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HarperCollins Canada is excited to announce the publication of HarperCollins Canadian Classics, a curated collection commemorating some of the most iconic and diverse voices that have shaped Canadian literature throughout the decades. The series will publish on May 5, 2026, coinciding with the release of the HarperCollins American Classics series in honour of their sesquicentennial.  

Titles in the Canadian Classics inaugural collection include award winners and bestsellers; Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan, Any Known Blood by Lawrence Hill, The Wonder by Emma Donoghue, Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya-Gowda, By Chance Alone by Max Eisen, Birdie by Tracey Lindberg, and Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O’Neill. Specially designed in-house, all titles in the Classics series will be formatted as trade paperbacks with a dedicated frontispiece and debossed type, the designs reflecting the timeless evergreen nature of these works.

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In 1817, in a modest New York City printing shop run by John and James Harper, an American legacy was born. Soon the firm settled on an emblem—a torch, symbolizing the flame of knowledge—that the company still bears under its name, HarperCollins Publishers. Since its founding, no American publisher has been so entwined in the history of American letters: from Moby Dick to Their Eyes Were Watching God, from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to To Kill a Mockingbird, from Walden to Silent Spring, from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Howard Zinn, HarperCollins has enriched, challenged, and defined the American spirit. Still headquartered only a stone’s throw from J. & J. Harper’s original Manhattan offices, HarperCollins is proud to present this library of American literature drawn from our storied catalog in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States.