New Literature Titles from Penguin Random House

By Allan Spencer | January 10 2024 | Literature

Browse these new and notable titles for use in your Literature courses. To request complimentary exam copies for course-use consideration, click here. 

Chain Gang All Stars: A Read with Jenna Pick
Chain Gang All Stars: A Read with Jenna Pick
A Novel
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
9780593469316
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION: Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America’s own in this explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Friday Black
$18.00 US
Jan 23, 2024
Paperback
432 Pages
Vintage
My Friends
My Friends
A Novel
Hisham Matar
9780812994841
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Return, a luminous novel of friendship, family, and the unthinkable realities of exile
$28.99 US
Jan 09, 2024
Hardcover
416 Pages
Random House
Come and Get It: A GMA Book Club Pick
Come and Get It: A GMA Book Club Pick
Kiley Reid
9780593328200

From the celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Such a Fun Age comes a fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a professor and three unruly students.

$29.00 US
Jan 30, 2024
Hardcover
400 Pages
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Martyr!
Martyr!
A novel
Kaveh Akbar
9780593537619
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others—in which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum.
$28.00 US
Jan 23, 2024
Hardcover
352 Pages
Knopf
Answered Prayers
Answered Prayers
The novel that scandalized Capote's women
Truman Capote
9780593731109
Truman Capote’s unfinished final novel is an unsparing tell-all of New York high society that sent the public and Capote’s own social circles into seismic shock.
$26.00 US
Jan 02, 2024
Hardcover
176 Pages
Modern Library
Hard by a Great Forest
Hard by a Great Forest
A Novel
Leo Vardiashvili
9780593545034

Amid rubble and rebuilding in a former Soviet land, the members of one family must rescue one another and put the past to rest: a stirring novel about what happens after the fighting is over.

$29.00 US
Jan 30, 2024
Hardcover
352 Pages
Riverhead Books
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