In April, online retailers see significant spikes for searches about relationships and marriage, such as “relationship books, marriage workbooks for couples, marriage books, marriage counseling books, sex books for married couples, books for couples”. The pandemic has surely impacted relationships, and this year’s sales are trending up.

The pandemic has been a boon to retail alcohol sales of all kinds, according to the New York Times. Alcohol consumption overall has increased during the pandemic, with heavy drinking by women up 41%. Beveragedaily.com says that the biggest gain for wine sales came from casual, at-home, non-food occasions, such as drinking during the day outside mealtimes or catching up with friends via phone with a glass of wine. And now that people are cautiously returning to socializing, wine with dinner is likely to see the trend continue.

With more people vaccinated and public places reopening, Covid-isolated readers are likely to be out and about in the summer of ’21. They’ll be looking for relaxation and fun, and PRH titles will be perfect companions, whether at the beach or relaxing on the back porch.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, providing readers with a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Here are titles on the Penguin Classics lists by African-American writers.

In recent months, TikTok has become the most talked-about social media app, and one that has proven to be a sales driver. TikTok is a social media app used largely (62%) by the under-29 crowd, but there is still a significant percentage of users over age 30. Because of their appearances on the app, we’ve seen major sales spikes for WE WERE LIARS, BURN AFTER WRITING, and A LITTLE LIFE, among others.

While separate lists exist for each of the gift-giving opportunities that are part of this collection, some accounts prefer to run one promotion that meets all needs. This is it! Top-selling titles for Mother’s Day (May 9), Father’s Day (June 20th), and Graduation (ranges throughout spring) are listed here.

Turn the tassels and toss your caps in the air—graduation season is approaching! Celebrate the achievements of hard-working students everywhere with this collection of PRH and distributed client titles perfectly suited for graduation gifts.

Spring is one of the best times of year for bird-watching, with birds migrating in large groups. Two major new bird books go on sale at the end of March, THE BEDSIDE BOOK OF BIRDS and A MOST REMARKABLE CREATURE. These are two of the best reasons to take a look at the bird sections at your accounts.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of this widely celebrated literary event. The first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate and a huge celebrity after reading her original poem at this year’s inauguration, Amanda Gorman, a PRH author with forthcoming books, is making the world sit up and take even more notice of poetry. 

As soon as the pandemic and stay at home orders began in March of last year, sales of cookbooks jumped, including in the Baking category. Sales of Baking titles ended the year up 60% over prior year. Bread, cake, cookies and more – PRH and our distributed clients have the top-selling titles.

“GameStop, AMC Entertainment, BlackBerry, Dogecoin and silver – all have been subject to epic rallies and falls in recent days, spurred by droves of retail investors driving up prices and then selling.” (CNBC) With so much unusual activity around the stock market, now may be a great time for accounts to feature books that explain the basics of the market and remind private investors how it can work for them.

March is Women’s History Month, which celebrates the vital role of women in American history. Remarkable female entrepreneurs, scientists, politicians, athletes, artists, and spies, among others, abound historically and today. Our first female Vice-President has been elected. A woman heads the European Central Bank for the first time ever. The first female president of the New York Stock Exchange has been appointed.