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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]

Contents

2011 series

#TitleAuthorPagesRelease date
1 Goodbye to All That Robert Graves 3687 April 2011 [5]
2 Out of Africa Karen Blixen 3367 April 2011 [6]
3 A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess 1447 April 2011 [7]
4 Breakfast at Tiffany's Truman Capote 1767 April 2011 [8]
5 My Family and Other Animals Gerald Durrell 3207 April 2011 [9]
6 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 2087 April 2011 [10]
7 A Room with a View E. M. Forster 2247 April 2011 [11]
8 Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons 2407 April 2011 [12]
9 Steppenwolf Hermann Hesse 2567 April 2011 [13]
10 On the Road Jack Kerouac 2887 April 2011 [14]
11 Lady Chatterley's Lover D. H. Lawrence 3207 April 2011 [15]
12 Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys 1607 April 2011 [16]
13 Bonjour Tristesse Françoise Sagan 1127 April 2011 [17]
14 Hell's Angels Hunter S. Thompson 3367 April 2011 [18]
15 A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole 4167 April 2011 [19]
16 Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut 2247 April 2011 [20]
17 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh 4327 April 2011 [21]
18 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 3687 April 2011 [22]
19 Eva Luna Isabel Allende 3047 April 2011 [23]
20 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark 1285 April 2012 [24]
21 Junky William S. Burroughs 1445 April 2012 [25]
22 Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf 2085 April 2012 [26]
23 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 1125 April 2012 [27]
24 The Periodic Table Primo Levi 2085 April 2012 [28]
25 Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome 1765 April 2012 [29]
26 In Cold Blood Truman Capote 3525 April 2012 [30]
27 Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis 2725 April 2012 [31]
28 Dubliners James Joyce 2565 April 2012 [32]
29 The Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith 2405 April 2012 [33]
30 The Thin Man Dashiell Hammett 2405 April 2012 [34]
...
33 A Month in the Country J. L. Carr 11214 August 2014 [35]
34 The Man in the High Castle Philip K. Dick 25614 August 2014 [36]
...
36 Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald 33614 August 2014 [37]
37 A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh 28814 August 2014 [38]
38 Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 60814 August 2014 [39]
39 The Day of the Triffids John Wyndham 24014 August 2014 [40]
40 An Ice-Cream War William Boyd 41614 August 2014 [41]
41 Regeneration Pat Barker 35214 August 2014 [42]
42 The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler 25614 August 2014 [43]
43 I'm the King of the Castle Susan Hill 20814 August 2014 [44]
44 Perfume Patrick Süskind 2726 August 2015 [45]
45 In the Country of Men Hisham Matar 2566 August 2015 [46]
46 The History of Love Nicole Krauss 2726 August 2015 [47]
47 A Passage to India E. M. Forster 3046 August 2015 [48]
48 Billy Liar Keith Waterhouse 1766 August 2015 [49]
49 The Mosquito Coast Paul Theroux 3846 August 2015 [50]
50 Hideous Kinky Esther Freud 1926 August 2015 [51]
51 Asylum Patrick McGrath 2726 August 2015 [52]
52 Moon Tiger Penelope Lively 2246 August 2015 [53]
53 Foe J. M. Coetzee 1606 August 2015 [54]
...
55 Everything Is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer 2884 August 2016 [55]
...
57 What a Carve Up! Jonathan Coe 5124 August 2016 [56]
58 Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez 3684 August 2016 [57]
59 The Lady in the Lake Raymond Chandler 2884 August 2016 [58]
60 Embers Sandor Marai 2564 August 2016 [59]
61 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold John le Carré 2884 August 2016 [60]
62 A Kestrel for a Knave Barry Hines 1764 August 2016 [61]
63 How Many Miles to Babylon? Jennifer Johnston 1604 August 2016 [62]
64 The Millstone Margaret Drabble 1764 August 2016 [63]
65 Are You Experienced? William Sutcliffe 2561 June 2017 [64]
66 High Fidelity Nick Hornby 2561 June 2017 [65]
...
68 The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid 2241 June 2017 [66]
69 White Teeth Zadie Smith 5601 June 2017 [67]
70 The Road To Lichfield Penelope Lively 1761 June 2017 [68]
71 A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Marina Lewycka 3361 June 2017 [69]
72 Any Human Heart William Boyd 5121 June 2017 [70]
73 A Start in Life Anita Brookner 1761 June 2017 [71]
...
75 Brooklyn Colm Tóibín 2727 June 2018 [72]
76 Villages John Updike 3367 June 2018 [73]
...
78 The Chrysalids John Wyndham 2087 June 2018 [74]
79 Age of Iron J. M. Coetzee 2087 June 2018 [75]
80 The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle 2247 June 2018 [76]
81 Austerlitz W. G. Sebald 4487 June 2018 [77]
...
83 Libra Don DeLillo 4647 June 2018 [78]
...
85 The Pursuit of Love Nancy Mitford 2247 June 2018 [79]
...
91 Down and Out in Paris and London George Orwell 224 [80]
...
94 Animal Farm George Orwell 112 [81]
95 1984 George Orwell 336 [82]
...
102 The Plague Albert Camus 304 [83]
103 The Snow Goose and The Small Miracle Paul Gallico 80 [84]
...
106 Swallowing Geography Deborah Levy 966 June 2019 [85]
107 The Bastard of Istanbul Elif Shafak 3686 June 2019 [86]
108 Submarine Joe Dunthorne 3046 June 2019 [87]
109 Ancient Light John Banville 2566 June 2019 [88]
110 The Rotters' Club Jonathan Coe 4166 June 2019 [89]
111 The Photograph Penelope Lively 2046 June 2019 [90]
...
113 Beautiful Ruins Jess Walter 3686 June 2019 [91]
114 A Spell of Winter Helen Dunmore 3206 June 2019 [92]
115 The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 3206 June 2019 [93]
...
117 The Wanting Seed Anthony Burgess 20818 May 2023 [94]
118 Hotel du Lac Anita Brookner 19218 May 2023 [95]
119 Mr Loverman Bernardine Evaristo 32018 May 2023 [96]
120 The Forty Rules of Love Elif Shafak 36818 May 2023 [97]
121 The Rain Before it Falls Jonathan Coe 28818 May 2023 [98]
122 The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing Melissa Bank 30418 May 2023 [99]

