Guardian's Top 100 Novels of All Time
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Things Fall Apart
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...
My Brilliant Friend
The story of Elena and Lila begins in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these tough streets the two girls...
One Hundred Years of Solitude
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...
Invisible Cities
'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...
The Vegetarian: Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
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...
One Hundred Years of Solitude: Popular Penguins
Pipes and kettledrums herald the arrival of gypsies on their annual visit to Macondo, the newly founded village where Jose Arcadio Buendia and his strong-willed wife, ersula, have started their...
The Color Purple: The modern classic, now a major motion picture produced by Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg
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...
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a dark and daring story of obsessive love and transgression. Humbert Humbert's lust for his pubescent step-daughter, Lolita, shocked readers when it was first published in...
In Search Of Lost Time Vol 1: Swann's Way
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...
Pale Fire
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...
A Farewell to Arms: The Special Edition
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...
The End of the Affair
'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,...
Giovanni's Room
A beautiful new Clothbound edition of Baldwin's ground-breaking novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his time David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is...
Things Fall Apart
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...
In Search of Lost Time: Volume 1: The Way by Swann's
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...
One Hundred Years of Solitude
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...
To the Lighthouse
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...
To the Lighthouse
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...
Lolita
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,...
Wide Sargasso Sea
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...
A Farewell to Arms
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...
The Go-between
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...
Go Tell it on the Mountain
"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...
Beloved
A haunting yet beautiful story that moves the reader from start to finish. INCLUDES A READING GUIDE Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she...
The Rings of Saturn
A new, modern look for Sebald's classic trilogy of books - Vertigo, The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn - 20 years after the tragic death of one of our...
The Go-Between: Popular Penguins
When one long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a school-friend at Brandham Hall, he beings to act as a messenger between Ted, the farmer, and Marian, the beautiful...
Disgrace
The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing. J. M. Coetzee's Booker...
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton's acclaimed novel of love, duty, and half-known truths in Gilded Age New York society, with a foreword by bestselling author Elif Batuman Dutiful Newland Archer, an eligible young...
The Waves (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. There was a star riding through clouds one night, and I said to the star, 'Consume me' Six...
In Search of Lost Time: Volume 1: The Way by Swann's
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...
Austerlitz
'Mesmeric, haunting and heartbreakingly tragic. A profound, alluring masterwork of singular genius' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed...
Austerlitz
Sebald's heartbreaking and profound masterpiece of a man's journey through European history, published as an Essential for the first time In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on...
Song of Solomon
Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times. 'Song of Solomon...profoundly changed my life' Marlon James Macon 'Milkman' Dead was born shortly...
Never Let Me Go
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Great Expectations: a national US Bestseller
'A phenomenal, transfixing?work; Cunningham is a singular, dazzling writer' Bryan Washington 'A coming-of-age novel of the richest, most expansive kind, it's a rare debut, one that feels both intimate and...
Lolita
Vladimir Nabakov's shocking masterpiece, now in a beautifully designed clothbound edition Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then...
The Road
With an introduction by novelist John Banville. In a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no...
Ragtime: Popular Penguins
In America at the turn of the twentieth century, when society abounds with movers and shakers such as Houdini, J.P Morgan, Henry Ford and Emma Goldman, and the sultry rhythms...
White Teeth
Most highly praised debut novel in recent years One of the most talked about fictional debuts of recent years, WHITE TEETH is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics...
Catch-22
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Presents the contemporary classic depicting the struggles of a U.S. airman attempting to survive the lunacy and depravity of a World War II base.
Great Expectations
A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella;...
The Line of Beauty
Starting at the moment "The Swimming-Pool Library" ended, "The Line of Beauty" traces the further history of a decade of change and tragedy. In the summer of 1983, 20-year-old Nick...
Orlando
Virginia Woolf's most unusual and fantastic creation, a funny, exuberant tale that examines the very nature of sexuality. Virginia Woolf's most unusual and fantastic creation, a funny, exuberant tale that...
Great Expectations: a national US Bestseller
'A phenomenal, transfixing?work; Cunningham is a singular, dazzling writer' Bryan Washington 'A coming-of-age novel of the richest, most expansive kind, it's a rare debut, one that feels both intimate and...
In Search of Lost Time: Volume 6: Finding Time Again
'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 original, prewar translation there has been...
In Search of Lost Time: Volume 5: The Prisoner and the Fugitive
'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 original, prewar translation there has been...