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Dispatches from Random House, offering a glimpse into one of the world's most prestigious publishing houses. In 1925, Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, two New Yorkers in their mid-twenties, acquired The Modern Library, a stable of classics and contemporary American works.

The company assumed the name Random House two years later when Cerf and Klopfer decided to publish a few books on the side, “at random.” Today Random House is the proud publishing home of the world’s most acclaimed storytellers, thought leaders, and innovators. The Random House portfolio of imprints includes include Ballantine Books, Bantam Dell, Delacorte Press, Del Rey, The Dial Press, Modern Library, One World, Hogarth, Crown, Crown Archetype, Tim Duggan Books, Three Rivers Press, Broadway Books, Convergent, Currency, Crown Forum, Image, WaterBrook, Multnomah, Clarkson Potter, Ten Speed Press, Lorena Jones Books, Watson-Guptill, Ink & Willow, Harmony, Rodale, and, of course, the flagship imprint Random House. This diverse group of imprints publishes original fiction and nonfiction in all formats with the mission to entertain, educate, and inspire readers for generations.

10/02/2020

A toast to our authors included on TIME's list of the 100 Most Influential People of 2020: Ibram X. Kendi, Ali Wong, & Dapper Dan 🥂

10/02/2020

Celebrate #LatinxHeritageMonth by immersing yourself into compelling, richly-told stories and essential nonfiction written by acclaimed Latinx authors—bold, unapologetic, resonant voices that will excite, inspire, and open your heart.

More at: http://www.randomhousebooks.com/lists/latinx-heritage-month/

10/02/2020

Read the book that inspired the HBO special event, coming on November 21. Ta-Nehisi Coates' BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME is available now: https://bit.ly/3jCdKih

10/01/2020

Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in BESTIARY, K-Ming Chang spellbinding debut about one family’s queer desires, violent impulses, and buried secrets. Out now!

10/01/2020

Big news from Isabel Allende!

My new non-fiction book The Soul of a Woman will be published in English in March, 2021. I hope you'll enjoy it.

Excerpt: https://isabelallende.com/en/book/women/excerpt
More info: https://bit.ly/3cLCulv

10/01/2020

Random House Book Club

Random House Book Club is thrilled to announce the October Spotlight Pick: new #1 NYT bestseller THE BOOK OF TWO WAYS by Jodi Picoult! Once you’ve read it, join us in an RHBC Zoom Happy Hour on 10/28 at 7:30pm EST hosted Instagram's PIELADYBOOKS.

Sign-up at: https://bit.ly/30gNWk3

This month’s RHBC Spotlight Pick is THE BOOK OF TWO WAYS! Get your copy here: https://bit.ly/3kI4LvV Then join us for our Zoom Happy Hour on October 27th at 7:30pm with our special guest, author Jodi Picoult

Today's #MorningMustRead is a glimpse into Catherine Steadman's riveting thriller, MR. NOBODY, now out in paperback. Sta...

10/01/2020

Mr. Nobody by Catherine Steadman: 9781524797706 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Today's #MorningMustRead is a glimpse into Catherine Steadman's riveting thriller, MR. NOBODY, now out in paperback. Start reading here: https://bit.ly/33kUH6d

He wants to remember. She needs to forget. . . . Memento meets Sharp Objects in a gripping psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Something in the Water. “Twisty...

09/30/2020

Congratulations to our two new bestselling books and three new bestselling authors: Jodi Picoult, Desus Nice, and The Kid Mero! 🎉

09/30/2020

Don't miss WHALE DAY, the imaginative new poetry collection from Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate and “America’s favorite poet” (The Wall Street Journal). Out now!

09/30/2020

To celebrate LOVE AFTER LOVE by Ingrid Persaud and the launch of Footnotes, Margaux's new book club celebrating strong female authors, we’re offering readers a chance to win Margaux’s signature product, The Heel, as well as a copy of LOVE AFTER LOVE.

Enter for the chance to win between now and 10/6/20:
http://www.randomhousebooks.com/campaign/footnotes-x-random-house-fall-sweeps/

09/30/2020

Good Morning America

Missed Jodi Picoult on Good Morning America? Watch here:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=739926186588067

Take it from author Jodi Picoult: "Don’t worry about what you should be, just be" https://gma.abc/33fmKDU

09/30/2020

Happy release day to The Glorias Movie, based on Gloria Steinem's memoir MY LIFE LIFE ON THE ROAD!

