This box set of the 50 books in the new Penguin Modern series celebrates the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics list and its iconic authors. Including avant-garde essays, radical polemics, newly translated poetry and great fiction, here are brilliant and diverse voices from across the globe. Ground-breaking and original in their day, their words still have the power to move, challenge and inspire

Here’s the complete line-up of all 50 titles included in the Penguin Modern Box Set, originally published May 30, 2019. This collection features a blend of short fiction, essays, poetry, speeches, and journalism from diverse global voices

1. Letter from Birmingham Jail – Martin Luther King Jr.

2. Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamber – Allen Ginsberg

3. The Breakthrough – Daphne du Maurier

4. The Custard Heart – Dorothy Parker

5. Three Japanese Short Stories – Akutagawa & Others

6. The Veiled Woman – Anaïs Nin

7. Notes on Nationalism – George Orwell

8. Food – Gertrude Stein

9. The Three Electroknights – Stanisław Lem

10. The Great Hunger – Patrick Kavanagh

11. The Legend of the Sleepers – Danilo Kiš

12. The Black Ball – Ralph Ellison

13. Till September Petronella – Jean Rhys

14. Investigations of a Dog – Franz Kafka

15. Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady – Clarice Lispector

16. An Advertisement for Toothpaste – Ryszard Kapuściński

17. Create Dangerously – Albert Camus

18. The Vigilante – John Steinbeck

19. I Have More Souls Than One – Fernando Pessoa

20. The Missing Girl – Shirley Jackson

21. Four Russian Short Stories – Gazdanov & Others

22. The Distance of the Moon – Italo Calvino

23. The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House – Audre Lorde

24. The Skeleton’s Holiday – Leonora Carrington

25. The Finger – William S. Burroughs

26. The End – Samuel Beckett

27. New York City in 1979 – Kathy Acker

28. Africa’s Tarnished Name – Chinua Achebe

29. Notes on Camp – Susan Sontag

30. The Red Tenda of Bologna – John Berger

31. The Gigolo – Françoise Sagan

32. Glittering City – Cyprian Ekwensi

33. Piers of the Homeless Night – Jack Kerouac

34. Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch? – Hans Fallada

35. The Duke in His Domain – Truman Capote

36. Leaving the Yellow House – Saul Bellow

37. The Cracked Looking‑Glass – Katherine Anne Porter

38. Dark Days – James Baldwin

39. Letter to My Mother – Georges Simenon

40. Death the Barber – William Carlos Williams

41. The Problem That Has No Name – Betty Friedan

42. The Dialogue of Two Snails – Federico García Lorca

43. Of Dogs and Walls – Yūko Tsushima

44. Madame du Deffand and the Idiots – Javier Marías

45. The Haunted Boy – Carson McCullers

46. The Garden of Forking Paths – Jorge Luis Borges

47. Fame – Andy Warhol

48. The Survivor – Primo Levi

49. Lance – Vladimir Nabokov

50. Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer – Wendell Berry