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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 2017

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 Horsewoman
James Patterson, Mike Lupica

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Host
Stephenie Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Hostage
Carolyn Wren

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Hostile Hospital
Lemony Snicket

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | 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

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 1862

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 Unexpected Sisters
Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

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