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A Haunted House and Other Short Stories
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1944

A Hazard of New Fortunes
William Dean Howells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1890

A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2000

A Heart So White
Javier Marías

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

A Higher Loyalty
James Comey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

A High Wind in Jamaica
Richard Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
Julian Barnes

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1989

A Hologram for the King
Dave Eggers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A Hope In The Unseen
Ron Suskind

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1998

A Horse And Two Goats
R. K. Narayan

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1970

A House of My Own
Sandra Cisneros

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

A House of Trees
Joan Colebrook

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1988

A Human Being Died That Night
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

A Hunger Artist
Franz Kafka

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1922

Habibi
Craig Thompson

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Half a Chance
Cynthia Lord

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Half a Life
Darin Strauss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Half Empty
David Rakoff

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2010

Hallucinations
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Hands of My Father
Myron Uhlberg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Hansel and Gretel
Rika Lesser

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1984

Happy are the Happy
Yasmina Reza

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Happy Days
Samuel Beckett

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1961

Harlem: The Vision of Morgan and Marvin Smith
John Smith, Marvin Smith, Morgan Smith

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

Harriet Jacobs: A Life
Jean Fagan Yellin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2004

Harriet's Daughter
M. NourbeSe Philip

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1988

Harvest
Jim Crace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Harvey
Hervé Bouchard

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Alice Munro

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2001

HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship
Nadine Strossen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Havana Nocturne
T. J. English

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Hayavadana
Girish Karnad

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1971

Hay Fever
Noël Coward

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1925

Heartbreak House
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1919

Heart of a Dog
Mikhail Bulgakov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Heat and Dust
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Heat Wave
Richard Castle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Heaven Eyes
David Almond

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Heaven is for Real
Todd Burpo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Hegel: A Biography
Terry Pinkard

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2000

Heir Apparent
Vivian Vande Velde

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Heist Society
Ally Carter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Helen in Egypt
H. D.

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1924

Helen Keller
Eileen Bigland

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1950

Helen of Troy
Margaret George

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Hellhound on His Trail
Hampton Sides

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

Hello Lighthouse
Sophie Blackall

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 2018

Heloise
Mandy Hager

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Hemingway
Kenneth S. Lynn

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1959

Henderson the Rain King
Saul Bellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Henry and the Paper Route
Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1984

Henry David Thoreau: A Life
Laura Dassow Walls

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

Henry IV, Part 2
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1600

Henry James: A Life
Leon Edel

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1985

Henry VIII
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1613

Henry VI, Part 1
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult

Henry VI, Part 3
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1595

Here, Bullet
Brian Turner

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

Here Comes the Sun
Nicole Dennis-Benn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Here I Am
Jonathan Safran Foer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Here I Stand
Roland Bainton

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1950

Here Lies Arthur
Philip Reeve

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Her Fearful Symmetry
Audrey Niffenegger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Her First Ball
Katherine Mansfield

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1921

Herman Melville
Hershel Parker

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

Herodotus
John Gould

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1850

Heroes
Robert Cormier

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Heroes of the Frontier
Dave Eggers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Hero on a Bicycle
Shirley Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Herzog
Saul Bellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

High Hearts
Rita Mae Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

High Heat
Carl Deuker

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

High Noon
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

High Price
Carl Hart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Highwire Moon
Susan Straight

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

His Last Bow
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1917

Historias del Kronen
José Ángel Mañas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Histories of the Transgender Child
Julian Gill-Peterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

History in Three Keys
Paul A. Cohen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Hit and Run
Norah Mcclintock

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1994

Hitch-22
Christopher Hitchens

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Hitler
Volker Ullrich

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

Hitler's Furies
Wendy Lower

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Hitler's Willing Executioners
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1934

Hocus Pocus
Teresa Roblin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Hold Fast
Kevin Major

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1978

Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
Sally Mann

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Hollow City
Ransom Riggs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Hollow Kingdom
Kira Jane Buxton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Holy Bible
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1611

Holy Feast and Holy Fast
Caroline Walker Bynum

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

Homage To Catalonia
George Orwell

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1938

Home After Dark
David Small

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Homeboyz
Alan Sitomer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Home Fires
Gene Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Homer & Langley
E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Hondo
Louis L'Amour

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
Deb Caletti

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Honeydew
Edith Pearlman

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1977

Honolulu
Alan Brennert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Honor
Elif Shafak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Honor Girl
Maggie Thrash

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2015

Hoodwink
Bill Pronzini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Hoops
Patricia Mclinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Hope Is The Thing With Feathers
Christopher Cokinos

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Hope Springs
Lynne Hinton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Horns
Joe Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Horseman, Pass By
Larry Mcmurtry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Horses of God
Mahi Binebine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Horse Soldiers
Doug Stanton

