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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
Illustr. Rovina Cai, Holly Black

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

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 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 Make Friends with the Dark
Kathleen Glasgow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

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
Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren

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 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?
James Allworth, Clayton M. Christensen, Karen Dillon

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 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

Iambicum Trimetrum
Edmund Spenser

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1580

I Am David
Anne Holm

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1963

I Am Legend
Richard Matheson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)
Malala Yousafzai, Patricia McCormick

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2014

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012