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100 Essential Penguin Classics

Fan of classic fiction or looking for a new read? Here’s a list of important Penguin Classics.

  1. 1

    East of Eden

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  2. 2

    The Penguin Book of French Poetry

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  3. 3

    Wuthering Heights

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  4. 4

    Little Women

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  5. 5

    1984

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    Devil on the Cross

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    The Scarlet Pimpernel

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  8. 8

    Where the Red Fern Grows

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  9. 9

    Lord of the Flies

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  10. 10

    Far from the Madding Crowd

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    The Bloody Chamber

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    The Histories

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  13. 13

    The River Between

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  14. 14

    Les Miserables

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    The Poetics of Space

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    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

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  17. 17

    On Being Different

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    Twelve Years a Slave

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    My Inventions and Other Writings

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    White Noise

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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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    Revolutionary Suicide

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    Pride and Prejudice

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  24. 24

    Candide

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  25. 25

    Lady Chatterley’s Lover

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  26. 26

    The Snow Leopard

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  27. 27

    On the Road: the Original Scroll

    On the Road: the Original Scroll Book Cover Picture
  28. 28

    Metamorphosis and Other Stories

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  29. 29

    The Pillow Book

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    Under the Sea-Wind

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    Ceremony

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    The Haunting of Hill House

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  33. 33

    The Odyssey

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  34. 34

    Gravity’s Rainbow (Classics Deluxe Edition)

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  35. 35

    The Divine Comedy

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  36. 36

    Twelve Angry Men

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  37. 37

    Jane Eyre

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  38. 38

    The Grapes of Wrath

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  39. 39

    The New York Trilogy

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  40. 40

    Therese Raquin

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    The Quiet American

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    The Aleph and Other Stories

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    Anna Karenina

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    Storm of Steel

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  45. 45

    Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

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  46. 46

    Sixty Stories

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  47. 47

    The Art of War

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  48. 48

    Democracy in America and Two Essays on America

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  49. 49

    The Count of Monte Cristo

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  50. 50

    Frankenstein

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    Utopia

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  52. 52

    Lysistrata and Other Plays

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  53. 53

    Dracula

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    Robinson Crusoe

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  55. 55

    Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass Book Cover Picture
  56. 56

    The Last Days of Socrates

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  57. 57

    The Crucible

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  58. 58

    Middlemarch

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    The Bhagavad Gita

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  60. 60

    Gulliver’s Travels

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  61. 61

    Don Quixote

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  62. 62

    Herzog

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    The Canterbury Tales

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    Pygmalion

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  65. 65

    Passing

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  66. 66

    The Prince

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  67. 67

    The Picture of Dorian Gray

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  68. 68

    Great Expectations

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  69. 69

    Madame Bovary

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  70. 70

    Moby-Dick

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  71. 71

    Siddhartha

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  72. 72

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

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  73. 73

    The Scarlet Letter

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  74. 74

    The Tale of Genji

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  75. 75

    The Communist Manifesto

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  76. 76

    Hamlet

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  77. 77

    A Room with a View

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  78. 78

    Treasure Island

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  79. 79

    Personal Memoirs

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  80. 80

    The Souls of Black Folk

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  81. 81

    The Age of Innocence

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  82. 82

    Of Mice and Men

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  83. 83

    My Antonia

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  84. 84

    Dubliners

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  85. 85

    The Joy Luck Club

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  86. 86

    The Last of the Mohicans

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  87. 87

    Fear and Trembling

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  88. 88

    The Jungle

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  89. 89

    Walden and Civil Disobedience

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  90. 90

    Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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  91. 91

    The Analects

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  92. 92

    Confessions

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  93. 93

    Leaves of Grass

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  94. 94

    The Epic of Gilgamesh

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  95. 95

    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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  96. 96

    The Travels

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  97. 97

    The Song of Roland

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  98. 98

    Beowulf

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  99. 99

    The Aeneid

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  100. 100

    The Metamorphoses

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