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

#TitleAuthorPagesRelease date
1Goodbye to All ThatRobert Graves3687 April 2011[5]
2Out of AfricaKaren Blixen3367 April 2011[6]
3A Clockwork OrangeAnthony Burgess1447 April 2011[7]
4Breakfast at Tiffany'sTruman Capote1767 April 2011[8]
5My Family and Other AnimalsGerald Durrell3207 April 2011[9]
6The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald2087 April 2011[10]
7A Room with a ViewE. M. Forster2247 April 2011[11]
8Cold Comfort FarmStella Gibbons2407 April 2011[12]
9SteppenwolfHermann Hesse2567 April 2011[13]
10On the RoadJack Kerouac2887 April 2011[14]
11Lady Chatterley's LoverD. H. Lawrence3207 April 2011[15]
12Wide Sargasso SeaJean Rhys1607 April 2011[16]
13Bonjour TristesseFrançoise Sagan1127 April 2011[17]
14Hell's AngelsHunter S. Thompson3367 April 2011[18]
15A Confederacy of DuncesJohn Kennedy Toole4167 April 2011[19]
16Cat's CradleKurt Vonnegut2247 April 2011[20]
17Brideshead RevisitedEvelyn Waugh4327 April 2011[21]
18LolitaVladimir Nabokov3687 April 2011[22]
19Eva LunaIsabel Allende3047 April 2011[23]
20The Prime of Miss Jean BrodieMuriel Spark1285 April 2012[24]
21JunkyWilliam S. Burroughs1445 April 2012[25]
22Mrs DallowayVirginia Woolf2085 April 2012[26]
23Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad1125 April 2012[27]
24The Periodic TablePrimo Levi2085 April 2012[28]
25Three Men in a BoatJerome K. Jerome1765 April 2012[29]
26In Cold BloodTruman Capote3525 April 2012[30]
27Lucky JimKingsley Amis2725 April 2012[31]
28DublinersJames Joyce2565 April 2012[32]
29The Diary of a NobodyGeorge Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith2405 April 2012[33]
30The Thin ManDashiell Hammett2405 April 2012[34]
...
33A Month in the CountryJ. L. Carr11214 August 2014[35]
34The Man in the High CastlePhilip K. Dick25614 August 2014[36]
...
36Tender is the NightF. Scott Fitzgerald33614 August 2014[37]
37A Handful of DustEvelyn Waugh28814 August 2014[38]
38Invisible ManRalph Ellison60814 August 2014[39]
39The Day of the TriffidsJohn Wyndham24014 August 2014[40]
40An Ice-Cream WarWilliam Boyd41614 August 2014[41]
41RegenerationPat Barker35214 August 2014[42]
42The Big SleepRaymond Chandler25614 August 2014[43]
43I'm the King of the CastleSusan Hill20814 August 2014[44]
44PerfumePatrick Süskind2726 August 2015[45]
45In the Country of MenHisham Matar2566 August 2015[46]
46The History of LoveNicole Krauss2726 August 2015[47]
47A Passage to IndiaE. M. Forster3046 August 2015[48]
48Billy LiarKeith Waterhouse1766 August 2015[49]
49The Mosquito CoastPaul Theroux3846 August 2015[50]
50Hideous KinkyEsther Freud1926 August 2015[51]
51AsylumPatrick McGrath2726 August 2015[52]
52Moon TigerPenelope Lively2246 August 2015[53]
53FoeJ. M. Coetzee1606 August 2015[54]
...
