56 Books Published by Penguin Books an Imprint of Penguin Random House

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American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin Poets)
by Terrance Hayes

Map to the Stars
by Adrian Matejka

Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times in Today’s New York
by Zadie Smith, Junot Diaz, Teju Cole, John Freeman, and others…

Welcome to Braggsville: A Novel
by T. Geronimo Johnson

Mastery
by Robert Greene

The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry
by Rita Dove

Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
by Juan Williams

The Big Smoke (Poets, Penguin)
by Adrian Matejka

All Shot Up (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Chester Himes

The White Woman on the Green Bicycle: A Novel
by Monique Roffey

The Education of a British-protected Child
by Chinua Achebe

A Palace in the Old Village: A Novel
by Tahar Ben Jelloun

Lighthead (Poets, Penguin)
by Terrance Hayes

Mixology (National Poetry Series)
by Adrian Matejka

Leaving Tangier: A Novel
by Tahar Ben Jelloun

Knots
by Nuruddin Farah

The 33 Strategies of War (Joost Elffers Books)
by Robert Greene

This Blinding Absence of Light. Tahar Ben Jelloun
by Tahar Ben Jelloun

The Virgin Of Flames
by Chris Abani

The Last Friend
by Tahar Ben Jelloun

Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man
by Vincent Carretta

From A Crooked Rib
by Nuruddin Farah

Wind in a Box (Penguin Poets)
by Terrance Hayes

This Blinding Absence of Light
by Tahar Ben Jelloun

Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
by Cornel West

Hip Hop America
by Nelson George

Links
by Nuruddin Farah

Hip Logic (National Poetry Series)
by Terrance Hayes

Blanche Passes Go
by Barbara Neely

Gifts
by Nuruddin Farah

Maps
by Nuruddin Farah

The 48 Laws of Power
by Robert Greene

Secrets
by Nuruddin Farah

Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-2000, Revised Edition
by Peter Nabokov

Straight, No Chaser: How I Became a Grown-Up Black Woman
by Jill Nelson

Segu
by Maryse Conde

Multi-America: Essays on Cultural Wars and Cultural Peace
by Ishmael Reed

The Maker of Saints
by Thulani Davis

When Harlem Was In Vogue
by David Levering Lewis

Japanese by Spring
by Ishmael Reed

Streetlights: Illuminating Tales of the Urban Black Experience
by Martin Simmons

Blanche among the Talented Tenth
by Barbara Neely

Billy
by Albert French

Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience
by Jill Nelson

Joker, Joker, Deuce
by Paul Beatty

Lure and Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity, and the Ambivalence of Assimilation
by Gerald L. Early

Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America; Sixth Revised Edition
by Lerone Bennett

The Shaping of Black America: The Struggles and Triumphs of African-Americans, 1619-1990s
by Lerone Bennett

Rats In The Trees (Contemporary American Fiction)
by Jess Mowry

High Cotton (Contemporary American Fiction)
by Darryl Pinckney

Fever (Contemporary American Fiction)
by John Edgar Wideman

Breaking Ice: An Anthology Of Contemporary African-American Fiction
by Terry McMillan

Linden Hills (Contemporary American Fiction Series)
by Gloria Naylor

The Women of Brewster Place
by Gloria Naylor

Three Pieces
by Ntozake Shange

Sonny’s Blues
by James Baldwin