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Perigee, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), publishes an eclectic range of self-help, how-to, and popular reference books, all with the underlying goal to entertain and inform. From New York Times bestsellers The Smartest Investment Book You’ll Ever Read and The Book of Useless Information to Wreck This Journal, The Naked Pint, and Extreme Pumpkins, our list is as practical as it is quirky, whether we’re destroying pumpkins, drinking beer, or managing our 401ks.

Our team:

John Duff, Publisher @JohnRDuff
Marian Lizzi, Editor-in-Chief @MarianLiz
Meg Leder, Executive Editor @MegLeder
Jeanette Shaw, Editor @JeanetteMShaw
Lauren Becker, Editorial Assistant
Amanda Shih, Editorial Assistant

Books in the News

Happy Birthday, Edward Gorey!

It's Not You, It's Brie was featured on New York 1.

Nataly Kelly, author of Found in Translation, wrote an article in The New York Times.

Nataly Kelly, author of Found in Translation, was interviewed by The Rumpus.

Sophia Dembling, author of The Introvert's Way, wrote an article in The Wall Street Journal.

Suffering Succotash, was featured by CNN's Eatocracy.

Found in Translation, was reviewed by Nibbles 'n Bites.

Goldie Hawn, author of 10 Mindful Minutes, was interviewed by Prevention Magazine.

Stephanie Lucianovic, author of Suffering Succotash, wrote an article in The New York Times.

Allison Arden, author of The Book of Doing, was interviewed by Stage Notes.

Suffering Succotash was featured by io9.

The Curious World of Wine was reviewed by LA Weekly.

The Curious World of Wine was reviewed by Publishers Weekly.

Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids was reviewed by Parents Magazine.

Scared Sh*tless was reviewed by The Hartford Courant.

Andy Selsberg, author of You Are Good at Things, was in a podcast by WireTap.

Sophia Dembling, author of The Introvert's Way, wrote an article in The Dallas Morning News.

Robert Davis, author of Coffee is Good For You, wrote an article in The Huffington Post.

Dan Wilbur, author of How Not to Read, was interviewed in Forbes.

Nataly Kelly, author of Found in Translation, was featured in an article on NBC News.

To Have and Have Another was featured in The Huffington Post.

Nataly Kelly, author of Found in Translation, wrote an article for Forbes.

Finish This Book was reviewed by Believer.

To Have and Have Another is on LA Magazine's November reading list.

Handwritten Recipes was reviewed by The Kitchn.

Unquenchable won the award for Best English-Language Culinary Narrative from Taste Canada.

Grover Cleveland's Rubber Jaw was reviewed by The New Haven Register.

The Art of Silliness was reviewed by Book Fetish.

Remembering Ritalin was reviewed by The Journal of Attention Disorders.

To Have and Have Another was featured by Wine Enthusiast.

The Art of Silliness was reviewed by Psych Central.

Phil Greene, author of To Have and Have Another, was interviewed by Nightclub & Bar.

Doug Lansky, author of Crap Souvenirs, was interviewed by CNN Travel.

Great Gals was featured by Hello Giggles.

Michael Popek, author of Handwritten Recipes, wrote an article in The Huffington Post.

Found in Translation was reviewed by Language Translation.

Nataly Kelly, one of the authors of Found in Translation, wrote an article in The Huffington Post.

The Lost Arts of Hearth and Home was reviewed by The Kitchn.

The Introvert's Way was reviewed by Psych Central.

The Lost Arts of Hearth and Home was reviewed by Publishers Weekly.

Found in Translation was reviewed by Speech Marks.

Found in Translation, was reviewed by Deseret News.

Nataly Kelly, one of the authors of Found in Translation, wrote an article in The Huffington Post.

Stephanie Lucianovic, author of Suffering Succotash, was interviewed in The San Francisco Chronicle.

Crap Souvenirs was featured by NBC Travel.

The Scribble Diary was reviewed by Doodlers Anonymous.

Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? was featured on BuzzFeed.

How Not to Read was featured by Large Hearted Boy.

