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A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Haunted House and Other Short Stories
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

A Hazard of New Fortunes
William Dean Howells

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Head Full of Ghosts
Paul G. Tremblay

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

A Heart So White
Javier Marías

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Higher Loyalty
James Comey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

A High Wind in Jamaica
Richard Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
Julian Barnes

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
Raj Patel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

A Hologram for the King
Dave Eggers

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Hope In The Unseen
Ron Suskind

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

A Horse And Two Goats
R. K. Narayan

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

A House in the Sky
Amanda Lindhout

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

A House of My Own
Sandra Cisneros

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

A House of Trees
Joan Colebrook

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

A Human Being Died That Night
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

A Hunger Artist
Franz Kafka

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

Habibi
Craig Thompson

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult

Habits of the Heart
Robert N. Bellah

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Half a Chance
Cynthia Lord

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Half a Life
Darin Strauss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Half Brother
Kenneth Oppel

Fiction | Novel | YA

Half Empty
David Rakoff

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult

Hallucinations
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Hana's Suitcase
Karen Levine

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade

Hands of My Father
Myron Uhlberg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Hannibal
Thomas Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Hansel and Gretel
Rika Lesser

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book

Happy are the Happy
Yasmina Reza

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Happy Days
Samuel Beckett

Fiction | Play | Adult

Harlem: The Vision of Morgan and Marvin Smith
John Smith, Marvin Smith, Morgan Smith

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Harriet Jacobs: A Life
Jean Fagan Yellin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Harriet's Daughter
M. NourbeSe Philip

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Harvest
Jim Crace

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Harvey
Hervé Bouchard

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Alice Munro

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship
Nadine Strossen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Hattie Big Sky
Kirby Larson

Fiction | Novel | YA

Havana Nocturne
T. J. English

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Have a Little Faith: A True Story
Mitch Albom

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Hawaii
James A. Michener

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Hayavadana
Girish Karnad

Fiction | Play | Adult

Hay Fever
Noël Coward

Fiction | Play | Adult

Heartbreak House
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult

Heart of a Dog
Mikhail Bulgakov

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Heart-Shaped Box
Joe Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Heat and Dust
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Heat Wave
Richard Castle

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Heaven Eyes
David Almond

Fiction | Novel | YA

Heaven is for Real
Todd Burpo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Hebrew Bible
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult

Hedda Gabler
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult

Hegel: A Biography
Terry Pinkard

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Heir Apparent
Vivian Vande Velde

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Heist Society
Ally Carter

Fiction | Novel | YA

Helen in Egypt
H. D.

Fiction | Poem | Adult

Helen Keller
Eileen Bigland

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Helen of Troy
Margaret George

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Hellhound on His Trail
Hampton Sides

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Hello Lighthouse
Sophie Blackall

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book

Heloise
Mandy Hager

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Hemingway
Kenneth S. Lynn

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Henderson the Rain King
Saul Bellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Henry and the Paper Route
Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Henry David Thoreau: A Life
Laura Dassow Walls

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Henry IV, Part 1
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult

Henry IV, Part 2
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult

Henry James: A Life
Leon Edel

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Henry V
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult

Henry VIII
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult

Henry VI, Part 1
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult

Henry VI, Part 3
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult

Here
Richard McGuire

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult

Here, Bullet
Brian Turner

Fiction | Poem | Adult

Here Comes the Sun
Nicole Dennis-Benn

Fiction | Novel | YA

Here I Am
Jonathan Safran Foer

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Here I Stand
Roland Bainton

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Here Lies Arthur
Philip Reeve

Fiction | Novel | YA

Her Fearful Symmetry
Audrey Niffenegger

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Her First Ball
Katherine Mansfield

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

Herland
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Herman Melville
Hershel Parker

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Herodotus
John Gould

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Heroes
Robert Cormier

Fiction | Novel | YA

Heroes of the Frontier
Dave Eggers

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Hero on a Bicycle
Shirley Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Herzog
Saul Bellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult

High Hearts
Rita Mae Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult

High Heat
Carl Deuker

Fiction | Novel | YA

High Noon
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult

High Price
Carl Hart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Highwire Moon
Susan Straight

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Hippolytus
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult

His Last Bow
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Historias del Kronen
José Ángel Mañas

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Histories of the Transgender Child
Julian Gill-Peterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult

History in Three Keys
Paul A. Cohen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Hit and Run
Norah Mcclintock

Fiction | Novel | YA

Hitch-22
Christopher Hitchens

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult