Essential Penguins is a series of novels published by Penguin Books in the UK. (It is not to be confused with the Essential Series published in the US.)
Included in this series:
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers
- Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan
- Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
- Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
- The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
- Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
- Dubliners by James Joyce
- The Go Between by L. P. Hartley
- Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth
- Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
- Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
- Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
- Junky by William S. Burroughs
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- Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
- The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
- Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
- Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
- Out of Africa by Karen Blixen (as Isak Dinesen)
- The Outsider by Albert Camus
- A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
- The Plague by Albert Camus
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
- The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
- A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
- Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
- Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
- The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
- Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe
- Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie
- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
- Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
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