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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Gorky Park
The first in the Arkady Renko series, Gorky Park became an instant bestseller, changed the crime fiction genre, and became a huge global publishing success story, providing a much-needed breath of fresh air in the Cold War claustrophobia of the 1980s.
