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Penguin Essentials is a series of books published by Penguin Books in the UK. The first books in the series were released in April 2011.
The classic books were released in smaller A-format size; the covers were redesigned by contemporary artists to appeal to a new generation of readers.
The classic books were released in smaller A-format size; the covers were redesigned by contemporary artists to appeal to a new generation of readers.
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Lolita
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3.87 avg rating — 932,466 ratings
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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4.04 avg rating — 541,877 ratings
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
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3.85 avg rating — 249,594 ratings
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The Day of the Triffids
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4.01 avg rating — 116,418 ratings
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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3.70 avg rating — 60,260 ratings
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My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 62,785 ratings
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Steppenwolf
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4.13 avg rating — 211,084 ratings
score: 275,
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High Fidelity
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3.90 avg rating — 213,661 ratings
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Eva Luna
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score: 269,
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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3.94 avg rating — 541,612 ratings
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Embers
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3.99 avg rating — 42,772 ratings
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A Room with a View
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3.89 avg rating — 199,847 ratings
score: 232,
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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 166,680 ratings
score: 226,
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Regeneration
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4.02 avg rating — 33,391 ratings
score: 222,
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Dubliners
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3.84 avg rating — 172,933 ratings
score: 218,
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Mrs. Dalloway
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3.78 avg rating — 349,535 ratings
score: 217,
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Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog
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3.83 avg rating — 79,303 ratings
score: 213,
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A Clockwork Orange
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 761,520 ratings
score: 208,
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The Great Gatsby
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3.93 avg rating — 5,816,480 ratings
score: 206,
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Cold Comfort Farm
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3.88 avg rating — 54,490 ratings
score: 205,
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A Month in the Country
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4.09 avg rating — 25,926 ratings
score: 181,
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Moon Tiger
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3.91 avg rating — 18,787 ratings
score: 179,
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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
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3.45 avg rating — 36,644 ratings
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Hideous Kinky
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3.52 avg rating — 4,110 ratings
score: 177,
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 719,854 ratings
score: 175,
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Wide Sargasso Sea
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3.59 avg rating — 105,246 ratings
score: 175,
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Bonjour Tristesse
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3.74 avg rating — 70,574 ratings
score: 175,
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 125,336 ratings
score: 174,
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White Teeth
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3.79 avg rating — 173,025 ratings
score: 172,
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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 2,988,952 ratings
score: 171,
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A Kestrel for a Knave
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4.07 avg rating — 7,894 ratings
score: 169,
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What a Carve Up! (The Winshaw Legacy, #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 12,972 ratings
score: 168,
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2 people voted
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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4.09 avg rating — 124,541 ratings
score: 165,
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Billy Liar
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3.71 avg rating — 2,266 ratings
score: 164,
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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3.73 avg rating — 83,534 ratings
score: 162,
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The Millstone
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3.90 avg rating — 3,939 ratings
score: 153,
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A Passage to India
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3.67 avg rating — 85,186 ratings
score: 150,
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I'm the King of the Castle
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3.49 avg rating — 3,722 ratings
score: 149,
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Tender Is The Night
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3.77 avg rating — 148,408 ratings
score: 149,
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Invisible Man
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3.92 avg rating — 200,511 ratings
score: 149,
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The Thin Man
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3.90 avg rating — 37,848 ratings
score: 141,
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The Diary of a Nobody
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3.68 avg rating — 17,899 ratings
score: 141,
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Heart of Darkness
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3.43 avg rating — 552,209 ratings
score: 141,
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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3.89 avg rating — 294,953 ratings
score: 139,
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Everything is Illuminated
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3.89 avg rating — 183,367 ratings
score: 138,
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
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3.50 avg rating — 136,408 ratings
score: 137,
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On the Road
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3.61 avg rating — 443,772 ratings
score: 137,
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In the Country of Men
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3.75 avg rating — 7,494 ratings
score: 130,
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The Chrysalids
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3.93 avg rating — 61,453 ratings
score: 130,
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The Pursuit of Love
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3.95 avg rating — 22,523 ratings
score: 127,
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A Handful of Dust
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3.89 avg rating — 28,639 ratings
score: 126,
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Lucky Jim
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3.75 avg rating — 31,821 ratings
score: 107,
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Asylum
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3.97 avg rating — 40,294 ratings
score: 98,
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Foe
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3.41 avg rating — 12,385 ratings
score: 95,
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Out of Africa
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Isak Dinesen (Pseudonym)
3.91 avg rating — 47,557 ratings
score: 89,
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Cat's Cradle
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4.15 avg rating — 432,796 ratings
score: 87,
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The Circle
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3.43 avg rating — 229,218 ratings
score: 85,
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Twilight
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3.89 avg rating — 1,129 ratings
score: 83,
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Brooklyn
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3.74 avg rating — 156,275 ratings
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Are You Experienced?
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3.58 avg rating — 4,872 ratings
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The Road to Lichfield
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3.84 avg rating — 1,737 ratings
score: 80,
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A Start in Life
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3.70 avg rating — 2,193 ratings
score: 76,
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Any Human Heart
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4.28 avg rating — 26,690 ratings
score: 75,
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How Many Miles to Babylon?
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3.64 avg rating — 2,105 ratings
score: 72,
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The Lady in the Lake
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4.06 avg rating — 27,687 ratings
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The Mosquito Coast
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3.81 avg rating — 13,795 ratings
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The Man in the High Castle
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3.59 avg rating — 232,525 ratings
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An Ice-cream War
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3.92 avg rating — 4,482 ratings
score: 54,
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The Periodic Table
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4.14 avg rating — 19,095 ratings
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Junky
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3.84 avg rating — 70,708 ratings
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Hell's Angels
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3.98 avg rating — 54,247 ratings
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Goodbye to All That
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3.93 avg rating — 15,438 ratings
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The History of Love
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3.92 avg rating — 140,073 ratings
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Villages
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3.29 avg rating — 1,304 ratings
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Austerlitz
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3.98 avg rating — 26,277 ratings
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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3.97 avg rating — 433,572 ratings
score: 26,
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
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Libra
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Age of Iron
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3.85 avg rating — 5,605 ratings
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Three Novels by Cesar Aira
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3.74 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Swallowing Geography
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3.38 avg rating — 741 ratings
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The Bastard of Istanbul
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Elif Shafak (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 63,258 ratings
score: 19,
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Submarine
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3.74 avg rating — 12,034 ratings
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Ancient Light
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The Rotters' Club
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3.96 avg rating — 15,626 ratings
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The Photograph
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Life Class
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Beautiful Ruins
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A Spell of Winter
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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #9)
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Love and Summer
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Notes on a Scandal
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Honour
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4.15 avg rating — 25,600 ratings
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The Accidental
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On Beauty
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Is this the same as the older Penguin Essentials Collection?
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