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  41. ↑ "An Ice-Cream War". Penguin Books . Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  42. ↑ "Regeneration". Penguin Books . Retrieved 15 March 2019.
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  45. ↑ "Perfume". Penguin Books . Retrieved 15 March 2019.
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  48. ↑ "A Passage to India". Penguin Books . Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  49. ↑ "Billy Liar". Penguin Books . Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  50. ↑ "The Mosquito Coast". Penguin Books . Retrieved 15 March 2019.
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  52. ↑ "Asylum". Penguin Books . Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  53. ↑ "Moon Tiger". Penguin Books . Retrieved 15 March 2019.
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  56. ↑ "What a Carve Up!". Penguin Books . Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  57. ↑ "Love in the Time of Cholera". Penguin Books . Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  58. ↑ "The Lady in the Lake". Penguin Books . Retrieved 27 September 2016.
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  62. ↑ "How Many Miles to Babylon?". Penguin Books . Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  63. ↑ "The Millstone". Penguin Books . Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  64. ↑ "Are You Experienced?". Penguin Books . Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  65. ↑ "High Fidelity". Penguin Books . Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  66. ↑ "The Reluctant Fundamentalist". Penguin Books . Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  67. ↑ "White Teeth". Penguin Books . Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  68. ↑ "The Road To Lichfield". Penguin Books . Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  69. ↑ "A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian". Penguin Books . Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  70. ↑ "Any Human Heart". Penguin Books . Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  71. ↑ "A Start in Life". Penguin Books . Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  72. ↑ "Brooklyn". Penguin Books . Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  73. ↑ "Villages". Penguin Books . Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  74. ↑ "The Chrysalids". Penguin Books . Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  75. ↑ "Age of Iron". Penguin Books . Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  76. ↑ "The Hound of the Baskervilles". Penguin Books . Retrieved 15 March 2019.
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  92. ↑ "A Spell of Winter". Penguin Books . Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  93. ↑ "The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes". Penguin Books . Retrieved 15 March 2019.
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