30-Day Bestsellers

Frantz Fanon's seminal work on the trauma of colonization made him the leading anti-colonialist thinker of the twentieth century. Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence from...

Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism, a surprise bestseller in 2017 Arendt's classic work explores totalitarianism through an extended analysis of the Nazi and Soviet regimes. In a series of dazzling...

One of the first bestsellers in Germany after the Second World War, Berlin Finale is a breathtaking novel of the most dramatic period of upheaval in modern history April 1945,...

Nabokov's suspenseful whodunit and one of his most acclaimed works The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with...

The book that redefined our understanding of the legacy of European colonialism and empire, now reissued with a new PMC jacket 'Stimulating, elegant and pugnacious' Observer In this highly acclaimed...

Imagine the world if the Allies had lost the Second World War... Philip K Dick trips the switches of our minds with his vision of the world as it might...

A sensitive portrayal of the healing process that took place in the aftermath of the First World War, J.L. Carr's A Month in the Country includes an introduction by Penelope...

We are in Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of Baldwin's novel is Tish nineteen, and pregnant....

A landmark work of nonfiction and the definitive account of nuclear devastation The explosion over Hiroshima of the first nuclear bomb reduced, in an instant, an entire city to rubble...

The king of gonzo journalism's most scorching work for Rolling Stone 'It would not do to be found in the desert under these circumstances- firing wildly into the cactus from...

Steinbeck's last great novel focuses on the theme of success and what motivates men towards it. Reflecting back on his New England family's past fortune, and his father's loss of...

This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia and shocked the world when it first appeared. Discover the importance of a piece of...

Clarice Lispector's revelatory third novel, now in English for the first time Written in flight from Lispector's 'shipwreck of introspection' it is a book unlike any other in the Lispector...

The classic Danish trilogy hailed as a masterpiece on publication in English last year - now in a single volume in Penguin Modern Classics Growing up in a working-class neighbourhood...

Key reading for 2018- Orwell's moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for political change The Lion and the Unicorn was written in London...

An iconic bestseller- Che Guevara's account of his youthful adventures travelling around South America on his motorcycle 'All we could see was the dust on the road ahead and ourselves...

A thrilling crime classic, from the bestselling author of Tokyo Express Tokyo, 1960. As the first rays of morning light hit the rails at Kamata Station, a man's body is...

In her magnificent novel, Marguerite Yourcenar recreates the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world. The Emperor Hadrian, aware his demise is imminent, writes...

Sartre paid tribute to him in his obituary notice- 'Camus could never cease to be one of the principal forces in our cultural domain, nor to represent, in his own...

A reissue of the successful PMC edition of Woolf's landmark feminist polemic A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is one of the...

The ground-breaking history of civil rights and inequality by legendary political activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis 'Black women were equal to their men in the oppression they suffered; they...

This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home...

The bestselling novel by cult writer Wang Xiaobo, a satire of the Cultural Revolution, in its first full English translation 'Life is but a slow, drawn-out process of getting your...

Extraordinary stories about Soviet children's experiences in the Second World War, from Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second...

Darkly comic aphorisms on time, mortality and human relationships from one of the twentieth century's great philosophers 'Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it...

The dawning of a young man's homosexual and sadistic desires A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. Each night he imagines his body punctured with arrows,...

'It is the American dream turning into the American nightmare ... By juxtaposing and dovetailing the lives and values of the Clutters and those of the killers, Capote produces a...

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also...

Ayn Rand's most famous and controversial novel comes to Penguin for the first time Ayn Rand's story of Howard Roark, a brilliant architect who dares to stand alone against the...

At long last William S. Burroughs's cult classic and undoubted masterpiece enters Penguin Modern Classics A cultural landmark and the most shocking novel in the English language, Naked Lunch is...

Another addition to Penguin Modern Classics' key Kerouac holdings. THE DHARMA BUMS appeared just one year after the author's explosive ON THE ROAD had put the Beat Generation on the...

Hartley's classic novel of innocence lost, now reissued with a new jacket When one long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a school friend at Brandham Hall, he begins...

The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble...

Follows a man's thoughts and dreams during a single night. It is also a book that participates in the re-reading of Irish history that was part of the revival of...

Raymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel The Big Sleep in 1939. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family -...

A witty, incisive classic of road-trip literature, from one of the great champions and critics of the American identity 'Delightful. This is a book to be read slowly for its...

Jean Rhys's late, literary masterpiece Wide Sargasso Sea was inspired by Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and is set in the lush, beguiling landscape of Jamaica in the 1830s. Born into...

At long last Ken Kesey's 1962 cult classic novel has entered Modern Classics series. Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the seminal...

Anais Nin's classic exploration of love and sex in 1930s Paris The brilliant tale of Anais Nin's true love affair with Henry Miller, and her ambiguous, charged relationship with his...

New to Penguin Modern Classics Why Read the Classics? is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest authors of the last century. Beginning...

These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who created a unique literary manner from...

A PMC reissue of this collection of Kafka's greatest short fiction, translated by Michael Hofmann A reissue of the Penguin Modern Classics edition, this collection of new translations brings together...

In 1926 de Saint-Exupery began flying for the pioneering airline Lateco re - later known as Aeropostale - opening up the first mail routes across the Sahara and the Andes....

New to Penguin Modern Classics, the seminal work of gay literature that sparked a notorious legal trial The Well of Loneliness tells the story of tomboyish Stephen, who hunts, wears...

A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writers For gauche young apprentice Milos Hrma, life at the small...

Maigret gets tangled up with some notorious American Gangsters in this new translation Maigret was less angry in fact than he seemed. Pozzo was a tough customer, but he didn't...

The most glamorous, witty and revealing writings charting the last eleven years of Warhol's life. Andy Warhol kept these diaries faithfully from November 1976 right up to his final week,...

Holly Golightly, glittering socialite traveller, generally upwards, sometimes sideways and once in a while down. She's up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She's a shoplifter, a delight, a...