Watch it now on Amazon Prime Video, and pick up the book at: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/172598/my-life-on-the-road-by-gloria-steinem/?ref=PRHEE637DC7B1&aid=17184&linkid=PRHEE637DC7B1&utm_source=Random_House_Group&utm_medium=Social_Media&utm_content=&utm_term=&utm_campaign=steinem_mylifeontheroadprhpb_curalate

09/30/2020

Dive into Naomi Novik's A DEADLY EDUCATION, a story that Katherine Arden calls, "The dark school of magic I’ve been waiting for." Out now! Start reading here: https://bit.ly/33cvrz0

09/29/2020

Craving a new magic school? You're in luck. From Naomi Novik, the bestselling author of UPROOTED and SPINNING SILVER, comes the story of an unwilling dark sorceress who is destined to rewrite the rules of magic.

A DEADLY EDUCATION is out today!

09/29/2020

The don't call us RANDOM House for nothing 😉📚 #NewReleaseTuesday

09/29/2020

Dive into K-Ming Chang's BESTIARY in today's #MorningMustRead. BESTIARY is out today! https://bit.ly/3jalrvO

"With insights from scientists, journalists, farmers, lawyers, activists, teachers and more, this book packs urgency, sh...

09/28/2020

"All We Can Save" is the Environmental Feminist Text We Need Right Now - Ms. Magazine

"With insights from scientists, journalists, farmers, lawyers, activists, teachers and more, this book packs urgency, shedding light on the experiences and insights of women climate crisis activists. They state explicitly where we were yesterday, where we are today and what we need to do in order arrive at the ideal tomorrow...Consider it required reading." ––Ms. Magazine

ALL WE CAN SAVE is out now!

"All We Can Save" is a collection of essays and poems written by women at the forefront of the climate crisis.

09/28/2020

STATUS: In desperate need of a rom-com 💛

09/28/2020

Happy Monday! Today's #MorningMustRead is a special sneak peek into Sophie Kinsella's new novel, LOVE YOUR LIFE, coming 10/27! Start reading here: https://bit.ly/3cFErzy

09/27/2020

We've got a packed week of virtual events coming your way! Learn more and register at: http://www.randomhousebooks.com/events/

09/25/2020

"Patriotism [is] a concept that has been hijacked and beaten up, sold out and ripped to shreds by those who want it only for its surface rush, and not its arduous roots. Anything good in this country has had to be wrestled free."

––R. Eric Thomas, HERE FOR IT: Or How To Save Your Soul In America

Ernest Cline will be discussing his new novel, Ready Player Two at #NYCC with Will Wheaton! Read more from @Entertainmen...

09/25/2020

Exclusive: Ernest Cline and Wil Wheaton are reuniting at New York Comic-Con for 'Ready Player Two'

Ernest Cline will be discussing his new novel, Ready Player Two at #NYCC with Will Wheaton! Read more from @Entertainment Weekly!
https://ew.com/events/comic-con/ernest-cline-ready-player-two-new-york-comic-con/?utm_campaign=entertainmentweekly_entertainmentweekly&utm_content=manual&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_term=5f6e4d2177f16d000156fedd

Author Ernest Cline will make his first appearance for Ready Player Two at New York Comic-Con next month.

"Why should you read the umpteenth book about the most famous of Kennedys? Whole forests have been cut down to explain t...

09/25/2020

Review | A far deeper, worthier and more interesting JFK

"Why should you read the umpteenth book about the most famous of Kennedys? Whole forests have been cut down to explain the Kennedy myth. The short answer is that Logevall’s book is smart and very readable...At more than 600 pages of text, his book is long and ends four years before Kennedy is elected president. But this reader had trouble putting it down." ––Washington Post

JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 by Fredrik Logevall is out now!

Fredrik Logevall creates a portrait of a youthful Kennedy who is curious, savvy and self-aware.

09/25/2020

Start your weekend off reading! Dive into THE LIBRARIAN OF BOONE'S HOLLOW here: https://bit.ly/2RVKtCT

09/24/2020

“Cline is a master of fiction that wallows in the heavy weight of the unsaid, with perversion and darkness simmering beneath her characters’ tightly controlled surfaces. Daddy’s ten masterful, provocative stories confirm that Cline is a staggering talent.” —Esquire

Emma Cline's debut story collection, DADDY, is out now, and don't miss her bestselling novel, THE GIRLS, available in paperback. Links in bio!

“I like to think of a poem as taking us somewhere,” he says, “from Kansas to Oz, from a familiar place to an odd one. Th...

