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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

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 Eat an Elephant
Sarah Longwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

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 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 Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
Sönke Ahrens

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2017

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

Human Is?
Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1955

Humboldt's Gift
Saul Bellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Hummingbird Salamander
Jeff VanderMeer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
Carrie Brownstein

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

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

I Almost Forgot About You
Terry McMillan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

I Alone Can Fix It
Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

I Am a Cat
Natsume Sōseki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1906

I Am a Taxi
Deborah Ellis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

I Am Charlotte Simmons
Tom Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
Maggie O'Farrell

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

I Am J
Cris Beam

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

I Am Mordred
Nancy Springer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

I Am My Own Wife
Doug Wright

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2003