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Der Tag des Taschenbuchs findet jährlich am 30.Juli statt.
Der #Tag_des_Taschenbuchs erinnert an die Veröffentlichung des ersten #Taschenbuches „Andre Maurois - Ariel, a Life of Shelley“ in dem neu Gegründeten #Verlag #PenguinBooks des #Londoner #Verlegers #Sir_Allen_Lane (1902 – 1970) am 30. Juli 1935.
https://welcher-tag-ist-heute.org/gedenktage/tag-des-taschenbuchs
#1315 Nora Chadwick - The Celts. Pelican Books, an imprint of Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1984, 1st edition, 10th impression.
#NoraChadwick #PenguinBooks #PelicanBooks #Celts #Celtic #IronAge #History #BookOfTheDay
Single Book Spotlight
Book Featured:
Night & Horses & the Desert by Robert Irwin
#arabicliterature #newpurchase #midureads #bookstagram #penguinbooks
#1299 J.A. Hadfield - Dreams and Nightmares. Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, A Pelican Book, 1954, 1st edition.
#JAHadfield #PenguinBooks #PelicanBooks #Dreams #Psychiatry #Psychology #BookOfTheDay
Another great book by John Wyndham, the master of apocalyptic storytelling.
#JohnWyndham #TheMidwichCuckoos #Sci-fi #Sciencefiction #SF #Penguinbooks #sciencefictionbooks #Britishsciencefiction #apocalypticstory
Is this John Wyndham's masterpiece? An astounding book!
#JohnWyndham #TheMidwichCuckoos #Sci-fi #Sciencefiction #SF #Penguinbooks #sciencefictionbooks #Britishsciencefiction
While rereading John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids, I re-watched the 1981 TV series. While I was as underwhelmed by the series as I was in 1981, the book remains a classic, but did the illustrator actually read the book's description of the triffids?
#JohnWyndham #TheDayoftheTriffids #Sci-fi #Sciencefiction #SF #Penguinbooks #sciencefictionbooks #booksky #Britishsciencefiction
After re-watching the 3 Chocky TV series, I re-read John Wyndham's book. He really was a phenomenal writer. The first series is faithful to the book. The second, expands the story very well. The third series is a letdown. It is generic children's sci-fi, very badly miscast and derailed by sidelining the main character who underpinned the whole story.
#JohnWyndham #Chocky #Sci-fi #Sciencefiction #SF #Penguinbooks #sciencefictionbooks #Britishsciencefiction
Just laid hands on this beautiful hard cover book
*India’s Forests* : Revisiting Nature and History
A compilation of essays from some very cool researchers & writers with a foreword by an amazing historian Dr Shekhar Pathak, while the editors, Arupjyoti Saikia & Mahesh Rangarajan have a rich history of great writing as well.
Looking forward to reading this
https://www.penguin.co.in/book/indias-forests
#books #IndiasNature #Forests #Essays #history #environment #Communities #Ecology #PenguinBooks #Culture
#1199 Thor Heyerdahl - Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1976, 1st Penguin edition, 6th reprint.
#ThorHeyerdahl #PenguinBooks #EasterIsland #RapaNui #Megaliths #Archaeology #BookOfTheDay
I haven’t actually finished any of the books that I’ve already started reading, but I’m going to start to read this today and hope to finish it before the day is over. Happy Darwin Day everyone!
#CurrentlyReading #Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #Bibliophile #Booklovers #Bookworm #CharlesDarwin #OnNaturalSelection #Evolution #NaturalSelection #TheoryOfEvolution #DarwinDay #PenguinBooksGreatIdeas #GreatIdeas #PenguinBooks
#1172 Denys Val Baker (ed) - Cornish Short Stories. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1976, 1st edition.
#DenysValBaker #PenguinBooks #Cornwall #JackClemo #DaphneDuMaurier #WinstonGraham #CharlesCausley #ALRowse #BookOfTheDay
I have a front-of-catalog book coming out this spring with #PenguinBooks and MIT.
Famous professors try to sleep with 14 year old girls.
I'm asked to exhume a famous corpse.
A 12-year-old is stolen, the world's oldest man is debunked, and a CIA bloke accuses us of being Kremlin spies in #WaPo.
People die.
It's a non-fiction book.
You might be in it. Oxford, Stanford, Harvard, and Cambridge professors are in it. Billionaires you know are in it, too.
Order it now.
At The Yard, Salisbury — A Morning with Penguins
HOW PENGUIN BOOKS GOT ITS NAME — AND STARTED A PUBLISHING REVOLUTION
At the Yard, Salisbury, A Morning with PenguinsIt was a bright August morning when we wandered into The Yard, a tucked-away coffee shop in Salisbury that felt like a secret shared among friends. The scent of espresso mingled with freshly baked muffins, and the walls featured book covers — rows of orange, blue, and green Penguins, those timeless companions of readers everywhere.
