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

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

Dear reader, Do you remember the first time you fell in love? What words come to mind? Can you picture the season? If flowers were fully in bloom, or if the trail paths had grown silent from birds that had flown the nest? And of loss, do you remember how old you were the first

You can search for books across this discipline through our course lists, which include Astronomy, History of Science, Introductory Liberal Arts Physics, Modern Physics, Quantum Mechanics, and more.   Astronomy   History of Science   Introductory Liberal Arts Physics     Modern Physics     Quantum Mechanics  

From the Pulitzer-prize winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them.   i The Greed That Binds In the summer of 1967, Austrian and West German capitalists from the gas and steel industries met a group of Soviet communists in

“To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth,” Rolling Stone has advised, “you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert.” From her National Magazine Award-winning series The Climate of Man to her Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Sixth Extinction, Kolbert’s work has shaped the way we think about the environment in the twenty-first century. Collected in Life on a Little-Known Planet are her most

By approaching games as texts, teachers can foster the mindset students need to appreciate great literature. By Matthew Farber   Teachers have long embraced the power of books to spark curiosity, empathy, and critical thinking in young readers. From picture books to novels, literature invites students to make meaning, form personal connections, and explore complex ideas.

A Harvard student from China discovers the fraught, hidden history of the Tiananmen Square massacre in this powerful novel of protest and suppression from the National Book Award–winning author.   1 In the fall of 2008, my sophomore year at Harvard, China’s premier came to visit and gave a speech. Urged by the officials of

On the night of November 19, 2025, the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization, announced the winners of the 76th National Book Awards, which celebrate the best literature published in the United States. Presented from Cipriani Wall Street in New York City, and livestreamed for readers everywhere, the ceremony was hosted by Jeff Hiller, Emmy Award–winning actor, comedian,

From the celebrated writer J. Malcolm Garcia, a narrative nonfiction account of a forgotten Alabama neighborhood through intimate, tender, and gritty profiles of its people as they navigate immense loss and an unassailable determination to overcome their circumstances.   Overture December 2020. A friend calls and tells me about a feature story he saw on PBS about

The bestselling author of American Nations reveals how centuries-old regional differences have brought American democracy to the brink of collapse and presents a powerful story that can bridge our cultural divisions and save the republic.   Introduction Democratic collapses, like bankruptcies, happen gradually and then all at once. So do collapses of countries. Americans are experienc­ing what

From the national bestselling author of The Food Explorer comes the untold story of Alice Hamilton, a trailblazing doctor and public health activist who took on the booming auto industry—and the deadly invention of leaded gasoline, which would poison millions of people across America.   1 Alice Hamilton in 1915. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1919 For as long as