• Penguin Classics

May 1938 with the issue of Penguin Illustrated Classics. E. V. Rieu's translation of Homer's Odyssey in 1946 the original Classics list (known in the trade as "Black Classics") the old Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics list - silver covers 'Penguin Modern Classics' with a pale green livery.

• Pelican books

1937 (three bands), 1955 (grid), 1969 (illustrated), and 2007 (a "Penguin Celebrations" throwback edition)

• George Bernard Shaw's The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism

discontinued in 1984.

• Aircraft Recognition (S82) by R. A. Saville-Sneath
• Puffin Books began with a series of non-fiction picture books; the first work of children's fiction published under the imprint was Barbara Euphan Todd's Worzel Gummidge the following year. Another series which began in wartime was the Penguin Poets: the first volume was a selection of Tennyson's poems (D1) in 1941. Later examples are The Penguin Book of Modern American Verse (D22), 1954, and The Penguin Book of Restoration Verse (D108), 1968. J. M. Cohen's Comic and Curious Verse appeared in three volumes over a number of years.
• Penguin Specials
  • Edgar Mowrer's Germany Puts the Clock Back.

Gollancz's Left Book Club.

• Genevieve Tabouis's anti-appeasement tract Blackmail or War
• Shiela Grant Duff's Europe and the Czechs
• Hašek's Good Soldier Schweik
• Bottome's The Mortal Storm
• William Gallacher's The Case for Communism
• 'What's Wrong with Britiain' series - run up to the 1964 election
  • Keith Thompson's Under siege: racism and violence in Britain today.
• Puffin Books

inspired by the Editions Père Castor books drawn by Rojan Puffin Picture Book series (1940-)

• War on Land
• War at Sea
• War in the Air
• On the Farm

The Picture Books' 120 titles resulted in 260 variants altogether, the last number 116 Paxton Chadwick's Life Histories, was issued hors série in 1996 by the Penguin Collector's Society. Puffin Story Books series

• Worzel Gummidge,
• Cornish Adventure,
• The Cuckoo Clock,
• Garram the Hunter
• Smokey

creation of the Puffin Club in 1967 quarterly magazine Puffin Post, which at its height had 200,000 members. The Puffin authors' list added Arthur Ransome, Roald Dahl and Ursula K. Le Guin during Webb's editorship and saw the creation of the Peacock series of teenage fiction.

• Puffin Classics
• Fighting Fantasy
• Complimentary to the Puffin Club the Puffin School Book Club,
• Buildings of England
  • Pevsner Architectural Guides

Georg Dehio's Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmaler, a topographical inventory of Germany's important historic buildings which was published in five volumes between 1905 and 1912.[37] Though Pevsner's ambition for the series was to educate and inform the general public on the subtleties of English architectural history, the immediate commercial imperative was competition with the Shell Guides edited by John Betjeman of which thirteen had been published by 1939.[38] With Lane's agreement in 1945 Pevsner began work personally touring the county that was to be the subject of observation aided by notes drawn up by researchers. The first volume, Cornwall, appeared in 1951, and went on to produce 46 architectural guidebooks Kunstgesichte

• Magazine publishing

In January 1941 the first issue of Penguin New Writing appeared and instantly dominated the market with 80,000 copies sold compared to its closest rival, Cyril Connolly's Horizon, which mustered 3,500 sales in its first edition. Penguin New Writing's editor John Lehmann was instrumental in introducing the British public to such new writers as Lawrence Durrell, Saul Bellow and James Michie. Yet despite popular and critical success further rationing and, after 1945 declining sales, led monthly publication to become quarterly until the journal finally closed in autumn 1950 after 40 issues. Though New Writing was the most durable of Penguin's periodicals it wasn't the publisher's only foray into journalism with Russian Review, Penguin Hansard and Transatlantic begun during the war, and Penguin Film Review, Penguin Music Magazine, New Biology, Penguin Parade, Penguin Science Survey and Penguin Science News having brief runs after.

• Popular Penguins
• Penguin Celebrations list
  • Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky
• Pelican History of Art
  • John Summerson's Architecture in Britain,
  • Anthony Blunt's Art and Architecture in France,
  • Rudolph Wittkower's Italian art and architecture,

the first title Painting in Britain, 1530-1790 by Ellis Waterhouse was issued in 1953. By 1955 Pevsner produced a prospectus for the series announcing the publication of four new volumes and a plan for the rest of the series totalling forty-seven titles. The ambition of the series exceeded previously published multi-volume histories of art such as André Michel's Histoire de l'art (17 vols, 1905–28), the Propyläen Kunstgeschichte (25 vols, 1923–35). Forty-one volumes were published by the time Pevsner retired from editing in 1977, his work was continued by his editorial assistant on the Buildings of England Judy Nairn and the medievalist Peter Lasko. Yale University Press acquired the series in 1992 when 45 titles had been completed, they subsequently published 21 volumes, mostly revisions of existing editions.

• King Penguin Books (1939 - 1959)

(influenced by Insel Verlag)

• John Gould's The Birds of Great Britain (1873) with historical introduction and commentary on each plate by Phyllis Barclay-Smith, and sixteen plates from Redouté's Roses (1817–24) with historical introduction and commentary by John Ramsbottom. The third volume began the alternative practice of colour plates from a variety of sources.
• Nikolaus Pevsner's Leaves of Southwell (1945)
• Wilfrid Blunt's Tulipomania (1950)
• The Bayeux Tapestry by Eric Maclagan (1943)
• Ur : The First Phases by Leonard Woolley (1946)
• Russian Icons (1947) by David Talbot Rice
• A Book of English Clocks (1947 and 1950) by R. W. Symonds.

The series ran to 76 volumes. Other series include:

• Penguin Modern Painters
• Shakespeare
• new Shakespeare
• music scores
• poetry
• handbooks
• crime
• peregrines
• modern poets
• play
• sci-fi
• education
• university titles
• library of physical sciences
• modern European poets
• cookery
• reference
• originals
• penguin 60s
• essentials
• great ideas
• great loves
• ptarmigan
• guides
• kestrel
• dolphin