Penguin Australia has just announced the next 75 titles in its Popular Penguins list, to be released in July. They got the word out with this video, but we’ve rounded up the titles below, for easy reference.
What do you think of them? Here at Bookseller+Publisher, we’ve spied a few we wouldn’t mind getting our mitts on. Katie thinks she’ll check out: How We Are Hungry (Dave Eggers); I Can Jump Puddles (Alan Marshall); and How the Light Gets In (M J Hyland). Tim will be going for: Book of Longing (Leonard Cohen); The Sheltering Sky (Paul Bowles); and The Go Between (L P Hartley)—the latter being a favourite of Matthia’s, along with To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf). Matthia’s going to check out Notes from Underground (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) come July. Silvana is going to read some classics: The 39 Steps (John Buchan); The Invisible Man (H G Wells); and Inferno (Dante Alighieri). Andrew came up with the same selection as Katie, so he quickly changed his reading list to: It’s Raining in Mango (Thea Astley); Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Thomas DeQuincey); and Obernewtyn (Isobelle Carmody). What about you?
Here’s the list:
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (L Frank Baum)
Foe (J M Coetzee)
Dangerous Liaisons (Pierre Choderlos De Laclos)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
The Prophet (Khalil Gibran)
The 39 Steps (John Buchan)
100 Great Books in Haiku (David Bader)
The Invisible Man (H G Wells)
Obernewtyn (Isobelle Carmody)
The Lady in the Lake (Raymond Chandler)
Seven Little Australians (Ethel Turner)
Poems (Michael Leunig)
The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
Our Sunshine (Robert Drewe)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carrol)
Three Men in a Boat (Jerome K Jerome)
Three Tales from the Arabian Nights (trans by Malcolm C Lyons with Ursula Lyons)
I Can Jump Puddles (Alan Marshall)
It’s Raining in Mango (Thea Astley)
Lucky Jim (Kingsley Amis)
The Psychology of Love (Sigmund Freud)
The Ghost Road (Pat Barker)
Washington Square (Henry James)
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
Therese Raquin (Emile Zola)
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
How the Light Gets In (M J Hyland)
The Go Between (L P Hartley)
Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift)
On Natural Selection (Charles Darwin)
Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw)
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems (Allen Ginsberg)
The Shiralee (D’Arcy Niland)
Beowulf
Postcards from Surfers (Helen Garner)
From Russia with Love (Ian Fleming)
Hard Times (Charles Dickens)
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (George Orwell)
The Sheltering Sky (Paul Bowles)
Civilisation and its Discontents (Sigmund Freud)
The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx)
Raffles (E W Hornung)
Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling)
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (Andy Warhol)
The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
Scoop (Evelyn Waugh)
The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) (Henri Alain Fournier)
Hedda Gabler and Other Plays (Henrik Ibsen)
How We Are Hungry (Dave Eggers)
Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Thomas DeQuincey)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (F Scott Fitzgerald)
Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen)
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
Selected Poems (John Keats)
Book of Longing (Leonard Cohen)
The Inheritance of Loss (Kiran Desai)
Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)
In the Winter Dark (Tim Winton)
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Surrender (Sonya Hartnett)
The Beautiful and the Damned (F Scott Fitzgerald)
Playing Beattie Bow (Ruth Park)
The Pit and the Pendulum (Edgar Allen Poe)
The Periodic Table (Primo Levi)
The Happy Prince and Other Stories (Oscar Wilde)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Muriel Spark)
Around the World in 80 Days (Jules Verne)
The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
Notes from Underground (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson)
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Inferno (Dante Alighieri)
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will probably pick up Foe and Therese Raquin when they come out
it’s great to see M.J. Hyland there.
Periodic Table – terrific read. Great to see more accessible
Howl definitely has heart. RIP Mr. Ginsberg.
Penguin’s Sally Bateman just told us:
The Popular Penguin video was the #9 most viewed in Australia on release, #2 most viewed in the Arts & Entertainment category, #19 top favourited in the Arts & Entertainment category and #81 top favourited in Australia. In a week since its release it’s had more than 7,000 views.