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Full of ideas for your TBR piles, here is the latest Penguin Random House newsletter:

The Best Fantasy Books to Read This Summer The Skaar Invasion By Terry Brooks The second book of the epic four-part conclusion to the Shannara series from one of the acknowledged masters of the fantasy genre. READ MORE ▸ Purchase From Other Retailers ▸  Brief Cases By Jim Butcher An all-new Dresden Files story headlines this urban fantasy short story collection starring the Windy City's favorite wizard. READ MORE ▸ Purchase From Other Retailers ▸  The Memory of Fire By Callie Bates Callie Bates expertly deepens her tale, spinning glittering threads of magic and intrigue into a vibrant tapestry of adventure, betrayal, and romance. READ MORE ▸ Purchase From Other Retailers ▸  The Grey Bastards By Jonathan French A grimy, pulpy, masterpiece—and a raunchy, swaggering, cunningly clever adventure that’s like nothing you’ve read before. READ MORE ▸ Purchase From Other Retailers ▸  Shadow's Bane By Karen Chance Half-human, half-vampire Dorina Basarab is back—and facing her biggest challenge yet in the next urban fantasy in the New York Times bestselling series. READ MORE ▸ Purchase From Other Retailers ▸  Ramses the Damned By Anne Rice and Christopher Rice  From the iconic and bestselling author of The Mummy and The Vampire Chronicles, a mesmerizing, glamorous new tale of ancient feuds and modern passions. READ MORE ▸ Purchase From Other Retailers ▸  The Ghost Notebooks By Ben Dolnick A supernatural story of love, ghosts, and madness as a young couple, newly engaged, become caretakers of a historic museum. READ MORE ▸ Purchase From Other Retailers ▸  Flame in the Mist By Renée Ahdieh A sweeping, action-packed YA adventure set against the backdrop of Feudal Japan where Mulan meets Throne of Glass. READ MORE ▸ Purchase From Other Retailers ▸  SEE MORE IN FANTASY  Penguin Random House LLC 1745 Broadway, NY, NY 10019 ©2018 Penguin Random House LLC

Get Ready for The Great American Read TV Series This week's picks come from Paula McLain, the New York Times bestselling author of Circling the Sun, The Paris Wife, and A Ticket to Ride. Check them out below and see what other Penguin Random House titles made The Great American Read list. The Clan of the Cave Bear By Jean M. Auel Five-year-old Ayla is another order of orphan in this epic set in pre-historic times, circa 25,000 BP. Willful, spirited and “other,” Ayla doesn’t belong with the Neanderthal clan that raises her, nor does she see or recognize her own kind anywhere, because she is really a child of the future Cro-Magnon race. I read this every summer for years, utterly convinced by and drawn into Ayla’s world. Purchase From Other Retailers ▸  The Grapes of Wrath By John Steinbeck Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in fiction when it was published in 1939, and weighted heavily when Steinbeck won the Nobel in 1962, the novel follows the tenant-farming Joad family as they set out from dust-bowl plagued, Depression-rocked Oklahoma for California. Though I remember thoroughly resisting the book in high school, I now see it as an almost peerless account of one tenacious family trying to survive one of the most catastrophic periods in our history. Purchase From Other Retailers ▸  The Stand By Stephen King  I read King relentlessly as a teenager and young woman, but this one remains my absolute favorite, a stretching and humanistic post-apocalyptic account of a disintegrating America in the wake of a governmentally-modified influenza strain that gets accidentally released. The pandemic kills off most of the world’s human population, and sets three separate bands of survivors on cross-country odysseys that converge in a spectacular stand off between good and evil. Purchase From Other Retailers ▸  Don't miss Paula McLain's newest New York Times bestseller  McLain returns to the subject of Ernest Hemingway in Love and Ruin, a novel about his passionate, stormy marriage to Martha Gellhorn.  LEARN MORE ▸ Penguin Random House LLC 1745 Broadway, NY, NY 10019 ©2018 Penguin Random House LLC The Best Mystery Books to Read This Summer Star of the North By D. B. John A propulsive and ambitious thriller about a woman trying to rescue her twin sister from captivity in North Korea, and the North Korean citizens with whom she forms an unlikely alliance. READ MORE ▸ Purchase From Other Retailers ▸ The Crooked Staircase By Dean Koontz Jane Hawk faces the fight of her life, against the threat of a lifetime, in this electrifying new thriller. READ MORE ▸ Purchase From Other Retailers ▸ Look for Me By Lisa Gardner In #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner's latest twisty thrill ride, Detective D. D. Warren and Find Her's Flora Dane return in a race against the clock to either save a young girl's life... or bring her to justice. READ MORE ▸ Purchase From Other Retailers ▸ The Flight Attendant By Chris Bohjalian A powerful story about the ways an entire life can change in one night: A flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man—and no idea what happened. READ MORE ▸ Purchase From Other Retailers ▸ Twenty-one Days By Anne Perry In the first book of an all-new series, a young lawyer races to save his client from execution, putting him at odds with his own father: Thomas Pitt, head of London’s Special Police Branch. READ MORE ▸ Purchase From Other Retailers ▸ The House Swap By Rebecca Fleet A house swap becomes the eerie backdrop to a chilling look inside a broken marriage filled with tantalizing secrets. READ MORE ▸ Purchase From Other Retailers ▸ Here and Gone By Haylen Beck A gripping, wonderfully tense suspense thriller about a mother's desperate fight to recover her stolen children from corrupt authorities. READ MORE ▸ Purchase From Other Retailers ▸ The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye By David Lagercrantz Lisbeth Salander is serving time in Flodberga Prison. When a sadistic gang leader nicknamed Benito starts to torture Faria, a young Bangladeshi prisoner, Salander finds it impossible not to intervene. READ MORE ▸ Purchase From Other Retailers ▸ SEE MORE IN MYSTERY Penguin Random House LLC 1745 Broadway, NY, NY 10019 ©2018 Penguin Random House LLC Jane Green Shares Her Favorite Books Get Ready for the Great American Read The Great American Read is an eight-part television series that explores and celebrates the power of reading, told through the prism of America’s 100 best-loved novels. All summer long, we’ll be sharing some of our authors' favorite books from the list. We’re kicking things off with New York Times bestselling author Jane Green. Check out her picks below and see what other Penguin Random House titles made the list here. Little Women By Louisa May Alcott I have always gravitated towards the cozy book, and nothing is cozier than Little Women. It was one of the books that fostered my love of America, very early on, and showed me what makes a great character, particularly in headstrong Jo. Purchase From Other Retailers ▸ Great Expectations By Charles Dickens We read this for school when I was eleven years old, and I instantly fell in love. I was terrified by Pip’s encounters with Magwitch, entranced by his relationship with Estella and the ethereal Miss Havisham, and spellbound following Pip’s journey as he grows up. As an adult, my love for this book has remained constant, and particularly the genius of Dickens showing how life can change on a dime. Purchase From Other Retailers ▸ Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen Another love from my childhood, this is the novel that paved the way for all of us women writing about relationships with depth, humor, and emotional resonance. From the first line, “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife,” Elizabeth Bennet’s lovely family, and her quest to marry for love rather than money, is just as relevant today. Purchase From Other Retailers ▸ Let the Sunshine In! Looking for more summer reading? Don't miss Jane Green's latest novel, The Sunshine Sisters, now available in paperback. LEARN MORE ▸ Penguin Random House LLC 1745 Broadway, NY, NY 10019 ©2018 Penguin Random House LLC