With the help of booksellers and librarians from around the world, we’ve created this collection of 200 iconic HarperCollins titles—beloved books that have inspired, informed, entertained, and endured.
Whether they are prizewinners, runaway bestsellers, groundbreaking nonfiction, or simply a favorite novel, these books have all had a singular influence on our literary culture.
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Flashman
Flashman, and the eleven bestselling novels that followed, tells the story of beloved scoundrel Harry Flashman, who plays a key part in the defining military campaigns of the nineteenth century. Harry Flashman remains one of the most famous and celebrated characters of historical fiction.
