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The Housemaid's Secret
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The House Next Door
Anne Rivers Siddons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The House of Asterion
Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1947

The House of Blue Leaves
John Guare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1971

The House of Broken Angels
Luis Alberto Urrea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The House of Dies Drear
Virginia Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1968

The House of Doors
Tan Twan Eng

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The House of Eve
Sadeqa Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The House of God
Samuel Shem

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

The House of Hades
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The House of Hunger
Dambudzo Marechera

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1993

The House of Kennedy
James Patterson, Cynthia Fagen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

The House of Lincoln
Nancy Horan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1905

The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty
Julia Flynn Siler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The House of Secrets
Brad Meltzer and Tod Goldberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The House Of Silk
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The House of Sixty Fathers
Meindert DeJong

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1987

The House of Special Purpose
John Boyne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The House of Stairs
Barbara Vine, Ruth Rendell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The House of the Dead
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The House of the Scorpion
Nancy Farmer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1851

The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The House of Thunder
Dean Koontz, Leigh Nichols

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The House of Wolves
James Patterson, Mike Lupica

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The House on Foster Hill
Jaime Jo Wright

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 1984

The House on the Borderland
William Hope Hodgson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The House on the Strand
Daphne du Maurier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

The House on Tradd Street
Karen White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The House on Vesper Sands
Paraic O'Donnell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The House That Lou Built
Mae Respicio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The House We Grew Up In
Lisa Jewell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The House With a Clock in Its Walls
John Bellairs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1973

The House with Chicken Legs
Sophie Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The House Without Windows
Barbara Newhall Follett

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1968

The House You Pass on the Way
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want
Sonja Lyubomirsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Human Comedy
William Saroyan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

The Human Condition
Hannah Arendt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1958

The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars
Jo Marchant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Human Factor
Graham Greene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Humans
Stephen Karam

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2016

The Human Stain
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society
Norbert Wiener

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History
John Robert Mcneill, William H. Mcneill

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Hummingbird
Stephen P. Kiernan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Hummingbird's Daughter
Luis Alberto Urrea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1831

The Hundred Dresses
Eleanor Estes

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1944

The Hundred-Foot Journey
Richard C. Morais

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Hundred Penny Box
Sharon Bell Mathis

Fiction | Short Story | Middle Grade | Published in 1975

The Hundred Secret Senses
Amy Tan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance, #1)
N.K. Jemisin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Hundredth Queen (The Hundredth Queen, #1)
Emily R. King

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The Hundred-Year House
Rebecca Makkai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
Rashid Khalidi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Hunger
Alma Katsu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Hunger Games: Official Illustrated Movie Companion
Kate Egan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

The Hunger Games Tribute Guide
Emily Seife

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

The Hunger of the Gods
John Gwynne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Hungry Tide
Amitav Ghosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Hunted (The Living, #2)
Matt de la Peña

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Hunter
Tana French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Hunter (Parker, #1)
Richard Stark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Hunters
John Flanagan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

The Hunt for Red October
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Hunt for the Seventh
Christine Morton-Shaw

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

The Hunting of the Snark
Lewis Carroll

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2000

The Hunting Party
Lucy Foley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Hunting Wives
May Cobb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Huntress
Pascale Petit

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Hurricane Wars
Thea Guanzon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Husband
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Husband Hour
Jamie Brenner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Husbands
Holly Gramazio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Husbands: A Novel
Chandler Baker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Husband's Secret
Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Hustler (Eddie Felson, #1)
Walter Tevis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Hydrogen Sonata
Iain M. Banks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--and How We Must Adapt
Sinan Aral

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Hypnotist
Ann Long, Lars Kepler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Hypnotists
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

The Hypnotist's Love Story
Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Hypocrite
Jo Hamya

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024