Something Bold is Coming This fall, Berkley and Penguin Young Readers will join forces to launch a new imprint, Berkley XO. Berkley XO will be dedicated to publishing New Adult Crossover fiction and will kick off with three exciting books: Reap & Sow by Charlotte B. Plumb Crash Course by Piper Lawson Drown the Bones by Alexandra

The New York Times bestselling author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette returns to form in her most exuberant and life-affirming novel yet with the story of one woman’s cheerful determination to live a life of the mind only to have the heart force its way in.

Jodi Picoult chats about censorship and her next book!

Request eGalleys of some of our favorite July titles, and if you love the books, please consider nominating them for LibraryReads!

Come along with the Book Witch in this magical and inspiring love letter to reading from the USA Today bestselling author of The Wishing Game.

“Moving Toward Freedom rests heavily on . . . sweeping collections.  The most important of these include Ulrich B. Phillips papers at Yale University’s Sterling Library . . . these collections provided the empirical and interpretive backbone of my book . . . “

With starred reviews from publications including Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and BookPage — your patrons will want to read these much-anticipated books that reviewers are raving about.  

“I applaud you, I adore you.” – Jacqueline Woodson to librarians

Fill your heart with library joy, thanks to these beautiful messages of authors sharing love for libraries all recorded in the Penguin Random House Audio studios!

From New York Times bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow, an irresistible story about what happens when your teenage fantasy comes true after you’re already an adult.

Public library staff across the nation have spoken! Congratulations to the books selected for the May 2026 LibraryReads Top Ten List.

A GMA BOOK CLUB PICK • A traditional American woman, a beautiful wife and mother who sells her pioneer lifestyle of raw milk and farm-fresh eggs to her millions of social media followers, suddenly awakens cold, filthy, and terrified in the brutal reality of 1855—where she must unravel whether this living nightmare is an elaborate hoax, a twisted reality show, or something far more sinister in this sensational debut novel.