At the Yard, Salisbury, A Morning with PenguinsAs we sipped our coffee (and yes, the hot chocolate was extraordinary), I remembered a story that began nearly a century ago — one that changed how the world reads.
At the Yard, Salisbury, A Morning with PenguinsIn 1935, Allen Lane, managing editor at The Bodley Head, stood on a train platform in Exeter after visiting Agatha Christie. Searching for a good-quality paperback for his journey back to London, he found only cheap, flimsy magazines. That moment sparked an idea that would transform publishing: books should be both affordable and beautifully made — quality literature priced like a daily newspaper.
Lane envisioned a series of paperbacks that would bring fine writing to everyone, sold not just in bookshops but in railway stations and corner stores. A young secretary, Joan Coles, suggested the name ‘Penguin,’ friendly and memorable. Lane sent 21-year-old artist Edward Young to the London Zoo to sketch the bird that would become one of the most beloved emblems in publishing history.
What many readers don’t realize is that the earliest Penguins were colour-coded — a design both simple and brilliant. Each colour represented a different genre: orange for fiction, dark blue for biography, red for drama, green for crime, black for serious non-fiction, purple for essays, and grey for world affairs. Together they formed a mosaic of modern reading — bright, confident, and accessible. When we looked at the colourful covers on The Yard’s walls, we were really looking at the visual history of how reading became democratic.
The literary establishment was scandalized. Serious literature, sold beside the morning paper? But readers had the final word. Hemingway, Christie, and Maurois found new homes in satchels and coat pockets across Britain. Within a year, millions of Penguins were in circulation — proof that good books belong to everyone.
As I looked at those covers in The Yard, I realized that the Penguin revolution wasn’t just about paperbacks. It was about trust — the belief that ordinary people deserved access to extraordinary ideas.
At the Yard, Salisbury, A Morning with PenguinsIn a quiet corner of Salisbury, over coffee and conversation, I was reminded that revolutions don’t always begin with noise. Sometimes, they start with a small bird and a bold idea.
Until the next page,
Rebecca
#books #PenguinBooks #RebeccaSReadingRoom #Salisbury #TheBodleyHead
📚💡💬 | #CurrentlyReading: „Dead and Alive (Essays)“ (Penguin Books, 2025) by the great Zadie Smith
#essays #bibliophilia #foodforthought #zadiesmith #penguinbooks #books #book #booklover #newbook
My copy of the 1938 Penguin Books edition of 'The Centaur' by Algernon Blackwood. I'm rather pleased to own a 1930s Penguin, especially one by a favourite author. #BookChatWeekly #PenguinBooks #AlgernonBlackwood #paperbacks #fantasyfiction
My copy of the 1938 Penguin Books edition of 'The Centaur' by Algernon Blackwood. I'm rather pleased to own a 1930s Penguin, especially one by a favourite author. #BookChatWeekly #PenguinBooks #AlgernonBlackwood #paperbacks #fantasyfiction
Penguin Books are always a joy. Here are my 1960 editions of 'Quatermass II' and 'Quatermass And The Pit' teleplays. Both absolute classics, but I don't need to tell anyone that. The cover designs are by Nigel Kneale's brother Bryan. The first had a plain cover. #PenguinBooks #BookChatWeekly #scifi
Penguin Books are always a joy. Here are my 1960 editions of 'Quatermass II' and 'Quatermass And The Pit' teleplays. Both absolute classics, but I don't need to tell anyone that. The cover designs are by Nigel Kneale's brother Bryan. The first had a plain cover. #PenguinBooks #BookChatWeekly #scifi
Ikigai was an interesting read, arriving at a pivotal point of self-introspection. For years, I've been struggling to find my passion, often disappointed when my attempts didn't align with expectations. This book introduced a liberating concept: discovering passion by negation—by what it isn't rather than what it is. This shift relieved pressure, allowing me to explore without psychoanalyzing first.
The book's core idea—ikigai—resonated with me. It's a word that captures passion with nuance—similar to how gezelligheid in Dutch, adds depth to the concept of coziness and warm feelings. While I can't properly describe ikigai here, the book does so wonderfully.
Another thing Ikigai reminded me of was the importance of laughter, good company, and community. It's easy to overlook how rare it is to find supportive, non-toxic relationships and how easy it is to stumble into the opposite. Our emotional health is tied to our physical health, making joy and connection essential for fighting life's hard battles.
In the end, Ikigai taught me that finding your purpose should be your first and most noble goal. The second is doing what you love once you found it.
