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A Half Forgotten Song
Katherine Webb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

A Handful of Stars
Cynthia Lord

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

A Hare in the Elephant's Trunk
Jan L. Coates

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

A Hat Full of Sky
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2004

A Haunted House and Other Short Stories
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1944

A Haunting in Venice
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

A Hazard of New Fortunes
William Dean Howells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1890

A Head Full of Ghosts
Paul G. Tremblay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2000

A Heart in a Body in the World
Deb Caletti

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

A Heart So Fierce and Broken
Brigid Kemmerer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

A Heart So White
Javier Marías

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

A Heart That Works
Rob Delaney

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
Alice Childress

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1973

A Hero Of Our Time
Mikhail Lermontov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1838

A Hidden Fire
Elizabeth Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
Larry Alexander, Adam Makos

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

A Higher Loyalty
James Comey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

A High Five for Glenn Burke
Phil Bildner

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

A High Wind in Jamaica
Richard Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

A History of American Higher Education
John R. Thelin

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2004

A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
Diarmaid MacCulloch

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Karen Armstrong

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

A History of Loneliness

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

A History of Pan-African Revolt
C.L.R. James

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

A History of the American People
Paul Johnson

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1997

A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths
John Barton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

A History of the Jews
Paul Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

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

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1989

A History of the World in 6 Glasses
Tom Standage

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
Raj Patel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

A History of US (A ^AHistory of US)
Joy Hakim

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1994

A History of Warfare
John Keegan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

A History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1945

A History Of Wild Places
Shea Ernshaw

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Hologram for the King
Dave Eggers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A Home at the End of the World
Michael Cunningham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

A Hope In The Unseen
Ron Suskind

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1998

A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea
Melissa Fleming

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

A Horse And Two Goats
R. K. Narayan

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1970

A Horse Walks into a Bar
David Grossman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

A House Among the Trees

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A House for Mr. Biswas
V. S. Naipaul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

A House in the Sky
Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

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 House With Good Bones
T. Kingfisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

A House Without Windows
Nadia Hashimi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

A Human Being Died That Night
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

A Hundred Summers
Beatriz Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

A Hunger Artist
Franz Kafka

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1922

A Hunger Like No Other
Kresley Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
Heather E. Heying, Bret Weinstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Habibi
Craig Thompson

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

Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life
Robert N. Bellah

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success
Sean Ellis & Morgan Brown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Hades
Alexandra Adornetto

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Hades: Lord of the Dead (Olympians, #4)
George O'Connor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Hadji Murat
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

Hadley & Grace
Suzanne Redfearn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Hadriana in All My Dreams
René Depestre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Hadrian the Seventh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1904

Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1716

Hag-Seed: William Shakespeare's The Tempest Retold
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Haiti: The Aftershocks of History
Laurent Dubois

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Half a Chance
Cynthia Lord

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Half a King (Shattered Sea, #1)
Joe Abercrombie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Half a Life
Darin Strauss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
Tom Robbins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Half a Soul
Olivia Atwater

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Half a War (Shattered Sea, #3)
Joe Abercrombie

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Half Bad
Sally Green

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Half-Blood
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

Half-Blood Blues
Esi Edugyan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Half-Breed (Goodread Biographies)
Maria Campbell

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1973

Half Broke Horses
Jeannette Walls

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Half Brother
Kenneth Oppel

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life
Edward O. Wilson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Half Empty
David Rakoff

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2010

Half Girlfriend
Chetan Bhagat

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Half Magic
Edward Eager, N. M. Bodecker

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1954

Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Nicholas D. Kristof , Sheryl WuDunn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Half the World
Joe Abercrombie

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

Half Upon a Time (1)
James Riley

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Half Upon a Time (Half Upon a Time, #1)
James Riley, James Riley

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Halfway Normal
Barbara Dee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Halfway to the Grave
Jeaniene Frost

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Half Wild
Sally Green

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy
Anne Lamott

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Hallowed
Cynthia Hand

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Hallowe'en Party
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

Hallucinations
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Halo
Alexandra Adornetto

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Halo: First Strike

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Halo: The Fall of Reach
Eric S. Nylund

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Halt's Peril
John Flanagan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Hamilton: The Revolution
Lin Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

Hamlet
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1609