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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Barometer Rising
The first novel published by Hugh MacLennan, as well as the first book published by William Collins Sons & Co. Canada Ltd. MacLennan was one of Canada’s most significant novelists of the mid-twentieth century, but Barometer Rising was banned in most Canadian high school libraries because of the vulgarity of its language.
