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 Unbearable Lightness of Being
Named one of the best books of 1984 by the New York Times Book Review, it went on to win the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction and quickly became an international bestseller. Today, this novel has established itself as a modern classic.