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

Hostage Three
Nick Lake

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Hotel du Lac
Anita Brookner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Hotel Florida
Amanda Vaill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Hotel World
Ali Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution
Thomas L. Friedman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Hot Milk
Deborah Levy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

House
Tracy Kidder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

House Fires
Nancy Reisman

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2001

House of Names
Colm Tóibín

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

House of Stone
Anthony Shadid

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

House of the Red Fish
Graham Salisbury

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

House Rules
Rachel Sontag

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

How Angel Peterson Got His Name
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate
Andrew J. Hoffman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

How Doctors Think
Jerome Groopman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

How Do I Love Thee
Lurlene McDaniel

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1989

How I Found the Strong
Margaret McMullan

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 2019

How Markets Fail
John Cassidy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

How Music Got Free
Stephen Richard Witt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

How Reading Changed My Life
Anna Quindlen

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1998

How to Be a Woman
Caitlin Moran

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

How to Be Black
Baratunde Thurston

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

How to Leave Hialeah
Jennine Capó Crucet

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

How to Misbehave
Ruthie Knox

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

How to Read and Why
Harold Bloom

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

How to Read the Air
Dinaw Mengestu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

How To Save A Life
Sara Zarr

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

How to Survive a Plague
David France

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

How We Die
Sherwin B. Nuland

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

How We Fight for Our Lives
Saeed Jones

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

How We Got to Now
Steven Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Huck's Raft
Steven Mintz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
Kiran Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Human Capital
Stephen Amidon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Humboldt's Gift
Saul Bellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
Carrie Brownstein

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Hunters in the Snow
Daisy Hildyard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Hunt for the Bamboo Rat
Graham Salisbury

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Hurt Go Happy
Ginny Rorby

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Hush, Hush
Becca Fitzpatrick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Hairy Ape
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1922

The Haj
Leon Uris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Hamilton Affair
Elizabeth Cobbs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Hammer of Eden
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Happiness Hypothesis
Jonathan Haidt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent A Year Trying To Sing In The Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, And Generally Have More Fun
Gretchen Rubin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

The Hard Man of the Swings
Jeanne Willis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Hare With Amber Eyes
Edmund de Waal

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

The Harp in the South
Ruth Park

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

The Harvard Psychedelic Club
Don Lattin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

The Healers
Ayi Kwei Armah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

The Heart and the Fist
Eric Greitens

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

The Heart of a Chief
Joseph Bruchac

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

The Heart of Betrayal
Mary E. Pearson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Heart of Everything That Is
Bob Drury, Tom Clavin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

The Heart of Midlothian
Walter Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1818

The Heathen School
John Putnam Demos

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Heather Blazing
Colm Tóibín

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Hemingses of Monticello
Annette Gordon-Reed

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

The Higher Power of Lucky
Susan Patron

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

The Highest Tide
Jim Lynch

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

The High King
Lloyd Alexander

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1968

The High Mountains of Portugal
Yann Martel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The High Road to China
Kate Teltscher

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

The Hill of Evil Counsel
Amos Oz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

The Hindus: An Alternative History
Transl. Wendy Doniger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Hired Girl
Laura Amy Schlitz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The History Boys
Alan Bennett

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2004

The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse
Robert Rankin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Hollow Hills
Mary Stewart

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1973

The Hollow Men
Rob Mccarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Homecoming
Earl Hamner Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

The Honk and Holler Opening Soon
Billie Letts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Hoopster
Alan Lawrence Sitomer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

The Horse Dealer's Daughter
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

The Horse Soldier
Merline Lovelace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Horse Whisperer
Nicholas Evans

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Hostage
Carolyn Wren

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Hotel New Hampshire
John Irving

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1981

The Hound of Rowan
Henry H. Neff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

The Hour of Peril
Daniel Stashower

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

The House at Sugar Beach
Helene Cooper

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

The House Girl
Tara Conklin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Houseguest
Thomas Berger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

The House of Blue Leaves
John Guare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1971

The House of Dies Drear
Virginia Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1968

The House Of Silk
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The House on the Strand
Daphne du Maurier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

The House That Lou Built
Mae Respicio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The House With a Clock in Its Walls
John Bellairs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1973

The House You Pass on the Way
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

The Human Comedy
William Saroyan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

The Hummingbird
Stephen P. Kiernan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Hundred Penny Box
Sharon Bell Mathis

Fiction | Short Story | Middle Grade | Published in 1975

The Hundred Secret Senses
Amy Tan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Hunt for the Seventh
Christine Morton-Shaw

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

The Huntress
Pascale Petit

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005