Penguin Press imprint: 90 books
In Montparnasse
The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dalí
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2019
As she did for the Modernists IN MONTMARTRE, noted art historian and biographer Sue Roe now tells the story of the Surrealists in Montparnasse.
In Montparnasse begins on the eve of the First World War and ends with the 1936 unveiling of Dalí’s Lobster Telephone. As those extraordinary years...
by Thomas Pynchon
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year
Spanning the era between the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map...
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
**An extraordinary and beautifully illustrated exploration of the medieval world through twelve manuscripts, from one of the world's leading experts.
Winner of The Wolfson History Prize and The Duff Cooper Prize.
A San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Book Gift Guide Pick! **
*Meetings...
If
The Untold Story of Kipling's American Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
A unique exploration of the life and work of Rudyard Kipling in Gilded Age America, from a celebrated scholar of American literature
At the turn of the twentieth century, Rudyard Kipling towered over not just English literature but the entire literary world. At the height of his fame in 1907,...
Navigating Life
Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
**“I absolutely loved this beautiful book! It's wise, wry, bracingly honest and so gripping I couldn't put it down. Clearly whip smart, Margaux Bergen has one of those rare voices that pulls you in and makes you want to keep reading.”
— Amy Chua, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
An...
Bébé Day by Day
100 Keys to French Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
À la carte wisdom from the international bestseller Bringing up Bébé
In BRINGING UP BÉBÉ, journalist and mother Pamela Druckerman investigated a society of good sleepers, gourmet eaters, and mostly calm parents. She set out to learn how the French achieve all this, while telling the story...
The Cut Out Girl
A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
**COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER
“The hidden gem of the year . . . Sensational and gripping, and shedding light on some of the most urgent issues of our time, this was our unanimous winner.” —Judges of the 2018 Costa Award
The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl...
by Alexandra Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
From bestselling author Alexandra Fuller, the utterly original story of her father, Tim Fuller, and a deeply felt tribute to a life well lived
Six months before he died in Budapest, Tim Fuller turned to his daughter: “Let me tell you the secret to life right now, in case I suddenly give up...
Empire of Guns
The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE
By a prize-winning young historian, an authoritative work that reframes the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of British empire, and emergence of industrial capitalism by presenting them as inextricable...
You Can't Spell America Without Me
The Really Tremendous Inside Story of My Fantastic First Year as President Donald J. Trump (A So-Called Parody)
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Political satire as deeper truth: Donald Trump’s presidential memoir, as recorded by two world-renowned Trump scholars, and experts on greatness generally
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"I have the best words, beautiful words, as everybody has been talking and talking about for a long time. Also? The best sentences and,...
The Brain Defense
Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America's Courtrooms
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Called “the best kind of nonfiction” by Michael Connelly, this riveting new book combines true crime, brain science, and courtroom drama.
In 1991, the police were called to East 72nd St. in Manhattan, where a woman's body had fallen from a twelfth-story window. The woman’s husband, Herbert...
The Making of Victorian Values
Decency and Dissent in Britain: 1789-1837
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
Ben Wilson's The Making of Victorian Values is the history of an era rather like our own-a time when dissenters and rebels were hemmed in by conformists and hardheaded authoritarians, a time when a nation on the eve of global domination fretted about its future. It was, however, a period when those...
Dark Mirror
Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2020
From the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Angler, who unearthed the deepest secrets of Edward Snowden's NSA archive, the first master narrative of the surveillance state that emerged after 9/11 and why it matters, based on scores of hours of conversation with...
The Poison Squad
One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
**A New York Times Notable Book
From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Blum, the dramatic true story of how food was made safe in the United States and the heroes, led by the inimitable Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, who fought for change**
By the end...