Tag: Genre

1972: Avon launches the historical romance genre…

Avon launches the historical romance genre when it publishes Kathleen Woodiwiss’s The Flame and the Flower, a historical romance with a strong female lead and sexual situations that go a step beyond the tame romances of earlier eras. More

A Canticle for Leibowitz

Hugo Award winner; widely considered one of the most enduring classics of modern speculative fiction. More

Science Fiction & Fantasy

HarperCollins’s connections to nascent science fiction and fantasy worlds began with works such as Edward Lytton Bulwer’s The Coming Race (1871), and H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds (1898) and The Invisible Man (1898). More

I, Robot

Asimov’s science fiction masterpiece that influenced a legion of future authors. More

Divergent

First book in the Divergent trilogy, which has sold more than 32 million copies worldwide. More

The Fellowship of the Ring

First volume in The Lord of the Rings series, which has sold more than 100 million copies. More

Kimberly McCreight

I write because I want answers. More

Kimberly McCreight

B. A. Paris

I write because it’s something I love doing. More

B. A. Paris

Mary Kubica

I read to transport myself. More

Mary Kubica

1996: George R.R. Martin redefines the fantasy genre…

George R.R. Martin redefines the fantasy genre with his epic series, A Song of Ice and Fire, published by HarperCollins in the UK. More

Agatha Christie at her Devonshire home

Agatha Christie, known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime, is the best-selling novelist in history, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. More

The Dispossessed

The classic utopian science fiction; winner of the Hugo, Locus, and Nebula Awards. More

Lauren Oliver

I read so that I can learn and I write so that I can explore. More

Lauren Oliver

Garth Nix

Reading is to live More

Garth Nix

Veronica Roth

I read because reading changes you. More

Veronica Roth

The Woman in White

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

James Rollins

I owe my mother everything. More

James Rollins

Francesca Lia Block

It has been said that only two things helped survivors of the Holocaust: 1) massage and 2) telling their stories. More

Francesca Lia Block

Dodger

Michael L. Printz Honor Book from bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett; rich with humor and wisdom. More

Agatha Christie

The house of Collins acquired “Queen of Crime” Agatha Christie after she disagreed with her former publisher over the spelling of “coco”/”cocoa” in her first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. More

How Harlequin Became Romance

When Richard H.G. Bonnycastle, a former Arctic explorer with the Hudson Bay Company, launched Harlequin Books in Winnipeg in 1948, he had little interest in building a publishing empire around romance novels. More

Diana Palmer

The first romance novel I ever read was Margaret Way’s Red Cliffs of Malpara. More

Diana Palmer

Bleak House

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

Inventing the Western

Zane Grey and A. B. Guthrie Jr. were considered two of the foremost writers on the American West. More

Riders of the Purple Sage

Often called “the most popular Western novel of all time,” this classic helped shape the Western genre. More

Publishing Firsts: The Historical Romance Genre

At the time of its publication in 1972, nothing like Kathleen Woodiwiss’s The Flame and the Flower had ever been published. More

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

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