Penguin Publishing Group: 18231 books
The Glass Universe
How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel, the "inspiring" (People), little-known true story of women's landmark contributions to astronomy
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017
Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, The Economist, Smithsonian,...
LeBron's Dream Team
How Four Friends and I Brought a Championsip Home
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
The DREAM TEAM was a bunch of kids from Akron, Ohio-LeBron James and his best friends-who first met on a youth basketball team of the same name when they were ten and eleven years old. United by their love of the game and their yearning for companionship, they quickly forged a bond which would carry...
To Kiss in the Shadows
A Novella of the de Piaget Family A Penguin Group eSpecial from Jove
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Lynn Kurland brings the romance and adventure of the Middle Ages to life with this tale of a maiden and a knight, both running from their pasts…
Lianna of Grasleigh spends all her days weaving tapestries of dragons and shadows, avoiding the...
The Templars
The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
**“Dan Jones is an entertainer, but also a bona fide historian. Seldom does one find serious scholarship so easy to read.” – The Times, Book of the Year
A New York Times bestseller, this major new history of the knights Templar is “a fresh, muscular and compelling history of the ultimate...
Behave
The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Why do we do the things we do?
Over a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful...
How to Stop Time
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
“A quirky romcom dusted with philosophical observations….A delightfully witty…poignant novel.” —The Washington Post
“She smiled a soft, troubled smile and I felt the whole world slipping away, and I wanted to slip with it, to go wherever she was going… I had existed whole years...
The Phone Book
The Curious History of the Book That Everyone Uses But No One Reads
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Read Ammon Shea's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community.
A surprising, lively, and rich history of that ubiquitous doorstop that most of us take for granted.
Ammon Shea is not your typical thirtysomething book enthusiast. After reading the Oxford English Dictionary from cover...
by Jon Lee Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2004
In the months leading up to the American invasion of Iraq, this New Yorker correspondent “embedded’ himself among the people of Baghdad and, along with a small number of other Western reporters, rode out the entire invasion and much of the subsequent occupation from inside the city. Jon Lee Anderson’s...
My Fellow Soldiers
General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
From the New York Times bestselling author of War Letters and Behind the Lines, Andrew Carroll’s My Fellow Soldiers draws on a rich trove of both little-known and newly uncovered letters and diaries to create a marvelously vivid and moving account of the American experience in World War I, with...
The Forsaken
An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
A remarkable piece of forgotten history- the never-before-told story of Americans lured to Soviet Russia by the promise of jobs and better lives, only to meet tragic ends
In 1934, a photograph was taken of a baseball team. These two rows of young men look like any group of American ballplayers,...
The Perfect $100,000 House
A Trip Across America and Back in Pursuit of a Place to Call Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
A home of one’s own has always been a cornerstone of the American dream, fulfilling like nothing else the desire for comfort, financial security, independence, and with a little luck, even a touch of distinctive character, or even beauty. But what we have come to regard as almost a national birthright...
Astral Weeks
A Secret History of 1968
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
A mind-expanding dive into a lost chapter of 1968, featuring the famous and forgotten: Van Morrison, folkie-turned-cult-leader Mel Lyman, Timothy Leary, James Brown, and many more
Van Morrison's Astral Weeks is an iconic rock album shrouded in legend, a masterpiece that has touched generations...
Read the Beatles
Classic and New Writings on the Beatles, Their Legacy, and Why They Still Matter
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
A must-have volume for all Beatles fans-a career-spanning selection of writings about the Fab Four
There are, of course, many books on the Beatles, but this is the only one available that is a comprehensive, career-spanning collection of journalism about the legendary band, before and after...
T.C. Boyle Stories II
The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle, Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
A second volume of collected short fiction—from the bestselling author and winner of the 2015 Rea Award for the Short Story
Few authors write with such sheer love of story and language as T.C. Boyle, and that is nowhere more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and always entertaining...