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Call for the DeadJohn le Carré
The Strangers in the HouseGeorges Simenon
Second-Class CitizenBuchi Emecheta
AvernoLouise Glück
I Embrace You With All My Revolutionary FervorErnesto Che Guevara
A Rage in HarlemChester Himes

Green Ideas

No One Is Too Small to Make a DifferenceGreta Thunberg
An Idea Can Go ExtinctBill McKibben
Uncanny and Improbable EventsAmitav Ghosh
There is No Point of No ReturnArne Næss
Think Like a MountainAldo Leopold
We Belong to GaiaJames Lovelock

Penguin Great Ideas

Ain't I A Woman?Sojourner Truth
Steps Towards a Small Theory of the VisibleJohn Berger
A Tough Mind and a Tender HeartMartin Luther King, Jr.
The Power of WordsSimone Weil
Being HappyEpicurus

Penguin Science Fiction

Ten Thousand Light-Years From HomeJames Tiptree Jr.
The Hair Carpet WeaversAndreas Eschbach
TrafalgarAngélica Gorodischer
One Billion Years to the End of the WorldArkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
Cat's CradleKurt Vonnegut
FlatlandEdwin Abbott

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Clothbound Classics

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A Confederacy of DuncesJohn Kennedy Toole
SanditonJane Austen
Brideshead RevisitedEvelyn Waugh
War And PeaceLeo Tolstoy
Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert
Grimm TalesPhilip Pullman

Modern Classics

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Silent SpringRachel Carson
Nineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell
The PlagueAlbert Camus
In Cold BloodTruman Capote
Because They Wanted ToMary Gaitskill
Things Fall ApartChinua Achebe

Black-spine Classics

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The TrialFranz Kafka
The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald
War And PeaceLeo Tolstoy
Nineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell
Japanese Ghost StoriesLafcadio Hearn
MeditationsMarcus Aurelius

Penguin Classics in Audio

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The War of the WorldsH G Wells
A Room of One's OwnVirginia Woolf
Tess of the D'UrbervillesThomas Hardy
MeditationsMarcus Aurelius
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking GlassJohn Tenniel, Lewis Carroll
Japanese Ghost StoriesLafcadio Hearn

Explore George Orwell in Penguin

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Animal FarmGeorge Orwell
Burmese DaysGeorge Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell
The Complete Novels of George OrwellGeorge Orwell
Keep the Aspidistra FlyingGeorge Orwell

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Read John le Carré's books

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Call for the DeadJohn le Carré
The Spy Who Came in from the ColdJohn le Carré
The Honourable SchoolboyJohn le Carré
The Looking Glass WarJohn le Carré
Smiley's PeopleJohn le Carré
Tinker Tailor Soldier SpyJohn le Carré
Call for the DeadJohn le Carré
The Honourable SchoolboyJohn le Carré
A Murder of QualityJohn le Carré
The Looking Glass WarJohn le Carré
Smiley's PeopleJohn le Carré
A Murder of QualityJohn le Carré
A Perfect SpyJohn le Carré
A Most Wanted ManJohn le Carré
The Secret PilgrimJohn le Carré
Our GameJohn le Carré
The Tailor of PanamaJohn le Carré
Single & SingleJohn le Carré
Absolute FriendsJohn le Carré

Boxed sets and collections

Thomas Hardy Boxed SetThomas Hardy
Major Works of Charles Dickens (Boxed Set)Charles Dickens
John le Carré, Novels (Box Set)John le Carré
Little Black Classics Box Set
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