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Celebrating 100 years of publishing great books. Here are some posts about them.
- THE THINKING MACHINE author Stephen Witt on the risks of AI:
- In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “A destructive A.I., like a nuclear bomb, is now a concrete possibility. The question is whether anyone will be reckless enough to build one,” Stephen Witt writes.
- We spy THE FROZEN PEOPLE by @ellygriffiths.bsky.social on this list!
- It's a BIG month for SFF-crossover stories! You can find a half-orc romance, a ravenous university faculty, and an ex who "happens" to "maybe" be the antichrist in this list of all 42 (!) SFF-adjacent books coming out July 2025! reactormag.com/new-sff-cros...
- Reposted by Viking BooksIt's a BIG month for SFF-crossover stories! You can find a half-orc romance, a ravenous university faculty, and an ex who "happens" to "maybe" be the antichrist in this list of all 42 (!) SFF-adjacent books coming out July 2025! reactormag.com/new-sff-cros...
- THE FROZEN PEOPLE by @ellygriffiths.bsky.social is on sale TODAY! A historical fiction novel, gripping detective mystery, and time-travel story all wrapped into one, THE FROZEN PEOPLE is "a pleasure from finish to start." (@anthonyhorowitz.com) 🕰️✨ Start reading now 👉 bit.ly/44P6KIC
- Reposted by Viking BooksThe first 2026 debut book to land at Debutiful HQ is SCAVENGERS by Kathleen Boland! It arrived January 13th from @vikingbooks.bsky.social
- Reposted by Viking Books20 Books Coming in July via The New York Times Twisty summer thrillers, magical romances, a true story of a marriage pushed to the brink and more. The Aviator and the Showman @vikingbooks.bsky.social @nytimes.com
- Congratulations @mollyjongfast.bsky.social! HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER is a NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! 🎉🍾💫 Learn more about the book and start reading now 👉 bit.ly/451tkyp
- Reposted by Viking Books2 weeks until pub and a few places have said nice things about THE HOUSE ON BUZZARDS BAY and the good people @vikingbooks.bsky.social put those statements on a backdrop of murderous seagulls and osprey, for which I'm very grateful.
- Nothing keeps a village together like secrets. From the creator of Broadchurch @chrischibnall.bsky.social, DEATH AT THE WHITE HART is a brilliant new detective story following one man’s death and the secrets that unravel in a coastal English village. On sale now! 👉 bit.ly/4mV8RS6
- Reposted by Viking BooksI’m sorry to be that person but please please please buy my book or come to my reading or request at your local library. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
- Reposted by Viking BooksThat dog, the one in the book died this weekend lithub.com/molly-jong-f...
- "[Jong-Fast] fights her way through the grief and rage with sharp self-awareness and a sense of humor that never deserts her." On sale today, @mollyjongfast.bsky.social's HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER is one of Oprah Daily's Best Summer Reads! ☀️📚 Get your copy now 👉 bit.ly/451tkyp
- The wait is over! Maggie Stiefvater's "mesmeric, original, and stunning" (Chris Whitaker) debut novel THE LISTENERS is on sale TODAY! Dive into this mesmerizing portrait of an irresistible heroine, an unlikely romance, and a hotel—and a world—in peril now 👉 bit.ly/3FGOJT1
- “Grief and rage coincide with comedy and uptown-literati charm" (New York Times) in @mollyjongfast.bsky.social's memoir HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER, on sale today! Start reading now 👉 bit.ly/451tkyp
- “With propulsive humor and perspective on her annus horribilis, @mollyjongfast.bsky.social achieves the memoir’s transformative work of alchemy." Read @washingtonpost.com's review of HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER, on sale now! 👇
- "Roughly twenty hours after the Electra took off, it went down somewhere in the Pacific. The location is still unknown. The ocean has kept its secret." Read an excerpt of @lauriestories.bsky.social's THE AVIATOR AND THE SHOWMAN, on sale July 15! (via @newyorker.com)
- Reposted by Viking BooksMy @newyorker.com excerpt of The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage that Made an American Icon just went up—and I’m thrilled to finally share it. June 9 print for magazine - @vikingbooks.bsky.social book out July 15 www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
- "This raw, intimate memoir is a stunning portrait of difficult relationships and how we survive them." HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER by @mollyjongfast.bsky.social (on sale tomorrow) is one of PEOPLE's Best Nonfiction Books of Summer 2025! 👉 bit.ly/3ZFt0li
- On sale tomorrow, @mollyjongfast.bsky.social's memoir HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER is "mesmerizing, intimate, wise, unputdownable... beautiful and painful at the same time, just like real life." (@annelamott.bsky.social) Learn more and preorder your copy now 👉 bit.ly/451tkyp
- Reposted by Viking BooksYet another literary jewel from the Emerald Isle! Here's my review of Donal Ryan's "Heart, Be at Peace" for @nytimes.com. Out next week from @vikingbooks.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/b...