Thank you. —MJW
For my full review:
"How Ikigai Changed the Way I think About Finding My Purpose"
https://bookwyrm.social/user/MJWright/review/8800821
For more information on Ikigai:
https://bookwyrm.social/book/385251/s/ikigai
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL27306019M/Ikigai
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40534545-ikigai
#books #book #review #reviews #bookreview #japan #japanese #philosophy #PenguinBooks #ebook #ebooks
My 1969 Penguin edition of 'Conjure Wife', Fritz Leiber's highly original novel about the wives of academics at a university using #witchcraft to further their husbands' careers. First published in 1953. #31DaysOfHalloween #BookChatWeekly #penguinbooks #vintagepaperbacks #Penguin
My 1969 Penguin edition of 'Conjure Wife', Fritz Leiber's highly original novel about the wives of academics at a university using #witchcraft to further their husbands' careers. First published in 1953. #31DaysOfHalloween #BookChatWeekly #penguinbooks #vintagepaperbacks #Penguin
#1073 Jean-Paul Sartre - Nausea. Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, 1970, 1st Penguin edition, 4th reprint.
#JeanPaulSartre #PenguinBooks #Philosophy #Existentialism #BookOfTheDay
Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ Returns to Life with Guillermo del Toro Introduction in October
Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein will receive a Netflix tie-in edition in conjunction with Guillermo del Toro‘s highly anticipated film…
#NewsBeep #News #Movies #Entertainment #Frankenstein #GuillermodelToro #MaryShelley #Netflix #PenguinBooks #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/171366/
Penguin’s ‘Little Book Stops’ arrive in Ferryside, Llanybydder and Mayals
Ferryside in Carmarthenshire, Llanybydder in Carmarthenshire, and Mayals in Swansea are among just seven locations in Wales chosen from more than 2,000 public nominations for the community book‑sharing boxes.
The initiative, run in partnership with US non‑profit Little Free Library, will see 90 of the distinctive Penguin‑branded boxes installed across the UK during September. Each will operate on a simple “give a book, take a book” basis, with a local volunteer steward looking after the stock.
Penguin Books ‘90 Little Book Stops’ comes to WalesLocal sites chosen
In Ferryside, the Little Book Stop will be based at the village’s independent lifeboat station, which has been run entirely by volunteers since 1835.
Llanybydder’s book stop will be installed at the bandstand on Station Terrace, while in Mayals the box will be located on Mayals Road.
Each stop will launch with a curated selection of children’s and adult titles from Penguin’s 90‑year history, including The Boy, The Mole, The Fox & The Horse by Charlie Mackesy, The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo, Look Up! by Nathan Bryon & Dapo Adeola, and The Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson.
‘Celebrating reading and community’
Penguin’s Chief Brand Officer Rebecca Sinclair said: “Books and reading are a great way to build connections and create communities, and the sheer amount of interest we received shows just how much people are looking for this. We’re excited to see the impact the Little Book Stops have on the local communities selected.”
Little Free Library CEO Daniel Gumnit said the boxes would “spark curiosity, bring neighbours together, and make books more accessible in the communities where they’re needed most.”
The full list of UK locations will be revealed throughout September on Penguin’s website.
#books #Ferryside #Library #LittleFreeLibrary #Llanybydder #Mayals #PenguinBooks #PenguinSLittleBookStop #Swansea
Definitely worth a read (and a view): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3M67Kx1nm3wqSj7J7VwZRXv/spine-tingling-80-years-of-penguin-paperbacks #paperbacks #books #reading #penguinclassics #penguinbooks
#923 Philip Ziegler - The Black Death. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1984, 1st edition, reprint of reissue. #PhilipZiegler #PenguinBooks #Plague #Epidemics #Medieval #BookOfTheDay
I recently enjoyed Edith Wharton's "The Custom of the Country". With its settings in the US and France, this 1913 work bears some thematic resemblance to the international novels of Henry James. Wharton's work, though, does not foreshadow the modernist use of stream of consciousness as does the later work of James; stylistically, Wharton is working with in the tradition of realism, so that one can associate her with William Dean Howells as much as with James.
Writing in this realist tradition and, as one might expect from the author of a pioneering work on interior decoration, scrutinizing in detail dwellings and their contents, Wharton narrates the merciless struggle of midwestern transplant to New York Undine Spragg for upward social mobility. Architecture, furnishings, decor, dress, and accessories not only reflect social and psychological states but also serve to pivot the plot.
I suspect Americans and Europeans, men and women, and young and old will react variously to the novel. I was impressed by its shrewd observation of manners and mores, impressed by its wit and irony, and gripped by the narrative of the odious protagonist's irrepressible social ascent. I remember reading somewhere that "Downton Abbey" creator and beneficiary of a Conservative title hand-out Julian Fellowes was rooting for Undine all the way; that tells us as much about Tory peers as Wharton's work.
I bought the Penguin Classics edition, pictured in this post. I recommend purchasing another edition, as pages fell out of this brand new book as if it were a cheap pulp paperback of old. What a disappointment!
#TheCustomOfTheCountry #EdithWharton #Realism #Books #AmericanLiterature #USLiterature #Novels #Bookstodon #LiteratureInEnglish #PenguinBooks
#InternationalNovels
Pratchett's "Night Watch" is becoming a Penguin Modern Classic, complete with Rembrandt's "The Night Watch" as a cover!
https://terrypratchett.com/news/terry-pratchett-penguin-classic/