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Holly
Adalyn Grace

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 2025

Holmes Is Missing
James Patterson, Brian Sitts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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

Homebodies
Tembe Denton-Hurst

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Homebound
Portia Elan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Homeboyz
Alan Sitomer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Home Fires
Gene Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Homeless
Laurie Halse Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

Homer & Langley
E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Homeroom Diaries
Lisa Papademetriou, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Home Sweet Motel (welcome to Wonderland, #1)
Chris Grabenstein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Home to Big Stone Gap
Adriana Trigiani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Home to Holly Springs
Jan Karon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Homo Ludens
Johan Huizinga

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1938

Hondo
Louis L'Amour

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
Deb Caletti

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Honeybee
Craig Silvey

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Honeydew
Edith Pearlman

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1977

Honey Girl
Morgan Rogers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Honeymoon Phase
Amy Daws

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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

Hooked
Michael Moss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Hooked
Asako Yuzuki, Transl. Polly Barton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

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

Horus Rising
Dan Abnett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Hostage
Clare Mackintosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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

Hot Six
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Hot Wax
M. L. Rio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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 Many Ways
Diana Wynne Jones

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

House of Marionne
J. Elle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

House of Names
Colm Tóibín

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

House of Robots
James Patterson, Chris Grabenstein

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

House of Roots and Ruin
Erin A. Craig

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

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 Brands Grow
Byron Sharp

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

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 Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
Sabrina Imbler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

How Google Works
Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

How Highly Effective People Speak
Peter Andrei

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

How I Built This
Guy Raz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

How I Found the Strong
Margaret McMullan

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 2019

Howliday Inn
James Howe

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1982

How Lucky
Will Leitch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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 My Neighbor Stole Christmas
Meghan Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

How Not to Be a Boy
Robert Webb

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

How Not to Be Wrong
Jordan Ellenberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

How Not to Diet
Michael Greger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

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 Should a Person Be?
Sheila Heti

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

How Successful People Think
John C. Maxwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

How the Dead Dream
Lydia Millet

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

How the Mighty Fall
Jim Collins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It
Arthur Herman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

How the South Won the Civil War
Heather Cox Richardson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

How the Word Is Passed (adapted for Young Readers)
Clint Smith

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2025

How to Argue With a Cat
Jay Heinrichs

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

How to Be a Good Creature
Sy Montgomery

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

How to Be Alone
Jonathan Franzen

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2002

How to Be an Adult in Relationships
David Richo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

How to Be a Person
Catherine Newman

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

How to Be a Woman
Caitlin Moran

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

How to Be a (young) Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi, Nic Stone

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2023

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 Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay
Jenny Lawson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

How to Be the Love You Seek: Break Cycles, Find Peace, and Heal Your Relationships
Nicole LePera

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

How to Blow up a Pipeline
Andreas Malm

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

How to Break up With Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
Catherine Price

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

How to Change
Katy Milkman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021