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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Julia Alvarez

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

How the Irish Became White
Noel Ignatiev

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
Thomas Cahill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
Holly Black, Illustr. Rovina Cai

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 2020

How the Leopard Got His Spots and Other Just So Stories (Dover Children's Thrift Classics)
Rudyard Kipling

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1967

How the Light Gets In
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

How The Mind Works
Steven Pinker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
Cherie Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1890

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
Jacob A. Riis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1890

How the Penguins Saved Veronica
Hazel Prior

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created our World & Everything in It
Arthur Herman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

How the South Won the Civil War
Heather Cox Richardson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

How the Steel Was Tempered
Nikolai Ostrovsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Clint Smith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay
Julia Alvarez

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

How Tia Lola Learned to Teach (The Tia Lola Stories)
Julia Alvarez

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
Randall Munroe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
Bill Gates

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

How to Be a Good Creature
Sy Montgomery

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don't

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

How to Be an Adult in Relationships
David Richo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

How to Be an American Housewife
Margaret Dilloway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

How to Be a Person
Catherine Newman

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

How to Be a Woman
Caitlin Moran

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

How to Be a (young) Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi, Nic Stone

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2023

How to Be Black
Baratunde Thurston

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

How to Be Both
Ali Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

How To Become A Straight-A Student
Cal Newport

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2006

How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying
Django Wexler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

How to Be Filled with the Holy Spirit
A.W. Tozer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1960

How to Be Good
Nick Hornby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
Crystal Marie Fleming

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
Michael Schur

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

How to Be Popular
Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

How to Be the Love You Seek: Break Cycles, Find Peace, and Heal Your Relationships
Nicole LePera

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Andreas Malm

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
Catherine Price

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

How to Build a Girl (How to Build a Girl, #1)
Caitlin Moran

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

How to Change
Katy Milkman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas
David Bornstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence (2018)
Michael Pollan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

How to Develop Self-Confidence & Influence People by Public Speaking
Dale Carnegie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

How to Disappear
Sharon Huss Roat

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

How to Dodge a Cannonball
Dennard Dayle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal From Your Past, and Create Your Self
Nicole LePera

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

How To Eat Fried Worms
Thomas Rockwell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1973

How to Fail at Flirting
Denise Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

How to Fake It in Hollywood
Ava Wilder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

How to Fall in Love
Cecelia Ahern

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

How to Find Love in a Bookshop
Veronica Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf
Molly Harper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery
Kevin Ashton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

How to Focus
Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Mohsin Hamid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

How To Hang A Witch
Adriana Mather

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Daniel Immerwahr

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

How to Influence People: Make a Difference in Your World
John C. Maxwell, Jim Dornan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
Peter Moskowitz, P.E. Moskowitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates
Shailee Thompson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women
Zoe Venditozzi, Claire Mitchell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
David Brooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

How to Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation (Classics in Anthroposophy)
Rudolf Steiner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1904

How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority
Clay Scroggins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

How to Leave Hialeah
Jennine Capó Crucet

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

How to Lie with Statistics
Darrell Huff

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1954

How to Live a Meaningful Life
Bill Burnett, Dave Evans

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
Arnold Bennett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1908

How To Live Safely In a Science Fictional Universe
Charles Yu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

How to Love
Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

How to Make an American Quilt
Whitney Otto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

How to Make Friends with the Dark
Kathleen Glasgow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

How to Make Money in Any Market
Jim Cramer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire
Kerrelyn Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

How to Misbehave
Ruthie Knox

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

How to Murder Your Life
Cat Marnell

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

How to Pray: What the Bible Tells Us About Genuine, Effective Prayer
Reuben A. Torrey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1900

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1940

How to Read and Why
Harold Bloom

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

How to Read Literature

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2013

How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
Thomas C. Foster

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

How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse
Thomas C. Foster

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

How to Read the Air
Dinaw Mengestu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

How to Relax (Mindfulness Essentials, #5)
Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

How To Save A Life
Sara Zarr

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
Safiya Sinclair

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

How to Seal Your Own Fate
Kristen Perrin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

How to See
Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

How to Sell a Haunted House
Grady Hendrix

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

How to Sit
Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

How to Solve It
G. Pólya

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1945

How to Speak / How to Listen
Mortimer J. Adler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

How to Steal a Dog
Barbara O'Connor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

How to Stop Time
Matt Haig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Dale Carnegie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1948

How to Survive a Plague
David France

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

How to Survive Middle School (How to Survive)
Donna Gephart

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010