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A Haunted House and Other Short Stories
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1944

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

A Heart So White
Javier Marías, Margaret Jull Costa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
James Comey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

A High Wind in Jamaica
Richard Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
Julian Barnes

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1989

A Hologram for the King
Dave Eggers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League
Suskind, Ron Suskind

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

A horse and two goats. Stories.
R.K. Narayan, R. K. Narayan

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1970

A House of My Own: Stories from My Life
Sandra Cisneros

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

A HOUSE OF TREES
Joan Colebrook

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

Habibi
Craig Thompson

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Half a Chance
Cynthia Lord

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Half a Life
Darin Strauss

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Half Empty
David Rakoff

Nonfiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2010

Hallucinations
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love
Myron Uhlberg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Hansel and Gretel
Rika Lesser

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1984

Happy are the Happy
Yasmina Reza

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Happy Days
Samuel Beckett

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1987

Harriet Jacobs: A Life
Jean Fagan Yellin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Harvest
Jim Crace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Harvey
Hervé Bouchard

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
Alice Munro

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2002

Hattie Big Sky (Hattie, #1)
Kirby Larson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Hayavadana
Girish Karnad

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1976

Hay Fever
Noël Coward

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1925

Heartbreak House
George Bernard Shaw, David Hare, Dan H. Laurence

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2001

Heart of a Dog
Mirra Ginsburg, Mikhail Bulgakov, Michail Bulgakov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Heat and Dust
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Heat Wave (Nikki Heat, #1)
Richard Castle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Heaven Eyes
David Almond

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2002

Hebrew Bible
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | BCE

Hegel: A Biography
Terry P. Pinkard, Terry Pinkard

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2000

Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
Ally Carter

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Helen in Egypt
H. D., H.D.

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

Helen Keller
Eileen Bigland

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1950

Helen of Troy
Margaret George

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

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 | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1995

Henderson the Rain King
Saul Bellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

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 James: A Life
Leon Edel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

Henry VIII
William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2007

Here, Bullet
Brian Turner

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

Here Comes the Sun
Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn, Nicole Dennis-Benn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Here I Am
Jonathan Safran Foer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther
Roland Bainton, Roland H. Bainton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1995

Here Lies Arthur
Philip Reeve

Fiction | Novel | 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

Herodotus (BCPaperbacks)
John Gould

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Heroes
Robert Cormier

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2000

Heroes of the Frontier
Dave Eggers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Hero on a Bicycle
Shirley Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Herzog
Saul Bellow, Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

High Hearts
Rita Mae Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

High Heat
Carl Deuker

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

High Noon
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Highwire Moon
Susan Straight

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2002

His Last Bow (Sherlock Holmes, #8)
Otto Penzler, Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2006

Historias del Kronen
José Ángel Mañas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Hit and Run (Mike & Riel, #1)
Norah Mcclintock

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2003

Hitch 22: A Memoir
Christopher Hitchens

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Hitler
Volker Ullrich, Don Hagen

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

Hitler's Daughter (Hitler Trilogy, #1)
Jackie French

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2003

Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
Wendy Lower

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Hocus Pocus
Teresa Roblin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Hold Fast
Kevin Major

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2004

Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
Sally Mann

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Hollow Kingdom (Hollow Kingdom, #1)
Kira Jane Buxton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1980

Home After Dark
David Small

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Homeboyz (Hoopster)
Alan Sitomer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

Home Fires
Gene Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Homer & Langley
E.L. Doctorow, E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Hondo
Louis L'Amour

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
Deb Caletti

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005