Publisher SeriesPenguin Essentials, 2011 series

LabelPublication
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography by Robert Graves 3,858 copies, 67 reviews1
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen 5,382 copies, 100 reviews2
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 26,766 copies, 393 reviews3
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote 2,867 copies, 82 reviews4
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell 5,463 copies, 158 reviews5
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 75,203 copies, 1,186 reviews6
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster 11,596 copies, 229 reviews7
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons 5,939 copies, 232 reviews8
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse 14,029 copies, 194 reviews9
On the Road by Jack Kerouac 28,707 copies, 395 reviews10
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence 14,076 copies, 225 reviews11
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 8,847 copies, 266 reviews12
Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan 3,494 copies, 107 reviews13
Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs by Hunter S. Thompson 4,730 copies, 40 reviews14
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 22,032 copies, 487 reviews15
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut 23,052 copies, 309 reviews16
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 13,045 copies, 268 reviews17
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende 5,179 copies, 73 reviews19
Junky by William S. Burroughs 5,034 copies, 55 reviews21
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 21,620 copies, 337 reviews22
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 24,233 copies, 397 reviews23
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi 4,157 copies, 73 reviews24
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 24,668 copies, 484 reviews26
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis 5,961 copies, 156 reviews27
Dubliners by James Joyce 20,477 copies, 232 reviews28
The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith 3,381 copies, 95 reviews29
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett 4,404 copies, 147 reviews30
A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr 2,458 copies, 119 reviews33
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick 14,417 copies, 371 reviews34
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 13,345 copies, 185 reviews36
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh 4,525 copies, 96 reviews37
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 16,872 copies, 213 reviews38
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham 7,757 copies, 217 reviews39
An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd 967 copies, 17 reviews40
Regeneration by Pat Barker 4,618 copies, 115 reviews41
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 10,661 copies, 288 reviews42
I'm the King of the Castle by Susan Hill 525 copies, 7 reviews43
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind 18,723 copies, 460 reviews44
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar 1,316 copies, 62 reviews45
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss 9,259 copies, 323 reviews46
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster 12,918 copies, 152 reviews47
Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse 650 copies, 15 reviews48
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux 2,325 copies, 39 reviews49
Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud 992 copies, 31 reviews50
Asylum by Patrick McGrath 1,539 copies, 36 reviews51
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively 2,227 copies, 91 reviews52
Foe by J. M. Coetzee 1,952 copies, 41 reviews53
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 14,497 copies, 270 reviews55
The Help by Kathryn Stockett 31,614 copies, 1,497 reviews56
What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe 2,391 copies, 53 reviews57
The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler 3,439 copies, 67 reviews59
Embers by Sándor Márai 4,095 copies, 149 reviews60
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carré 8,976 copies, 249 reviews61
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines 1,092 copies, 17 reviews62
How Many Miles to Babylon? by Jennifer Johnston 292 copies, 13 reviews63
The Millstone by Margaret Drabble 955 copies, 25 reviews64
Are You Experienced? by William Sutcliffe 667 copies, 14 reviews65
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby 15,232 copies, 199 reviews66
The Circle by Dave Eggers 6,206 copies, 430 reviews67
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid 5,352 copies, 250 reviews68
White Teeth by Zadie Smith 14,088 copies, 255 reviews69
The Road to Lichfield by Penelope Lively 296 copies, 8 reviews70
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka 5,823 copies, 243 reviews71
Any Human Heart by William Boyd 2,483 copies, 99 reviews72
A Start in Life by Anita Brookner 580 copies, 18 reviews73
Twilight by Elie Wiesel 468 copies, 1 review74
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín 5,625 copies, 314 reviews75
Villages by John Updike 590 copies, 9 reviews76
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer 16,827 copies, 475 reviews77
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham 4,909 copies, 128 reviews78
Age of Iron by J. M. Coetzee 1,143 copies, 17 reviews79
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle 16,062 copies, 311 reviews80
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald 4,349 copies, 108 reviews81
Ghosts / An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter / The Literary Conference by César Aira 68 copies, 1 review82
Libra by Don DeLillo 3,099 copies, 33 reviews83
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford 1,948 copies, 71 reviews85
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell 8,127 copies, 137 reviews91
Animal Farm by George Orwell 62,200 copies, 900 reviews94
1984 by George Orwell 85,370 copies, 1,307 reviews95
The Plague by Albert Camus 19,251 copies, 257 reviews102
The Snow Goose and the Small Miracle by Paul Gallico 298 copies, 9 reviews103
Swallowing Geography by Deborah Levy 36 copies, 1 review106
The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak 1,933 copies, 75 reviews107
Submarine by Joe Dunthorne 408 copies, 11 reviews108
Ancient Light by John Banville 581 copies, 29 reviews109
The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe 2,107 copies, 42 reviews110
The Photograph by Penelope Lively 1,418 copies, 54 reviews111
Life Class by Pat Barker 1,052 copies, 53 reviews112
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter 4,381 copies, 273 reviews113
A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore 642 copies, 24 reviews114
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 3,050 copies, 49 reviews115

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Penguin Essentials is a series from Penguin Books, relaunched in 2011 (the first series was in 1998). Numbering here relates to the 2011 series. (English, Member-written)

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