Penguin Modern Classics

Curated collection of essential modern literary works, representing the best of 20th and 21st century literature.

• The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1962) by Giorgio Bassani
• Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell
• Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley
• The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• To Kill a Mockingbird (1961) by Harper Lee
• Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding
• The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger
• On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac
• Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
• A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess
• Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad
• The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka
• The Plague (1947) by Albert Camus
• A Farewell to Arms (1929) by Ernest Hemingway
• As I Lay Dying (1930) by William Faulkner
• East of Eden (1952) by John Steinbeck
• The Name of the Rose (1980) by Umberto Eco
• Pedro Páramo (1955) by Juan Rulfo
• The Metamorphosis (1915) by Franz Kafka
• Nausea (1938) by Jean-Paul Sartre
• The Sun Also Rises (1926) by Ernest Hemingway
• Of Mice and Men (1937) by John Steinbeck
• Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus
• The Old Man and the Sea (1953) by Ernest Hemingway
• The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner
• The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck
• Ficciones (1944) by Jorge Luis Borges
• Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller
• Beloved (1988) by Toni Morrison
• Never Let Me Go (2005) by Kazuo Ishiguro
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) by Ken Kesey
• The Color Purple (1983) by Alice Walker
• Rebecca (1938) by Daphne du Maurier
• The Road (2007) by Cormac McCarthy
• The Handmaid's Tale (1986) by Margaret Atwood
• Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) by Jean Rhys
• To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf
• The Waves (1931) by Virginia Woolf
• A Room with a View (1908) by E.M. Forster
• Howards End (1910) by E.M. Forster
• A Passage to India (1924) by E.M. Forster
• 1984 (1949) by George Orwell
• The Remains of the Day (1989) by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Blood Meridian (1985) by Cormac McCarthy
• White Noise (1985) by Don DeLillo
• Doctor Zhivago (1957) by Boris Pasternak
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel García Márquez
• Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) by Gabriel García Márquez
• The Tin Drum (1959) by Günter Grass
• The Master and Margarita (1967) by Mikhail Bulgakov
• Survival in Auschwitz (1947) by Primo Levi
• Lucky Jim (1954) by Kingsley Amis
• Fires on the Plain (1951) by Shōhei Ōoka