Penguin Classics Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Oil!
Upton SinclairOIL! by Upton Sinclair edited with an introduction by @MichaelTondre is on sale today! Start reading the searing indictment of fossil fuels that predicts our current warming planet while imagining a greener and more inclusive future🌎🍃☀️: https://t.co/KLaYF740mY https://t.co/a1vx11IIew
Paperback, 2023
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Passing
Nella Larsen.@tmagazine names THE NEW YORK TRILOGY by Paul Auster, PASSING by Nella Larsen, and NATIVE SPEAKER by Chang-Rae Lee some of the most significant New York City novels from the last 100 years! 📚👏 https://t.co/AI4fvLjB3Y
Paperback, 2003
$15.00Member price:$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway’s classic novel of post-war disillusionment THE SUN ALSO RISES is now available from Penguin Classics! This deluxe edition features an introduction by bestselling author @amortowles and stunning cover art by R. Kikuo Johnson. Learn more 📖https://t.co/tKGfUr8Vso https://t.co/ratjvPLcpN
Paperback, 2022
$12.00Member price:$6.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Little Women
Louisa May AlcottHappy #NationalSiblingsDay! Celebrate today by revisiting one of the most iconic sibling groups in literature, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy in Louisa May Alcott's LITTLE WOMEN! https://t.co/CyHFVCZ4Zt https://t.co/7Sx0cb87fo
Hardcover, 2014
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens“His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.” —Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, which was published #onthisday in 1843. How many times have you read it? 🎄 https://t.co/gmWv2DBxzg
Paperback, 2008
$7.99Member price:$3.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry JamesHappy cozy pub day to our two new gorgeous Penguin Vitaes: Edith Wharton’s THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY with a foreword by Sofia Coppola and Henry James’s THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY with a foreword by Brandon Taylor! ✨ https://t.co/2lXDSZt73J
Paperback, 2014
$13.00Member price:$6.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Walden
Henry David Thoreau"We need the tonic of wildness."--Henry David Thoreau, WALDEN We're celebrating #EarthDay with some of our favorite environmentalist classics, including books by Henry David Thoreau, Rachel Carson, and John Muir. 🍃🌎https://t.co/yTLV5gZZm7 https://t.co/uqEw6KP8zo
Hardcover, 2016
$14.99Member price:$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dubliners
James JoyceThis #StPatricksDay we're rereading DUBLINERS, James Joyce’s unflinching portrait of “dear dirty Dublin.” 🍀🍀🍀https://t.co/dmo0Fxlm1x https://t.co/njMP9xNIhC
Paperback, 1993
$12.00Member price:$6.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf“She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.” Virginia Woolf, author of MRS. DALLOWAY, was born #onthisday in 1882! 🎉https://t.co/HAoqVMm9cX https://t.co/O1tYkMCzuU
Paperback, 1990
$10.99Member price:$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Souls of Black Folk
W. E. B. Du Bois“To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.” To celebrate the anniversary of W. E. B. Du Bois’ birthday, we're revisiting his landmark book THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK, with an introduction by @DrIbram! https://t.co/qiFpxBTqbW https://t.co/qnLEgUcHm3
Paperback, 2014
$9.99Member price:$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book