- Reposted by Viking BooksOMG OMGGGGG www.vulture.com/article/new-...
- HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER by @mollyjongfast.bsky.social (on sale June 3) was included in the @nytimes.com roundup of 21 Non-fiction Books Coming This Summer!
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Here is a ten-minute sample of the audiobook edition of *Freedom Ship*, just published by @vikingbooks.bsky.social. It is narrated by my friend and former student Cornell Womack. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JRh... - 💖🥂 THE NAMES by Florence Knapp is a New York Times bestseller! 🥂💖 Thank you to all the folks who have read, loved, and shared their support for this "truly mesmerizing and profound" (@alisonespach.bsky.social) debut novel! Get your copy 👉 bit.ly/3SBQzaF
- Congratulations to Donal Ryan! 🎉 HEART, BE AT PEACE (on sale May 20) is a finalist for the 2025 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award! Learn more 👉 bit.ly/43nuuTp
- Congratulations to Ana Raquel Minian! ✨🎉 IN THE SHADOW OF LIBERTY is the WINNER of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction! Learn more 👉 bit.ly/4iXuG0e
- Reposted by Viking BooksThe first serial of my very personal memoir drops tomorrow on @vanityfair.com and I am super scared and freaked out. Anyway since I live online I thought I’d share.
- Reposted by Viking BooksSome personal news
- Reposted by Viking Books💥🥊 HEADSHOT is a FINALIST for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction! 🥊💥 Please join us in sending a MASSIVE congratulations to Rita Bullwinkel and her "brilliant" (@theatlantic.com) and "hard-punching novel." (@npr.org) ✨ Start reading now 👉 bit.ly/421h7aU
- Reposted by Viking Books“Dazzling… THE NAMES is startlingly joyful and paced like a thriller… Knapp tirelessly and beautifully replicates not just loss and grief but endless rebirth and delight.” —@washingtonpost.com Read the full review 👉 wapo.st/4k8736k
- Reposted by Viking Books📣 MAJOR BOOK CLUB NEWS 📣 THE NAMES by Florence Knapp is the #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick for May! Start reading this "truly gorgeous, heart-opening novel" (@annnapolitano.bsky.social) about fate, chance, and the choices we make now 👉 bit.ly/3FPeHDx
- "Old sport, it’s delightful.” 💚 Read @apnews.com's review of THE GATSBY GAMBIT by Claire Anderson-Wheeler, on sale now!
- Reposted by Viking BooksThe acid queen: Inside Rosemary Leary’s life of sex, free-thinking and lots of LSD
- Read an exclusive excerpt of THE ACID QUEEN by Susannah Cahalan, which tells the untold story of Rosemary Leary and her life with the high priest of LSD! via @rollingstone.com
- Reposted by Viking BooksThanks LitHub for publishing an extract of The #Octopus's Shape Shift from The #OceansMenagerie, just released on Earthday! See event schedule at DrewHarvell.com #marinelife #cephalopod #scuba @vikingbooks.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/lite...
- @drewharvell.bsky.social explores human fascination with the otherwordly octopus.
- Reposted by Viking BooksLove the write up for Ocean's Menagerie in Yale Climate Connections Top 12 Earth Month Books @vikingbooks.bsky.social yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/04/12-b...
