Pocket Penguins is a series of books released by Penguin Classics in 2016. The series echoes the style of the original Penguin Books, with smaller A-format size, and tri-band design. The first 20 books were released in May 2016, and described by publishing director Simon Winder as "a mix of the famous and the unjustly overlooked". A Pocket Penguins series of 70 titles was published to celebrate Penguin's 70th birthday in 2005. It is known as the Pocket Penguins 70s and is available as a boxed set. A similar set of pocket Penguin 60s – this time only 60 books, each with 60 pages – was published to mark the company's 60th birthday in 1995.
Titles
The book jackets are coloured according to the book's original language: , , , , , , , , , and .
Title Author Language Pages ISBN Release date 1 480 2 O Pioneers! 208 3 416 4 752 5 224 6 Mrs Dalloway 224 7 Out of Africa 400 8 Metamorphosis 320 9 My Childhood 272 10 304 11 368 12 832 13 Walden 336 14 Fathers and Sons 272 15 592 16 512 17 320 18 912 19 256 20 528 21 272 22 384 23 160 24 Storm of Steel 304 25 Don't Look Now 320 26 Suetonius 432 27 Wind, Sand and Stars 160 28 Sanshirō 272 29 Dream Story 96 30 Good Morning, Midnight 176 31 Put Out More Flags 384 32 624 33 Eugénie Grandet 784 34 336 35 256 36 Lust, Caution 352 37 Laughter in the Dark 192 38 Ten Days That Shook the World 368 39 Dead Souls 512 40 Monkey 400
Pocket Penguins series of 2005 A Pocket Penguins series of 70 titles was published to celebrate Penguin's 70th birthday in 2005. Each has 64 pages. They were designed to be collectable with each cover created as part of a project undertaken by 70 leading artists and designers. Among the authors in the Pocket Penguin series are: Eric Schlosser, Nick Hornby, Albert Camus, P. D. James, Richard Dawkins, India Knight, Marian Keyes, Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl, Jonathan Safran Foer, Homer, Paul Theroux, Elizabeth David, Anaïs Nin, Antony Beevor, Gustave Flaubert, Anne Frank, James Kelman, Hari Kunzru, Simon Schama, William Trevor, George Orwell, Michael Moore, Helen Dunmore, J. K. Galbraith, Gervase Phinn, W. G. Sebald, Redmond O'Hanlon, Ali Smith, Sigmund Freud, Simon Armitage, Hunter S. Thompson, Vladimir Nabokov, Niall Ferguson, Muriel Spark, Steven Pinker, Tony Harrison, John Updike, Will Self, H. G. Wells, Noam Chomsky, Jamie Oliver, Virginia Woolf, Zadie Smith, John Mortimer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Roger McGough, Ian Kershaw, Gabriel García Márquez, Steven Runciman, Sue Townsend, Primo Levi, Alistair Cooke, William Boyd, Robert Graves, Melissa Bank, Truman Capote, David Lodge, Anton Chekhov, Claire Tomalin, David Cannadine, P. G. Wodehouse, Franz Kafka, Dave Eggers, Evelyn Waugh, Pat Barker, Jonathan Coe, John Steinbeck and Alain de Botton.
See also Penguin Crime & Espionage Penguin Essentials Penguin Red Classics
References
External links Official site