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Harper Perennial is a paperback imprint of the publishing house HarperCollins Publishers. Overview Harper Perennial has divisions located in New York, London, Toronto, and Sydney. The imprint is descended from the Perennial Library imprint founded by Harper & Row in 1964. In fall of 2005, Harper Perennial rebranded with a new logo (an Olive) and a distinct editorial direction emphasizing fiction and non-fiction from new and young authors. In the end matter, books often feature a brand-specific P.S. section that features extra material such as interviews. Recent notable books include I Am Not Myself These Days by Josh Kilmer-Purcell, The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany, This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins, The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz, Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neil, Grab On to Me Tightly as If I Knew the Way by Bryan Charles, and The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon. In November, 2011, they released The Shakespeare Guide to Italy: Retracing the Bard's Unknown Travels by Richard Paul Roe, a detailed examination of the locales mentioned in ten plays by Shakespeare. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, a direct offshoot of the imprint, publishes authors such as Peter Singer, Harper Lee, Zora Neale Hurston, Aldous Huxley, Russell Banks, Thomas Pynchon, Milan Kundera, Gabriel García Márquez, Sylvia Plath, and Thornton Wilder. Further reading Peter Coveney, Harper's Perennial Library, 1964-1990, publishinghistory.com Peter Coveney, "Harper’s Perennial Library Mystery Series, 1976-1990", at Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine, July/August 2021. References External links Harper Perennial Home The Olive Reader: Harper Perennial Blog Harper Perennial Podcast Harper Perennial and HarperPerennial at Open Library. Discover the Harper Perennial popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Harper Perennial books.
Best Seller Harper Perennial Books of 2024
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Welcome to Night Vale
Joseph Fink & Jeffrey CranorNew York Times Bestseller"Hypnotic and darkly funny. . . . Belongs to a particular strain of American gothic that encompasses The Twilight Zone, Stephen King and Twin Peaks, with a...
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The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home
Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor“A chilling ghost story. . . . A decades long, globespanning saga of adventure, betrayal, love, and fate [about] one of Welcome to Night Vale’s most enigmatic and terrifying c...
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Ordinary Men
Christopher R. Browning“A remarkableand singularly chillingglimpse of human behavior. . .This meticulously researched book...represents a major contribution to the literature of the Holocaust."Newsweek&#...
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Quentin TarantinoQuentin Tarantino’s longawaited first work of fictionat once hilarious, delicious and brutalis the always surprising, sometimes shocking, novelization of his Academy Award winning ...
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Death Be Not Proud
John J. Gunther"If courage is the antidote to pain and grief, the disease and the cure are both in this book. . . . A story of great unselfishness and great heroism." New York TimesJohnny Gu...
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Krakatoa
Simon WinchesterThe bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and worldchanging effects of the catastrophic er...
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The Witches of New York
Ami MckayA Buzzfeed Best Gift Book of the Year“A dark, atmospheric, and feminist story of three women in New York City's Gilded Age, each determined to thrive in a society hellbent on keepi...
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The Orphans of Race Point
Patry Francis“Set against the coast of Provincetown, Patry Francis’s fierce, ravishing epic cuts deep to the bone about how love binds us together and breaks us apart, and how the past’s thumbp...
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The Gift of Therapy
Irvin YalomAcclaimed author and renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom distills thirtyfive years of psychotherapy wisdom into one brilliant volume.The culmination of master psychiatrist Dr. Irv...
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Two Old Women
Velma Wallis"No one should miss this beautiful legend." Tony HillermanVelma Wallis’s awardwinning, bestselling tale about two elderly Native American women who must fend for themselves during ...
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The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing"The Golden Notebook is Doris Lessing's most important work and has left its mark upon the ideas and feelings of a whole generation of women." New York Times Book ...
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Grass Is Singing
Doris Lessing"There is passion here, a piercing accuracy, a rare sensitivity and power. . . . One can only marvel." New York TimesSet in Southern Rhodesia under white rule, Doris Lessing's fir...
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On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition
William ZinsserOn Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some w...
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Zelda
Nancy Milford“Profound, overwhelmingly moving . . . a richly complex love story.” New York TimesAcclaimed biographer Nancy Milford brings to life the tormented, elusive personality o...
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Lost Girls
Robert KolkerNew York Times Bestseller Now a Netflix Film“Rich, tragic. . . monumental. . . truecrime reporting at its best.” Washington PostThe bestselling account of the lives of f...
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More Tales of the City
Armistead Maupin"Remarkable. . . delectable, addictive." New York Times Book ReviewThe second novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s bestselling San Francisco saga.The t...
