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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 Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir
Molly Jong-Fast

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

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
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 Nonfiction Like a Professor: A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between
Thomas C. Foster

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2020

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 Test Negative for Stupid: And Why Washington Never Will
John Kennedy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

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, James Allworth, 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 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

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
Christina Lamb, Malala Yousafzai

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

I Am Not Jessica Chen
Ann Liang

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2025

I Am Not Your Negro
James Baldwin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Erika L. Sanchez

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
Nujood Ali, Delphine Minoui

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

I Am Number Four
Pittacus Lore

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

I Am Offering This Poem
Jimmy Santiago Baca

Fiction | Poem | YA | Published in 1990

I Am Pilgrim
Terry Hayes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

I Am Prepared to Die
Nelson Mandela

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1964

I Am Still Alive
Kate Alice Marshall

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

I Am the Cheese
Robert Cormier

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1977

I Am The Messenger
Markus Zusak

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

I Am the People, the Mob
Carl Sandburg

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1916

I Am Watching You
Teresa Driscoll

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

I and Thou
Martin Buber, Transl. Walter Kaufmann

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1923

I Ask My Mother to Sing
Li-Young Lee

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1986

I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond
Michael Oher

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

I Can Make This Promise
Christine Day

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

I Can Wade Grief
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1891

I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1948

“[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]”
E. E. Cummings

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

Iceberg
Jennifer A. Nielsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Icebreaker
Hannah Grace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Ice Candy Man
Bapsi Sidhwa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Ice Planet Barbarians
Ruby Dixon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

I Cheerfully Refuse
Leif Enger

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2024

I Contain Multitudes
Ed Yong

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Identity
Julio Noboa

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1977

Identity: Youth and Crisis
Erik Erikson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1968

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
Ally Carter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

If—
Rudyard Kipling

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1910

If Beale Street Could Talk
James Baldwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?
James Baldwin

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1979

If Cats Disappeared From The World
Genki Kawamura

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

I Fell in Love with Hope
Lancali

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

I Felt a Cleaving in my Mind
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890

I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1896

If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

If He Hollers Let Him Go
Chester Himes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1929

If I Could Tell You
W. H. Auden

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1940

If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
Tim O'Brien

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1973

If I Ever Get Out of Here
Eric Gansworth

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

'If I Forget Thee, O Earth . . .'
Arthur C. Clarke

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1951

If I Had Your Face
Frances Cha

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

If I should die
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1891