Picture of pocket penguins box set. To celebrate the 70th birthday of Penguin's paperback revolution, we've published 70 pocket Penguins, great reads at a price worth celebrating.

70 reasons to say Happy Birthday Penguin

Please select a title from the list below.


NumberBook titleAuthorLink to details

1
Lady Chatterley's Trial
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2
Cogs in the Great Machine
Eric SchlosserView info
3
Otherwise Pandemonium
Nick HornbyView info
4
Summer in Algiers
Albert CamusView info
5
Innocent House
P.D. JamesView info
6
The View from Mount Improbable
Richard DawkinsView info
7
On Shopping - Which Gladdens The Heart
India KnightView info
8
Nothing Bad Ever Happens In Tiffany's
Marian KeyesView info
9
The Mirror of Ink
Jorge Luis BorgesView info
10
A Taste of the Unexpected
Roald DahlView info
11
The Unabridged Pocketbook of Lightning
Jonathan Safran FoerView info
12
The Cave of the Cyclops
HomerView info
13
Two Stars
Paul TherouxView info
14
Of Pageants and Picnics
Elizabeth DavidView info
15
Artists and Models
Anaïs NinView info
16
Christmas at Stalingrad
Antony BeevorView info
17
The Desert and the Dancing Girls
Gustave FlaubertView info
18
The Secret Annexe (from The Diary of Anne Frank)
Anne FrankView info
19
Where I Was
James KelmanView info
20
Noise
Hari KunzruView info
21
The Bastille Falls
Simon SchamaView info
22
The Dressmaker's Child
William TrevorView info
23
In Defence of English Cooking
George OrwellView info
24
Idiot Nation
Michael MooreView info
25
Rose, 1944
Helen DunmoreView info
26
The Economics of Innocent Fraud
J.K. GalbraithView info
27
The School Inspector Calls
Gervase PhinnView info
28
Young Austerlitz
W.G. SebaldView info
29
Borneo and the Poet
Redmond O'HanlonView info
30
Ali Smith's Supersonic 70s
Ali SmithView info
31
Forgetting Things
Sigmund FreudView info
32
King Arthur in the East Riding
Simon ArmitageView info
33
Happy Birthday Jack Nicholson
Hunter S ThompsonView info
34
Cloud, Castle, Lake
Vladimir NabokovView info
35
1914: Why the World Went to War
Niall FergusonView info
36
The Snobs
Muriel SparkView info
37
Hotheads
Steven PinkerView info
38
Under the Clock
Tony HarrisonView info
39
Three Trips
John UpdikeView info
40
Design Faults in the Volvo 760 Turbo
Will SelfView info
41
The Country of the Blind
H.G. WellsView info
42
Doctrines and Visions
Noam ChomskyView info
43
Something for the Weekend
Jamie OliverView info
44
Street Haunting
Virginia WoolfView info
45
Martha and Hanwell
Zadie SmithView info
46
The Scales of Justice
John MortimerView info
47
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
F. Scott FitzgeraldView info
48
The State of Poetry
Roger McGoughView info
49
Death in the Bunker
Ian KershawView info
50
Seventeen Poisoned Englishmen
Gabriel García MárquezView info
51
The Assault on Jerusalem
Steven RuncimanView info
52
The Queen in Hell Close
Sue TownsendView info
53
Iron, Potassium, Nickel
Primo LeviView info
54
Letters from Four Seasons
Alistair CookeView info
55
Protobiography
William BoydView info
56
Caligula
Robert GravesView info
57
The Worst Thing a Suburban Girl Could Imagine
Melissa BankView info
58
My Side of the Matter
Truman CapoteView info
59
Scenes of Academic Life
David LodgeView info
60
The Kiss
Anton ChekhovView info
61
Young Bysshe
Claire TomalinView info
62
The Aristocratic Adventurer
David CannadineView info
63
Jeeves and the Impending Doom
P.G. WodehouseView info
64
The Great Wall of China
Franz KafkaView info
65
Short Short Stories
Dave EggersView info
66
The Coronation of Haile Selassie
Evelyn WaughView info
67
War Talk
Pat BarkerView info
68
9th and 13th
Jonathan CoeView info
69
Murder
John SteinbeckView info
70
On Seeing and Noticing
Alain de BottonView info