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How to Solve Your Own Murder
Kristen Perrin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future
Maria Ressa

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

How to Steal a Dog
Barbara O'Connor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

How to Stop Time
Matt Haig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Dale Carnegie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1948

How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
Adele Faber

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1980

How To Talk To Anyone
Leil Lowndes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

How to Talk to Girls at Parties
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2007

How to Tame a Wild Tongue
Gloria Anzaldua

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1987

How to Train Your Dragon
Cressida Cowell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

How to Triumph Like a Girl
Ada Limón

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2013

How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed
Slavenka Drakulić

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1992

How Will You Measure Your Life?
Clayton M. Christensen, Karen Dillon, James Allworth

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Human Acts
Han Kang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Humankind: A Hopeful History
Rutger Bregman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Hum If You Don't Know the Words
Bianca Marais

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Hummingbird
Natalie Lloyd

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Hunger
Roxanne Gay

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Hunger of Memory
Richard Rodriguez

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

Hunters in the Snow
Tobias Wolff

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1981

Hunting by Stars
Cherie Dimaline

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Hurricane Child
Kheryn Callender

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Hurt Locker
Brian Turner

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

Husbands & Lovers
Beatriz Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Hush
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
Allie Brosh

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Hyperion
Dan Simmons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Hacienda
Isabel Cañas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Edward E. Baptist

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Halloween Tree
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1972

The Hamlet
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

The Hammer of Thor
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

The Hand
Mary Ruefle

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1996

The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1968

The Hand That First Held Mine
Maggie O'Farrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor
Eddie Jaku

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

The Happiest Refugee
Anh Do

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

The Harbinger: The Ancient Mystery that Holds the Secret of America's Future
Jonathan Cahn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Ben Horowitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Harlem Dancer
Claude McKay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1917

The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1936

The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The Hating Game
Sally Thorne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Haunted Palace
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1839

The Haunting Of Hill House
Shirley Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

The Hawthorne Legacy
Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The Hazel Wood
Melissa Albert

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Headstrong Historian
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2008

The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
T.R. Reid

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
David Treuer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Heart Goes Last
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1940

The Heart of a Woman
Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

The Heart Of Redness
Zakes Mda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

The Heart's Invisible Furies
John Boyne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Heat of the Day
Elizabeth Bowen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Heidi Chronicles
Wendy Wasserstein

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1988

The Heiress
Rachel Hawkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Help
Kathryn Stockett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Henna Artist
Alka Joshi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
Sun-Mi Hwang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Heretic's Daughter
Kathleen Kent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Hero and the Crown
Robin McKinley

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1984

The Hero's Walk
Anita Rau Badami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1949

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World
Peter Wohlleben

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Hidden Oracle
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | YA

The Hiding Place
Corrie Ten Boom

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1971

The Highwayman
Alfred Noyes

Fiction | Poem | Middle Grade | Published in 1906

The Hill We Climb
Amanda Gorman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2021

The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Histories
Tacitus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 110

The History of Love
Nicole Krauss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave
Mary Prince

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1830

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Samuel Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1759

The History of Sexuality: Volume 1
Michel Foucault

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976

The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams
Henry Fielding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1742

The History of the Franks
Gregory of Tours

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 590

The History of the Kings of Britain
Geoffrey of Monmouth

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1136

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Henry Fielding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1749

The History Teacher
Billy Collins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

The Hitchhiker
Lucille Fletcher

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1941

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1937

The Hollow Men
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1925

The Hollow of the Three Hills
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2010

The Home and the World
Rabindranath Tagore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1916

The Homecoming
Harold Pinter

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1964

The Homework Machine
Dan Gutman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

The Honest Truth
Dan Gemeinhart

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

The Honey Bus
Meredith May

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

The Horse And His Boy
C. S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1954

The Hotel Nantucket
Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
Richard Preston

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1902

The Hour of the Star
Clarice Lispector

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1977