Register for the 2025 Penguin Random House First-Year Experience® Conference Author Events!

By Luis Diaz | October 31 2024 | College & University Reads

Penguin Random House Author Events at the 44th Annual First-Year Experience® Conference

February 16-19, 2025
New Orleans, Louisiana
Hyatt Regency New Orleans
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A complimentary meal and a limited number of books will be available to attendees. Each event will also be followed by an author signing.

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Learn more about the authors’ books below:

9780593239933
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.
Paperback

Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist
9780593685259

The uplifting story of a young Black scientist’s challenging journey to flourish outside the traditional confines of academia, inspired by her innate connection to nature’s most misunderstood animal—the shark.

Hardcover

Why We Fight About Morality and Politics and How to Find Common Ground
9780593317433

A groundbreaking new perspective on the moral mind that rewrites our understanding of where moral judgments come from, and how we can overcome the feelings of outrage that so often divide us.

Hardcover

A Personal History of Wheat, Farming, and Family, from Punjab to California
9780807016770
A young South Asian American woman’s story of reconnecting with her identity, family, and heritage through sustainable farming.
Paperback

A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
9780593491300

The rousing, captivating story of a Black physician, her career in medicine, and the deep inequities that still exist in the U.S. healthcare system.

Paperback

Visions of Climate Futures
9780593229361

Through clear-eyed essays and vibrant conversations, infused with data, poetry, and art, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson guides us through climate solutions and possibilities at the nexus of science, policy, culture, and justice.

Hardcover

How to Communicate with People You Disagree with and Maybe Even Change the World
9780143132707
A guide to learning how to communicate with people who have diametrically opposed opinions from you, how to empathize with them, and how to (possibly) change their minds.
Paperback

A Novel
9780593311448

The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of  There There delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous.

Paperback