In a bold new planetary history, bestselling author Olivia Judson traces how life transformed our world through five great expansions: Rock, Light, Oxygen, Flesh, and Fire. A dazzling story of Earth, evolution, and our place in the cosmos. 🌎 Learn more: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746822...

💡Announcing The Creativity Con from Thomas Frank, coming this October! This is a bold indictment of how America's obsession with creative innovation masks inequality, and reinforces it, rationalizing harmful policies and protecting the elite. Learn more: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743572...

Alan Greenspan, the longtime Federal Reserve Chairman and one of the most influential economic policymakers of the modern era, passed away today at the age of 100. We were honored to publish three of his books, including his memoir The Age of Turbulence. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.

“Excellent and fast-paced . . . An animated look at the tortured history of American slavery and its immediate aftermath.” @olreview.bsky.social writes a fantastic review of Two Ships by David Reynolds! openlettersreview.com/posts/two-sh...

This Thursday, head to l'Alliance New York for a special screening of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, with signed copies of Violaine Huisman's The Monuments of Paris available for purchase! lallianceny.org/event/the-hu...

The conversation around AI is only heating up, and @karenhao.bsky.social is the journalist to help us understand the story. “Easily one of the most gripping nonfiction books I’ve ever read." (Scientific American) Have you read it yet? Now in paperback: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743569...

1873 by Liaquat Ahamed, reviewed by @nytimes.com! Read the fascinating lessons from the original tech bubble. www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

Happy on sale day to @warnock.senate.gov! He discussed The Crooked Places Made Straight with @michelmartinnpr.bsky.social today on Morning Edition: www.npr.org/2026/06/16/n...

New from historian David Reynolds! Read an excerpt of Two Ships in @literaryhub.bsky.social. "The Mayflower Pilgrims believed that they were freedom seekers, escaping centuries of bondage." Reynolds shares more insight. lithub.com/who-were-the...

Congratulations to Bob Spitz on his new book, The Rolling Stones, being chosen as a Best Book of the Year So Far by Amazon. View the full list: www.amazon.com/amazonbookre...

Congratulations to Gisèle Pelicot on her book, A Hymn to Life, being chosen as a Best Book of the Year So Far by Amazon. View the full list: www.amazon.com/amazonbookre...

Congratulations to @tab-delete.bsky.social on his book, How to Rule the World, being chosen as a Best Book of the Year So Far by Amazon. View the full list: amazon.com/amazonbookre...

Congratulations to @michaelpollan.bsky.social on his newest book, A World Appears, being chosen as a Best Book of the Year So Far by Amazon. View the full list: https//www.amazon....

@vulture.com names THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT by Karl Ove Knausgaard one of the best fiction titles of the year, so far. "The Faustian fourth installment of Knausgaard’s Morning Star series probing the price of success is worth the perseverance." www.vulture.com/article/best...

The Wall Street Journal gives a glowing review for David Reynolds's latest book, Two Ships! “An engrossing intellectual history . . . [A] nuanced unraveling of sometimes dauntingly tangled ideas [with] always crisp prose.” —@wsj.com www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

The Murderland paperback drops on June 9, so there’s a Goodreads giveaway starting tomorrow! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

"Murderland" looks deeply into how man-made environments may have influenced the Pacific Northwest's most famous serial killers.

Liaquat Ahamed, author of 1873, writes for @nytimes.com on how A.I. has clouded our perspective on the financial landscape today. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/o...

Your favorite true crime book is now in paperback!⁠ Murderland by @calfraser.bsky.social is an Edgar Award winner and national bestseller. Learn more about this propulsive nonfiction thriller that @latimes.com calls “Scorching, seductive.” www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741809...

Mark your calendars for June 22! Historian David Reynolds sits down with Nell Painter at @92ndstreety.bsky.social for an enlightening discussion about his latest book, Two Ships, and the history of division in America. RSVP now! www.92ny.org/event/david-...

As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, Prof. David S. Reynolds uncovers a surprising origin of America’s enduring cultural divide www.gc.cuny.edu/news/tracing... @historygc.bsky.social

Available now! Two Ships by David Reynolds is the revelatory history of American division told through the Mayflower and the White Lion, a pertinent read during the 250th anniversary of our nation.⁠ “Essential reading.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/702774...

We are saddened by the death of Gordon Wood, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian whose work deepened our understanding of America’s founding era. We’re honored to publish many of his books. Our thoughts are with his family, friends, and readers. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/b...

Read @4fishgreenberg.bsky.social's eye-opening op-ed on bottom trawling in today's @nytimes.com. "3,000 different species are killed for supper. Why do we allow it?" www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/o...

Author of How to Rule the World @tab-delete.bsky.social joined Kara Swisher's On Air to talk about his book, the AI industry, and the undercover Stanford. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlC6...

Penguin Random House and We Need Diverse Books are excited to announce the winners of the 2026 Creative Writing Awards — including the inaugural winner of the Chinua Achebe Award for Freedom of Expression!

Don't miss Liaquat Ahamed at the Nantucket Book Festival on June 14 in conversation with Michael Schulder! Ahamed's new book, 1873, is on sale now. Learn more: nantucketbookfestival.org/events/sunda...

