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Hearts Unbroken
Cynthia Leitich Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Heart to Heart
Rita Dove

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2004

Heartwood
Amity Gaige

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Heat
Mike Lupica

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Heaven
Angela Johnson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

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

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Heaven Official's Blessing: Vol. 1
Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Heavy
Kiese Laymon

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Hebrew Bible
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | BCE

Hecuba
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult

Hedda Gabler
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1890

Heidi
Johanna Spyri

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1881

Heir
Sabaa Tahir

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

Heir of Fire
Sarah J. Maas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Heir to the Empire
Timothy Zahn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

Held
Anne Michaels

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Helen
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult

Helen Keller
Margaret Davidson

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 1969

Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

Hell Bent
Leigh Bardugo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Hell Followed With Us
Andrew Joseph White

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Hello Beautiful
Ann Napolitano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Hell of a Book
Jason Mott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Hello Stranger: A Novel
Katherine Center

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Hello, Universe
Erin Entrada Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
Robert Leckie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1957

Helter Skelter
Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

Henry And Beezus
Illustr. Jacqueline Rogers, Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1952

Henry Huggins
Beverly Cleary, Illustr. Tracy Dockray

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1950

Henry IV, Part 1
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1597

Henry V
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1599

Heptameron
Marguerite De Navarre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1558

Heracles
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

Her Body and Other Parties
Carmen Maria Machado

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2017

Her Deadly Game
Robert Dugoni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Here
Richard McGuire

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Here Is New York
E. B. White

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1948

Here One Moment
Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Heretics of Dune
Frank Herbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Heritage
Countee Cullen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1922

Herland
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

Hero
Mike Lupica

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Hero and Leander
Christopher Marlowe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1598

Heroes
Alan Gratz

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2024

Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths
Bernard Evslin

Fiction | Short Story Collection | YA | Published in 1966

Her Soul to Take
Harley Laroux

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

He, She and It
Marge Piercy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Hester
Laurie Lico Albanese

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction
Jarrett Krosoczka

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work
Jeanne Marie Laskas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Hidden Bodies
Caroline Kepnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Hidden Figures
Margot Lee Shetterly

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2016

Hidden Figures: Young Readers Edition
Margot Lee Shetterly

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Hidden Nature
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Hidden Pictures
Jason Rekulak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
Adam Grant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Hidden Talents
David Lubar

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
Robert Kolker

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

Hide
Kiersten White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Hide and Seeker
Daka Hermon

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Hideaway
Penelope Douglas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

High Fidelity
Nick Hornby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

High Flight
John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1942

Highland Mary
Robert Burns

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1792

Highly Illogical Behavior
John Corey Whaley

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute
Talia Hibbert

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

High-Rise
J. G. Ballard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

High Tide in Tucson
Barbara Kingsolver

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1995

High to Low
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

High Windows
Philip Larkin

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir
Lamya H

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture
J. D. Vance

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Hills Like White Elephants
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1927

Hinds’ Feet on High Places
Hannah Hurnard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

Hind Swaraj
Mahatma Gandhi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1909

Hippolytus
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 428

Hiroshima
John Hersey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1946

His Bloody Project: A Historical Thriller
Graeme Macrae Burnet

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

His Excellency: George Washington
Joseph J. Ellis

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2004

H Is For Hawk
Helen Macdonald

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

His & Hers
Alice Feeney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

His Only Wife
Peace Adzo Medie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Histories
Herodotus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

History is All You Left Me
Adam Silvera

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

History Lesson
Natasha Trethewey

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2000

History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

History of Wolves
Emily Fridlund

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
Jon Meacham

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

Hitler's Daughter
Jackie French

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Hōjōki: Visions of a Torn World
Kamo no Chōmei

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1212

Holding Up The Universe
Jennifer Niven

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Hole In My Life
Jack Gantos

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

Holes
Louis Sachar

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Hollow Fires
Samira Ahmed

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Holly
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Holmes, Marple & Poe: The Greatest Crime-Solving Team of the Twenty-First Century
James Patterson, Brian Sitts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Holy the Firm
Annie Dillard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

Home
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Home
Marilynne Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Home
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016