Click here to listen to You Are Good at Things, the song!

How Not to Read author Dan Wilbur wrote an article in The Huffington Post.

Forget About Today author Jon Friedman was interviewed by TIME.com.

Tattoo a Banana author Phil Hansen was was interviewed by Minnesota Public Radio.

The Year of Learning Dangerously was reviewed by Bethany LaBedz.

Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a Day was reviewed by Perceptive Travel.

Don MacLeod, author of How to Find Out Anything, was interviewed in The Washington Post Express.

The Year of Learning Dangerously was reviewed in The Wall Street Journal.

An excerpt from The Year of Learning Dangerously was published in The Huffington Post.

An excerpt from The Year of Learning Dangerously was published in The Atlantic.

Nataly Kelly, one of the authors of Found in Translation, (out in October) was interviewed in a podcast about Africa's Translation Gap.

After the Fact was reviewed by Time Out Chicago.

After the Fact was reviewed by The Huffington Post.

The Year of Learning Dangerously was reviewed by the Parents Magazine Blog.

Jon Friedman, author of Forget About Today, was interviewed on Fox Business's morning show Imus in the Morning.

Rory Vaden, author of Take the Stairs, wrote an article for CNBC.

Jon Friedman, author of Forget About Today, wrote an article in The Wall Street Journal.

Quinn Cummings, author of The Year of Learning Dangerously, was interviewed on Fox & Friends.

Nataly Kelly, one of the authors of Found in Translation, wrote an article in The Harvard Business Review.

Phil Hansen, author of Tattoo a Banana, was interviewed by Geek Dad.

The Preschool Gems book trailer was named Shelf Awareness's Book Trailer of the Day.

After the Fact (coming out August 7th) was reviewed by The History News Network.

Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, author of Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops?, wrote an article for The TODAY Show blog.

Stephanie Lucianovic, author of Suffering Succotash, wrote an article for The New York Times.

Extreme Cosmos was reviewed on Shelf Awareness.

F My Life World Tour was reviewed on Planet Lotus.

The Scribble Diary was reviewed on Frankie.com.

Our Valued Customers was featured in The Huffington Post.

Our Valued Customers was reviewed by The Detroit News.

Andy Selsberg, author of You Are Good at Things, was interviewed by Field Notes.

Amy Unell, author of Starting at the Finish Line (out July 3rd) wrote an article for The Huffington Post.

F My Life World Tour was featured on FailureMag.com.

Tattoo a Banana was featured in The Huffington Post.

F My Life World Tour was featured in The Huffington Post.

Phil Hansen, author of Tattoo a Banana, talked about his book on Good Day Sacramento.

Doug Mack, author of Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a Day, was interviewed in The Washington Post.

Rory Vaden, author of Take the Stairs, was featured in The Wall Street Journal.

Allison Arden, author of The Book of Doing, was interviewed on NBC New York.

Wreck This Journal makes a splash at BEA.

Tyrannosaurus Lex was reviewed in The Chicago Tribune.

Tattoo a Banana (out June 5th) was reviewed by The Huffington Post.

The Book of Doing was reviewed by Celebrity Parents Magazine.

This video for Tattoo a Banana (out June 5th) was named Book Trailer of the Day by Shelf Awareness.

Extreme Cosmos (out in July) was reviewed by Publishers Weekly.

The Book of Doing was featured on Simplify101.com.

Tattoo a Banana was featured on Flavorwire.

Tyrannosaurus Lex was reviewed by The Columbus Dispatch.

Robert Davis, author of Coffee is Good For You, was interviewed on CBS This Morning.

Keri Smith, author of Wreck This Journal is nominated to be a New Revolutionist.

Tattoo a Banana (out June 5th) was reviewed on LA Weekly.

Keri Smith, author of Wreck This Journal was interviewed on CraftFoxes.com.

Mobile app "Wine Picks and Pairings" by Unquenchable author Natalie MacLean was named one of the best Canadian apps on iTunes.

Check out this new video from Phil Hansen, author of Tattoo a Banana.

The Book of Doing was reviewed on Mommy's Memorandum.

