# 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. 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. Many titles appeared in both series.

## 2011 series

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