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Home After Three Months Away
Robert Lowell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1959

Home Before Dark
Riley Sager

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Home Burial
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

Homecoming
Cynthia Voigt

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1981

Homecoming
Kate Morton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Homecoming
Julia Alvarez

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1984

Home Fire
Kamila Shamsie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Home Front
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Home Is Not a Country
Safia Elhillo

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | YA | Published in 2021

Home Is Where the Bodies Are
Jeneva Rose

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Homeland Elegies: A Novel
Ayad Akhtar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

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

Homeric Hymns
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult

Homeseeking
Karissa Chen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Homesick for Another World
Ottessa Moshfegh

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2017

Home To Harlem
Claude McKay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Honestly Elliott
Gillian McDunn

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Honey
Sarah Weeks

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Honey & Spice
Bolu Babalola

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Honor
Thrity Umrigar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Honus and Me
Dan Gutman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

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

Hoops
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 1981

Hoot
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Hope And Other Dangerous Pursuits
Laila Lalami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Hope, Despair and Memory
Elie Wiesel

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1986

Hope In The Dark: The Untold History of People Power
Rebecca Solnit

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2004

Hope is a strange invention
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1955

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1827

Hopeless
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Hope Speech
Harvey Milk

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1978

Hope Was Here
Joan Bauer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Hop-Frog
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1849

Horror Movie
Paul Tremblay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Horse
Geraldine Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Hospital Sketches
Louisa May Alcott

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1863

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

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

Hours Continuing Long
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1860

House Arrest
K.A. Holt

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

Houseboy
Ferdinand Oyono

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

House Divided Speech
Abraham Lincoln

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1858

Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

House Made of Dawn
N. Scott Momaday

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

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
Sarah Pekkanen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

House of Hollow
Krystal Sutherland

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

House Of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

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 Stairs
William Sleator

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1974

House Rules
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Howards End
E. M. Forster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1910

How Beautiful We Were
Imbolo Mbue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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 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 Does It Feel?
Jeneane O'Riley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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? (Sonnet 43)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1850

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 Falling in Love is like Owning a Dog
Taylor Mali

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

How Far She Went
Mary Hood

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1984

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

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 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 Met My Husband
Alice Munro

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1974

How It Feels To Be Colored Me
Zora Neale Hurston

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1928

How It Feels To Float
Helena Fox

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

How It Went Down
Kekla Magoon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Howl
Allen Ginsberg

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1956

How Late It Was, How Late
James Kelman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

How Long 'Til Black Future Month?
N. K. Jemisin

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2018

Howl’s Moving Castle
Diana Wynne Jones

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1986

How Much Land Does a Man Need
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1886

How Much Of These Hills Is Gold
C Pam Zhang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

How Music Works
David Byrne

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

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 Drown in a Glass of Water
Angie Cruz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

How Should One Read a Book?
Virginia Woolf

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1926

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Julia Alvarez

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

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 Light Gets In
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

How The Mind Works
Steven Pinker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997