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The Hike
Susi Holliday, Drew Magary

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Hill of Evil Counsel
Amos Oz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

The Hilltop
Assaf Gavron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

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 Historian
Elizabeth Kostova

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The History Boys
Alan Bennett

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2004

The History of Bees (Klimakvartetten, #1)
Diane Oatley, Maja Lunde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The History of Emily Montague (New Canadian Library)
Frances Brooke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1769

The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1852

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 Mr. Polly
H.G. Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1910

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Samuel Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1759

THE HISTORY OF ROME (Complete Edition in 4 Volumes)
Livy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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 Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
Susan Wise Bauer

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Vols. 1-4
Edward Gibbon

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1995

The History of the Franks
Gregory of Tours

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 590

The History of the Hobbit, Part One: Mr. Baggins
J.R.R. Tolkien, John D. Rateliff

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

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 of White People
Nell Irvin Painter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

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 Hit (Will Robie, #2)
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Hive
Gregg Olsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1937

The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines
Michael E. Mann

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Hodgeheg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Holdout
Graham Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Hole
Hiroko Oyamada

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Hole We're In
Gabrielle Zevin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Holiday
T.M. Logan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Holiday Swap
Maggie Knox

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Holiness of God
R.C. Sproul

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

The Hollow
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1946

The Hollow Boy
Jonathan Stroud

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

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 Man (Nick Belsey #1)
Oliver Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Hollow Men
T.S. Eliot

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1925

The Hollow Needle: Further Adventures of Arsène Lupin
Maurice Leblanc

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1909

The Hollow Places
T. Kingfisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Holocaust in American Life
Peter Novick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1971

The Holy Sinner
Thomas Mann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

The Holy Terrors
Jean Cocteau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

The Holy War
John Bunyan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1678

The Home and the World
Rabindranath Tagore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1916

The Homecoming
Laurence Yep

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1977

The Home for Unwanted Girls
Joanna Goodman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Home Place
Wright Morris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
J. Drew Lanham

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

The Homesman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

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 Honey-Don't List
Christina Lauren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Honeymoon Crashers
Tim Paige, Inés del Castillo, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Cynthia Farrell, Jennifer Aquino, Deacon Lee, Adriana Sananes, Jessica Marie Garcia, Kimberly Woods, Stephanie Nemeth-Parker, Christina Lauren, Harry Shum Jr., Lee Osorio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Honeys
Ryan La Sala

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)
Seishi Yokomizo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1946

The Honk and Holler Opening Soon
Billie Letts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Honor of the Queen
David Weber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Hooker and the Hermit
L.H. Cosway, Penny Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Hookup
Kristen Ashley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Hook Up
Christian Bernhard, Wanda Martin, Kristen Callihan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Hoopster
Alan Lawrence Sitomer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

The Hope Chest
Viola Shipman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Hopefuls
Jennifer Close

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Hope of Elantris (Elantris, #1.5)
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2006

The Hopkins Manuscript
R.C. Sherriff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
Guy de Maupassant

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1886

The Horse And His Boy
C. S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1954

The Horsecatcher (Bison Book)
Mari Sandoz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1957

The Horse Dancer
Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Horse Dealer's Daughter
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

The Horseman's Graves
Jacqueline Baker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Horseman (The West Country Trilogy, #1)
Tim Pears

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Horse's Mouth
Joyce Cary

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1944

The Horse Soldier
Merline Lovelace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
David W. Anthony

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Horse Whisperer
Nicholas Evans

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Host
Stephenie Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Hostage
Carolyn Wren

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Hostile Hospital (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #8)
Lemony Snicket

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

The Hot and Cold Summer
Johanna Hurwitz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1984

The Hotel
Elizabeth Bowen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

The Hotel Nantucket
Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Hotel New Hampshire
John Irving

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1981

The Hot Rock (Dortmunder, #1)
Donald E. Westlake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

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 Rowan
Henry H. Neff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1902

The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1902

The Hour I First Believed
Wally Lamb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Hour of Peril
Daniel Stashower

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013