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Heir Apparent
Vivian Vande Velde

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Heist Society
Ally Carter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Helen in Egypt
H. D.

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1924

Helen Keller
Eileen Bigland

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1950

Helen of Troy
Margaret George

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Hellhound on His Trail
Hampton Sides

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

Hello Lighthouse
Sophie Blackall

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 2018

Heloise
Mandy Hager

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Hemingway
Kenneth S. Lynn

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1959

Henderson the Rain King
Saul Bellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Henry and the Paper Route
Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1984

Henry David Thoreau: A Life
Laura Dassow Walls

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

Henry IV, Part 2
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1600

Henry James: A Life
Leon Edel

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1985

Henry VIII
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1613

Henry VI, Part 1
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult

Henry VI, Part 3
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1595

Here, Bullet
Brian Turner

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

Here Comes the Sun
Nicole Dennis-Benn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Here I Am
Jonathan Safran Foer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Here I Stand
Roland Bainton

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1950

Here Lies Arthur
Philip Reeve

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Her Fearful Symmetry
Audrey Niffenegger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Her First Ball
Katherine Mansfield

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1921

Herman Melville
Hershel Parker

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

Herodotus
John Gould

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1850

Heroes
Robert Cormier

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Heroes of the Frontier
Dave Eggers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Hero on a Bicycle
Shirley Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Herzog
Saul Bellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

High Hearts
Rita Mae Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

High Heat
Carl Deuker

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

High Noon
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

High Price
Carl Hart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Highwire Moon
Susan Straight

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

His Last Bow
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1917

Historias del Kronen
José Ángel Mañas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Histories of the Transgender Child
Julian Gill-Peterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

History in Three Keys
Paul A. Cohen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Hit and Run
Norah Mcclintock

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1994

Hitch-22
Christopher Hitchens

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Hitler
Volker Ullrich

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

Hitler's Daughter
Jackie French

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Hitler's Furies
Wendy Lower

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Hitler's Willing Executioners
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1934

Hocus Pocus
Teresa Roblin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Hold Fast
Kevin Major

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1978

Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
Sally Mann

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Hollow City
Ransom Riggs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Hollow Kingdom
Kira Jane Buxton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Holy Bible
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1611

Holy Feast and Holy Fast
Caroline Walker Bynum

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

Homage To Catalonia
George Orwell

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1938

Home After Dark
David Small

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Homeboyz
Alan Sitomer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Home Fires
Gene Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Homer & Langley
E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Hondo
Louis L'Amour

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
Deb Caletti

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Honeydew
Edith Pearlman

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1977

Honolulu
Alan Brennert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Honor
Elif Shafak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Honor Girl
Maggie Thrash

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2015

Hoodwink
Bill Pronzini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Hoops
Patricia Mclinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Hope Is The Thing With Feathers
Christopher Cokinos

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Hope Springs
Lynne Hinton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Horns
Joe Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Horseman, Pass By
Larry Mcmurtry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Horses of God
Mahi Binebine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Horse Soldiers
Doug Stanton

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

Hostage Three
Nick Lake

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Hotel du Lac
Anita Brookner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Hotel Florida
Amanda Vaill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Hotel World
Ali Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution
Thomas L. Friedman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Hot Milk
Deborah Levy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

House
Tracy Kidder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

House Fires
Nancy Reisman

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2001

House of Names
Colm Tóibín

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

House of Stone
Anthony Shadid

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

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 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 I Found the Strong
Margaret McMullan

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 2019

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 Reading Changed My Life
Anna Quindlen

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1998

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 Leave Hialeah
Jennine Capó Crucet

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

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 Survive a Plague
David France

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016