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A Haunted House and Other Short Stories
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1944

A Hazard of New Fortunes
William Dean Howells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1890

A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2000

A Heart So White
Javier Marías

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

A Higher Loyalty
James Comey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

A High Wind in Jamaica
Richard Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

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

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1989

A Hologram for the King
Dave Eggers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A Hope In The Unseen
Ron Suskind

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1998

A Horse And Two Goats
R. K. Narayan

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1970

A House of My Own
Sandra Cisneros

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

A House of Trees
Joan Colebrook

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1988

A Human Being Died That Night
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

A Hunger Artist
Franz Kafka

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1922

Habibi
Craig Thompson

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Half a Chance
Cynthia Lord

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Half a Life
Darin Strauss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Half Empty
David Rakoff

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2010

Hallucinations
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Hands of My Father
Myron Uhlberg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Hansel and Gretel
Rika Lesser

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1984

Happy are the Happy
Yasmina Reza

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Happy Days
Samuel Beckett

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1961

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

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

Harriet Jacobs: A Life
Jean Fagan Yellin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2004

Harriet's Daughter
M. NourbeSe Philip

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1988

Harvest
Jim Crace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Harvey
Hervé Bouchard

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Alice Munro

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2001

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Havana Nocturne
T. J. English

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Hayavadana
Girish Karnad

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1971

Hay Fever
Noël Coward

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1925

Heartbreak House
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1919

Heart of a Dog
Mikhail Bulgakov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Heat and Dust
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Heat Wave
Richard Castle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Heaven Eyes
David Almond

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Heaven is for Real
Todd Burpo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Hegel: A Biography
Terry Pinkard

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2000

Heir Apparent
Vivian Vande Velde

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Heist Society
Ally Carter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Helen in Egypt
H. D.

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1924

Helen Keller
Eileen Bigland

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1950

Helen of Troy
Margaret George

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Hellhound on His Trail
Hampton Sides

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

Hello Lighthouse
Sophie Blackall

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 2018

Heloise
Mandy Hager

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Hemingway
Kenneth S. Lynn

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1959

Henderson the Rain King
Saul Bellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Henry and the Paper Route
Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1984

Henry David Thoreau: A Life
Laura Dassow Walls

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

Henry IV, Part 2
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1600

Henry James: A Life
Leon Edel

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1985

Henry VIII
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1613

Henry VI, Part 1
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult

Henry VI, Part 3
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1595

Here, Bullet
Brian Turner

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

Here Comes the Sun
Nicole Dennis-Benn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Here I Am
Jonathan Safran Foer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Here I Stand
Roland Bainton

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1950

Here Lies Arthur
Philip Reeve

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Her Fearful Symmetry
Audrey Niffenegger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Her First Ball
Katherine Mansfield

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1921

Herman Melville
Hershel Parker

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

Herodotus
John Gould

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1850

Heroes
Robert Cormier

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Heroes of the Frontier
Dave Eggers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Hero on a Bicycle
Shirley Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Herzog
Saul Bellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

High Hearts
Rita Mae Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

High Heat
Carl Deuker

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

High Noon
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

High Price
Carl Hart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Highwire Moon
Susan Straight

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

His Last Bow
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1917

Historias del Kronen
José Ángel Mañas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Histories of the Transgender Child
Julian Gill-Peterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

History in Three Keys
Paul A. Cohen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Hit and Run
Norah Mcclintock

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1994

Hitch-22
Christopher Hitchens

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Hitler
Volker Ullrich

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

Hitler's Furies
Wendy Lower

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Hitler's Willing Executioners
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1934

Hocus Pocus
Teresa Roblin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Hold Fast
Kevin Major

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1978

Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
Sally Mann

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Hollow City
Ransom Riggs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Hollow Kingdom
Kira Jane Buxton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Holy Bible
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1611

Holy Feast and Holy Fast
Caroline Walker Bynum

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

Homage To Catalonia
George Orwell

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1938

Home After Dark
David Small

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Homeboyz
Alan Sitomer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Home Fires
Gene Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Homer & Langley
E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Hondo
Louis L'Amour

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
Deb Caletti

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Honeydew
Edith Pearlman

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1977