What the World Is Reading
Did you just finish an amazing book and are wondering
what to read next?
Are you hunting for the next great read for your book club?
Penguin invites you to explore What the World is Reading. The novels you'll discover here are some of our favorite paperbacks for the coming year, carefully selected to introduce readers to several wonderful new voices in fiction. Like other perennial favorites such as The Secret Life of Bees, Memory Keeper's Daughter, and The Kite Runner, we expect these novels we reveal each month to be embraced by readers and book clubs everywhere. Some, like Kathryn Stockett's remarkable debut, The Help, already have dominated readers' conversations; and others, like Sarah Blake's The Postmistress and Robin Oliveira's My Name is Mary Sutter, are certain to join them. Trust Penguin and you can be among the first to to discover What the World is Reading.
What the World is Reading in January
A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness
"A wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy with all the magic of Harry Potter and Twilight."
— People
In a sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches became the "it" book of early 2011, bringing Deborah Harkness into the spotlight and galvanizing fans around the world. In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and the descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont. Harkness has created a universe to rival those of Anne Rice, Diana Gabaldon, and Elizabeth Kostova, and she adds a scholar's depth to this riveting story of magic and suspense.
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The Weird Sisters
Eleanor Brown
This is the "delightful" (People) New York Times bestseller that's earned raves from Sarah Blake, Helen Simonson, and reviewers everywhere—the story of three sisters who love each other, but just don't happen to like each other very much…
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