This holiday season, Penguin’s making it easy for you to choose what book to read next. The Penguin Holiday eSampler includes over forty excerpts from some of our biggest bestsellers, perennial favorites, and award-winners.

To paraphrase Charles Dickens and to push this holiday theme to the limit, we’ve divided the sampler into “books past, present, and future.”

In the Past section, you’ll find both classic and recent books that have become reader favorites. You may have read some of these already, and you’ve probably heard about most of them, but this is the section to find that great book you may have missed or have been meaning to read for some time.

The Present section includes bestselling and award-winning novels and nonfiction from 2011. From bestselling authors you’ll recognize immediately to authors you may not know yet (but should!), this section provides a wide-range of books to choose from.

And finally, the Future section is for books coming out in late December or early 2012. If you like the excerpts, make sure you preorder, so you can start reading as soon as it’s available.

Download it yourself to discover your next favorite book. Or give it to your family and friends to find out what they REALLY want.

The complete list of titles in the eSampler is below:

Past

City of Thieves by David Benioff

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

Ranger’s Apprentice by John Flanagan

Fall of Giants by Ken Follett

Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

The Magicians by Lev Grossman

At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon

The Reason for God by Tim Keller

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok

Drive by Daniel Pink

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper

Present

The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown

Washington by Ron Chernow

The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua

Locked On by Tom Clancy

Shelter by Harlan Coben

Matched by Ally Condie

Red Mist by Patricia Cornwell

Prince of Ravenscar by Catherine Coulter

Devil’s Gate by Clive Cussler

The Ideal Man by Julie Garwood

V is for Vengeance by Sue Grafton

Theodore Boone #1 by John Grisham

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

The New New Rules by Bill Maher

Bloodlines by Richelle Mead

The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker

The Next Always by Nora Roberts

Shock Wave by John Sandford

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

The Quest by Daniel Yergin

Future

Lunatics by Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel

More Room in a Broken Heart by Stephen Davis

Believing the Lie by Elizabeth George

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Down the Darkest Road by Tami Hoag

Breakdown by Sara Paretsky