Penguin Press

09/16/2025

We’re thrilled to announce A World Appears, the new mind-expanding book from Michael Pollan. A World Appears is a panoptic exploration of consciousness—what it is, who has it, and why—and a meditation on the essence of our humanity.

Pollan’s experiences in meditation and on psychedelics fired his curiosity about consciousness, leading him on this journey. Pollan takes us to the cutting edge of the field, where scientists are entertaining more radical (and less materialist) theories of consciousness. He introduces us to “plant neurobiologists” searching for the first flicker of consciousness in plants; scientists striving to engineer feelings into AI, and psychologists and novelists seeking to capture the felt experience of our slippery stream of consciousness. In Pollan’s dazzling exploration of consciousness, he discovers a world far deeper and stranger than our everyday reality.

On sale February 24, 2026, and available for preorder now:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646644/a-world-appears-by-michael-pollan/

09/12/2025

When bestselling author Beth Macy returned to her hometown of Urbana, OH in 2020, she found an angrier place with absenteeism soaring in the schools and workplace and a mental health crisis gripping the small city. She decided to figure out what happened to Urbana in the forty years since she’d left. The result is PAPER GIRL, an astonishing book that, by taking us into the heart of one place, brings into focus our most urgent set of national issues.

In this video, she talks about the changes she saw in Urbana and takes us through the reporting of the book.

Order your copy of PAPER GIRL by Beth Macy:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/739927/paper-girl-by-beth-macy/

09/10/2025

The sexual assault that stunned the world. A courageous woman’s rallying call for ‘shame to change sides’. For the very first time, Gisèle Pelicot tells her story.

Learn more and preorder at http://lnk.to/GiselePelicot.

08/28/2025

FOOTBALL by Chuck Klosterman is coming 1/20/26!

Announcing 🏈 FOOTBALL 🏈 the new book from Chuck Klosterman

This hilarious and groundbreaking book is rooted in personal history Chuck cannot escape. He takes us to a metaphorical projection of Texas, where the religion of six-man football merges with America’s Team [sic] and makes an inexplicable impact on a boy in North Dakota. He dissects the question of natural greatness, the paradox of gambling and war, and the timeless caricature of the uncompromising head coach. He interrogates the perfection of football’s marriage with television and the morality of acceptable risk. He even conjures an extinction-level event.

A century ago, Yale’s legendary coach Walter Camp wrote his unified theory of the game. He called it Football. Chuck Klosterman has given us a new Camp for the new age.

Learn more: https://chuckklostermanauthor.com/

08/21/2025

Announcing THE ELEMENTS OF POWER by Nicolas Niarchos, a shocking exposé of the global battle over battery metals—the essential ingredients of the green revolution. We’re told electric cars, and solar panels will save the planet, but what goes into our devices? In the Congo, children risk their lives digging for cobalt with bare hands. In Indonesia, pollution from nickel mines chokes skies and seas. In China and the U.S., governments wage economic war for control of global supply chains. In our eagerness to move away from oil, are we repeating the same mistakes? With unparalleled reporting, Nicolas Niarchos reveals how this power struggle is shaping a new global order—one that benefits the powerful and devastates the vulnerable. You won’t look at your devices the same way again. On sale January 20.

08/13/2025

The perfect book to end your summer is here! Add FONSECA by
Jessica Francis Kane to the top of your tbr pile! ✨✨

🌟”Remarkable.” — Los Angeles Times

🌟”A marvel.” — The Wall Street Journal

🌟 “Absorbing.” — The Boston Globe

Get your copy: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/673122...

07/29/2025

07/28/2025

From one of our most eminent historians, a penetrating and timely examination of how the meaning of antisemitism has evolved.

Mazower clearly and carefully shows us how we got here, navigating this minefield through a history that seeks to illuminate rather than to blame. The word remains the same, but its meaning has changed. Learn more at our link in bio.

Learn more: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768066/on-antisemitism-by-mark-mazower/

07/18/2025

Join author William Finnegan in conversation with Alexander Sammon at McNally Jackson Seaport on July 22nd at 7 PM to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Barbarian Days! Learn more: https://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/barbarian-days-10th-anniversary

07/17/2025

Veterans may have left WWII upon the war’s end, but the war never left them. From award-winning and bestselling author David Nasaw comes The Wounded Generation – a brilliant re-examination of post-World War II America that looks beyond the victory parades and into the veterans’—and nation’s—unhealed traumas. ⁠
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Coming October 14, 2025.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/672253/the-wounded-generation-by-david-nasaw/

07/16/2025

We’re thrilled to share the jacket for Thomas Pynchon's highly anticipated new novel Shadow Ticket, coming October 7, 2025!

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316427/shadow-ticket-by-thomas-pynchon/