear warnings and the presence of UN troops, Bosnian Sorbs at Srebr...

• Author(s): Anne Lamott • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow; Small Mercies; and Stitches, a wise and witty novel abo...

• Author(s): Mariano Azuela • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: LiteraryIn this deeply moving picture of the turmoil of the first great revolution of the twentieth century--the Mexican Revolution of ...

• Author(s): Rilla Askew • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Historical - GeneralA FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD An epic story that takes place on the dusty, remorseless Oklahoma frontier, wher...

• Author(s): Tim O'Brien • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: LiteraryThe Nuclear Age is about one man's slightly insane attempt to come to terms with a dilemma that confronts us all--a little thing c...

• Author(s): Kate Simon • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Women"As an account of growing up female, it is a fit companion piece to Mary McCarthy's classic Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood."--Le Anne ...

• Author(s): David Levering Lewis • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Bl"A major study...one that thorougly interweaves the...

• Author(s): William Kennedy • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Literary"Kennedy's justly acclaimed Albany Cycle [is] one of the imperishable products of American literature since the Seco...

• Author(s): Pramoedya Ananta Toer • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryWith House Of Glass comes the final chapter of Pramoedya's epic quartet, set in the Dutch East Indies at the t...

• Author(s): Loida Maritza Perez • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Family Life - GeneralFrom the Back CoverIliana believes that by attending a college more than five hours from New York C...

• Author(s): Roddy Doyle • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Literary"This unflinching novel chronicles a woman's relationship with a violent man in a way that brings fresh insight to the subject . ....

• Author(s): Jon Savage • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Children's StudiesIn his previous landmark book on youth culture and teen angst, the award-winning England's Dreaming, Jon Savage...

• Author(s): Julio Cortázar • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: LiteraryA young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams...A man reading a mystery finds out too late tha...

• Author(s): Carlos Fuentes • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: LiteraryAfter collapsing from an illness while attending a business meeting, a dying Artemio Cruz, a rich and powerful land owner in mo...

• Author(s): Wallace Stegner • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryMargaret Stuart, the proud wife of a prosperous Iowa farmer, sets high standards for herself and others. Happy in he...

• Author(s): Federico García Lorca • Publisher: MIXIG • Publisher Imprint: MIXIG • Subject: Foreign Languages • BISAC: European - Spanish & PortuguesePerhaps the most famous book of poetry written in Spanish in the 20th century, this volume m...

• Author(s): Wallace Stegner • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiterarySabrina Castro, an attractive woman with a strong New England heritage, is married to a wealthy, older California ph...

• Author(s): Harriet Doerr • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryIn her first collection of stories and pieces, Harriet Doerr explores the magical power of memory and brings us a weal...

• Author(s): Roddy Doyle • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: LiteraryA one-volume edition of the celebrated trio of novels about the Rabbitte family, from the Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Cla...

• Author(s): Mary Austin • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Essays"Between the high Sierras south from Yosemite--east and south over a very great assemblage of broken ranges beyond Death V...

• Author(s): Baxter F. Black • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: LiteraryThe bestselling novel from America's premier cowboy poet. Cowboys Lick and Cody are on a quest to qualify for the rodeo natio...

• Author(s): Willard Gaylin • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Criminology"A powerful and passionate indictment of the use of psychiatric testimony in criminal cases." --The Cleveland Plain DealerA ...

• Author(s): Christopher Buckley • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: LiteraryAt last, a White House reminiscence that pulls no punches! Herbert Wadlough, personal assistant to President N. Tucker (TN...

• Author(s): Jane Urquhart • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: LiteraryA stunning, evocative novel set in Ireland and Canada, Away traces a family's complex and layered past. The narrative unfolds wi...

• Author(s): Sherwood Anderson • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: ClassicsGeorge Willard is a young reporter on the Winesburg Eagle to whom, one by one, the inhabitants of Winesburg, Ohio,...

• Author(s): John Steinbeck • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: ClassicsFrom the Back CoverJohn Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize--winning epic of the Great Depression follows the western movement...

• Author(s): Gabriel García Márquez • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: LiterarySet in the lush, coastal tropics of 18-century colonial Colombia, this is the story of Sierva Maria and the priest Caye...

