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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Bleak House
Held to be among Dickens’s finest, Bleak House contains one of the most vast, complex, and engaging arrays of minor characters and subplots in his entire canon, and was a significant factor in the development of the mystery novel.