Last update: 5/9/2023: It's been a while since I've seen an announcement for a release of these. They've moved to the Little Clothbound Classics.
The Penguin Clothbound series is a collector's dream. Full of classics that everyone should read, hardcovers designed by the famous Coralie Bickford Smith, and a large number of titles. They release a few of these a year, so once you start it's easy to keep up. Tracking down some of the older releases can be a bit more challenging, especially the Indian Special Editions, and that first edition of Crime and Punishment. May the odds be ever in your favor!
2008
Note that the fist editions of the titles published this year are numbered, 1-9 I'm sure of but don't know about Dorian Gray!
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert: 9780141394671
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens: 9780141040363
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë: 9780141040356
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: 9780141040370
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell: 9780141442549
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy: 9780141040332
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: 9780141040349
Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky:Â 9780140455687
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë: 9780141040387
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde: 9780141442464
2009
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: 9780141192413
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins: 9780141192420
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle: 9780141192437
The Odyssey by Homer: 9780141192444
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson: 9780141192451
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll: 9780141192468
Emma by Jane Austen: 9780141192475
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence: 9780141192482
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens: 9780141192499
The Sonnets and A Lover’s Complaint by William Shakespeare: 9780141192574
2010
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens: 9780141195858
Inferno: The Divine Comedy I by Dante: 9780141195872
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: 9780141196640
India Special Editions
The Qur'an by Tarif Khalidi: 9780670084173
The Ramayana by Valmiki, Arshia Sattar: 9780670084180
The Mahabharata by John D. Smith (Translator): 9780670084159
The Bhagavad Gita by Juan Mascaro (Translator): 9780670084166
2011
Dracula by Bram Stoker: 9780141196886
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens: 9780141196909
Middlemarch by George Elliot: 9780141196893
Bleak House by Charles Dickens: 9780141198354
Hard Times by Charles Dickens: 9780141198347
Persuasion by Jane Austen: 9780141197692
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen: 9780141197708
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: 9780141197715
2012
Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense: Collected Poems by Lewis Carroll: 9780141195940
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: 9781846140495
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas: 9780141392462
2013
Vanity Fair by William Thackeray: 9780141199542
Moby Dick by Herman Mellville: 9780141199603
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy: 9780141393384
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: 9780141393391
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer: 9780141393216
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: 9780141199610
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: 9780141199573
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: 9780141393407
2014
Metamorphases by Ovid: 9780141394619
The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling: 9780141394626
Paradise Lost by John Milton: 9780141394633
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens: 9780141394640
The Pearl by John Steinbeck: 9780141394688
Love and Freindship by Jane Austen: 9780140433340
The Portrait of A Lady by Henry James: 9780141394664
The Illiad by Homer: 9780141394657
2015
The Travels by Marco Polo: 9780141198774
2016
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: 9780241265543
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte: 9780241198957
Villette by Charlotte Bronte: 9780241198964
Naked Lunch by William S Burroughs: 9780241284636
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys: 9780241281901
Orlando by Virginia Woolf: 9780241284643
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole: 9780241284667
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh: 9780241284629
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham: 9780241284674
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 1 by Marcel Proust: 9780241205921
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 2 by Marcel Proust: 9780241205945
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 3 by Marcel Proust: 9780241205969
2017
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne: 9780241198773
2018
Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes: 9780241347768
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy: 9780241347775
The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner: 9780241305850
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle: 9780241347782
Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (second edition reprint): 9780241347683
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: 9780241382707
2019
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: 9780241382691 Tales from 1001 Nights: 9780241382714 Sandition by Jane Austen: 9780241436585
2020
Around The World In 80 Days by Jules Verne: 9780241468654 Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf: 9780241468647 The Aeneid by Virgil: 9780141994222 Grimm Tales by Philip Pullman: 9780241472729
2021
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell: 9780241453513 Animal Farm by George Orwell: 9780241453865 Monkey King by Wu Cheng’en: 9780141393445
The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon: 9780241504123
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 9780241508664
2022
Ulysses by George Orwell: 9780241453513
On the Road by Jack Kerouac: 9780241552643
The Turn of the Screa by Henry James: 9780241552650
The Outsider by Albert Camus: 9780241554401
2023
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne 9780241552667
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 9780241552674
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 9780241552681
Pub date: September 2023
THANK you for writing up this collection!!! I did this back in 2016 but didn't keep up with it. I saw your comment on C.B-S's Instagram and found my way, here! Looks like I won't be getting anything done, today, hahahaha XO