Pantheon Books

Publishers of literary fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels, and Jewish interest books (under our Schocken imprint).

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A Hunger Games skirt! What we wouldn’t give to have this for Comic-Con. (via Etsy)

Happy whatever-day to all the other non-teenagers who absolutely don’t care when other book store patrons look at them oddly because they’re perusing the children’s section. (via someecards.com)

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The history of the dystopian genre, in infographic form.

To mark the movie release of the most popular of this new wave of dystopian books, The Hunger Games, I made an infographic of the history of the dystopian genre to see how it has evolved and why it’s so popular today.

(Click through to see the image full-size.)

We’re definitely rooting for “insect overlords” to become the next trend in dystopian fiction. As long as it, er, stays entirely fictional. Because we have enough trouble dealing with bugs at their current size…

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”

― Groucho Marx

We’ve been hearing great things about Wonder by R.J. Palacio, from our sister division Random House Children’s Books, so we’re going to hunker down with that tonight. What are you reading this weekend?

Book Video of the Day: First-time YA novelist Jess Rothenberg celebrates the arrival of her finished book by dancing with it to the tune of the song from Flashdance. We like to pretend the only thing that kept Art Spiegelman from doing the same thing with Maus was that YouTube hadn’t been invented yet… [via GalleyCat]

Our buddies at Random Buzzers have made us all nostalgic for early 90s YA! Early 90s YA was the best! Who else spent their entire youth with Fear Street, Christopher Pike, The Babysitters Club, Sleepover Friends, Animorphs, Caroline B. Cooney, L.J. Smith, and more?