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How to Cheat Your Own Death
Kristen Perrin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

How to Clone a Mammoth
Beth Shapiro

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder
Nina Mcconigley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

How to Dodge a Cannonball
Dennard Dayle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

How to Dork Your Diary
Rachel Renée Russell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal From Your Past, and Create Your Self
Nicole LePera

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

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 Get Away With Murder
Rebecca Philipson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

How to Leave Hialeah
Jennine Capó Crucet

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

How to Live a Meaningful Life
Bill Burnett, Dave Evans

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

How to Love
Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

How to Make Money in Any Market
Jim Cramer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

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 Rule the World
Theo Baker

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

How To Save A Life
Sara Zarr

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

How to See
Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

How to Sit
Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

How to Solve It
G. Pólya

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1945

How to Start
Jodi Kantor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

How to Stay Invisible
Maggie C. Rudd

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

How to Survive a Plague
David France

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

How to Survive in the Woods
Kat Rosenfield

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

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 Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day
Michael J. Gelb

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

How to Walk Away
Katherine Center

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age
Dale Carnegie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

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

How Women Rise
Sally Helgesen, Marshall Goldsmith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Huck's Raft
Steven Mintz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Hug Your Haters
Jay Baer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

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

Hurricane Summer
Asha Bromfield

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Hurt Go Happy
Ginny Rorby

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Hush, Hush
Becca Fitzpatrick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter
Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

The Hairy Ape
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1922

The Haj
Leon Uris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Half Moon
Mary Beth Keane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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 Hangmans Daughter
Oliver Pötzsch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer
Harvey Karp

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2002

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 Harry Potter Wizarding Almanac
J. K. Rowling

Fiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

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 Ashburn House
Darcy Coates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Haunting of Maddy Clare
Simone St. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Haunting of Paynes Hollow
Kelley Armstrong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Haymeadow
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1992

The Headless Cupid
Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1971

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 Hearing Trumpet
Leonora Carrington

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Heart and the Fist
Eric Greitens

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

The Heart in Winter
Kevin Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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 Heirs
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2026

The Hemingses of Monticello
Annette Gordon-Reed

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

The Hero Code
William H. Mcraven

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Heroes
Joe Abercrombie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
Nikki Sixx

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

The Hero Next Door
Martha Raddatz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026