Guardian's Top 100 Novels of All Time

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...

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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...

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...

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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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,...

'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 -...

Author: William Faulkner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 296 NOBEL PRIZE WINNER ¥ One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century is the story of a family of Southern...

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Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 293 In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of...

To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionist depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on a marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. Its...

Rediscover Virginia Woolf's greatest works in beautiful new gift editions from Vintage Classics Rediscover one of Virginia Woolf's greatest works in this beautiful new gift edition from Vintage Classics. 'My...

A chilling new collection of Henry James's short stories exploring the uncanny, edited by Susie Boyt In 'The Turn of the Screw', one of the most famous ghost stories of...

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...

Reissued in Black Classics to coincide with the new translation of other two magnificent Bulgakov titles The devil comes to Moscow wearing a fancy suit. With his disorderly band of...

Reissued to mark the 40th anniversary of Rushdie's masterpiece, this edition carries a new introduction written for the occasion WITH A NEW 40TH ANNIVERSARY INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR Born at...

A new edition of James's chilling novella, edited by David Bromwich 'The apparition had reached the landing half-way up and was therefore on the spot nearest the window where, at...

Author: Zadie Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 306 One of the most talked about debut novels of all time, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by...

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The four greatest novels by the Bronte sisters, in a stunning box set designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith Jane Eyre | Wuthering Heights | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Villette...

Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series 'The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye that opened suddenly and softly...

Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, now in a beautiful clothbound edition On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus...

George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian future, annotated for students and with a new introduction by D. J. Taylor Ever since its publication in 1948, George Orwell's terrifying vision...

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Jane Austen's masterpiece with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. A beautiful deluxe gift edition of...

With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin, the new guest at The Coach and Horses, is at first...

The greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century. The great Russian 20th-century novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stalingrad. Life and Fate is an epic tale of a...

Mann's semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic. The book that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature Discover Mann's Nobel Prizewinning semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic. The Buddenbrook clan is everything...

'Virginia Woolf wanted to write about the vast unknown uncertain continent that is the world and us in it' Jeanette Winterson, from her introduction to The Waves 'Virginia Woolf wanted...

A collection of Kafka's greatest stories, including his famous tale of alienation, now in Penguin Black Classics This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works...

Penguin Classics relaunch. Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth...

"Nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire--a bastard people, far from God, singing and crying in the wilderness!" First published in...

Famously associated with the term 'magical realism', Marquez is probably South America's most famous literary export An acknowledged masterpiece, this is the story of seven generations of the Buendia family...

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...

Author: Ursula K. Le Guin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A rich and complex story of friendship and love' GUARDIAN 'It's a giant thought experiment that's also a cracking...

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A deep, complex examination of the crucial philosophical questions of human existence, from one of the world's most renowned novelists, now in the beautifully designed Penguin Clothbound series 'The mystery...