Published in 2026, Harvest Season is a dark romantic comedy and thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Brynne Weaver. The novel is the second installment in the Seasons of Carnage trilogy, which begins with Tourist Season. Weaver is known for blending irreverent humor with suspense and romance, a style established in her popular Ruinous Love trilogy. Harvest Season is set in the macabre coastal town of Cape Carnage, Maine, and follows protagonist Harper... Read Harvest Season Summary

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Heartless Sky (2021) is a dark romantasy novel by British authors Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti. It is the seventh installment in their bestselling Zodiac Academy series, which has gained significant popularity on social media. Peckham and Valenti are sisters and prolific authors known for their interconnected dark romance and fantasy worlds. The Zodiac Academy series is a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller and part of the larger World of Solaria, which includes... Read Heartless Sky Summary

Originally published in 1993, Heart of a Champion is a young adult novel written by award-winning author Carl Deuker, whose work is primarily about sports and intended for young adult readers. The novel is the first-person narrative of a California boy, Seth, whose father died prematurely, leaving a huge void. Seth befriends Jimmy, whose love of baseball quickly becomes Seth’s passion as well. After the death of his friend after an alcohol-induced car crash, Seth... Read Heart of a Champion Summary

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The Hebrew Bible is the standard canon of Jewish sacred texts, composed in a period that falls across the second and first millennia BCE. It is also referred to as the Tanakh, an acrostic portmanteau of the three major sections of the Hebrew Bible: the Torah (“teaching”), the Nevi’im (“prophets”), and the Ketuvim (“writings”). The Hebrew Bible is a collection of 24 major texts, in which there are 39 books. These 39 books correspond to... Read Hebrew Bible Summary

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Henry IV, Part 1 is the second play in English playwright William Shakespeare’s Henriad tetralogy, preceded by Richard II. The play was written sometime prior to 1597, and it was a hit with critics and audiences. Henry IV, Part 1 introduces Sir John Falstaff, one of Shakespeare’s most enduringly popular characters, who also appears in Henry IV, Part 2 and The Merry Wives of Windsor. The play follows the wayward Prince Hal, the son of... Read Henry IV, Part 1 Summary

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American author J. D. Vance’s 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, chronicles Vance’s Appalachian upbringing in a poor Scots-Irish working-class culture. As Vance tells the story of his journey from broken Ohio homes to the Marine Corps, Ohio State University, and Yale Law School, he also documents the numerous factors that comprise white, working-class Appalachians’ descent into poverty, addiction, and despair, leaving them ostracized and, often, in danger... Read Hillbilly Elegy Summary

Homebound (2026), the debut novel from former Lambda Literary Fellow Portia Elan, is a work of literary science fiction that weaves together four distinct narratives across different time periods. The story follows a queer college student in 1983 Cincinnati grieving her uncle’s death from an AIDS-related illness, a hardened ship captain in a flooded 26th-century world taking on a mysterious group of passengers, a 21st-century scientist creating a line of sentient robots, and the centuries-spanning... Read Homebound Summary

Home Fire (2017) is the seventh novel by contemporary British writer Kamila Shamsie. The same year, Home Fire was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; in 2018, it won the Women’s Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. This study guide refers to the 2017 Riverhead Books Edition.Other works by this author include Best of Friends, Burnt Shadows, and Broken Verses.Plot SummaryShamsie’s Home Fire is a 21st-century adaptation... Read Home Fire Summary

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Homeless Bird, a novel written by Gloria Whelan and published in 2000, was a New York Times Best Seller and winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Marketed to middle grade readers, the novel has elements of historical fiction in its portrayal of cultural customs in India. Homeless Bird tells the story of Koly, a 13-year-old girl whose arranged marriage leads to her untimely widowhood. Through Koly’s coming-of-age journey from helplessness to... Read Homeless Bird Summary

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Hope Rises (2026) is a thriller by the bestselling American author David Baldacci. The novel is the second installment in the Walter Nash series, following Nash Falls. Baldacci is a prolific writer known for his numerous character-driven thriller series, many of which have become global bestsellers. In Hope Rises, former business executive Walter Nash continues his deep undercover work for the FBI. Now living as the hardened security expert Dillon Hope, Nash is blackmailed by... Read Hope Rises Summary

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford is a historical novel published in 2009. The story follows Henry Lee at two pivotal stages in his life—in 1942, when he is a 12-year-old with a crush on a Japanese girl, and in 1986, when he is recently widowed. The book, Ford’s debut novel, spent 130 weeks atop the New York Times Best-Seller List and won the 2010 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature... Read Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Summary

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