Celia Blue Johnson, author of Dancing with Mrs. Dalloway, was interviewed in The Huffington Post.

The Book of Doing was featured on diystyle.net.

The Book of Doing was featured in Parade Magazine.

Take the Stairs was featured in USA Today.

The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions was reviewed on brainpickings.org.

Doug Mack, author of Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a Day, was featured in The Boston Herald

Jesse Saperstein, author of Atypical, was featured in The Minnesota Daily

The Graffiti Doodle Book and The Monster Doodle Book were reviewed on this blog!

Check out this Wreck This Journal superfan!

An excerpt from Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a Day was featured in The Huffington Post.

The Book of Doing was reviewed on Creativity Online.

The Book of Kink was reviewed in Glamour Magazine.

You Are Good at Things was reviewed in The Chicago Tribune.

Wreck This App was reviewed on Scatter Gather.

Wreck This App was named the YALSA's app of the week.

You Are Good at Things was reviewed on A Cup of Joe.

The Book of Doing was reviewed in Ad Age.

Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a Day was reviewed in The National Geographic.

Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a Day was featured on Boing Boing.

Chic on a Shoestring was reviewed in Publishers Weekly.

Rory Vaden, author of Take the Stairs, wrote a blog post for CNBC.

I'm Mad as Hell was reviewed on ThisDishIsVegetarian.com.

Robert J. Davis, author of Coffee is Good for You wrote an article in The Huffington Post.

Allison Arden, author of The Book of Doing (coming out in April) was interviewed by Step Up Women's Network.

Wreck This Journal was reviewed in The Daily Utah Chronicle.

Take the Stairs author Rory Vaden was interviewed on Fox & Friends.

Take the Stairs author Rory Vaden was quoted in The New York Times.

Coffee is Good for You was reviewed in INsite Magazine.

Amy Spencer, author of Bright Side Up wrote an article for The Frisky.

Take the Stairs is #1 on USA Today's best-seller list!

Amy Spencer, author of Bright Side Up was featured on GalleyCat.

Coffee is Good for You was featured in The Washington Post.

Art Markman, author of Smart Thinking spoke on Minnesota Public Radio.

Rosemarie Ostler, author of Slinging Mud wrote an op-ed for the Christian Science Monitor.

Bright Side Up was featured on Oprah.com.

Coffee is Good for You was featured on ABC.com.

Coffee is Good for You was featured in The Washington Post.

Mind Over Business was featured in Publishers Weekly.

The Smartest Portfolio You'll Ever Own made the Reuters list of 2011's Five Best Money Books.

Forgotten Bookmarks was featured on NPR's list of Freshest Reads and in the Times Union.

The Lost Art of Real Cooking was featured on Heritage Radio Network.

The Artist in the Office was featured in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions was featured in the Los Angeles Times.

Forgotten Bookmarks was featured in Shelf Awareness.

The Secret History of Balls was featured on NPR's Top 5 Books for Backseat Readers list.

The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions was featured in The Atlantic.

Goldie Hawn's New York Times bestseller, 10 Mindful Minutes, was spotted with Selma Blair!

27 Powers of Persuasion was featured in Smart Business.

Unquenchable was featured in The Washington Post and Forbes magazine.

Unquenchable was featured on OpinionatedWine Guide.com.

Wicked Good Words was featured on AmericanProfile.com.

Signspotting 4 was featured in USA Today and The Huffington Post.

Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? and Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallits were featured in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Forgotten Bookmarks was featured in The Jewish Daily Forward and Daily Loaf.

Gavin Pretor-Pinney won The 2011 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books!

David Wondrich, author of Punch, was mentioned in The New York Times.

The Monster Doodle Book was featured on EcosmartWorld.com.

Unquenchable was featured in The Washington Post.

The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions was featured on Brain Pickings.

Signe Pike, author of Faery Tale, is writing for the Penguin blog. Read her posts here, here, and here.

Slinging Mud was featured in the Portland Book Review.

Michael Popek, author of Forgotten Bookmarks, wrote for The Huffington Post.

