Talk:List of Penguin Classics

Update

There's been a real avalanche of new titles recently. Some older ones are missing too, though...especially ones that: A). were never distributed outside of the Commonwealth B). published by Penguin India and C). never had a second printing. I plan to add a few. Kudos to whoever compiled the original list.198.179.227.59 (talk) 02:02, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Please check the List of Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics before adding any recent works that are out of print. They may already be accounted for. WQUlrich (talk) 20:20, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Here I'll drop a list of titles that I found to be missing(Source: https://www.penguin.co.uk/penguin-classics/classics-list?classicsSeries=Penguin+Classics) I'm not planning to add all of these by myself at once but I may go a couple books per day:

to the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf and Alison Bechdel

The Secret History of the Mongols by Unknown(don't put this in the list, just to signify no author is known)

Kallocain by Karin Boye

The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse

The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing by Hannah Dawson

The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories

The Mirror of my Heart by Unknown(don't put this in the list, just to signify no author is known)

The Penguin Book of Exorcisms by Joseph P. Laycock

The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado De Assis

Layli and Majnun by Nezami Ganjavi

Fifty-Two Stories by Anton Chekhov

In Youth is Pleasure by Denton Welch

The Golden Age of British Short Stories 1890-1914 by unknown/multiple authors

Unsung by Unknown

Kalevala

The House on the Hill by Cesare Pavese

The Apocryphal Gospels by Unknown

Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali

The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories by Unknown/Unstated

Orwell and Politics by George Orwell

Orwell and the Dispossessed by George Orwell

Orwell in Spain by George Orwell

Orwell's England by George Orwell

The Book of Taliesin by Taliesin

A New Voyage Round the World by William Dampier

Black Shack Alley by Joseph Zobel

Return of the Spirit by Tawfiq al-Hakim

Romance in Marseille by Claude McKay

The Penguin Book of Migration Literature by Unknown/Unstated

Selected Poetry by Alexander Pushkin

The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories by Unknown/Unstated

The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem by Unknown/Unstated

Travels with a Writing Brush by Unknown/Unstated

This is as much as I'm doing for now. Signing off till later. Rbx2max (talk) 18:15, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Adding more titles to add:

Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos

The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner

Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo

East Goes West by Younghill Kang

The Hanging on Union Square by H. T. Tsiang

Japanese Ghost Stories by Lafcadio Hearn

Cane by Jean Toomer

The Burrow by Franz Kafka

The Nine Cloud Dream by Kim Man-Jung

The Stonewall Reader by Unknown(don't put this in the list, just to signify no author is known)

Russian Émigré Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky by Unknown(don't put this in the list, just to signify no author is known)

Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf

Selected Short Stories by Virginia Woolf

The Song of Kieu by Nguyen Du

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories by Unknown/Multiple Unlisted Authors

The Waves by Virginia Woolf

The Years by Virginia Woolf

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The Penguin Book of Hell by Unknown/ Multiple Authors

Three Guineas(Search this up, there's some conflicting information) by Virginia Woolf

Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet

Adding more later :) Rbx2max (talk) 12:16, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

Colour coated series

Green and purple are complete or nearly so :-) Red and Yellow are barely begun.

Cosprings (talk) 15:45, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Redundancy

So it seems like some foreign language titles are listed twice in the by title section. I'm not sure how many instances of this there are but for example the same work by Zola is listed as both under The Drinking Den and L'Assommoir. Should this be corrected?--Prisencolinensinainciusol (talk) 04:19, 27 September 2014 (UTC)

color code information

For those interested, before mid-2015, there was information in the article which organized the titles on a per-color basis that can still be reached through the history . Its rather useful and doesn't exist really anywhere else easily reached. It was apparently removed because it was claimed to be "incomplete". 75.17.124.14 (talk) 19:35, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

So I created a draft for color coding penguin classics. The draft can be found at the following link, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Penguin_Classics_By_Color_Code

I think it would make sense to remove all books that have not been color coded from the draft wiki page as it both adds clutter to the page and is redundant. Dannyb603 (talk) 01:40, 30 November 2022 (UTC)