Our Second
Penguin Random House Book & Author Festival
Thursday, December 9th, 2021

Join Penguin Random House, Library Journal, and School Library Journal on December 9th for our second free, day-long virtual book and author festival as we celebrate librarians everywhere!

Here’s a peek at the other half of our fantastic speaker lineup! So many authors we needed two announcements!

Keynote Speakers

Susan Cain
Bittersweet

Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson
Recognize!

Marlon James
Moon Witch, Spider King

Kwame Mbalia
Black Boy Joy

Lisa Scottoline
What Happened to the Bennetts

Adriana Trigiani
The Good Left Undone

Panel Speakers

Daniel Minter
Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky

Leila Mottley
Nightcrawling

Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Finding My Voice

Cleyvis Natera
Neruda in the Park

Emma Otheguy
Sofía Acosta Makes a Scene

Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Take My Hand

Rory Power 
In a Garden Burning Gold

Chandra Prasad
Mercury Boys

Aisha Saeed
Omar Rising

Jenny Torres Sanchez
With Lots of Love

V. E. Schwab
ExtraOrdinary

Ruta Sepetys
I Must Betray You

Jennifer E. Smith
The Unsinkable Greta James

Tara M. Stringfellow 
Memphis

Ocean Vuong
Time Is a Mother

Brenda Woods
When Winter Robeson Came

Lisa Yee
Maizy Chen's Last Chance

Dan Zuccarello
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