09/24/2020

During the Pandemic, Billy Collins Finds a New Way to Bring Poetry to the People

“I like to think of a poem as taking us somewhere,” he says, “from Kansas to Oz, from a familiar place to an odd one. The writing of a poem is an attempt to find that place that is really unknown to me at the beginning.” –– Billy Collins via The Wall Street Journal

Collins' new poetry collection, WHALE DAY, is out on September 29th.

With a new book and a Facebook Live audience, a bestselling poet offers humor and plainspoken truths.

09/24/2020

“White supremacy is a tradition that must be named and a religion that must be renounced. When this work has not been done, those who live in whiteness become oppressive, whether intentional or not.”
––Austin Channing Brown, I'M STILL HERE

Spotted on the 2020 TIME 100:Ibram X. Kendi (HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST)Ali Wong (DEAR GIRLS)Phoebe Waller-Bridge (FLEABAG:...

09/24/2020

The 100 Most Influential People of 2020

Spotted on the 2020 TIME 100:

Ibram X. Kendi (HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST)
Ali Wong (DEAR GIRLS)
Phoebe Waller-Bridge (FLEABAG: THE SCRIPTURES)
Dapper Dan (DAPPER DAN: MADE IN HARLEM)
Tyler Perry (HIGHER IS WAITING)
Alicia Garza (THE PURPOSE OF POWER)

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Check out TIME's annual list

09/23/2020

Curated by two climate leaders, ALL WE CAN SAVE offers up provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward. Out now!

Washington Post raves about bestselling author Jodi Picoult's new novel THE BOOK OF TWO WAYS. Out now!

09/23/2020

Review | In ‘The Book of Two Ways,’ Jodi Picoult delivers another powerful story about heart-wrenching moral choices

Washington Post raves about bestselling author Jodi Picoult's new novel THE BOOK OF TWO WAYS. Out now!

The book takes a “Sliding Doors” approach, as a woman, on the heels of a near-death experience, contemplates her next move.

09/23/2020

Calling Taylor Jenkins Reid fans! MALIBU RISING hits bookstores on May 25, 2021, and yes, we’re already counting down the days.

Pre-order now and sign up for Taylor's newsletter to get special content and stay in the know on everything MALIBU RISING: https://taylorjenkinsreid.com/contact/

09/23/2020

The wait is over! Jodi Picoult's THE BOOK OF TWO WAYS is available now! Start reading here: https://bit.ly/3hTWzH8

09/23/2020

Debbie Macomber

Have you pre-ordered my new Christmas book, JINGLE ALL THE WAY? If you have, I've put together this exclusive kit as a thank you! It includes a note from me, an extended excerpt, a Christmas music playlist, and pictures from the trips that inspired the book! All you have to do is fill out this form with your purchase order number and it's all yours!
https://hubs.li/H0wFqPW0

09/22/2020

It's here! #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is back with THE BOOK OF TO WAYS, a riveting novel about the choices that alter the course of our lives.

Get your copy at: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/598603/the-book-of-two-ways-by-jodi-picoult/?ref=PRH1709E80C49&aid=21545&linkid=PRH1709E80C49&utm_source=Random_House_Group&utm_medium=Social_Media&utm_content=&utm_term=&utm_campaign=picoult_thebookoftwoways_curalate

09/15/2020

America wouldn’t be the same without its Latinx voices. During #LatinxHeritageMonth, we hope the wide-ranging stories we share of beauty, resilience, and creativity can help you to feel seen, or to understand a perspective other than your own.

More at: http://bit.ly/RHLatinxHeritageMonth

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Calling Taylor Jenkins Reid fans! MALIBU RISING hits bookstores on May 25, 2021, and yes, we’re already counting down the days. Pre-order now and sign up for Taylor's newsletter to get special content and stay in the know on everything MALIBU RISING: https://taylorjenkinsreid.com/contact/

The discovery of a girl abandoned by the side of the road threatens to unearth the long-buried secrets of a Texas town’s legendary cold case in this haunting new novel from bestselling author Julia Heaberlin. Out now! Get your copy at: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/588688/we-are-all-the-same-in-the-dark-by-julia-heaberlin/?ref=PRHB02A442697&aid=44219&linkid=PRHB02A442697&utm_source=Random_House_Group&utm_medium=Social_Media&utm_content=&utm_term=&utm_campaign=heaberlin_weareallthesameinthedarkprh_curalate

