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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Bel Canto
Bel Canto won both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in 2002. It was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named the Book Sense Book of the Year. It has sold more than a million copies in the U.S. and has been translated into thirty languages.