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CHEAP BOOKS!

Thought that’d get your attention. It certainly always gets mine.

Popular Penguins, the collection of distinctively-covered popular books which sell for just $9.95, are releasing another 26 titles in September.

As always, this gets me going. Books I’ve been meaning to read for a long time for less that $10?! Yes please! Also making me ridiculously happy is the fact that Borges’ “Labyrinths” is on this list – a book the whole world should read multiple times, and now at $9.95 they’ll have no more excuses.

Not sure I can get behind the Bryce Courtney, but… you win some, you lose some.

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Popular Penguins

On the 15th March, Penguin announced the new list of 75 Popular Penguins that will be gracing shelves from July 2010 to celebrate Penguin’s 75th year publishing.

A few questionable choices… I think perhaps someone needs to tell the Penguin people that “popular” doesn’t mean “good”… But I guess all they’re claiming for this collection is that they’re “popular”. So a job well done! Having said that, on the whole, a pretty impressive selection…

You can check it out here.

What do you think? Which books should/should not have been chosen?

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