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Historical Theology: An Introduction to the History of Christian Thought
Alister E. McGrath

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy
Jacqueline Kennedy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Histories
Herodotus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Histories of the Transgender Child
Julian Gill-Peterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics
György Lukács

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1972

History in Three Keys
Paul A. Cohen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

History is All You Left Me
Adam Silvera

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil (Latin American Literature and Culture) (Volume 6)
Jean de Léry

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum) (Dodo Press)
Nennius

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

History of the Civil War, 1861-1865
James Ford Rhodes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

History of the Donner Party, a Tragedy of the Sierra
Charles Fayette McGlashan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

History of Wolves
Emily Fridlund

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier
Deborah E. Lipstadt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

History Smashers: Pearl Harbor
Kate Messner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
Jon Meacham

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

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: Downfall, 1939-45
Volker Ullrich

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America
Steven J. Ross

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Hitler's Daughter
Jackie French

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
Mark Mazower

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Hitler's Forgotten Children: My Life Inside The Lebensborn
Ingrid von Oelhafen, Tim Tate

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Hitler's Furies
Wendy Lower

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII
John Cornwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Hitler's Willing Executioners
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow
Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Hit List
Laurell K. Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
Derek Thompson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Hit Man (Keller, #1)
Lawrence Block

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1999

Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
Satya Nadella, Greg Shaw, Jill Tracie Nichols

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1934

Hittite Warrior
Joanne Williamson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
Rachel Field

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Hocus Pocus
Teresa Roblin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Hocus Pocus & The All New Sequel
A.W. Jantha

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Hogfather
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Hold Autumn in Your Hand (Zia Books)
George Sessions Perry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Hold Fast
Blue Balliett

Fiction | Poem | YA | Published in 2013

Holding
Graham Norton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Holding Up The Universe
Jennifer Niven

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Hold Me Closer, Necromancer (Necromancer, #1)
Lish McBride

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love (The Dr. Sue Johnson Collection, 1)
Dr. Sue Johnson EdD, Sue Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Hold on Tight
Abbi Glines

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Hold Still
Nina LaCour

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
Sally Mann

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Hold Strong
Robert Dugoni, Jeff Langholz, Chris Crabtree

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Hold Tight
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Hole In My Life
Jack Gantos

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

Holes
Louis Sachar

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Holiday in Death
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Holiday Romance (Fitzpatrick Christmas, #1)
Catherine Walsh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Holidays on Ice
David Sedaris

Nonfiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1998

Holiness
J.C. Ryle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Hollow City
Ransom Riggs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Hollow Fires
Samira Ahmed

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Hollow Kingdom
Kira Jane Buxton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow
Jim Madsen, Jessica Townsend

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

Holly
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Hollywood Babylon (Hollywood Babylon, #1)
Kenneth Anger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

Holmes, Marple & Poe: The Greatest Crime-Solving Team of the Twenty-First Century
James Patterson, Brian Sitts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Holmes on the Range (Holmes on the Range, #1)
Steve Hockensmith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Holy Bible
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1611

Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
Barbara Brown Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Holy Feast and Holy Fast
Caroline Walker Bynum

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

Holy Ghost
John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Holy Ghost (Virgil Flowers, #11)
John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Holy Island
L.J. Ross

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir
D.J. Waldie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Holy Sister
Mark Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Holy Sonnets
John Donne

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1986

Holy the Firm
Annie Dillard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

Homage To Catalonia
George Orwell

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1938

Home
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Home After Dark
David Small

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Home Again
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
Julie Andrews Edwards

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

Home Before Dark
Riley Sager

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Home before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam
Lynda Van Devanter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Home Body
Rupi Kaur

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2020

Homeboyz
Alan Sitomer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Homecoming
Belva Plain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen
Laurie Colwin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

Home Fire
Kamila Shamsie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Home Fires
Gene Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Home for the Holidays
Johanna Lindsey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Home Front
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Home Game
Odette Stone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Home Is Not a Country
Safia Elhillo

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | YA | Published in 2021

Home is the Hangman
Roger Zelazny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Homeland
R.A. Salvatore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Homeland Elegies: A Novel
Ayad Akhtar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Homeland (Little Brother, #2)
Cory Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Homeless Bird
Gloria Whelan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

Home of the Brave
Katherine Applegate

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Home of the Gentry
Ivan Turgenev

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Homeric Hymns
Homer

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2003

Homer & Langley
E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009