Penguin Classics Collection

Penguin Classics Collection names 56 books, every one listed here. The most approachable of them is Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (difficulty 34/100, about 1.7 hours); the hardest is Ulysses by James Joyce (89/100).

• 1984 by George Orwell (1949) — difficulty 46/100, about 6.5 hours
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916) — difficulty 78/100, about 11 hours
• Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (1936) — difficulty 79/100, about 18 hours
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930) — difficulty 67/100, about 6 hours
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (1988) — difficulty 58/100, about 7.5 hours
• Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (1985) — difficulty 70/100, about 13 hours
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932) — difficulty 52/100, about 4.4 hours
• Cannery Row by John Steinbeck (1945) — difficulty 44/100, about 3.2 hours
• Canti by Giacomo Leopardi (1835) — difficulty 72/100, about 2.5 hours
• Canzoniere by Petrarch (1374) — difficulty 71/100, about 4.2 hours
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961) — difficulty 62/100, about 15 hours
• Celestina by Fernando de Rojas (1499) — difficulty 71/100, about 9.9 hours
• Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi (1945) — difficulty 54/100, about 6.3 hours
• Dubliners by James Joyce (1914) — difficulty 72/100, about 8.1 hours
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952) — difficulty 49/100, about 16 hours
• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (1940) — difficulty 48/100, about 12 hours
• Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi (2018) — difficulty 56/100, about 6 hours
• Hōjōki: An Account of My Hut by Kamo no Chōmei (1212) — difficulty 61/100, about 25 min
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1953) — difficulty 75/100, about 22 hours
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847) — difficulty 54/100, about 13 hours
• Light in August by William Faulkner (1932) — difficulty 65/100, about 14 hours
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955) — difficulty 69/100, about 12 hours
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1857) — difficulty 71/100, about 13 hours
• Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851) — difficulty 71/100, about 26 hours
• Nada by Carmen Laforet (1945) — difficulty 55/100, about 5 hours
• Native Son by Richard Wright (1940) — difficulty 58/100, about 12 hours
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937) — difficulty 34/100, about 1.7 hours
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957) — difficulty 54/100, about 8.1 hours
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967) — difficulty 55/100, about 10 hours
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813) — difficulty 52/100, about 8.6 hours
• Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino (1988) — difficulty 49/100, about 2.5 hours
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969) — difficulty 63/100, about 4.4 hours
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (1977) — difficulty 68/100, about 12 hours
• Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence (1913) — difficulty 50/100, about 11 hours
• Suttree by Cormac McCarthy (1979) — difficulty 70/100, about 19 hours
• Territory of Light by Yūko Tsushima (1979) — difficulty 59/100, about 3.8 hours
• The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (1883) — difficulty 37/100, about 2.4 hours
• The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini (1728) — difficulty 53/100, about 10 hours
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (1970) — difficulty 59/100, about 4.2 hours
• The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzō (1906) — difficulty 61/100, about 1.5 hours
• The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione (1528) — difficulty 62/100, about 11 hours
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951) — difficulty 58/100, about 5.7 hours
• The Cloven Viscount by Italo Calvino (1952) — difficulty 57/100, about 2.1 hours
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939) — difficulty 55/100, about 13 hours
• The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1958) — difficulty 64/100, about 7.7 hours
• The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki (1815) — difficulty 76/100, about 32 hours
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Bashō (1702) — difficulty 64/100, about 2.3 hours
• The Nonexistent Knight by Italo Calvino (1959) — difficulty 66/100, about 3.1 hours
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1953) — difficulty 42/100, about 1.7 hours
• The Path to the Nest of Spiders by Italo Calvino (1947) — difficulty 56/100, about 3.8 hours
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2007) — difficulty 63/100, about 5.2 hours
• The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz (1934) — difficulty 77/100, about 7.2 hours
• The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo (1300) — difficulty 41/100, about 7.4 hours
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1961) — difficulty 42/100, about 6.3 hours
• Ulysses by James Joyce (1922) — difficulty 89/100, about 47 hours
• Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo (1923) — difficulty 70/100, about 15 hours

Questions

How many books are on Penguin Classics Collection?

56, all of them listed here with how hard each is to read and how long it takes.

Which book on Penguin Classics Collection is the easiest to read?

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, difficulty 34/100, about 1.7 hours. The hardest is Ulysses by James Joyce, at 89/100.

How long would it take to read every book on Penguin Classics Collection?

About 535 hours for the 56 books ReadingRate measures, at 250 words a minute adjusted for each book's difficulty: 267 days at two hours a day.

Other lists: Penguin Modern Classics, NYRB Classics, Everyman's Library, Library of America, Biblioteca Ayacucho, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Heinemann African Writers Series, Oxford World's Classics, UNESCO Collection of Representative Works. All lists.