The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions was featured on BoingBoing, Salon.com, and MentalFloss.com.

Celia Blue Johnson, author of Dancing with Mrs. Dalloway, wrote for The Office of Letters and Light blog.

Forgotten Bookmarks was featured in The Wall Street Journal and The Post-Star.

Success Secrets of Sherlock Holmes was featured on CNBC.

10 Mindful Minutes and The Smartest Portfolio You'll Ever Own were nominated for Books for a Better Life Awards.

Unquenchable was featured on the Houston Press's Wine Time blog.

Dr. Lawrence Diller, author of Remembering Ritalin, was featured in The New York Times.

Tom Nardone, author of Extreme Halloween, was on the Rachael Ray Show.

Word as Image is featured in The Wall Street Journal.

Dr. Lawrence Diller, author of Remembering Ritalin, wrote an article for AOL Healthy Living.

Goldie Hawn's 10 Mindful Minutes is a New York Times bestseller!!

Growing at the Speed of Life was featured on AudibleAuthors.net. Listen to the interview with author Graham Kerr here.

Finish This Book was featured on NylonMag.com.

Goldie Hawn's 10 Mindful Minutes was featured in Publishers Weekly and on Good Morning America and ABCNews.com.

Natalie MacLean, author of
Unquenchable, is featured in Zoomer Magazine for App of the Month.

Uncle Dan's Report Card was featured in the Centre Daily Times.

Finish This Book was featured on SheKnows.com and CapitalNewYork.com.

Dan Solin, financial expert and author of The Smartest Portfolio You'll Ever Own, was featured on First Coast News.

The Smartest Portfolio You'll Ever Own was featured on CBS MoneyWatch.com.

A creature from Beasties was featured in a Kevin Devine music video.

The Legacy Letters was featured on SunSentinel.com.

Signspotting 4 was in the Los Angeles Times and on CindyReads.com and statesman.com.

Mim Harrison, author of Wicked Good Words, was interviewed on NPR. Listen here.

Uncle Dan's Report Card was featured on NBC News.

Finish This Book was featured on Wired.com's GeekDad blog.

Slinging Mud was featured on Salon.com and The Huffington Post.

The Legacy Letters was featured on ABC News, Barnes and Noble's Unbound blog, and the Los Angeles Times.

The Legacy Letters was featured on MariaShriver.com.

The Legacy Letters was featured on Colorado's 9 News.

The Legacy Letters was in The New York Times, The Record, The Telegraph, and Deseret News.

Wreck This Journal was featured on Flecking Records.

Uncle Dan's Report Card was featured on the Mommy Reviewed blog.

The Legacy Letters was in The New York Times.

Slinging Mud was featured in The Washington Post and The American Prospect.

Mim Harrison, author of Wicked Good Words, was interviewed on WFUV and The Book Report.

In the Neighborhood was named Book of the Year by Cuesta College.

What Every Woman Should Know About Divorce and Custody was mentioned in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Ammon Shea, author of The Phone Book, wrote an op-ed for The New York Times.

Wicked Good Words was featured on The BN Community Blog and WLRN Radio.

Dr. Lawrence Diller, author of Remembering Ritalin, was quoted in the Los Angeles Times.

Mim Harrison, author of Wicked Good Words, was on Boston's WBUR.

Jesse Saperstein, author of Atypical was featured in the Poughkeepsie Journal.

Wicked Good Words was featured on The Huffington Post and in Spirit Magazine.

Mim Harrison, author of Wicked Good Words, was interviewed on BBC's Americana program.

Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? was featured in The Weekender.

Brian Boone, author of I Love Rock 'n' Roll (Except When I Hate It), wrote a piece for the Huffington Post.

The Legacy Letters was featured on NBC New York and in Parade magazine.

Rod Evans, author of Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallits, was interviewed for the Chicago Tribune.

Remembering Ritalin was featured in the New York Post.

The Legacy Letters was featured by The Wall Street Journal.

Wicked Good Words by Mim Harrison was featured in the Pittsburgh City Paper and Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine.

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