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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The 42nd Parallel
First volume of the “brilliantly original” (Alfred Kazan) U.S.A. trilogy, described by Malcolm Cowley as the “most impressive and possibly best American work in the naturalistic tradition.” It influenced generations of writers, including Norman Mailer, who hailed it as the “single greatest novel any of us have written, yes, in this country in the last one hundred years.”
