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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

Hopeless
Elsie Silver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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

Hostage
Eli Sharabi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

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

Hot Milk
Deborah Levy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

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 Day, House of Night
Olga Tokarczuk, Transl. Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

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 Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle
Ray Dalio

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

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

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 Straight-A Student
Cal Newport

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2006

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 a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women
Zoe Venditozzi, Claire Mitchell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025