New Literature Titles from Penguin Random House

By Allan Spencer | February 12 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. 

Wandering Stars
Wandering Stars
A novel
Tommy Orange
9780593318256
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There There. Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Redfeather’s shooting in There There.
$29.00 US
Feb 27, 2024
Hardcover
336 Pages
Knopf
Quicksand
Quicksand
Nella Larsen
9780593730270
A classic novel of identity, sexuality, religion, and race by the author of Passing, hailed as “an original and hugely insightful writer” by The New York Times—with an introduction by Asali Solomon, author of The Days of Afrekete.
$15.00 US
Jan 30, 2024
Paperback
192 Pages
Modern Library
White Rat
White Rat
Short Stories
Gayl Jones
9780807012949

Gayl Jones has been described as one of the great literary writers of the 20th century and was recently a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. This collection of short fiction was her third book, originally edited and published by Toni Morrison in 1977, and is now reissued.

$17.95 US
Feb 06, 2024
Paperback
160 Pages
Beacon Press
Time's Undoing
Time's Undoing
A Novel
Cheryl A. Head
9780593471845

A searing and tender novel about a young Black journalist’s search for answers in the unsolved murder of her great-grandfather in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, decades ago—inspired by the author’s own family history.

$18.00 US
Feb 27, 2024
Paperback
384 Pages
Dutton
Victory City
Victory City
A Novel
Salman Rushdie
9780593243411
The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries—from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize–winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie.
$18.00 US
Jan 30, 2024
Paperback
352 Pages
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Red Pyramid
Red Pyramid
Selected Stories
Vladimir Sorokin
9781681378206
Provocative, hilarious, and tender stories about sex, violence, and politics from one of the greatest Russian writers of the post-Soviet era.
$18.95 US
Feb 27, 2024
Paperback
320 Pages
NYRB Classics
Brotherless Night
Brotherless Night
A Novel
V. V. Ganeshananthan
9780812978278
A courageous young Sri Lankan woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor in this “heartbreaking exploration of a family fractured by civil war” (Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half).
$18.00 US
Jan 30, 2024
Paperback
384 Pages
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Plan B
Plan B
A novel
Chester Himes
9780593686133
The final, posthumous installment of the ground-breaking Harlem Detectives series, a novel of explosive, apocalyptic violence, and a startling vision of the effects of racism in America.
$17.00 US
Feb 13, 2024
Paperback
192 Pages
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
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