Publisher SeriesPenguin Essentials, 2011 series

LabelPublication
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography by Robert Graves 3,716 copies, 65 reviews1
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen 5,253 copies, 100 reviews2
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 25,996 copies, 389 reviews3
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote 2,786 copies, 83 reviews4
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell 5,284 copies, 152 reviews5
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 72,604 copies, 1,176 reviews6
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster 11,231 copies, 224 reviews7
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons 5,801 copies, 225 reviews8
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse 13,612 copies, 195 reviews9
On the Road by Jack Kerouac 28,022 copies, 387 reviews10
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence 13,694 copies, 221 reviews11
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 8,516 copies, 255 reviews12
Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan 3,371 copies, 110 reviews13
Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs by Hunter S. Thompson 4,606 copies, 41 reviews14
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 21,481 copies, 477 reviews15
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut 22,410 copies, 301 reviews16
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 12,632 copies, 265 reviews17
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende 5,085 copies, 73 reviews19
Junky by William S. Burroughs 4,886 copies, 54 reviews21
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 20,794 copies, 332 reviews22
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 23,723 copies, 390 reviews23
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi 4,042 copies, 70 reviews24
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 23,873 copies, 467 reviews26
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis 5,825 copies, 155 reviews27
Dubliners by James Joyce 19,795 copies, 228 reviews28
The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith 3,298 copies, 92 reviews29
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett 4,289 copies, 143 reviews30
A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr 2,330 copies, 120 reviews33
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick 13,901 copies, 359 reviews34
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 12,994 copies, 184 reviews36
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh 4,423 copies, 92 reviews37
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 16,266 copies, 212 reviews38
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham 7,510 copies, 207 reviews39
An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd 953 copies, 17 reviews40
Regeneration by Pat Barker 4,511 copies, 113 reviews41
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 10,345 copies, 285 reviews42
I'm the King of the Castle by Susan Hill 514 copies, 9 reviews43
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind 18,226 copies, 453 reviews44
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar 1,291 copies, 61 reviews45
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss 9,094 copies, 317 reviews46
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster 12,519 copies, 142 reviews47
Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse 633 copies, 14 reviews48
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux 2,269 copies, 40 reviews49
Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud 971 copies, 30 reviews50
Asylum by Patrick McGrath 1,514 copies, 36 reviews51
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively 2,171 copies, 88 reviews52
Foe by J. M. Coetzee 1,880 copies, 41 reviews53
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 14,303 copies, 268 reviews55
The Help by Kathryn Stockett 30,725 copies, 1,494 reviews56
What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe 2,346 copies, 54 reviews57
The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler 3,331 copies, 66 reviews59
Embers by Sándor Márai 3,982 copies, 146 reviews60
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carré 8,651 copies, 240 reviews61
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines 1,054 copies, 18 reviews62
How Many Miles to Babylon? by Jennifer Johnston 288 copies, 13 reviews63
The Millstone by Margaret Drabble 933 copies, 25 reviews64
Are You Experienced? by William Sutcliffe 662 copies, 14 reviews65
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby 14,920 copies, 202 reviews66
The Circle by Dave Eggers 5,941 copies, 422 reviews67
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid 5,236 copies, 251 reviews68
White Teeth by Zadie Smith 13,701 copies, 248 reviews69
The Road to Lichfield by Penelope Lively 289 copies, 8 reviews70
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka 5,736 copies, 239 reviews71
Any Human Heart by William Boyd 2,420 copies, 96 reviews72
A Start in Life by Anita Brookner 563 copies, 18 reviews73
Twilight by Elie Wiesel 446 copies, 1 review74
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín 5,322 copies, 296 reviews75
Villages by John Updike 579 copies, 9 reviews76
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer 16,513 copies, 468 reviews77
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham 4,782 copies, 122 reviews78
Age of Iron by J. M. Coetzee 1,131 copies, 18 reviews79
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle 15,439 copies, 303 reviews80
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald 4,151 copies, 101 reviews81
Ghosts / An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter / The Literary Conference by César Aira 65 copies, 1 review82
Libra by Don DeLillo 3,703 copies, 39 reviews83
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford 1,954 copies, 70 reviews85
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell 7,854 copies, 131 reviews91
Animal Farm by George Orwell 60,403 copies, 892 reviews94
1984 by George Orwell 82,466 copies, 1,276 reviews95
The Plague by Albert Camus 18,602 copies, 249 reviews102
The Snow Goose and the Small Miracle by Paul Gallico 292 copies, 9 reviews103
Swallowing Geography by Deborah Levy 35 copies, 1 review106
The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak 1,873 copies, 68 reviews107
Submarine by Joe Dunthorne 393 copies, 11 reviews108
Ancient Light by John Banville 571 copies, 29 reviews109
The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe 2,075 copies, 40 reviews110
The Photograph by Penelope Lively 1,392 copies, 53 reviews111
Life Class by Pat Barker 1,035 copies, 53 reviews112
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter 4,274 copies, 270 reviews113
A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore 628 copies, 24 reviews114
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 2,933 copies, 45 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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