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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Alice Munro

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2001

HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship
Nadine Strossen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Hating Heidi Foster
Jeffrey Blount

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Hattie Big Sky
Kirby Larson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Haunted
Kelley Armstrong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Haunted Ground (Nora Gavin, #1)
Erin Hart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales of Horror
H.P. Lovecraft

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1969

Haunting Adeline
H. D. Carlton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Havah: The Story of Eve
Tosca Lee

Fiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 2008

Havana Nocturne
T. J. English

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Have a Little Faith: A True Story
Mitch Albom

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)
Dorothy L. Sayers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember
Lauren Graham

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Have Space Suit—Will Travel
Robert A. Heinlein

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1958

Have You Seen Luis Velez?
Catherine Ryan Hyde

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

Hawaii
James A. Michener

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Haweswater
Sarah Hall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Hawk Among the Sparrows
Dean McLaughlin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

Hawkeye, Volume 1: My Life as a Weapon
Matt Fraction, David Aja

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Hawkeye, Volume 2: Little Hits
David Aja, Javier Pulido, Matt Fraction

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Hawkeye, Volume 4: Rio Bravo
Matt Fraction

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Hawksmoor
Peter Ackroyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Hawksong
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2003

Hawthorne and His Mosses
Herman Melville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1850

Hayavadana
Girish Karnad

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1971

Hay Fever
Noël Coward

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1925

Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: A Philosophical Tale
Ibn Tufayl

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1177

Headhunters
Don Bartlett, Jo Nesbø

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Headlong
Michael Frayn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Head On
John Scalzi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Head Over Heels
Hannah Orenstein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality
Jacob Tomsky

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Heads of the Colored People
Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2018

Heads You Win
Richard Armitage, Jeffrey Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Healer of the Water Monster
Brian Young

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Healing through the Dark Emotions: The Wisdom of Grief, Fear, and Despair
Miriam Greenspan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Heal Your Body: The Mental Causes for Physical Illness and the Metaphysical Way to Overcome Them
Louise L. Hay

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1976

Heart and Soul
Maeve Binchy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Heartbeat
Sharon Creech

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Heart Berries
Terese Marie Mailhot

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Heart Bones
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Heartbreaker
Julie Garwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Heartbreak Hotel
Deborah Moggach

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Heartbreak House
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1919

Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: A Celebration of Taylor Swift's Musical Journey, Cultural Impact, and Reinvention of Pop Music for Swifties by a Swiftie
Rob Sheffield

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

Heartburn
Nora Ephron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Heart Full of Lies
Ann Rule

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Hear the Wind Sing (The Rat, #1)
Alfred Birnbaum, Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Heart in the Right Place
Carolyn Jourdan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
Sarah Smarsh

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Heartless
Elsie Silver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Heartless (Parasol Protectorate, #4)
Gail Carriger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Heart of a Champion
Carl Deuker

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1994

Heart of a Dog
Mikhail Bulgakov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Heart of a Samurai
Margi Preus

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Heart of a Shepherd
Rosanne Parry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1899

Heart of My Monster
Rina Kent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Heart of Obsidian
Nalini Singh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Heart of the Matter
Emily Giffin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Heart of the Matter: What 100 Years of Living Have Taught Me
Emily Giffin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Heart of the Sea
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Heart of the Sun Warrior
Sue Lynn Tan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Heart Recaptured
Tillie Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Heart-Shaped Box
Joe Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Heartsick
Chelsea Cain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Hearts in Atlantis
Stephen King, Stephen King

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1999

Heartstone
C.J. Sansom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Heartstone (Matthew Shardlake, #5)
C.J. Sansom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Heartstopper: Volume Five
Alice Oseman

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2023

Heartstopper: Volume Four
Alice Oseman

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

Heartstopper: Volume One
Alice Oseman

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2018

Heartstopper: Volume Three
Alice Oseman

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

Heartstopper: Volume Three (Heartstopper, #3)
Alice Oseman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Heartstopper: Volume Two
Alice Oseman

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2019

Hearts Unbroken
Cynthia Leitich Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life
Cleo Wade

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

Heat
Mike Lupica

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Heat 2
Michael Mann, Meg Gardiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
Bill Buford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Heat and Dust
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Heat and Light
Ellen Van Neerven

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2014

Heated Rivalry
Rachel Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Heat Lightning
John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Heat Wave
Richard Castle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Heaven
V.C. Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Heaven and Hell
Kristen Ashley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Heaven: A Novel
Mieko Kawakami, Transl. Sam Bett, Transl. David Boyd

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Heaven Eyes
David Almond

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Heaven Is a Place on Earth
Adrian Shirk

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Heaven is for Real
Todd Burpo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Heaven, My Home (Highway 59 #2)
Attica Locke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 1
Suika, 墨香铜臭, Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Heaven, Texas
Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain
Charles R. Cross

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

Heavy
Kiese Laymon

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Heavy Weather (Blandings Castle, #5)
P.G. Wodehouse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

Hebrew Bible
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | BCE

He Chose the Nails: What God Did to Win Your Heart
Max Lucado

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000