Penguin Celebrations
# Penguin Celebrations

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'. 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