“David puts words to so many of the things we all feel, sharing generously of his own journey so we can all benefit in the process.” —Chrissy Teigen David Chang's new memoir, EAT A PEACH, comes out September 8th. Pre-order at: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/552829/eat-a-peach-by-david-chang-with-gabe-ulla/

BIG NEWS! From Paula McLain, bestselling author of THE PARIS WIFE and LOVE AND RUIN comes WHEN THE STARS GO DARK, a propulsive new novel of intertwined destinies and heart-wrenching suspense. After tragedy strikes, a detective hides away from the world, until her obsession with saving an abducted teenage girl gives her a reason to live again. Weaving together actual cases of missing persons, trauma theory and a hint of the metaphysical with an evocative setting in Mendocino, California, McLain’s gripping novel tells a story of what it takes--when the worst happens--to reclaim our lives. WHEN THE STARS GO DARK hits bookshelves in spring 2021! Pre-order your copy at: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/653305/when-the-stars-go-dark-by-paula-mclain/?ref=PRH1D0908FC78&aid=48906&linkid=PRH1D0908FC78&utm_source=Random_House_Group&utm_medium=Social_Media&utm_content=&utm_term=&utm_campaign=mclain_whenthestarsgodarkprh_curalate

A SWIM IN A POND IN THE RAIN comes out on January 12, 2021. Pre-order your copy at: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/609280/a-swim-in-a-pond-in-the-rain-by-george-saunders/?ref=PRHBC05B60A03&aid=47077&linkid=PRHBC05B60A03&utm_source=Random_House_Group&utm_medium=Social_Media&utm_content=&utm_term=&utm_campaign=Saunders_aswiminthepondintherainprh_curalate A SWIM IN A POND IN THE RAIN comes out January 12, 2021. Pre-order your copy at: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/609280/a-swim-in-a-pond-in-the-rain-by-george-saunders/?ref=PRHBC05B60A03&aid=47077&linkid=PRHBC05B60A03&utm_source=Random_House_Group&utm_medium=Social_Media&utm_content=&utm_term=&utm_campaign=Saunders_aswiminthepondintherainprh_curalate

Project Hail Mary Cover Reveal

We are thrilled to reveal the cover for Andy Weir's new novel, PROJECT HAIL MARY, soon to be a major motion picture, with Ryan Gosling attached to star. PROJECT HAIL MARY hits shelves 5/4/21! Pre-order here: https://bit.ly/31Ba2gU

Coming 9/8, Toni Jensen's powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the her encounters with gun violence. CARRY reminds us that surviving in one’s country is not the same as surviving one’s country.

“In a world stricken with fear and turmoil, Valarie Kaur shows us how to summon our deepest wisdom" (Elizabeth Gilbert). An urgent manifesto and a dramatic memoir of awakening, this is the story of revolutionary love. Out now!

Ernest Cline Ready Player Two

We are excited to reveal Ernest Cline's followup to READY PLAYER ONE! Introducing, READY PLAYER TWO, coming 11/24.

A Harvard freshman becomes obsessed with her schizophrenic brother’s suicide, then she starts hearing voices. "Part mystery, part ghost story, part psychological thriller" THE GHOSTS OF HARVARD "is all entertainment (Jodi Picoult). Out now!

The Resolutions Animated Cover

Happy release day to THE RESOLUTIONS by Brady Hammes! Available today! https://bit.ly/3dcwpgT

Gripping, provocative, heartbreaking, THE FARM pushes to the extremes our thinking on motherhood, money, and merit and raises crucial questions about the trade-offs women will make to fortify their futures and the futures of those they love. Now out in paperback!

Calling Daphne du Maurier fans! IN HER SHADOW is the chilling story of one woman’s desperate desire to be loved and the ghosts that threaten to get in her way, from NYT bestselling author Kristin Miller. Out Tuesday! Learn more at: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566670/in-her-shadow-by-kristin-miller/

We love this video of Glennon Doyle finding out that her new book, UNTAMED, is a Reese Witherspoon book club pick!

Taylor Jenkins Reid #BooksConnectUs Podcast

Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of DAISY JONES AND THE SIX, is the inaugural guest on Penguin Random House's new podcast, #BooksConnectUs! Listen and subscribe: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/taylor-jenkins-reid-author-daisy-jones-six-on-being/id1059532301?i=1000470628016

Gearing up for tonight's #TheBachelor finale by re-reading Kate Stayman-London's razor-sharp debut, ONE TO WATCH, about a plus-size bachelorette who brings a fresh look to reality TV dating. Hitting bookshelves on July 7th

"Stupendous" –– Booklist "Blistering and trenchant" –– Publishers Weekly "Extraordinary" ––Library Journal "Fierce and timely" ––Kirkus Reviews MINOR FEELINGS by @Cathy Park Hong is out today!

