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100 years ago today in 1925, Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska was published for the first time! ⁣
May 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"Before Romeo and Juliet, there was Khosrow and Shirin." —
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NEW TO PENGUIN CLASSICS: Khosrow and Shirin, a tragic epic love story by Nezami Ganjavi, one of the greatest medieval Persian romance poets, translated by Dick Davis! 👉 bit.ly/3ROgN9s
April 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Celebrate 100 years of The Great Gatsby! Our new centennial edition of one of the most iconic American novels features an introduction by Min Jin Lee and includes four beloved stories from Fitzgerald’s 1926 collection, All the Sad Young Men!

Learn more: bit.ly/42Dmhdu
April 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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"The Portable Feminist Reader" is essential reading. All women are not yet free, but in this sweeping intersectional collection, @roxanegay.bsky.social reminds us that feminists have the collective power to create a more inclusive & equitable future. More in my @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social review.
March 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
🎉 Congratulations @roxanegay.bsky.social! THE PORTABLE FEMINIST READER is a New York Times bestseller! 🎉 ⁣
April 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"No list about Guatemalan writers would be complete without mentioning an Asturias book... [Men of Maize] tells the stories of what it means when one culture attempts and succeeds to impose itself upon the other." (via @electricliterature.com)
9 Must-Read Books by Guatemalan Writers - Electric Literature
These works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry traverse the Guatemalan highlands to the streets of New York City
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March 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
New to Penguin Classics: The Portable Feminist Reader edited by @roxanegay.bsky.social!

A dynamic and strikingly relevant look at a feminist canon as expansive rather than definitive, start reading The Portable Feminist Reader now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/537275...
The Portable Feminist Reader: 9780143110392 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A dynamic and strikingly relevant look at a feminist canon as expansive rather than definitive A Penguin Classic For Roxane Gay, a feminist canon is subjective and always evolving. A feminist canon ...
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March 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
A Last Supper of Queer Apostles by Pedro Lemebel, translated from the Spanish by Gwendolyn Harper, is the winner of the NBCC Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize!
March 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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The Audiobook of 12 STORIES is now available! Here's a free preview of me reading the introduction, but the real treat here are the professional voice actors' interpretations of these stories @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social calls "iconic" 😉

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Twelve Stories by American Women by Arielle Zibrak - Audiobooks on Google Play
Twelve Stories by American Women audiobook written by Arielle Zibrak. Narrated by Arielle Zibrak, Karen Murray, Elena Rey, Tanis Parenteau, Caroline Hewitt, and Catherine Ho. Get instant access to all...
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March 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Next week is pub week for 12 STORIES BY AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social and I'm doing a GIVEAWAY for Blueskyers!

The first 20 people to create an original post about the book, tag me, and DM an address will get a FREE copy sent their way.

Please read & share these stories!
March 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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New to Penguin Classics: Abortion Stories, a one-of-a-kind, intersectional volume of stories, poems, essays, and memoirs on abortion published before 1973, when Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in every American state.

Learn more: bit.ly/4i6FUQG
March 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
TONIGHT! 📅 Join Karen Weingarten, Rebecca Traister, and Renee Bracy Sherman for a conversation about Abortion Stories, a new volume from Penguin Classics!

Register now 👉 centerforthehumanities.org/event/aborti...
March 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
New to Penguin Classics: Steppenwolf, Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse’s iconic countercultural novel about the search for authenticity in an inauthentic world, in a new translation by David Horrocks!

Start reading now 👉 bit.ly/4h9tPcb
March 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
New to Penguin Classics: Abortion Stories, a one-of-a-kind, intersectional volume of stories, poems, essays, and memoirs on abortion published before 1973, when Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in every American state.

Learn more: bit.ly/4i6FUQG
March 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Sharing a stack of black spines by Black authors to add to your TBR this #BlackHistoryMonth!

Find more recommendations from Penguin Classics 👉 bit.ly/3wbopeN
February 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
📆 MARK YOU CALENDARS 📆 Join Roxane Gay on tour for The Portable Feminist Reader, a feminist canon of selected writings by ancient, historic, and contemporary feminist voices edited by Roxane Gay!

Register for an event near you 👉 roxanegay.com/appearances/
February 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
New to Penguin Classics: Claude McKay's most well-known Harlem Renaissance novel and the first commercial bestseller by a Black novelist in the United States, Home to Harlem, featuring an introduction by literary history scholar Belinda Edmondson!

🔗: bit.ly/3EomOXe
February 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
New to Penguin Classics: Clay Walls by Kim Ronyoung, a landmark modern classic about the Korean American immigrant experience and the dawn of Los Angeles’s Koreatown, featuring an introduction by David S. Cho. ⁣

🔗: bit.ly/4gjM6mw
February 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Happy #BlackHistoryMonth, readers! We’re kicking things off by revisiting Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes, who was born on this day in 1902.

Which classics by Black authors are you planning to read this month? 📖
February 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
“Do not consider me now as an elegant female, intending to plague you, but as a rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart.” —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, which was published #onthisday in 1813 🌾
January 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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It's very nice to be anticipated! Pleased to be in the excellent company of The Millions' other picks for new pubs, which make me almost excited for 2025.

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January 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Today is the LAST DAY to enter our sweepstakes to win the ultimate bookish gift: the new collectible edition of L. Frank Baum’s classic The Wizard of Oz, featuring sprayed edges, colored endpapers, and an Ex Libris bookplate! 💚✨

Enter now 👉 sites.prh.com/wizardofozsw...
December 4, 2024 at 6:09 PM
What we think we look like when we’re reading…
November 22, 2024 at 9:37 PM
When Jane Austen said she’d be miserable without a personal library, we FELT that 👏
November 22, 2024 at 9:30 PM
We want to know: what classic did you read when you were younger that is *still* one of your favorite books today? 📚
November 22, 2024 at 9:28 PM