HarperCollins Publishers

To Kill a Mockingbird

Much-loved Pulitzer Prize–winning classic, voted by librarians across America as the best novel of the twentieth century. More

Little House on the Prairie

Third book in the award-winning Little House series, which has sold more than 34 million copies. More

Moby-Dick

Often called the greatest American novel of all time. More

Charlotte’s Web

Considered a classic of children’s literature; a novel of friendship, love, life, and death. More

The Woman in White

One of the earliest works of detective fiction, this story caused a sensation with readers at the time. More

The Gulag Archipelago

Named “the best nonfiction book of the 20th century” by Time magazine. More

Barometer Rising

The first novel by MacLennan, one of Canada’s most significant novelists of the mid-twentieth century. More

Bernard Cornwell

The most magical phrase I knew as a child was “Once upon a time” because those four words meant a story was coming. More

In the mid-late 1800s, Harper & Brothers reprinted several milestone titles in the history of British feminist literature as well as the global canon, such as Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847), Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847), and Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), as well as George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1872). More

Michael Bond

I was brought up in a house where books were an essential part of the furnishings. More

Michael Bond

Bleak House

Dickens’s tenth novel, often considered his finest; significantly influenced the development of mystery novels. More

Ursula Nordstrom

When Anne Carroll Moore, the powerful and opinionated superintendent of children’s work at the New York Public Library, asked Harper & Brothers editor Ursula Nordstrom why she felt qualified to produce children’s books, Nordstrom said only this: “Well, I am a former child, and I haven’t forgotten a thing.” More

2003: HarperCollins partners with an e-book loan service catering to public libraries…

New York Public Library at 42nd Street Rendering (Creative Commons License)

HarperCollins becomes the first major trade publisher to partner with an e-book loan service catering to public libraries. More

Profiles in Courage

Pulitzer Prize winner that helped propel the young senator to the White House. More

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Christie’s first book to be published by William Collins; known for its startling reveal. More

The New Kid on the Block

Prelutsky was named America’s first Children’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. More

1932: Laura Ingalls Wilder publishes Little House in the Big Woods…

Little House in The Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Drawings by Helen Sewell. Harper & Brothers Established 1817.

Virginia Kirkus, inaugural department editor of Harper’s Department of Books for Boys and Girls, launches Laura Ingalls Wilder with the publication of Little House in the Big Woods. More

2017: HarperCollins celebrates its 200th anniversary…

HarperCollins Publishers celebrates its 200th anniversary. More

The Complete Works of Mark Twain: Authorized Edition

Twain worked directly with Harper & Brothers to produce this authorized edition of his works. More

A Light in the Attic

Classic collection of poems and illustrations by Shel Silverstein; ALA Notable Children’s Book. More

Doctor Zhivago

Collins was the first to publish this epic romantic drama by the Nobel Prize winner in English. More

Patricia MacLachlan

I read as a child to find out what I thought, what I wished for, and what scared me. More

Patricia MacLachlan

Sharpe’s Eagle

The first Sharpe novel published in Cornwell’s classic series. More

A Bear Called Paddington

In 1958, an editor at Collins named Barbara Ker Wilson received a manuscript submission about a talking bear, which she opened with “initial suspicion” —as the publisher had received many other proposals featuring humanized animals that “are invariably either whimsy-whamsy, written down, or filled with adult innuendoes.” More

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