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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Annie Proulx’s highly acclaimed, international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize–winning novel is an irresistible comedy of human life and possibility. It was winner of both the U.S. National Book Award and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize in 1993.
