Penguin Celebrations was a book series released by Penguin Books in 2008, Penguin re-released 36 modern popular works using Penguin's distinctive late 1940s style, rebranded 'Penguin Celebrations'.^[1] Following the 1940s style; Green is for 'mystery', Orange for 'fantastic fiction', Pink for 'distant lands', Dark Blue for 'real lives' and Purple for 'viewpoints'.

The 'Penguin Celebrations' books are as follows:

Fiction

• William Boyd - Any Human Heart
• Jonathan Coe - What a Carve Up!
• Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything Is Illuminated
• Zoë Heller - Notes on a Scandal
• Nick Hornby - How to Be Good
• Marian Keyes - The Other Side of the Story
• Matthew Kneale - English Passengers
• Hari Kunzru - The Impressionist
• Marina Lewycka - A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
• Meg Rosoff - How I Live Now
• Ali Smith - The Accidental
• Zadie Smith - White Teeth
• Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction
• Pat Barker - Regeneration

Non-fiction

• Noam Chomsky - Hegemony or Survival
• Niall Ferguson - Empire
• Robin Lane Fox - The Classical World
• Malcolm Gladwell - Blink
• Brian Greene - The Fabric of the Cosmos
• Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner - Freakonomics
• James Lovelock - The Revenge of Gaia
• Eric Schlosser - Fast Food Nation

Crime

• Donna Tartt - The Secret History
• P. D. James - A Certain Justice
• John Mortimer - Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders
• Alex Garland - The Beach
• Barbara Vine - The Chimney-sweeper's Boy

Travel and adventure

• Ryszard Kapuściński - The Shadow of the Sun
• Redmond O'Hanlon - Congo Journey
• Paul Theroux - Dark Star Safari

Biography

• Charles Nicholl - Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind
• Claire Tomalin - Jane Austen: A Life
• Jeremy Paxman - The English

Essays

• Alain de Botton - The Consolations of Philosophy
• Jeremy Clarkson - The World According to Clarkson
• Alistair Cooke - Letter from America

References