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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Flow
This psychology classic explores creativity and happiness. In his seminal work, psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s famous investigations of “optimal experience” reveal that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow.
