Join Penguin Random House Education in celebrating the contributions of Black authors and illustrators. In honor of Black History Month this February and beyond, we are highlighting essential fiction and nonfiction to be shared and discussed by students and educators. Start browsing here.

For Korean American Day on January 13th, we are celebrating Korean American and Korean authors and their stories with a collection that includes memoir and fiction.

An award-winning Oxford history professor “makes a forceful argument and tells a story with great verve” (The Wall Street Journal)—that the West is, and always has been, truly global.   Chapter One A Single Sail Byblos, c. 2000 BCE It is just after dawn on a warm morning about 4,000 years ago. We are at

How do we make and keep friends in an era of distraction, burnout, and chaos, especially in a society that often prizes romantic love at the expense of other relationships? In Platonic, Dr. Marisa G. Franco unpacks the latest, often counterintuitive findings about the bonds between us—for example, why your friends aren’t texting you back (it’s