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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 Dodge a Cannonball
Dennard Dayle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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 Focus
Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates
Shailee Thompson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

How to Leave Hialeah
Jennine Capó Crucet

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

How to Love
Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

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 Seal Your Own Fate
Kristen Perrin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

How to Sit
Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

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 Get Free
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

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

Hum
Helen Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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

Hungry Ghosts
Kevin Jared Hosein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Hunted
Kristin Cast, P.C. Cast

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

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 Hamptons Lawyer
James Patterson, Mike Lupica

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Handbook of Epictetus
Epictetus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 125

The Hand on the Wall
Maureen Johnson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

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 Files
Arthur C. Brooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

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

The Harvard Psychedelic Club
Don Lattin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

The Haunting of Paynes Hollow
Kelley Armstrong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Healers
Ayi Kwei Armah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

The Healing Power of Resilience
Tara Narula

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

The Heart and the Fist
Eric Greitens

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

The Heart of a Chief
Joseph Bruchac

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

The Heart of Betrayal
Mary E. Pearson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Heart of Everything That Is
Bob Drury, Tom Clavin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

The Heart of Midlothian
Walter Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1818

The Heart Principle
Helen Hoang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Heathen School
John Putnam Demos

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Heather Blazing
Colm Tóibín

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Heir
Kiera Cass

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Hemingses of Monticello
Annette Gordon-Reed

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

The Hidden Dimension
Edward T. Hall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1966

The Hidden Habits of Genius
Craig Wright

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Hidden Kingdom
Tui T. Sutherland

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

The Hidden Reality
Brian Greene

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Hidden Wealth of Nations
Gabriel Zucman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Higher Power of Lucky
Susan Patron

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

The Highest Tide
Jim Lynch

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

The High King
Lloyd Alexander

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1968

The High Mountains of Portugal
Yann Martel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The High Road to China
Kate Teltscher

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

The Hill of Evil Counsel
Amos Oz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

The Hindus: An Alternative History
Transl. Wendy Doniger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Hired Girl
Laura Amy Schlitz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The History Boys
Alan Bennett

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2004

The Hitchhikers
Chevy Stevens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Hollow
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1946

The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse
Robert Rankin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Hollow Hills
Mary Stewart

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1973

The Hollow Men
Rob Mccarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Holocaust by Bullets
Patrick Desbois

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Homecoming
Earl Hamner Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

The Honk and Holler Opening Soon
Billie Letts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Hoopster
Alan Lawrence Sitomer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

The Horse Dancer
Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Horse Dealer's Daughter
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

The Horse Soldier
Merline Lovelace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Horse Whisperer
Nicholas Evans

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Horsewoman
James Patterson, Mike Lupica

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Hostage
Carolyn Wren

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Hostile Hospital
Lemony Snicket

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

The Hotel New Hampshire
John Irving

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1981

The Hound of Rowan
Henry H. Neff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

The Hour of Peril
Daniel Stashower

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013