title: Penguin Celebrations
text: # 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
  