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New to Penguin Classics: Abortion Stories, a one-of-a-kind, intersectional volume of stories, poems, essays, and memoirs on abortion published before 1973, when Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in every American state. Learn more: bit.ly/4i6FUQG

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TONIGHT! 📅 Join Karen Weingarten, Rebecca Traister, and Renee Bracy Sherman for a conversation about Abortion Stories, a new volume from Penguin Classics! Register now 👉 centerforthehumanities.org/event/aborti...

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New to Penguin Classics: Steppenwolf, Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse’s iconic countercultural novel about the search for authenticity in an inauthentic world, in a new translation by David Horrocks! Start reading now 👉 bit.ly/4h9tPcb

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New to Penguin Classics: Abortion Stories, a one-of-a-kind, intersectional volume of stories, poems, essays, and memoirs on abortion published before 1973, when Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in every American state. Learn more: bit.ly/4i6FUQG

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Sharing a stack of black spines by Black authors to add to your TBR this #BlackHistoryMonth! Find more recommendations from Penguin Classics 👉 bit.ly/3wbopeN

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📆 MARK YOU CALENDARS 📆 Join Roxane Gay on tour for The Portable Feminist Reader, a feminist canon of selected writings by ancient, historic, and contemporary feminist voices edited by Roxane Gay! Register for an event near you 👉 roxanegay.com/appearances/

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New to Penguin Classics: Claude McKay's most well-known Harlem Renaissance novel and the first commercial bestseller by a Black novelist in the United States, Home to Harlem, featuring an introduction by literary history scholar Belinda Edmondson! 🔗: bit.ly/3EomOXe

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New to Penguin Classics: Clay Walls by Kim Ronyoung, a landmark modern classic about the Korean American immigrant experience and the dawn of Los Angeles’s Koreatown, featuring an introduction by David S. Cho. ⁣ ⁣ 🔗: bit.ly/4gjM6mw

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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth, readers! We’re kicking things off by revisiting Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes, who was born on this day in 1902. Which classics by Black authors are you planning to read this month? 📖

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“Do not consider me now as an elegant female, intending to plague you, but as a rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart.” —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, which was published #onthisday in 1813 🌾

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It's very nice to be anticipated! Pleased to be in the excellent company of The Millions' other picks for new pubs, which make me almost excited for 2025. themillions.com/2025/01/most... #academicsky #blacksky

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Today is the LAST DAY to enter our sweepstakes to win the ultimate bookish gift: the new collectible edition of L. Frank Baum’s classic The Wizard of Oz, featuring sprayed edges, colored endpapers, and an Ex Libris bookplate! 💚✨ Enter now 👉 sites.prh.com/wizardofozsw...

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What we think we look like when we’re reading…

submitted 109 days ago • 4 comments

When Jane Austen said she’d be miserable without a personal library, we FELT that 👏

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We want to know: what classic did you read when you were younger that is still one of your favorite books today? 📚

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Looking for more book recommendations? Here are a few accounts to follow! 👉 @vikingbooks.bsky.social 👉 @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social 👉 @penguinlifeus.bsky.social 👉 @pameladormanbooks.bsky.social 👉 @theopenfield.bsky.social

submitted 109 days ago • 2 comments

This is your sign to read a classic ✨

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Why is it always “Have you joined @bsky.app yet?” and never “Do you want me to buy you the entire Penguin Clothbound Classics collection?” 🤨

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