Lost Roses Paperback Book Trailer

Now available in paperback, Martha Hall Kelly, Author's sweeping historical novel about three indomitable women from St. Petersburg to Paris under the shadow of World War I. LOST ROSES is out now!

Book of the Month pick ✔️ IndieBound List pick ✔️ Reese’s Book Club ✔️ LibraryReads Hall of Fame author ✔️ Goodreads Choice Awards winner ✔️ DAISY JONES & THE SIX by Taylor Jenkins Reid is now out in paperback! What are you waiting for?

A real-life vanishing act leaves one man looking for his missing friend in this Kafkaesque new novel from Jonas Karlsson, the author of THE ROOM and THE INVOICE. THE CIRCUS is out now!

We're honored to be celebrating the 50th anniversary of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, Maya Angelou's instant bestseller that continues to be a remarkable testimony to the power of every individual’s voice, and the resilience of the human spirit. We hope you join us in celebrating this anniversary, by re-reading or picking up this classic for the first time. #cagedbird50

#ReadWithJenna Book Club pick ✔️ Amazon Books Best of the Month ✔️ Book of the Month pick ✔️ LibraryReads #1 pick ✔️ Barnes & Noble Book Club pick ✔️ BAM! President's Pick ✔️ IndieBound Indie Next List pick ✔️

From the National Book Award–winning and bestselling author of LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN comes an epic novel rooted in the real-life friendship between two men united by loss. Colum McCann's APEIROGON hits bookstores on February 25, 2020, learn more at: http://www.randomhousebooks.com/books/207433/

#ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick ✔️#BNBookClub pick ✔️Named best of the month/winter by Amazon.com, Salon, Marie Claire, Fast Company, Read It Forward, Real Simple, Book Riot & more ✔️ What else do you need to know?

Random House Reader's Circle (RHRC) is now Random House Book Club (RHBC) 🍾📚 Follow along on the Random House Book Club FB page and sign up for the newsletter to connect with other readers, get access to book recommendations, discussion guides, and sweepstakes, and more! http://bit.ly/2RYAPR7

We're back with the season two finale of Random Recommendations, our weekly video series in which we recommend one book and one tangentially related thing we’re loving. Up this week: new Christmas books from Debbie Macomber, Sophie Kinsella, and Nancy Thayer + our favorite holiday songs.

We're back with an all new episode of 'Random Recommendations' our weekly video series in which we recommend one book & one tangentially related thing we’re loving. Up this week: RESISTANCE REBORN (STAR WARS) by Rebecca Roanhorse & Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge

How far would someone go to replace you? In THE NEW GIRL, a new mother on maternity leave grows increasingly paranoid about her ambitious young temp in this Hitchcockian debut from Harriet Walker, the fashion editor at The Times (UK). Out May 19, 2020!

We're back with another episode of Random Recommendations, our weekly video series in which we recommend one book and one tangentially related thing we’re loving. Up this week: EVVIE DRAKE STARTS OVER by Linda Holmes & the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast

"We focus too much on stats and not story. Your story… that is your strength. Do you hide that, or do you lay that on the table with pride? That story, with all the highs and lows… that is your gift.” Discover your story with Becoming: A Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice from Michelle Obama. Learn more at: http://bit.ly/BecomingJournalMO

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In 1925, Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, two New Yorkers in their mid-twenties, acquired The Modern Library, a stable of classics and contemporary American works. The company assumed the name Random House two years later when Cerf and Klopfer decided to publish a few books on the side, “at random.”

Today Random House is the proud publishing home of the world’s most acclaimed storytellers, thought leaders, and innovators. The Random House portfolio of imprints includes include Ballantine Books, Bantam Dell, Delacorte Press, Del Rey, The Dial Press, Modern Library, One World, Hogarth, Crown, Crown Archetype, Tim Duggan Books, Three Rivers Press, Broadway Books, Convergent, Currency, Crown Forum, Image, WaterBrook, Multnomah, Clarkson Potter, Ten Speed Press, Lorena Jones Books, Watson-Guptill, Ink & Willow, Harmony, Rodale, and, of course, the flagship imprint Random House. This diverse group of imprints publishes original fiction and nonfiction in all formats with the mission to entertain, educate, and inspire readers for generations.