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How Dare the Sun Rise
Sandra Uwiringiyimana

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2017

How Democracies Die
Daniel Ziblatt, Steven Levitsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

How Doctors Think
Jerome Groopman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

How Does It Feel to Be A Problem: Being Young and Arab in America (2008)
Moustafa Bayoumi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

How Do I Love Thee
Lurlene McDaniel

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1989

How Do You Live?
Genzaburo Yoshino

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
Lisa Feldman Barrett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Walter Rodney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1971

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
Sabrina Imbler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
Jason Stanley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

How Google Works
Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

How Green Was My Valley
Richard Llewellyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

How High We Go in the Dark
Sequoia Nagamatsu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

How I Became a Ghost: A Choctaw Trail of Tears Story
Tim Tingle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

How I Found the Strong
Margaret McMullan

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 2019

How I Learned to Drive
Paula Vogel

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1997

How I Live Now
Meg Rosoff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

How It Feels To Float
Helena Fox

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

How It Went Down
Kekla Magoon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Howl and Other Poems
Allen Ginsberg

Nonfiction | Poetry Collection | YA | Published in 1956

How Late It Was, How Late
James Kelman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Howl’s Moving Castle
Diana Wynne Jones

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1986

How Lucky
Will Leitch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

How Markets Fail
John Cassidy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

How Much Of These Hills Is Gold
C Pam Zhang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

How Music Got Free
Stephen Richard Witt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

How Music Works
David Byrne

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

How Not to Die Alone
Richard Roper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
Michael Greger, Gene Stone

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

How Not to Diet
Michael Greger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

How Reading Changed My Life
Anna Quindlen

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1998

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Julia Alvarez

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
Thomas Cahill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
Holly Black, Illustr. Rovina Cai

Fiction | Short Story | Published in 2020

How the Light Gets In
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

How The Mind Works
Steven Pinker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1890

How the Penguins Saved Veronica
Hazel Prior

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Clint Smith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay
Julia Alvarez

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
Randall Munroe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

How to Age Disgracefully
Clare Pooley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
Bill Gates

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

How to Be a Woman
Caitlin Moran

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

How to Be Black
Baratunde Thurston

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

How to Be Both
Ali Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

How to Be Eaten
Maria Adelmann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
Michael Schur

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

How to Be Popular
Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

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 Build a Girl
Caitlin Moran

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence (2018)
Michael Pollan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

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 Fried Worms
Thomas Rockwell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1973

How to Fail at Flirting
Denise Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

How to Fake It in Hollywood
Ava Wilder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

How to Fall in Love
Cecelia Ahern

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

How to Find Love in a Bookshop
Veronica Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf
Molly Harper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery
Kevin Ashton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Mohsin Hamid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

How To Hang A Witch
Adriana Mather

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Daniel Immerwahr

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
David Brooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

How to Leave Hialeah
Jennine Capó Crucet

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

How to Lie with Statistics
Darrell Huff

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1954

How To Live Safely In a Science Fictional Universe
Charles Yu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

How to Make Friends with the Dark
Kathleen Glasgow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire
Kerrelyn Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

How to Misbehave
Ruthie Knox

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1940

How to Read and Why
Harold Bloom

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
Thomas C. Foster

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

How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: Critical Thinking in the Age of Bias, Contested Truth, and Disinformation
Thomas C. Foster

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2020

How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse
Thomas C. Foster

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

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 Say Babylon: A Memoir
Safiya Sinclair

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

How to Sell a Haunted House
Grady Hendrix

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

How to Steal a Dog
Barbara O'Connor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

How to Stop Time
Matt Haig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Dale Carnegie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1948

How to Survive a Plague
David France

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

How To Talk To Anyone
Leil Lowndes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You
The Oatmeal, Matthew Inman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

How to Train Your Dragon
Cressida Cowell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

How to Walk Away
Katherine Center

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

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 Got to Now
Steven Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

How Will You Measure Your Life?
Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, Karen Dillon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Huckleberry Fin
Mark Twain

Fiction | Book | Published in 1885

Huck's Raft
Steven Mintz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
Kiran Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998