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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Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World
The seminal work that launched Gorbachev’s reform movement, Perestroika outlines his restructuring plans as well as his economic, social, and political aims. This important book gives an extraordinary glimpse into the man and the global politics of the time and is invaluable to any understanding of the fall of communism.