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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Stride Toward Freedom
Civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s remarkable telling of the Montgomery bus boycott, the first successful demonstration of nonviolent resistance in America. It was lauded by both the general public and literary critics.
