Penguin classics celebrates 80 years

80 Classics For 80 Years

In a world of choices, there’s only one real Classic. To celebrate the 80th anniversary of Penguin Classics, our editors recommend eighty titles from our catalog of more than 2,000 books, from cornerstone classics and award-winning translations to new favorites.

A Last Supper of Queer Apostles by Idra Novey, Pedro Lemebel, Gwendolyn Harper, Gwendolyn Harper, Gwendolyn Harper, Gwendolyn Harper
A Last Supper of Queer Apostles
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, Samantha Power, Maria Tatar
All Quiet on the Western Front
Decisions and Dissents of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Corey Brettschneider
Decisions and Dissents of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez, Elizabeth Acevedo
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg, Joanne Greenberg, Esmé Weijun Wang
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Jeff VanderMeer, Thomas Ligotti
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
The Best of Richard Matheson by Richard Matheson, Victor LaValle, Victor LaValle
The Best of Richard Matheson
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by S. T. Joshi, S. T. Joshi, H. P. Lovecraft, Travis Louie
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration by Floyd Cheung, Floyd Cheung, Frank Abe, Frank Abe
The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration
The Mis-education of the Negro by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Jarvis R. Givens, Carter G. Woodson
The Mis-education of the Negro
The Portable Feminist Reader by Roxane Gay
The Portable Feminist Reader
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Dave Eggers, Flora Thomson-DeVeaux, Flora Thomson-DeVeaux, Flora Thomson-DeVeaux, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
The Tibetan Book of the Dead by Graham Coleman, Thupten Jinpa, Dalai Lama, Gyurme Dorje
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
The Time Regulation Institute by Pankaj Mishra, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, Alexander Dawe, Maureen Freely
The Time Regulation Institute
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda, Cristina García, W. S. Merwin
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
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