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Penguin Essentials

Penguin Essentials (also called Essential Penguins) refers to two series of books published by Penguin Books in the UK. The first series began in 1998, and the second in 2011.[1][2] For both series, the classic books were released in smaller A-format size; the covers were redesigned by contemporary artists to appeal to a new generation of readers.[3] Many titles appeared in both series.[4]

2011 series

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# Title Author Pages Release date
1 Goodbye to All That Robert Graves 368 7 April 2011[5]
2 Out of Africa Karen Blixen 336 7 April 2011[6]
3 A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess 144 7 April 2011[7]
4 Breakfast at Tiffany's Truman Capote 176 7 April 2011[8]
5 My Family and Other Animals Gerald Durrell 320 7 April 2011[9]
6 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 208 7 April 2011[10]
7 A Room with a View E. M. Forster 224 7 April 2011[11]
8 Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons 240 7 April 2011[12]
9 Steppenwolf Hermann Hesse 256 7 April 2011[13]
10 On the Road Jack Kerouac 288 7 April 2011[14]
11 Lady Chatterley's Lover D. H. Lawrence 320 7 April 2011[15]
12 Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys 160 7 April 2011[16]
13 Bonjour Tristesse Françoise Sagan 112 7 April 2011[17]
14 Hell's Angels Hunter S. Thompson 336 7 April 2011[18]
15 A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole 416 7 April 2011[19]
16 Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut 224 7 April 2011[20]
17 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh 432 7 April 2011[21]
18 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 368 7 April 2011[22]
19 Eva Luna Isabel Allende 304 7 April 2011[23]
20 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark 128 5 April 2012[24]
21 Junky William S. Burroughs 144 5 April 2012[25]
22 Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf 208 5 April 2012[26]
23 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 112 5 April 2012[27]
24 The Periodic Table Primo Levi 208 5 April 2012[28]
25 Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome 176 5 April 2012[29]
26 In Cold Blood Truman Capote 352 5 April 2012[30]
27 Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis 272 5 April 2012[31]
28 Dubliners James Joyce 256 5 April 2012[32]
29 The Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith 240 5 April 2012[33]
30 The Thin Man Dashiell Hammett 240 5 April 2012[34]
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33 A Month in the Country J. L. Carr 112 14 August 2014[35]
34 The Man in the High Castle Philip K. Dick 256 14 August 2014[36]
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36 Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald 336 14 August 2014[37]
37 A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh 288 14 August 2014[38]
38 Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 608 14 August 2014[39]
39 The Day of the Triffids John Wyndham 240 14 August 2014[40]
40 An Ice-Cream War William Boyd 416 14 August 2014[41]
41 Regeneration Pat Barker 352 14 August 2014[42]
42 The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler 256 14 August 2014[43]
43 I'm the King of the Castle Susan Hill 208 14 August 2014[44]
44 Perfume Patrick Süskind 272 6 August 2015[45]
45 In the Country of Men Hisham Matar 256 6 August 2015[46]
46 The History of Love Nicole Krauss 272 6 August 2015[47]
47 A Passage to India E. M. Forster 304 6 August 2015[48]
48 Billy Liar Keith Waterhouse 176 6 August 2015[49]
49 The Mosquito Coast Paul Theroux 384 6 August 2015[50]
50 Hideous Kinky Esther Freud 192 6 August 2015[51]
51 Asylum Patrick McGrath 272 6 August 2015[52]
52 Moon Tiger Penelope Lively 224 6 August 2015[53]
53 Foe J. M. Coetzee 160 6 August 2015[54]
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55 Everything Is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer 288 4 August 2016[55]
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57 What a Carve Up! Jonathan Coe 512 4 August 2016[56]
58 Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez 368 4 August 2016[57]
59 The Lady in the Lake Raymond Chandler 288 4 August 2016[58]
60 Embers Sandor Marai 256 4 August 2016[59]
61 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold John le Carré 288 4 August 2016[60]
62 A Kestrel for a Knave Barry Hines 176 4 August 2016[61]
63 How Many Miles to Babylon? Jennifer Johnston 160 4 August 2016[62]
64 The Millstone Margaret Drabble 176 4 August 2016[63]
65 Are You Experienced? William Sutcliffe 256 1 June 2017[64]
66 High Fidelity Nick Hornby 256 1 June 2017[65]
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68 The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid 224 1 June 2017[66]
69 White Teeth Zadie Smith 560 1 June 2017[67]
70 The Road To Lichfield Penelope Lively 176 1 June 2017[68]
71 A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Marina Lewycka 336 1 June 2017[69]
72 Any Human Heart William Boyd 512 1 June 2017[70]
73 A Start in Life Anita Brookner 176 1 June 2017[71]
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75 Brooklyn Colm Tóibín 272 7 June 2018[72]
76 Villages John Updike 336 7 June 2018[73]
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78 The Chrysalids John Wyndham 208 7 June 2018[74]
79 Age of Iron J. M. Coetzee 208 7 June 2018[75]
80 The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle 224 7 June 2018[76]
81 Austerlitz W. G. Sebald 448 7 June 2018[77]
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83 Libra Don DeLillo 464 7 June 2018[78]
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85 The Pursuit of Love Nancy Mitford 224 7 June 2018[79]
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91 Down and Out in Paris and London George Orwell 224 [80]
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94 Animal Farm George Orwell 112 [81]
95 1984 George Orwell 336 [82]
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102 The Plague Albert Camus 304 [83]
103 The Snow Goose and The Small Miracle Paul Gallico 80 [84]
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106 Swallowing Geography Deborah Levy 96 6 June 2019[85]
107 The Bastard of Istanbul Elif Shafak 368 6 June 2019[86]
108 Submarine Joe Dunthorne 304 6 June 2019[87]
109 Ancient Light John Banville 256 6 June 2019[88]
110 The Rotters' Club Jonathan Coe 416 6 June 2019[89]
111 The Photograph Penelope Lively 204 6 June 2019[90]
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113 Beautiful Ruins Jess Walter 368 6 June 2019[91]
114 A Spell of Winter Helen Dunmore 320 6 June 2019[92]
115 The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 320 6 June 2019[93]
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117 The Wanting Seed Anthony Burgess 208 18 May 2023[94]
118 Hotel du Lac Anita Brookner 192 18 May 2023[95]
119 Mr Loverman Bernardine Evaristo 320 18 May 2023[96]
120 The Forty Rules of Love Elif Shafak 368 18 May 2023[97]
121 The Rain Before it Falls Jonathan Coe 288 18 May 2023[98]
122 The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing Melissa Bank 304 18 May 2023[99]

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