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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The Hospital in Buwambo
The first Mills & Boon romance novel published by Harlequin, which established the iconic relationship between the two companies that changed romance publishing. Ten years later, Harlequin would publish Mills & Boon titles exclusively and, in 1972, Harlequin acquired Mills & Boon.
