Penguin Classics Suggestions

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Does anyone 'collect' Penguin classics or similar? I was thinking I have read little classic fiction and it might be nice to start buying some Penguin classics in paperback.

So far I've listed out
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Grapes of Wrath
Cold Comfort Farm
Alone in Berlin
The Man in The High Castle
Childhood, Youth, Dependency
Story of a Secret State
Lady Sings The Blues
Night Manager

Any other suggestions? Or to other similar book series?

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George Orwell, I have them all.

Animal Farm
Any Jane Austen (all of them!)
Mrs Dalloway
Tess of the D'urbevilles

I have a few, all enjoyed.

Hans Fallada Alone in Berlin and Little Man, what now?
Truman Capote, In Cold Blood.
Ernst Junger, Storm of Steel.
Karen Blixen, Out of Africa.
Mary Kingsley, Travels in West Africa.
Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath & Of Mice and Men, East of Eden and The Vigilante ( one of the small ones).
John Hersey, Hiroshima.
Svetlana Alexievich, The unwomanly Face of War.
John Buchan, The 39 Steps.
Jack London, Call of the Wild.
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty ( childhood favourite).
DH has most of the John le Carre ones, I have only read two of those so far.

Little lord Fauntleroy? One of my all time favourites.

Oooh many thanks, I'll google these this morning and add to my list

The Brontes, Jane Austen, Thackeray, George Elliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Trollope, Fanny Burnley, Wilkie Collins, Laurence Sterne, Mary Shelley, Beryl Bainbridge, PG Wodehouse, Nancy Mitford, Stella Gibbons.

If it's specifically Penguins they have regular blog posts highlighting books round a theme which are always interesting. Are you interested in just reading classics in English or do you want to try translated works as well, Penguin has fab translations of some classics.

I have an entire bookshelf devoted to Penguin Classics, included on its shelves are the works of Jane Austen, the Brontës, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, George Eliot, Gustave Flaubert, Ford Madox Ford, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, Victor Hugo, Henry James, Jerome K. Jerome, Nella Larsen, D.H. Lawrence, Barbara Pym, Walter Scott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Anthony Trollope, Leo Tolstoy, Edith Wharton, Émile Zola.

you might enjoy collecting Persephone books. Beautifully bound and an interesting selection of authors.

I have (and have read) most of the Wordsworth editions, and some of the PPC ones (found them during regular charity shop jaunts pre-covid. There is some fantastic material in the PPC collection, and because I read for education and information purposes, as well as for pleasure, we have a quite extensive library of our own at home. (Standard house, but lots of book cases, mostly double-stacked).

I'm fan of Terry Pratchett, so have all of his work, as well as lots of reference, and books in other languages.

I'd recommend Orwell, Hardy and the Brontes, and the usual suspects. I read Chaucer to my kid when they were little, and they loved that (some of his material is very bawdy ;) ), but I also read Pratchett to our baby, who loved it.

Jules Verne's work, and Alexandre Dumas are interesting reads. Dickens wrote a large body of work, and most of his are widely available. "Hard Times" is an interesting one, especially for anyone involved in education and politics.

I just really enjoyed The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.

A previous poster made me remember A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, that was fab.

Also Jules Verne is a good read.