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Homeland Elegies: A Novel
Ayad Akhtar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Homeland (Little Brother, #2)
Cory Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Homeless Bird
Gloria Whelan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

Home of the Brave
Katherine Applegate

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Home of the Gentry
Ivan Turgenev

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1859

Homeric Hymns
Homer

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 700

Homer & Langley
E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Homeschooled
Stefan Merrill Block

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

Homesick: My Own Story
Jean Fritz

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1982

Home Sweet Motel (Welcome to Wonderland, #1)
Chris Grabenstein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Home To Harlem
Claude McKay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
David Simon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Hominids (Neanderthal Parallax, #1)
Robert J. Sawyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Homo Faber
Max Frisch, Michael Bullock

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture

Nonfiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1938

Hondo
Louis L'Amour

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Honey
Sarah Weeks

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
Deb Caletti

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Honeybee
Craig Silvey

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Honeydew
Edith Pearlman

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1977

Honey Girl
Morgan Rogers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Honey in the Horn
H.L. Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Honeymoon
James Patterson, Howard Roughan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Honeysuckle Season
Mary Ellen Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Honolulu
Alan Brennert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Honor
Thrity Umrigar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Honor Among Thieves
Jeffrey Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Honor Bound (Honor Bound, #1)
W.E.B. Griffin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Honor Girl
Maggie Thrash

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2015

Honor's Splendour
Julie Garwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Mikki Kendall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Hoodwink
Bill Pronzini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Hooked: A Dark, Contemporary Romance
Emily McIntire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Nir Eyal

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Hook, Line, and Sinker
Tessa Bailey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Hook Shot
Kennedy Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Hooper
Geoff Herbach

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Hoops
Patricia Mclinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Hoops: A Graphic Novel
Matt Tavares

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Hoot
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Hope and Help for Your Nerves
Claire Weekes

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1969

Hope And Other Dangerous Pursuits
Laila Lalami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Hope Is The Thing With Feathers
Christopher Cokinos

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Hope Leslie, or Early Times in the Massachusetts
Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1827

Hopeless
Elsie Silver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Hope Never Dies (Obama Biden Mysteries, #1)
Andrew Shaffer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Hope Springs
Lynne Hinton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Hope Was Here
Joan Bauer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Hopscotch
Julio Cortázar, Gregory Rabassa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

Horde
Ann Aguirre

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Horizon
Barry Lopez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Hornet Flight
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Horns
Joe Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Horrid Henry (Horrid Henry, #1)
Francesca Simon

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1994

Horrid Henry's Underpants
Francesca Simon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Horror Movie
Paul Tremblay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Horrorstör
Grady Hendrix

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Horse
Geraldine Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Horse Heaven
Jane Smiley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Horseman, Pass By
Larry Mcmurtry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Horses of God
Mahi Binebine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Horse Soldiers
Doug Stanton

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

Horus Rising (The Horus Heresy, #1)
Dan Abnett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Hostage
Elie Wiesel, translated Catherine Temerson

Nonfiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Hostage Three
Nick Lake

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Hotel Cuba
Aaron Hamburger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Hotel du Lac
Anita Brookner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Hotel Florida
Amanda Vaill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Hotel Iris
Yōko Ogawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Hotel Laguna
Nicola Harrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Hotel Magnifique
Emily J. Taylor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Jamie Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Hotel World
Ali Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution
Thomas L. Friedman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Hothouse
Brian W. Aldiss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

Hothouse Flower
Becca Ritchie, Krista Ritchie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Hotline
Dimitri Nasrallah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Hot Milk
Deborah Levy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Hotshot Doc
R.S. Grey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Hot Six
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Hot Ticket
Olivia Cunning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Hounded
Kevin Hearne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Hour Game
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Hourglass
Claudia Gray

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Hour of the Bees
Lindsay Eagar

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Hour of the Witch
Chris Bohjalian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

House
Tracy Kidder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

House Arrest
K.A. Holt

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | YA | Published in 2015

Houseboy
Ferdinand Oyono

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

House Fires
Nancy Reisman

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2001

Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

House Made of Dawn
N. Scott Momaday

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

House of Bone and Rain
Gabino Iglesias

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

House of Cards (Francis Urquhart, #1)
Michael Dobbs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

House of Chains
Steven Erikson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

House of Day, House of Night
Olga Tokarczuk, Transl. Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

House of Earth and Blood
Sarah J. Maas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

House of Flame and Shadow
Sarah J. Maas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024