• Author(s): Janet Poppendieck • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareIn this era of eroding commitment to government sponsored welfare programs, voluntarism...

• Author(s): David Lodge • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryPhilip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academics who are on the mo...

• Author(s): Clifton L. Taulbert • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Cultural & Regional"A bittersweet story about love, community, and family--and the difference they made in the life of one you...

• Author(s): Patricia Raybon • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Cultural & Regional"In mid-life Afro-American journalist Raybon made a conscious decision to stop hating white people. H...

• Author(s): Graham Greene • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: ClassicsFrom the Back CoverThe relentless struggle of the Vietminh guerrillas for independence and the futility of the French ...

• Author(s): Iris Murdoch • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Historical - GeneralFull of suspense, humor, and symbolism, this magnificently crafted and magical novel replays biblical and m...

• Author(s): Elliot Liebow • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare"One of the very best things ever written about homeless people in the nation."--...

• Author(s): Steve Lopez • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - GeneralIn the Philadelphia neighborhood known as the Badlands, drug gangs rule absolutely. Each time a...

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

• Author(s): Maria Mazziotti Gillan • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: American - African American & BlackA multicultural array of poets explore what it is means to be American This p...

• Author(s): Eric M. Bergerud • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Vietnam War"Extraordinary...recreates the Vietnam experience in visceral terms."--Col. Harry G. Sumniers, Jr.,...

• Author(s): John Keegan • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralAcclaimed military historian John Keegan's investigation into World War II and the ...

• Author(s): Alvin M. Josephy • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Indigenous - General"A valuable chronicle of the greatness and majesty of the Indian chiefs."--Christian Science Monitor T...

• Author(s): Jack Kerouac • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Literary FiguresAn "exhilarating" (Chicago Tribune) selection of Jack Kerouac's most personal, truthful, and mesmerizing letter...

• Author(s): Dalai Lama • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: InspirationalThe Dalai Lama serves as a living symbol of holiness and selfless triumph over tribulation for people of all religious traditi...

• Author(s): Richard Manning • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)More than forty percent of our country was once open prairie, gras...

• Author(s): Roddy Doyle • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: LiteraryWinner of the Booker Prize - Roddy Doyle's witty, exuberant novel about a young boy trying to make sense of his changing world It ...

• Author(s): Abraham Cahan • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Classics"The most important of all immigrant novels."--Carl Van DorenFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading...

• Author(s): Various • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Anthologies (multiple authors)The American West is as varied in its inhabitants as in its landforms. Yet what has come to stand for ...

• Author(s): Laurence G. Boldt • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: TaoistThrough his intelligent, appealing integration of Eastern philosophy and practical advice, Laurence G. Boldt has hel...

• Author(s): Sinclair Lewis • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: ClassicsFrom the Back CoverGeorge E. Babbitt, a conniving, prosperous real estate man from Zenith, Ohio, revels in his popula...

• Author(s): China Galland • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: ReligiousRead China Galland's posts on the Penguin Blog With this book, China Galland brought increased attention to the spiri...

• Author(s): Marion Woodman • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: WomenOn November 7, 1993, Marion Woodman was diagnosed with uterine cancer. Here, in journal form, is the story of her illnes...

• Author(s): Taisen Deshimaru • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Martial Arts - GeneralAt last: a book on the martial arts from a true Zen master. Taisen Deshimaru was born in Japan of an ...

• Author(s): John Blofeld • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: I ChingThe I Ching, probably the oldest book in existence, provides a system of knowledge that makes it possible to analyze the...

• Author(s): Graham Greene • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: ClassicsFrom master storyteller Graham Greene comes the tale of Anthony Farrant, who has boasted, lied and cheated his way thr...

• Author(s): Graham Greene • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: ClassicsQuerry, a world-famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in ar...

• Author(s): Gretel Ehrlich • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Medical (Incl. Patients)A powerful chronicle of a wounded woman's exploration of nature and self After nature writer Gretel E...

• Author(s): Don Delillo • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryFrom the author of the National Book Award-winning White Noise comes a novel that "reflects our era's nightmares and hal...