- Reposted by Viking BooksAlways a thrill. I just received my first copy of *Freedom Ship* — a distillation of five years of work and a companion volume to *The Slave Ship*. The book will be published by @vikingbooks.bsky.social May 13. Pre-order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566407...
- THE ACID QUEEN by Susannah Cahalan is on sale TODAY! ✨ "Part romance, part thriller, all astounding," (Maureen Callahan) THE ACID QUEEN shines an overdue spotlight on pioneering psychedelic seeker Rosemary Woodruff Leary! Start reading now 👉 bit.ly/4jGxPSX
- Reposted by Viking Books'When she campaigned for Leary’s release from prison, she wore a severe black mini dress, oversized sunglasses with pink lenses, and a bold amulet necklace emblazoned with three letters: LSD' The Acid Queen by Susannah Cahalan is out on 5 June! Pre-order here: buythebook.online/theacidqueen
- Reposted by Viking BooksHappy #EarthDay and Release Day! #BookTalk tonight and The Times London Book of the Week! “The #OceansMenagerie a marine smorgasbord of the spineless. "...she has discovered is magic and bewildering, astonishing creatures that challenge our idea of animalhood" www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
- THE OCEAN'S MENAGERIE by @drewharvell.bsky.social is on sale today! 🦑📖🐳 A tale of biological marvels, a story of a woman’s passionate connection to an adventurous career in science, and a call to protect the world’s most ancient ecosystems, start reading now 👉 bit.ly/44A08y0
- THE DEATH OF US by Abigail Dean is on sale TODAY! ✨📖 A literary thriller, a decades-spanning romance, and a thoughtful meditation on the aftermath of violence, start reading the book @stephenking.bsky.social calls a "page-turner par excellence" now 👉 bit.ly/4ju1Xkh
- 🚨 MAJOR COVER REVEAL 🚨 Calling all #ThursdayMurderClub fans! We're thrilled to reveal the cover of the fifth book in @richardosman1.bsky.social's beloved, bestselling series! Learn more about THE IMPOSSIBLE FORTUNE, coming September 30 👉 bit.ly/4jruaZb
- GODSTRUCK by Kelsey Osgood is on sale today! A contemporary exploration of religious conversion and the relationship between faith and fulfillment, GODSTRUCK is "essential reading for the curious and the skeptical alike." (Elisa Albert) Start reading 👉 bit.ly/3RcDEeN
- Reposted by Viking BooksI’m really excited about this — and about the chance to work with Allison Lorentzen and the entire @vikingbooks.bsky.social team!
- Nvidia is as valuable as Apple and Microsoft. It has shaped the world as we know it. But its story is little known. This is the definitive story of the greatest tech company of our times. Start reading Stephen Witt's THE THINKING MACHINE, on sale now 👉 bit.ly/4iYGH6l
- TOMORROW! 📆 Join New York Times bestselling author @paulhawken.bsky.social on tour for CARBON: THE BOOK OF LIFE at Kepler's Books in conversation with Jessica Carew Kraft! Register now 👉 bit.ly/4l3svuu
- Reposted by Viking BooksIncredibly humbled to be nominated for this award and to be in the company of so many amazing writers. @vikingbooks.bsky.social
- There's a BRAND NEW Thursday Murder Club mystery coming your way! 🐾🦊 We're thrilled to share the title of @richardosman1.bsky.social's new Thursday Murder Club novel is... THE IMPOSSIBLE FORTUNE! 📖🔥 Learn more 👉 sites.prh.com/richardosman...
- MARK YOUR CALENDARS! 📆 Join New York Times bestselling author @paulhawken.bsky.social on tour for CARBON: THE BOOK OF LIFE! 👉 March 18 at Book Passage 👉 March 19 @cwclub.bsky.social 👉 March 26 at Kepler's Register for an event near you 👉 bit.ly/3FyZnLp
- Reposted by Viking BooksExcited and honored to share the cover art for my forthcoming novel: IF THE DEAD BELONG HERE, available 10/7/2025 from @vikingbooks.bsky.social. It features @christibelcourt.com's stunning piece entitled, “Bird Song,” which feels wholly tied to the heart of this book.
