Guardian's Top 100 Novels of All Time

In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of...

'A masterpiece - a classic of twentieth-century fiction' New York Times in Bulgakov's allegorical masterpiece of Stalin's regime the devil is making a personal appearance in Moscow. He is accompanied...

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One of the best-known novels of the 20th century - the controversial story of Humbert Humbert who falls in love with twelve year old Lolita 'Lolita, light of my life,...

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go . In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will...

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A brand new imprint from Penguin Classics Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most...

VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful A beautiful hardback edition of Atwood's classic dystopian novel. 'As relevant today as it was when Atwood wrote it' Guardian Offred is a...

Author: Toni Morrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In 1930s America Macon learns about the tyranny of white society from his friend Guitar, though he is more concerned with...

The most iconic literary work ever produced by one of the world's most loved writers Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been one of the literary giants of the past century; his...

VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful A beautiful hardback edition of a modern Indian classic and winner of 'The Best of the Booker' - the best novel from Booker...

Launching a major new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 'The frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws,...

'A subtle and beautiful meditation' Sunday Times 'A subtle and beautiful meditation' Sunday Times In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese...

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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short works by the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith One morning, ordinary salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up to...

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE'A strange, painfully tender exploration of the brutality of desire indulged and the fatality of desire ignored... Exquisite.' Eimear McBrideYeong-hye and her husband are ordinary...

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'Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph ** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER ** Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon. Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead. She...

Author: Arundhati Roy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The Asian literary phenomenon of the 90s. More magical than Mistry, more of a rollicking good read than Rushdie,...

The definitive translation of the world's greatest novel TRANSLATED BY EDITH GROSSMAN Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever...

The classic translation of Kafka's great work of psychological horror 'It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary' Rediscover Kafka's classic work...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's powerful meditation on faith, meaning and morality, The Brothers Karamazov is translated with an introduction and notes by David McDuff in Penguin Classics. When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov...

Author: Alice WalkerFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 240g, 272 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2023THE ICONIC CLASSIC, WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEONE OF THE BBC '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED...

'In this new translation one finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevsky's original' New York Times Book Review FROM THE AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY Dostoevsky's beautiful writing...

The definitive translation of the greatest French novel of the twentieth century The definitive translation of one of the greatest French novels of the twentieth century In the opening volume...

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...

Author: Ursula K. Le Guin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A rich and complex story of friendship and love' GUARDIAN 'Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart'...

A special edition of Hemingway's powerful autobiographical war classic, including the author's 1948 introduction, his early drafts, and all of the 47 alternative endings WITH A FOREWORD BY PATRICK HEMINGWAY...

'One of the most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody's language' William Faulkner WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONICA ALI The love affair between Maurice Bendrix and Sarah,...

Arguably Achebe's most important novel, Things Fall Apart has sold over 10 million copies worldwide and been translated into more than fifty languages Okonkwo is the greatest warrior alive, famous...

Brilliant reception for the hardcover edition- 'The latest Penguin Proust is a triumph, and will bring this inexhaustible artwork to new audiences throughout the English-speaking world.' Sunday Telegraph Since the...

Frankenstein , the frightening classic tale, is now available in an affordable softcover edition, featuring striking hand-painted cover art from Laci Fowler and distinctive interior design elements, making it ideal...

The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history The great Russian 20th-century novel...

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...

Woolf's most autobiographical novel, now in Penguin Black Classics To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood...

Author: Doris Lessing Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 The landmark novel by Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing - a powerful account of a woman searching for her...

50th anniversary of Catch 22's publication. Yossarian lives! Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than...

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...

Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series 'She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day' On...

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The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller that triggered a cultural phenomenon ** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER ** Go back to where it all began with the dystopian novel behind...

'Somebody must have laid false information against Josef K., for he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong.' From this first sentence onwards, Josef K. is on trial...

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...

Reissued to mark the centenary of Patricia Highsmith and the upcoming BBC adaption, Ripley, these beautiful new editions mark Highsmith's entry into Vintage Classics **AS SEEN ON WRITE AROUND THE...

Penguin Classics relaunch. As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people- Ada and Richard...

Ernest's Hemingway's powerful autobiographical war classic - considered by many to be the greatest war novel ever written Ernest's Hemingway's powerful autobiographical story of war. 'I don't live at all...

A new edition of Henry James's great masterpiece about a spirited young American in Europe, edited by Philip Horne When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe...

Rediscover H.G. Wells - what does he mean to you? With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin -...