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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

Hit Refresh
Satya Nadella, Jill Tracie Nichols, Greg Shaw

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

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

Holier Than Thou
Jackie Hill Perry

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

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

Home to Holly Springs
Jan Karon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

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

Honolulu
Alan Brennert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Honor
Elif Shafak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Honor Girl
Maggie Thrash

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2015

Hoodwink
Bill Pronzini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Hoops
Patricia Mclinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Hope Is The Thing With Feathers
Christopher Cokinos

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Hope Springs
Lynne Hinton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Horns
Joe Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Horseman, Pass By
Larry Mcmurtry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Horses of God
Mahi Binebine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Horse Soldiers
Doug Stanton

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

Hostage Three
Nick Lake

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Hotel du Lac
Anita Brookner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Hotel Florida
Amanda Vaill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Hotel World
Ali Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution
Thomas L. Friedman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Hour of the Olympics
Mary Pope Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

House
Tracy Kidder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

House Fires
Nancy Reisman

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2001

House of Bone and Rain
Gabino Iglesias

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

House of Names
Colm Tóibín

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

House of Stone
Anthony Shadid

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

House of Suns
Alastair Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

House of the Red Fish
Graham Salisbury

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

House Rules
Rachel Sontag

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

How Angel Peterson Got His Name
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate
Andrew J. Hoffman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

How Doctors Think
Jerome Groopman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

How Do I Love Thee
Lurlene McDaniel

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1989

How Google Works
Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

How I Found the Strong
Margaret McMullan

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 2019

How Markets Fail
John Cassidy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

How Music Got Free
Stephen Richard Witt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

How Proust Can Change Your Life
Alain de Botton

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1998

How Reading Changed My Life
Anna Quindlen

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1998

How the Mighty Fall
Jim Collins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

How to Be a Woman
Caitlin Moran

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

How to Be Black
Baratunde Thurston

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying
Django Wexler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

How To Be Eaten
Maria Adelmann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

How To Fail At Almost Everything And Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
Scott Adams

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

How to Leave Hialeah
Jennine Capó Crucet

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business
Douglas W. Hubbard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

How to Misbehave
Ruthie Knox

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

How to Read and Why
Harold Bloom

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

How to Read the Air
Dinaw Mengestu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

How To Save A Life
Sara Zarr

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

How to Survive a Plague
David France

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You
The Oatmeal, Matthew Inman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One
Stanley Fish

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2011

How We Decide
Jonah Lehrer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

How We Die
Sherwin B. Nuland

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

How We Fight for Our Lives
Saeed Jones

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

How We Got to Now
Steven Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Huck's Raft
Steven Mintz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
Kiran Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Human Capital
Stephen Amidon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
Stuart Russell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Humboldt's Gift
Saul Bellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
Carrie Brownstein

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Hungerstone
Kat Dunn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Hunters in the Snow
Daisy Hildyard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Hunt for the Bamboo Rat
Graham Salisbury

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Hurt Go Happy
Ginny Rorby

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Hush, Hush
Becca Fitzpatrick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Hairy Ape
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1922

The Haj
Leon Uris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Hamilton Affair
Elizabeth Cobbs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Hammer of Eden
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Handbook of Epictetus
Epictetus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 125

The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work
Shawn Achor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Happiness Hypothesis
Jonathan Haidt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Happiness of Pursuit
Chris Guillebeau

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent A Year Trying To Sing In The Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, And Generally Have More Fun
Gretchen Rubin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

The Hard Man of the Swings
Jeanne Willis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Harp in the South
Ruth Park

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948