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Once an Eagle
Anton MyrerThe phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller that captured the imagination of a generation"A remarkable novel. . . utterly engrossing. . . . It is an astute study of the m...
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Giant
Edna FerberThe basis for the classic film starring James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, and Rock Hudson, Giant is Pulitzer Prizewinning author Edna Ferber's sweeping generational tale of power,...
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The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor RooseveltA candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, First Lady and humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt.T...
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The Universe
John BrockmanJohn Brockman brings together the world's bestknown physicists and science writersincluding Brian Greene, Walter Isaacson, Nobel Prizewinner Frank Wilczek, Benoit Mandelbrot, and M...
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Profiles in Courage
John F. KennedyTHE PULITZER PRIZEWINNING CLASSIC OF POLITICAL INTEGRITYWith a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy and introduction by Caroline KennedyJohn F. Kennedy’s enduring classic resounds with ti...
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The Last Anniversary
Liane MoriartyFrom Liane Moriarty, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Big Little Lies and Truly Madly Guilty, comes an unforgettable novel defined by her signature sharp wit, paget...
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We Live in Water
Jess WalterONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019From the New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, the first collection of short fiction from Jess ...
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Darkest Hour
Anthony McCarten“McCarten's pulsepounding narrative transports the reader to those springtime weeks in 1940 when the fate of the world rested on the shoulders of Winston Churchill. A true sto...
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Joy in the Morning
Betty SmithFrom Betty Smith, author of the beloved American classic A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, comes an unsentimental yet radiant and powerfully uplifting tale of young love and marriage....
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Little, Big
John CrowleyJohn Crowley's masterful Little, Big is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewoodnot found on any mapto ...
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The Library at the Edge of the World
Felicity Hayes-McCoy“Heartwarming . . . reminiscent of Maeve Binchy and Roisin Meaney.” Irish ExaminerIn the bestselling tradition of Fannie Flagg and Jenny Colgan comes Felicity HayesMcCoy’s U.S. deb...
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The Field Updated Ed
Lynne McTaggart“A big, bold, brilliantly crafted pageturner with HUGE ideas that challenge every last view about how the world works. This is both a primer to understand the law of attraction and...
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How to Write a New York Times Bestseller in Ten Easy Steps
Jason MulgrewA hilarious essay by New York Times bestselling author Jason Mulgrew, plus get a sneak peek from his new book, 236 Pounds of Class Vice President, available February 12, 2013.For a...
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You Learn By Living
Eleanor RooseveltFrom one of the world’s most celebrated and admired public figures, a wise and intimate book on how to get the most of out life.Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the lo...
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Black Girls Must Die Exhausted
Jayne Allen“It’s a good thing that this is only the first book of a trilogy, because after getting to know Tabitha, you won’t want to leave her at the end. . . . Written intimately as if you’...
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Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell & Lao TzuThe bestselling, widely acclaimed translation from Stephen Mitchell"Mitchell's rendition of the Tao Te Ching comes as close to being definitive for our time as any I can imagine. I...
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Two for Sorrow
Nicola Upson“A new and assured talent….Nicola Upson is to be congratulated.”P.D. JamesAuthor Nicola Upson brings legendary mystery writer Josephine Tey back for a third investigation in Two fo...
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In Another Time
Jillian Cantor“Jillian Cantor’s In Another Time is a love song to the most powerful of all human emotions: hope. It is the story of Max and Hanna, two starcrossed lovers fighting to stay togethe...
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The Night Shift
Dr. Brian GoldmanIn The Night Shift, Dr. Brian Goldman shares his experiences in the witching hours at Mount Sinai Hospital in downtown Toronto. We meet the kinds of patients who walk into an E.R. ...
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Brain Lock
Jeffrey M. SchwartzThe definitive classic that has helped more than 400,000 people defeat obsessivecompulsive behavior, with allnew material from the authorAn estimated 5 million Americans suffer fro...
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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Ursula K. Le Guin“Ursula Le Guin is more than just a writer of adult fantasy and science fiction . . . she is a philosopher; an explorer in the landscapes of the mind.” – Cincinnati EnquirerThe rec...
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The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
Marianne Cronin“A beautiful debut, funny, tender, and animated by a willingness to confront life’s obstacles and find a way to survive. . . . It celebrates friendship, finds meaning in difficulty...
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Shakespeare
Bill BrysonBill Bryson’s bestselling biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarshipup...
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This Explains Everything
John BrockmanDrawn from the cuttingedge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything will revolutionize your understanding of the world.What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful expla...
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Skinny
Diana Spechler“Skinnywill be my goto recommendation all year for anyone who wants smart, endearing,beautifully written women's fiction." Allison Winn Scotch, New York Times bestselling author of...
