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 Years of Extermination
This unparalleled work—based on a vast array of documents and an overwhelming choir of voices from diaries, letters, and memoirs—is a definitive representation of the history of the Holocaust. The completion of Saul Friedländer’s major historical opus on Nazi Germany and the Jews, it won the Pulitzer Prize.