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  • WINNER | 2017
    Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
  • WINNER | 2017
    Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
  • WINNER | 2017
    Pulitzer Prize (Fiction)
  • WINNER | 2017
    Arthur C. Clarke Award
  • WINNER | 2016
    National Book Award
  • WINNER | 2016
    New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year
  • LONGLIST | 2017
    Man Booker Prize for Fiction
  • FINALIST | 2017
    Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction
  • AWARD | 2016
    New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year

Colson Whitehead on his early writing | Author Shorts

Colson Whitehead (author of The Underground Railroad) | What I'm Reading

How writing about race in the past evokes the present | Author Colson Whitehead

Educator Guide for

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Awards

  • WINNER | 2017
    Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
  • WINNER | 2017
    Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
  • WINNER | 2017
    Pulitzer Prize (Fiction)
  • WINNER | 2017
    Arthur C. Clarke Award
  • WINNER | 2016
    National Book Award
  • WINNER | 2016
    New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year
  • LONGLIST | 2017
    Man Booker Prize for Fiction
  • FINALIST | 2017
    Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction
  • AWARD | 2016
    New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year

Media

Colson Whitehead on his early writing | Author Shorts

Colson Whitehead (author of The Underground Railroad) | What I'm Reading

How writing about race in the past evokes the present | Author Colson Whitehead

Guides

Educator Guide for

Classroom-based guides appropriate for schools and colleges provide pre-reading and classroom activities, discussion questions connected to the curriculum, further reading, and resources.

(Please note: the guide displayed here is the most recently uploaded version; while unlikely, any page citation discrepancies between the guide and book is likely due to pagination differences between a book’s different formats.)

2025 Catalog for First-Year & Common Reading

We are delighted to present our new First-Year & Common Reading Catalog for 2025! From award-winning fiction, poetry, memoir, and biography to new books about science, technology, history, student success, the environment, public health, and current events, the titles presented in our common reading catalog will have students not only eagerly flipping through the pages,

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Videos from the 2024 First-Year Experience® Conference are now available

We’re pleased to share videos from the 2024 First-Year Experience® Conference. Whether you weren’t able to join us at the conference or would simply like to hear the talks again, please take a moment to view the clips below.   Penguin Random House Author Breakfast Monday, February 19th, 7:15 – 8:45 am PST This event

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VIDEO: Audiobook Narrator Bahni Turpin reads from THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD at the National Book Awards Finalists Reading

On the evening before the National Book Awards ceremony, The New School hosts a reading with the finalists. Don’t miss this exquisite reading by the audio narrator of the 2016 winner.

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