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"Beware the ides of March." —William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Act 1, Scene 2)

Happy 250th Anniversary to The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, published on this day in 1776 🇺🇸

Happy birthday to the great John Steinbeck, whose Nobel Prize-winning voice and unforgettable characters echo through generations of readers and writers alike 📚 Let us know which of his works is your favorite 👇

Zami by Audre Lorde is a "must-read queer classic" and one of the Best New Queer Books Out in February according to @BookRiot! 📚 See what else made the list ⬇️ bookriot.com/new-queer-book…

Book clubs everywhere are getting ready for Emerald Fennell's film adaptation of Emily Brontë's gothic novel, WUTHERING HEIGHTS 🌹 Click to learn more ⬇️ nytimes.com/2026/01/29/sty…

“As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.” ―John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, published on this day in 1937 Get the book 👉 bit.ly/4a2NOZC

“The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon.” —Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, published on this day in 1962. Get the book 👉 bit.ly/4qPDNVz

Happy 125th birthday to Langston Hughes, who was born #onthisday in 1901! 🎂 Join us in celebrating Hughes' legacy by reading Not Without Laughter, his award-winning first novel about a black boy’s coming-of-age in a largely white Kansas town 👉 bit.ly/4qcmCMO

Discover books by John O'Hara: bit.ly/46pDmsP

Happy birthday to one of the most prominent American writers of the twentieth century, John O'Hara, born #onthisday in 1905 🎂🥳

Listen to bestselling author @abe_verghese on the latest installment of 'Writers Talking Writers' about the influence Ernest Hemingway's A FAREWELL TO ARMS has had on his own writing. (via @PublishersWkly) publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/in…

Prepare to be swept away. Watch the official trailer for Emerald Fennell's adaptation of Emily Brontë’s timeless masterpiece, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi. “Wuthering Heights” only in theaters this Valentine’s Day. #WutheringHeightsMovie

Now available for the first time from Penguin Classics: A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, with a new foreword by @abe_verghese, the bestselling author of The Covenant of Water and Cutting for Stone! Start reading 👉 bit.ly/4gJjOUw

In celebration of the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth this December, we're thrilled to share THREE new Deluxe Editions editions of Austen's beloved novels: Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, and Mansfield Park! Learn more 👉 bit.ly/3KgKShp

The National Book Foundation is awarding Roxane Gay, editor of THE PORTABLE FEMINIST READER, with its annual Literarian Award for her service to the American literary community. (via @latimes) latimes.com/entertainment-…

On sale today: Witi Ihimaera's bestselling modern classic and Māori coming-of-age novel The Whale Rider, featuring a foreword by actress @lily_gladstone, an introduction by author @shilokino, and contributions by scholar Loriene Roy! Learn more 👉 bit.ly/40Q9oLX

New to Penguin Classics: Tamas by Bhisham Sahni, an essential novel about the 1947 Partition in a newly revised translation by Booker Prize-winning translator Daisy Rockwell with a foreword by Siddhartha Deb (@debhartha)! Learn more and start reading 👉 bit.ly/44PnLRI

Xochitl Gonzalez on finally reading A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN: "What had once been to me nothing but a totem to feminist history revealed itself to be what I should have realized it was all along: a piece of another woman’s soul." theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

“In one afternoon, Woolf became known to me, and all my years of blind grievance melted away. Her honesty and fire and rage at the limitations put on women’s minds dissolved all the distance between us,” Xochitl Gonzalez writes: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

New to Penguin Classics: two new editions of Virginia Woolf's pioneering work of feminism, A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN, featuring an introduction by Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez! Start reading now 👉 bit.ly/44Rs6oO