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How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1890

How the Penguins Saved Veronica
Hazel Prior

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

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 to Age Disgracefully
Clare Pooley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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 an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

How to Be Both
Ali Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

How to Become a Writer
Lorrie Moore

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2015

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

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 Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)
Junot Díaz

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1995

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

How To Eat Fried Worms
Thomas Rockwell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1973

How to End a Love Story
Yulin Kuang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Mohsin Hamid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

How to Giggle: A Guide to Taking Life Less Seriously
Hannah Berner, Paige DeSorbo

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

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 Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing
KC Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

How to Kill Your Family
Bella Mackie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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 Lie with Statistics
Darrell Huff

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

How To Live Safely In a Science Fictional Universe
Charles Yu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

How to Love Better: The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness, and Compassion
Yung Pueblo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

How to Make Friends with the Dark
Kathleen Glasgow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

How to Menopause
Tamsen Fadal

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

How to Pronounce Knife
Souvankham Thammavongsa

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2020

How to Read a Book
Monica Wood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1940

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 Novels like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form
Thomas C. Foster

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

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 Say Babylon: A Memoir
Safiya Sinclair

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

How to Sell a Haunted House
Grady Hendrix

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays
Kiese Laymon

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2013

How to Solve Your Own Murder
Kristen Perrin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future
Maria Ressa

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

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 Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
Adele Faber

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1980

How To Talk To Anyone
Leil Lowndes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

How to Talk to Girls at Parties
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2007

How to Tame a Wild Tongue
Gloria Anzaldua

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1987

How to Train Your Dragon
Cressida Cowell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

How to Triumph Like a Girl
Ada Limón

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2013

How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith
Mariann Edgar Budde

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed
Slavenka Drakulić

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1992

How Will You Measure Your Life?
Clayton M. Christensen, Karen Dillon, James Allworth

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Human Acts
Han Kang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Humankind: A Hopeful History
Rutger Bregman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Hum If You Don't Know the Words
Bianca Marais

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Hummingbird
Natalie Lloyd

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Hunger
Roxanne Gay

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Hunger of Memory
Richard Rodriguez

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

Hunters in the Snow
Tobias Wolff

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1981

Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans
Michaeleen Doucleff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Hunting Adeline
H. D. Carlton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Hunting by Stars
Cherie Dimaline

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Hurricane Child
Kheryn Callender

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Hurt Locker
Brian Turner

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

Husbands & Lovers
Beatriz Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Hush
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
Allie Brosh

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Hyperion
Dan Simmons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Hacienda
Isabel Cañas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Edward E. Baptist

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Halloween Tree
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1972

The Hamlet
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

The Hammer of Thor
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

The Hand
Mary Ruefle

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1996

The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1968

The Hand That First Held Mine
Maggie O'Farrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor
Eddie Jaku

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

The Happiest Refugee
Anh Do

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living
Russ Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Happy Ever After Playlist
Abby Jimenez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Harbinger: The Ancient Mystery that Holds the Secret of America's Future
Jonathan Cahn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Ben Horowitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Harlem Dancer
Claude McKay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1917

The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1936

The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The Hating Game
Sally Thorne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Haunted Palace
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1839

The Haunting Of Hill House
Shirley Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

The Hawthorne Legacy
Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club
Helen Simonson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Hazel Wood
Melissa Albert

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Headstrong Historian
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2008

The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
T.R. Reid

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
David Treuer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Heart Goes Last
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1940

The Heart of a Woman
Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

The Heart Of Redness
Zakes Mda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948