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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Yates’ Garden Guide
In 1895 Arthur Yates saw the need for a publication that answered gardeners’ questions, so he wrote the first Yates’ Garden Guide, a basic gardening book that is still published (in its seventy-eighth edition) more than 110 years later.