Penguin Random House MCP. Search authors, titles, and works using ISBNs.

Your agent connects straight into the Penguin Random House book catalog metadata. You get direct access to millions of titles, authors, and events without having to scrape a single page. This server lets you pull professional-grade literary data right into your workflow.

ISBN Lookup: Give us an ISBN number, and our client runs get_title to grab every detail associated with that specific book edition. You'll get format details—hardcover, ebook, etc.—plus sale dates or award history. If you need general title listings, you can use list_titles to filter by formats or sale windows.

Author Tracking: You don't have to hunt for contributors. Use list_authors to pull a roster of authors, illustrators, and narrators; you can narrow that list down using their last initial or checking if they’re currently on tour. For deep dives into one person's profile, just call get_author with their ID.

Need to check out the full scope of books in a series? Use list_series first, then pull all metadata for any specific series identifier using get_series.

Book Structure: We map out how books are organized. To see every available book category, you use list_categories. Then, running get_category_hierarchy gives you the full tree structure of genres, letting you classify content with serious accuracy. When managing a single title's lifecycle—say, making sure you track the ebook, hardcover, and audio versions—you don’t have to keep them separate.

The server groups these different formats under one 'Work' ID. You use list_works to see all those parent identifiers, then get_work pulls together the metadata for every format bundled that way.

Search & Discovery: Need a quick answer? Run predictive_search, and your agent client will spit out autocomplete suggestions as you type. For full-text searches across the whole catalog, use the main search tool, which includes filtering facets to narrow down results fast. If you just want raw data on what's available, list_works gives you a list of all those 'Works.'

Events & People: You can track upcoming literary happenings with list_events. This lets you pull dates and details for author signings or talks in specific regions. For the broadest picture of who wrote what, running get_author on an ID gives you their full profile details.

It's a structured way to handle everything from genre mapping to finding related works; it’s built around these tools: search, predictive_search, list_authors, get_author, list_categories, get_category_hierarchy, list_series, get_series, list_titles, get_title, list_works, get_work, and list_events.