55Everything Is IlluminatedJonathan Safran Foer2884 August 2016[55]
56The HelpKathryn Stockett4644 August 2016[56]
57What a Carve Up!Jonathan Coe5124 August 2016[57]
58Love in the Time of CholeraGabriel Garcia Marquez3684 August 2016[58]
59The Lady in the LakeRaymond Chandler2884 August 2016[59]
60EmbersSandor Marai2564 August 2016[60]
61The Spy Who Came in from the ColdJohn le Carré2884 August 2016[61]
62A Kestrel for a KnaveBarry Hines1764 August 2016[62]
63How Many Miles to Babylon?Jennifer Johnston1604 August 2016[63]
64The MillstoneMargaret Drabble1764 August 2016[64]
65Are You Experienced?William Sutcliffe2561 June 2017[65]
66High FidelityNick Hornby2561 June 2017[66]
67The CircleDave Eggers5121 June 2017[67]
68The Reluctant FundamentalistMohsin Hamid2241 June 2017[68]
69White TeethZadie Smith5601 June 2017[69]
70The Road To LichfieldPenelope Lively1761 June 2017[70]
71A Short History of Tractors in UkrainianMarina Lewycka3361 June 2017[71]
72Any Human HeartWilliam Boyd5121 June 2017[72]
73A Start in LifeAnita Brookner1761 June 2017[73]
74TwilightElie Wiesel2241 June 2017[74]
75BrooklynColm Tóibín2727 June 2018[75]
76VillagesJohn Updike3367 June 2018[76]
77Extremely Loud & Incredibly CloseJonathan Safran Foer3687 June 2018[77]
78The ChrysalidsJohn Wyndham2087 June 2018[78]
79Age of IronJ. M. Coetzee2087 June 2018[79]
80The Hound of the BaskervillesArthur Conan Doyle2247 June 2018[80]
81AusterlitzW. G. Sebald4487 June 2018[81]
823 Novels by César AiraCésar Aira3367 June 2018[82]
83LibraDon DeLillo4647 June 2018[83]
...
85The Pursuit of LoveNancy Mitford2247 June 2018[84]
...
106Swallowing GeographyDeborah Levy966 June 2019[85]
107The Bastard of IstanbulElif Shafak3686 June 2019[86]
108SubmarineJoe Dunthorne3046 June 2019[87]
109Ancient LightJohn Banville2566 June 2019[88]
110The Rotters' ClubJonathan Coe4166 June 2019[89]
111The PhotographPenelope Lively2046 June 2019[90]
112Life ClassPat Barker2566 June 2019[91]
113Beautiful RuinsJess Walter3686 June 2019[92]
114A Spell of WinterHelen Dunmore3206 June 2019[93]
115The Case-Book of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle3206 June 2019[94]
...
Notes on a ScandalZoë Heller25623 July 2020[95]
HonourElif Shafak35223 July 2020[96]
The AccidentalAli Smith32023 July 2020[97]
On BeautyZadie Smith46423 July 2020[98]
Love and SummerWilliam Trevor22423 July 2020[99]
...
117 The Wanting Seed Anthony Burgess 208 18 May 2023[100]
118 Hotel du Lac Anita Brookner 192 18 May 2023[101]
119 Mr Loverman Bernardine Evaristo 320 18 May 2023[102]
120 The Forty Rules of Love Elif Shafak 368 18 May 2023[103]
121 The Rain Before it Falls Jonathan Coe 288 18 May 2023[104]
122 The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing Melissa Bank 304 18 May 2023[105]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hamilton, John (8 January 2018). "20 Years of Penguin Essentials: How artists reimagined the book covers". The Independent. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  2. ↑ "Penguin Essentials". Penguin Books. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
  3. ↑ Bravery, Richard (30 March 2011). "A fresh approach to cover design". the penguin blog. Archived from the original on 9 July 2013. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
  4. ↑ "Essential Penguin Essentials". Caustic Cover Critic. 25 December 2010. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  5. ↑ "Goodbye to All That". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  6. ↑ "Out of Africa". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  7. ↑ "A Clockwork Orange". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  8. ↑ "Breakfast at Tiffany's". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  9. ↑ "My Family and Other Animals". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  10. ↑ "The Great Gatsby". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  11. ↑ "A Room with a View". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  12. ↑ "Cold Comfort Farm". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  13. ↑ "Steppenwolf". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  14. ↑ "On the Road". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  15. ↑ "Lady Chatterley's Lover". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  16. ↑ "Wide Sargasso Sea". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  17. ↑ "Bonjour Tristesse". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  18. ↑ "Hell's Angels". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  19. ↑ "A Confederacy of Dunces". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  20. ↑ "Cat's Cradle". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  21. ↑ "Brideshead Revisited". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  22. ↑ "Lolita". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  23. ↑ "Eva Luna". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  24. ↑ "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  25. ↑ "Junky". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  26. ↑ "Mrs Dalloway". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  27. ↑ "Heart of Darkness". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  28. ↑ "The Periodic Table". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  29. ↑ "Three Men in a Boat". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  30. ↑ "In Cold Blood". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  31. ↑ "Lucky Jim". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  32. ↑ "Dubliners". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  33. ↑ "The Diary of a Nobody". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  34. ↑ "The Thin Man". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  35. ↑ "A Month in the Country". