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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 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 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 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 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 South Won the Civil War
Heather Cox Richardson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

How to Be an Adult in Relationships
David Richo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

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 Cheat Your Own Death
Kristen Perrin

Fiction | Novel | 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 Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
Donald J. Robertson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

How to Walk Away
Katherine Center

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

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

Hunt the Villain
Rina Kent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

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 Alejandra
V. Castro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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