72 Publications from Penguin Books an Imprint of Penguin Random House

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Book Cover So to Speak by Terrance Hayes

So to Speak

Book Cover Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry by Terrance Hayes

Watch Your Language

Book Cover Passing (Movie Tie-In) by Nella Larsen

Passing (Movie Tie-In)

Book Cover Ain’t I a Woman? by Sojourner Truth

Ain’t I a Woman?

Book Cover Owed by Joshua Bennett

Owed

Book Cover The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris

The Truths We Hold

Book Cover Intimations: Six Essays by Zadie Smith

Intimations

Book Cover Romance in Marseille by Claude McKay

Romance in Marseille

Book Cover Can We All Be Feminists? by June Eric-Udorie (Editor), Soofiya Andry, Gabrielle Bellot, Caitlin Cruz, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Brit Bennett, Evette Dionne, and others

Can We All Be Feminists?

Book Cover American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

Book Cover Map to the Stars by Adrian Matejka

Map to the Stars

Book Cover The Sobbing School by Joshua Bennett

The Sobbing School

Book Cover The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

The Body Keeps the Score

Book Cover 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…

Tales of Two Cities

Book Cover Welcome to Braggsville: A Novel by T. Geronimo Johnson

Welcome to Braggsville

Book Cover Mastery by Robert Greene

Mastery

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

The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry

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

Eyes on the Prize

Book Cover The Big Smoke (Poets, Penguin) by Adrian Matejka

The Big Smoke (Poets, Penguin)

Book Cover All Shot Up (Penguin Modern Classics) by Chester Himes

All Shot Up (Penguin Modern Classics)

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

The White Woman on the Green Bicycle

Book Cover The Education of a British-protected Child by Chinua Achebe

The Education of a British-protected Child

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

A Palace in the Old Village

Book Cover Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith

Flygirl

Book Cover Lebron’s Dream Team: How Four Friends and I Brought a Championsip Home by Lebron James

Lebron’s Dream Team

Book Cover Lighthead (Poets, Penguin) by Terrance Hayes

Lighthead (Poets, Penguin)

Book Cover Mixology (National Poetry Series) by Adrian Matejka

Mixology (National Poetry Series)

Book Cover Leaving Tangier: A Novel by Tahar Ben Jelloun

Leaving Tangier

Book Cover Knots by Nuruddin Farah

Knots

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

The 33 Strategies of War (Joost Elffers Books)

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

This Blinding Absence of Light. Tahar Ben Jelloun

Book Cover The Virgin Of Flames by Chris Abani

The Virgin Of Flames

Book Cover The Last Friend by Tahar Ben Jelloun

The Last Friend

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

Equiano, the African

Book Cover If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

If Beale Street Could Talk

Book Cover From A Crooked Rib by Nuruddin Farah

From A Crooked Rib

Book Cover Wind in a Box (Penguin Poets) by Terrance Hayes

Wind in a Box (Penguin Poets)

Book Cover This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun

This Blinding Absence of Light

Book Cover Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism by Cornel West

Democracy Matters

Book Cover Hip Hop America by Nelson George

Hip Hop America

Book Cover Links by Nuruddin Farah

Links

Book Cover Hip Logic (National Poetry Series) by Terrance Hayes

Hip Logic (National Poetry Series)

Book Cover Blanche Passes Go by Barbara Neely

Blanche Passes Go

Book Cover Maps by Nuruddin Farah

Maps

Book Cover Gifts by Nuruddin Farah

Gifts

Book Cover The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

The 48 Laws of Power

Book Cover Secrets by Nuruddin Farah

Secrets

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

Native American Testimony

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

Straight, No Chaser

Book Cover Segu by Maryse Conde

Segu

Book Cover The Mercy Seat by Rilla Askew

The Mercy Seat

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

Multi-America

Book Cover The Maker of Saints by Thulani Davis

The Maker of Saints

Book Cover When Harlem Was In Vogue by David Levering Lewis

When Harlem Was In Vogue

Book Cover My First White Friend: Confessions on Race, Love and Forgiveness by Patricia Raybon

My First White Friend

Book Cover Japanese by Spring by Ishmael Reed

Japanese by Spring

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

Streetlights

Book Cover Blanche among the Talented Tenth by Barbara Neely

Blanche among the Talented Tenth

Book Cover Billy by Albert French

Billy

Book Cover Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience by Jill Nelson

Volunteer Slavery

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Book Cover Joker, Joker, Deuce by Paul Beatty

Joker, Joker, Deuce

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

Lure and Loathing

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

Before the Mayflower

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

The Shaping of Black America

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

Rats In The Trees (Contemporary American Fiction)

Book Cover High Cotton (Contemporary American Fiction) by Darryl Pinckney

High Cotton (Contemporary American Fiction)

Book Cover Fever (Contemporary American Fiction) by John Edgar Wideman

Fever (Contemporary American Fiction)

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

Breaking Ice

Book Cover Linden Hills (Contemporary American Fiction Series) by Gloria Naylor

Linden Hills (Contemporary American Fiction Series)

Book Cover The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

The Women of Brewster Place

Book Cover Three Pieces by Ntozake Shange

Three Pieces

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Book Cover Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin

Sonny’s Blues

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