Orange You Excited About These Penguin Classic Books?

 

"Orange" You Excited About These Penguin Classic Books?

Penguin Classics has been re-issuing beautifully designed contemporary American classic books perfect for your next book club pick. Some of these may be first-time reads, while others may have been well-loved and dog-eared paperbacks when you were in high school. 

Either way, the "Penguin Orange Collection" is worthy of a spot on your bookshelf. The twelve titles include:

• The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace
• Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by HP Lovecraft
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kessey
• White Noise by Don DeLillo
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
• Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Have you or your book club read any of these? What do you think of the updated cover design? For reference, here are a few examples of older editions:

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (a personal favorite)

On The Road by Jack Kerouac

Twelve Years A Slave by Solomon Northup

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

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