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The Hour of the Star
Clarice Lispector

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1977

The Hours
Michael Cunningham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The House Across the Lake
Riley Sager

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The House Across the Street
Lesley Pearse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The House at Pooh Corner
A. A. Milne

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Published in 1928

The House at Riverton
Kate Morton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The House at Sea's End
Elly Griffiths

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The House at Sugar Beach
Helene Cooper

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

The House at the Edge of Night

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The House at the End of the World
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The House at Tyneford
Natasha Solomons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The House Behind the Cedars
Charles W. Chesnutt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1900

The House by the Cemetery
John Everson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The House by the River
Lena Manta, Gail Holst-Warhaft

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The House by the Sea
Louise Douglas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The House Girl
Tara Conklin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Houseguest
Thomas Berger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

The House I Loved
Tatiana de Rosnay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The House in Paris
Elizabeth Bowen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

The House in the Cerulean Sea
T. J. Klune

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The House in the Pines
Ana Reyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The House Is on Fire
Rachel Beanland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Housekeeper
Natalie Barelli

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Housekeeper and the Professor
Yoko Ogawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Housemaid
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Housemaid's Daughter
Barbara Mutch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Housemaid's Secret
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The House Next Door
Anne Rivers Siddons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

The House of Asterion
Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1947

The House of Blue Leaves
John Guare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1971

The House of Broken Angels
Luis Alberto Urrea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The House of Dies Drear
Virginia Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1968

The House of Doors
Tan Twan Eng

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The House of Eve
Sadeqa Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The House of God
Samuel Shem

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

The House of Hades
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The House of Hunger
Dambudzo Marechera

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1978

The House of Kennedy
James Patterson, Cynthia Fagen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

The House of Lincoln
Nancy Horan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1905

The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty
Julia Flynn Siler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

The House of Secrets
Brad Meltzer and Tod Goldberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The House Of Silk
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The House of Sixty Fathers
Meindert DeJong

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1956

The House of Special Purpose
John Boyne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The House of Stairs
Barbara Vine, Ruth Rendell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The House of the Dead
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1861

The House of the Scorpion
Nancy Farmer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1851

The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The House of Thunder
Dean Koontz, Leigh Nichols

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The House of Wolves
James Patterson, Mike Lupica

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The House on Foster Hill
Jaime Jo Wright

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 1984

The House on Olive Street

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The House on the Borderland
William Hope Hodgson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1908

The House on the Gulf

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

The House on the Strand
Daphne du Maurier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

The House on Tradd Street
Karen White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The House on Vesper Sands
Paraic O'Donnell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The House That Lou Built
Mae Respicio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The House We Grew Up In
Lisa Jewell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The House With a Clock in Its Walls
John Bellairs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1973

The House with Chicken Legs
Sophie Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

The House Without Windows
Barbara Newhall Follett

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1927

The House You Pass on the Way
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want
Sonja Lyubomirsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Human Comedy
William Saroyan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

The Human Condition
Hannah Arendt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1958

The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars
Jo Marchant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Human Factor
Graham Greene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

The Humans
Matt Haig

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Human Stain
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society
Norbert Wiener

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1949

The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History
John Robert Mcneill, William H. Mcneill

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Hummingbird
Stephen P. Kiernan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Hummingbird's Daughter
Luis Alberto Urrea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1831

The Hundred Dresses
Eleanor Estes

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1944

The Hundred-Foot Journey
Richard C. Morais

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

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 Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance, #1)
N.K. Jemisin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Hundredth Queen (The Hundredth Queen, #1)
Emily R. King

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The Hundred-Year House
Rebecca Makkai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
Rashid Khalidi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Hunger
Alma Katsu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Hunger Games: Official Illustrated Movie Companion
Kate Egan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

The Hunger Games Tribute Guide
Emily Seife

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

The Hunger of the Gods
John Gwynne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Hungry Tide
Amitav Ghosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Hunted (The Living, #2)
Matt de la Peña

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Hunter
Julia Leigh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Hunter (Parker, #1)
Richard Stark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Hunters
John Flanagan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

The Hunt for Red October
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Hunt for the Seventh
Christine Morton-Shaw

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

The Hunting of the Snark
Lewis Carroll

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1876