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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A Canticle for Leibowitz
Winner of the Hugo Award and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, this novel has never been out of print, selling more than 2 million copies worldwide. In 2014, The New Yorker called it “a hugely influential book and a landmark of post-apocalyptic fiction.”