- Reposted by Viking BooksMIDDLE SPOON, Sept 2025 @vikingbooks.bsky.social. Not the book I set out to write, but the one I needed to. Couldn't be prouder of it. I hope it induces dialog, empathy, & fits of laughter. Pre-orders welcome. (Link in bio.) Thanks for supporting me/my work. 🙏🏽 Colin Webber for the design.
- Reposted by Viking BooksTo be published May 13, 2025 by @vikingbooks.bsky.social. Pre-order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566407...
- Reposted by Viking BooksSuper cool to see my book “Burn the Page” includes on this list. It’s available through @vikingbooks.bsky.social in hardcover, e-book and audio book (narrated by yours truly): www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/656274...
- 🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! The #TransRightsReadathon is coming up and will begin on March 21st, 2025! In case you need some recs for your TBR, we have 34 recs for your perusal here! 🧵 Q: Do you plan to participate in the trans rights readathon?
- "Carbon is an enormously hopeful book—hopeful about the creatures we live among and about our innate human capacities.” @elizkolbert.bsky.social Learn more about CARBON: THE BOOK OF LIFE by New York Times bestselling author @paulhawken.bsky.social, on sale next week 👉 bit.ly/4brVJ1E
- Reposted by Viking BooksThe stunning, spooky cover art for the US edition of Death At The White Hart - due 10 June @vikingbooks.bsky.social
- Reposted by Viking BooksUS version. thank you very much @vikingbooks.bsky.social. I like the black cover more!
- ON SALE TODAY! 🧠💻 Christopher Summerfield's (@summerfieldlab.bsky.social) "brilliant" (@mustafasuleymanai.bsky.social) THESE STRANGE NEW MINDS charts the evolution of intelligent talking machines and helps us understand how they work and how we can use them. Start reading now 👉 bit.ly/41WoPTB
- ON SALE TODAY! 🧠💻 Christopher Summerfield's (@summerfieldlab.bsky.social) "brilliant" (@mustafasuleymanai.bsky.social) THESE STRANGE NEW MINDS charts the evolution of intelligent talking machines and helps us understand how they work and how we can use them. Start reading now 👉 bit.ly/41WoPTB
- "A stunning story of survival from the author behind We Were the Lucky Ones." 🌟 ONE GOOD THING by Georgia Hunter is one of People’s best books of March! people.com/peoples-best...
- Reposted by Viking BooksDachshund #2. I'm drawing a dachshund every day until THE LISTENERS comes out on June 3. No one is making me, this is just how I am. There are three dachshunds in the novel. That's all.
- "CARBON: THE BOOK OF LIFE is absolutely fascinating, and I urge you to buy and read it.” —Jane Goodall 🌟 Journey into the world of the most versatile element on the planet in New York Times bestselling author Paul Hawken's CARBON, on sale 3/18 👉 bit.ly/4brVJ1E
- HOW TO FEED THE WORLD, the ambitious, myth-busting book by @billgatess.bsky.social's "favorite author" Vaclav Smil is on sale today! 🌱🌎 A data-based guide to understanding our broken global food system, start reading HOW TO FEED THE WORLD now 👉 bit.ly/HowtoFeedthe...
- THE NARROWING is on sale today! ✨ Clinical psychologist Dr. Alexandra Shaker explores the connection between anxiety and the body to help us understand why we feel anxious and how we can transform anxiety into something new. Start reading now 👉 bit.ly/43lUtuZ
- 🌟🧡 ONE GOOD THING by Georgia Hunter is on sale TODAY! 🧡🌟 Following one woman's journey through war-torn Italy, ONE GOOD THING is a remarkable tale of friendship, motherhood, and survival. Start reading now 👉 bit.ly/OneGoodThingGH
- Reposted by Viking BooksIn CRUSH, Ada Calhoun captures the giddy high of desire. This romp through a middle-aged crush is as smart and sharp as you’d expect from the author of Also a Poet. @vikingbooks.bsky.social
- Reposted by Viking BooksGoodreads is giving away forty free copies of my forthcoming book *Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea*, to be published in May by Viking Books (@vikingbooks.bsky.social). More info here: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
- 📣 MAJOR BOOK NEWS! 📣 Bestselling author of Too Big To Fail @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social returns this October with 1929, an immersive, electrifying, and character-driven account of the most infamous stock market crash in history. Learn more 👉 sites.prh.com/1929
- With the depth of a classic history and the drama of a thriller, @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social's 1929 unravels the greed, blind optimism, and human folly that led to an era-defining collapse—one with ripple effects that still shape our society today. Preorder now 👉 sites.prh.com/1929
- Reposted by Viking BooksLove this @washingtonpost.com review by the great book critic @roncharles.bsky.social ! "Calhoun’s cleverest feat is blowing us along in this whirlwind of desire and possibility...." washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0... @vikingbooks.bsky.social There's even a The Awakening joke!
