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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

Brian Sitts, James Patterson

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

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" Is the Thing with Feathers

Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1891

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