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 Odyssey of Homer
The most eloquent translation of Homer’s epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus and his arduous journey home after the Trojan War, it was hailed as “the best translation there is of a great, perhaps the greatest, poet” by the New York Times Book Review.