- NO FAULT by Haley Mlotek is "enigmatic, opalescent, so precise" (@jiatolentino.bsky.social) and on sale TODAY! 🖤✨ Start reading this intimate and candid account of one of the most romantic and revolutionary of relationships: divorce 👉 bit.ly/NoFaultSocials
- "I think of the marriages in my life as 'my marriages'—the ones I can claim—most of which ended in divorce." Read an excerpt of Haley Mlotek's NO FAULT, an unflinchingly honest account of divorce, on sale today! (via @wsjmag.wsj.com) www.wsj.com/style/haley-...
- Congratulations Geraldine Brooks! 🧡✨ MEMORIAL DAYS is a New York Times bestseller! Start reading the memoir @latimes.com calls "a lifeline to others who will find themselves in this familiar, shattered landscape of grief" now 👉 penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722841...
- 📆 MARK YOUR CALENDARS! 📆 Join Georgia Hunter, New York Times bestselling author of We Were The Lucky Ones, on tour for her new book ONE GOOD THING, on sale March 4! Register for an event near you 👉 georgiahunterauthor.com/events
- MEMORIAL DAYS by Geraldine Brooks is on sale today! For fans of The Year of Magical Thinking and Crying in H Mart, start reading this heartrending memoir of loss, love, and hope from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Horse now 👉 bit.ly/3QnCtc9
- Reposted by Viking BooksGalleys for The Ocean’s Menagerie! The #OceansMenagerie, about #SpinelessSuperpowers, releases Earthday 2025. #sponges, #corals, #nudibranchs, #seastars, #giantclams and #octopus! Andrea Dingeldein diagrams for coral chapters. #marinelife #invertebrates #tidepools #diving #scicom #artandscience
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- Reposted by Viking BooksI wrote a love letter to my mom and about her struggle with dementia www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738849...
- 🌟🎉 THE LIFE CYCLE OF THE COMMON OCTOPUS is a New York Times bestseller! 🎉🌟 Start reading Emma Knight's "spellbinding debut about friendship, motherhood, first love, and the choices that bind us" (Carley Fortune) now 👉 bit.ly/3W8ie5w
- 📣📣 MAJOR BOOK CLUB NEWS 📣📣 THE LIFE CYCLE OF THE COMMON OCTOPUS by Emma Knight is the #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick for January! Start reading this "undeniably delicious... tantalizing yet quietly touching debut" (@nytimes.com) now 👉 bit.ly/3W8ie5w
- MARK YOUR CALENDARS! 📆 We’re thrilled to announce the US tour dates for Jojo Moyes's “wise, funny and glorious” (Lisa Jewell) WE ALL LIVE HERE, in conversation with Jodi Picoult, Ann Patchett, Jenny Jackson, and Laura Beth Vietor. 🌺🌟 Get tickets now 👉 sites.prh.com/jojomoyes
- The readers have spoken! THE BOOKSHOP by Evan Friss is the winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for History & Biography! 🎉✨📣 Start reading this "heartfelt, essential love letter to the literary sanctuary of bookstores" (People Magazine) now 👉 bit.ly/3xSb7oV
- Reposted by Viking Books1st Bsky post + 1st radio appearance! My interview about my memoir #myromanhistory on @wbur.org ‘s Here & Now with the great Robin Young. We talk about #Dante, medieval Roman #history, #rome , the historical profession, and finding my way to #writing. tinyurl.com/2fkfzvmd @vikingbooks.bsky.social
