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