Bug Hollow by Michelle Huneven is the @barnesandnoble.com Fiction Monthly Pick for June 2026! 🎧Don't miss the latest episode of Poured Over, where Huneven joins to discuss family, grief, unforgettable characters, and more. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

"A beautifully written novel." —Ann Napolitano A treasure hunt, a love story, and a brilliantly imagined chapter from literary history ✨ @jfkane.bsky.social's Fonseca, a Best Book of the Year from The New York Times Book Review, Esquire, and more, arrives in paperback 8/11.

The #1 New York Times Bestseller is available now in paperback. “A masterful exploration of the magnificent highs and lows of an American literary genius.” — Los Angeles Times

Washington DC: Join @elliotwilliams.bsky.social and @jonathancapehart.bsky.social for a conversation about Bernie Goetz, one act of violence, and its echoes from the 1980s to our present day. Register here: dclibrary.libnet.info/event/16511918 @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social

Happy Publication Day to The Dog's Gaze! 🐾 🖼️A sweeping and beautifully illustrated history of dogs in art, Thomas W. Laqueur's new book invites readers to see the world through the eyes of our oldest companions.

1873 is available now ✨ From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Lords of Finance Liaquat Ahamed⁠, ⁠1873 is the true story of the first global financial calamity and the ripple effects still felt today. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/306461...

Read the book everyone’s raving about: the instant New York Times bestseller How to Rule the World by @tab-delete.bsky.social.

Laura Miller at @slate.com calls How to Rule the World “a terrific read” that “exposes the rot at the heart of Stanford University.” It’s “a coming-of-age story, a campus story, and a newspaper story, but above all, it’s a horror story." slate.com/culture/2026...

📣 Huge congratulations to @tab-delete.bsky.social on his New York Times bestseller!!! 👏👏

DC! I'm coming to MLK Library on 6/11 with My book Five Bullets. Conversation with my friend Jonathan Capehart. It's about a subway shooting in 1984, but really is about fear, ambition, race, and media bias... Free. Register: dclibrary.libnet.info/event/16511918 cc @jonathancapehart.bsky.social

Named a Kirkus and Oprah Daily Best Book of the Year, BUG HOLLOW by Michelle Huneven is now available in paperback! Add Bug Hollow to your summer reading list if you love multi-generational family sagas, complex characters, and emotional but feel-good storylines.

The wait is over: How to Rule the World by @tab-delete.bsky.social is out today 😎 Grab a copy and see why everyone’s talking about it. “Rigorous, self-assured, propulsive…” — @nytimes.com “…has the makings of All the President’s Men.” — @sfchronicle.com

"Something about this place was off, like Disneyland after all the rides have closed and the park is emptied for the night." Read an exclusive excerpt from How to Rule the World by Theo Baker in @vanityfair.com! www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...

@nytimes.com RAVES: “How to Rule the World is a rigorous, self-assured, propulsive, at times terrifying portrait of a dweebocracy that ‘sets the agenda for the planet’ . . . in the tradition of Michael Lewis’s Wall Street chronicle Liar’s Poker.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/b...

In his latest @nytimes.com essay, bestselling author Bruce Feiler explores why rituals, gathering, and shared experiences matter more than ever in a disconnected age. A powerful preview of the heart of his new book A TIME TO GATHER, on sale May 19. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/o...

Announcing PROFILES IN COWARDICE by @jacobweisberg.bsky.social : a devastating reckoning with the people and institutions that failed to stand up to Trump’s authoritarian grab for power. On sale September 15, 2026. Preorder now. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/818503...

Join Ocean Vuong on the road this summer as we celebrate the paperback publication of The Emperor of Gladness, an Oprah's Book Club pick and New York Times bestseller.⁠ ⁠https://www.oceanvuong.com/appearances

War is coming. The planet is heating. The fight for survival has begun. On sale today: 2084 by Elliot Ackerman and @admiralstav.bsky.social. youtube.com/shorts/W366P...

Bruce Feiler is hitting the road! Join the author of A Time to Gather as he shares how ritual shapes our lives and helps us navigate today’s world. RSVP to an event near you! A Time to Gather hits shelves May 19. See you on tour!

Violaine Huisman, author of THE MONUMENTS OF PARIS, tells all in @literaryhub.bsky.social. "These were not secrets in our family. They were simply the weather. They were the condition of life.” lithub.com/violaine-hui...

How to Rule the World by @tab-delete.bsky.social is an Amazon Best Book of May! www.amazon.com/b?node=17143...

@techcrunch.com reviews @theatlantic.com's excerpt of HOW TO RULE THE WORLD by @tab-delete.bsky.social, publishing on May 19th. "[It's exactly the right book for this moment in time." @connieloizos.bsky.social techcrunch.com/2026/04/26/t...

The teens identified as future trillion-dollar startup founders live in a hush-hush world. VCs pay for exclusive clubs like "No Filter" and perks including "pre-idea funding." There's even a secret class: "How to Rule the World." My book (out 5/19) excerpted in @theatlantic.com. (Link below)