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• December 6, 2024
  December’s READ WITH JENNA Book Club Pick is a Must-Read for Poetry Lovers

  Jenna Bush Hager announced that her Read With Jenna Book Club Pick for December 2024 is DEVOTIONS (Penguin Press) from beloved Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning poet Mary Oliver.

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• December 2, 2024
  Our 47 NYTBR “100 Notable Books of 2024”

  Every autumn, we look forward to the New York Times Book Review editors’ “100 Notable Books” list of standout fiction, poetry, and nonfiction titles. This year, we are proud to announce that nearly half of the selected titles are published by Penguin Random House. Of the 100 selected titles, 47 are published by our imprints. 

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• November 22, 2024
  WaterBrook Novel AN AMERICAN IMMIGRANT Receives The Christy Award

  WaterBrook novel AN AMERICAN IMMIGRANT by Johanna Rojas Vann, edited by Jamie Lapeyrolerie, received The Christy Award for Best First Novel from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) at their awards ceremony in Chicago on November 14. The Christy Award exists to celebrate excellence in the art of Christian fiction and to honor the power of faith in story. 

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• November 19, 2024
  Half of Audible’s Top 20 Audiobooks are PRH Audio Productions!

  We are delighted to announce that ten of Audible’s 2024 Best of the Year “obsessively curated selection of editor and listener favorites” audiobooks are proudly published by Penguin Random House Audio. The list selects 20 audiobooks and is a testament to our unwavering commitment to producing exceptional audio content.

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• November 13, 2024
  Penguin Random House UK Celebrates Samantha Harvey’s Booker Prize Win for “Orbital”

  We are thrilled to announce that Samantha Harvey, the author of ORBITAL, published by Penguin Random House UK’s Jonathan Cape and Vintage UK imprints, was unanimously voted by the panel of deliberating judges, as the 2024 Booker winner, after reading more than 150 books over seven months.

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• November 11, 2024
  PRH Audio’s Iconic 2025 GRAMMY® Nominees: Parton & Streisand

  On Friday, November 8, the 2025 GRAMMY® nominations were announced and Penguin Random House Audio is excited to announce that two of their audiobooks are spotlighted. Dolly Parton’s BEHIND THE SEAMS and Barbra Streisand’s MY NAME IS BARBRA, both read by the authors and published by Penguin Random House Audio, have earned 2025 Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording GRAMMY® Award nominations. 

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• November 1, 2024
  Putnam Author Alden Wicker Awarded the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award for Reporting on the Environment

  The Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) announced its 23rd Annual SEJ Awards winners and G.P. Putnam’s Sons author Alden Wicker earned the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award for Reporting on the Environment for her book TO DYE FOR: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick — and How We Can Fight Back.

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• October 25, 2024
  John Green to Publish Nonfiction Title with New PYR Imprint, Crash Course Books

  John Green, the #1 internationally bestselling author, will publish a nonfiction title with Penguin Young Readers’ new imprint Crash Course Books. EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection will release March 18, 2025, and will be the first book published by Crash Course Books, a new imprint of Penguin Young Readers inspired by the popular educational YouTube channel founded by Hank and John Green.

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• October 9, 2024
  Lisa Marie Presley & Riley Keough’s FROM HERE TO THE GREAT UNKNOWN is Oprah’s Book Club’s October Pick

  Oprah Winfrey has announced that her latest Oprah’s Book Club pick is FROM HERE TO THE GREAT UNKNOWN (Random House) by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough. The news was announced yesterday on CBS Mornings. A primetime television event, An Oprah Special: The Presleys – Elvis, Lisa Marie and Riley aired on CBS last night.  Read more here.

• October 2, 2024
  2 of 4 Target “Books of the Year” Are Random House Children’s Books Titles

  On September 30, 2024, Target Corporation announced its 2024 Books of the Year, and Random House Children’s Books, is proud to publish two of the four featured titles: THE GLASS GIRL by Kathleen Glasgow, the Young Adult Book of the Year, and IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES by Katherine Rundell, the Middle Grade Book of the Year. 

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