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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

House of Glass
Sophie Littlefield

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

House of Hunger
Alexis Henderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

House Of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

House of Many Ways
Diana Wynne Jones

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

House of Marionne
J. Elle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

House of Names
Colm Tóibín

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

House of Robots
James Patterson, Chris Grabenstein

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

House of Roots and Ruin
Erin A. Craig

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

House of Salt and Sorrows
Erin A. Craig

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

House of Sand and Fog
Andre Dubus III

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

House of Sky and Breath
Sarah J. Maas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

House of Spies (Gabriel Allon, #17)
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

House of Stairs
William Sleator

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1974

House of Stone
Anthony Shadid

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

House of the Red Fish
Graham Salisbury

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

House Rules
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

House to House: An Epic Memoir of War
David Bellavia

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

How Angel Peterson Got His Name
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

Howards End
E. M. Forster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1910

How Beautiful We Were
Imbolo Mbue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

How Brands Grow
Byron Sharp

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
Stewart Brand

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
Paul Tough

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
Barbara F. Walter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle
Ray Dalio

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate
Andrew J. Hoffman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

How Dare the Sun Rise
Sandra Uwiringiyimana

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2017

How Democracies Die
Daniel Ziblatt, Steven Levitsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

How Doctors Think
Jerome Groopman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

How Does A Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?
Doretta Lau

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2014

How Does It Feel to Be A Problem: Being Young and Arab in America (2008)
Moustafa Bayoumi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

How Do I Love Thee
Lurlene McDaniel

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1989

How Do You Live?
Genzaburo Yoshino

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1937

How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
Lisa Feldman Barrett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Walter Rodney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1971

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
Sabrina Imbler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
Jason Stanley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

How Fast Can You Run
Harriet Levin Millan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

How Few Remain (Timeline-191, #1)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

How Fiction Works
James Wood

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2008

How God Works: The Science Behind the Benefits of Religion
David DeSteno

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

How Green Was My Valley
Richard Llewellyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

How High We Go in the Dark
Sequoia Nagamatsu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

How I Became a Ghost: A Choctaw Trail of Tears Story
Tim Tingle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

How I Became a Spy: A Mystery of WWII London
Deborah Hopkinson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

How I Found the Strong
Margaret McMullan

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 2019

How I Learned to Drive
Paula Vogel

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1997

How I Live Now
Meg Rosoff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling
Frank Bettger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1947

How It Feels To Float
Helena Fox

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

How It Happened
Michael Koryta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

How It Went Down
Kekla Magoon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Howl and Other Poems
Allen Ginsberg

Nonfiction | Poetry Collection | YA | Published in 1956

How Late It Was, How Late
James Kelman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Howl’s Moving Castle
Diana Wynne Jones

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1986

How Lucky
Will Leitch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

How Markets Fail
John Cassidy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

How Much Of These Hills Is Gold
C Pam Zhang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

How Music Got Free
Stephen Richard Witt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

How Music Works
David Byrne

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

How My Neighbor Stole Christmas
Meghan Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

How Not to Be a Boy
Robert Webb

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

How Not to Be Wrong
Jordan Ellenberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

How Not to Die Alone
Richard Roper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
Michael Greger, Gene Stone

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

How Not to Diet
Michael Greger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

How Propaganda Works
Jason F. Stanley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

How Proust Can Change Your Life
Alain de Botton

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1998

How Reading Changed My Life
Anna Quindlen

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1998

How Should a Person Be?
Sheila Heti

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

How Soccer Explains the World
Franklin Foer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else
Michael Gates Gill

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

How the Dead Dream
Lydia Millet

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008