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  36. ↑ "The Man in the High Castle". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  37. ↑ "Tender is the Night". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  38. ↑ "A Handful of Dust". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  39. ↑ "Invisible Man". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  40. ↑ "The Day of the Triffids". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  41. ↑ "An Ice-Cream War". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  42. ↑ "Regeneration". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  43. ↑ "The Big Sleep". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  44. ↑ "I'm the King of the Castle". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  45. ↑ "Perfume". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  46. ↑ "In the Country of Men". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  47. ↑ "The History of Love". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  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.
  51. ↑ "Hideous Kinky". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  52. ↑ "Asylum". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  53. ↑ "Moon Tiger". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  54. ↑ "Foe". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  55. ↑ "Everything is Illuminated". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  56. ↑ "The Help". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  57. ↑ "What a Carve Up!". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  58. ↑ "Love in the Time of Cholera". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  59. ↑ "The Lady in the Lake". Penguin Books. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
  60. ↑ "Embers". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  61. ↑ "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  62. ↑ "A Kestrel for a Knave". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  63. ↑ "How Many Miles to Babylon?". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  64. ↑ "The Millstone". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  65. ↑ "Are You Experienced?". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  66. ↑ "High Fidelity". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  67. ↑ "The Circle". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  68. ↑ "The Reluctant Fundamentalist". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  69. ↑ "White Teeth". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  70. ↑ "The Road To Lichfield". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  71. ↑ "A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  72. ↑ "Any Human Heart". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  73. ↑ "A Start in Life". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  74. ↑ "Twilight". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  75. ↑ "Brooklyn". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  76. ↑ "Villages". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  77. ↑ "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  78. ↑ "The Chrysalids". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  79. ↑ "Age of Iron". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  80. ↑ "The Hound of the Baskervilles". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  81. ↑ "Austerlitz". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  82. ↑ "Three Novels by César Aira". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  83. ↑ "Libra". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  84. ↑ "The Pursuit of Love". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  85. ↑ "Swallowing Geography". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  86. ↑ "The Bastard of Istanbul". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  87. ↑ "Submarine". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  88. ↑ "Ancient Light". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  89. ↑ "The Rotters' Club". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  90. ↑ "The Photograph". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  91. ↑ "Life Class". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  92. ↑ "Beautiful Ruins". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  93. ↑ "A Spell of Winter". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  94. ↑ "The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes". Penguin Books. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  95. ↑ "Notes on a Scandal". Penguin Books. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  96. ↑ "Honour". Penguin Books. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  97. ↑ "The Accidental". Penguin Books. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  98. ↑ "On Beauty". Penguin Books. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  99. ↑ "Love and Summer". Penguin Books. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  100. ↑ "The Wanting Seed". Penguin Books. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
  101. ↑ "Hotel du Lac". Penguin Books. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
  102. ↑ "Mr Loverman". Penguin Books. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
  103. ↑ "The Forty Rules of Love". Penguin Books. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
  104. ↑ "The Rain Before it Falls". Penguin Books. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
  105. ↑ "The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing". Penguin Books. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
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