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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