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House of Suns
Alastair Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

House of the Red Fish
Graham Salisbury

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

House Rules
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

House to House: An Epic Memoir of War
David Bellavia

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

How Angel Peterson Got His Name
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

Howards End
E. M. Forster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1910

How Beautiful We Were
Imbolo Mbue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
Stewart Brand

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
Paul Tough

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
Barbara F. Walter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate
Andrew J. Hoffman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

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 A Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?
Doretta Lau

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2014

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 Fast Can You Run
Harriet Levin Millan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

How Fiction Works
James Wood

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2009

How God Works: The Science Behind the Benefits of Religion
David DeSteno

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

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 Became a Spy: A Mystery of WWII London
Deborah Hopkinson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

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 I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling
Frank Bettger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

How It Feels To Float
Helena Fox

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

How It Happened
Michael Koryta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

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 Propaganda Works
Jason F. Stanley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

How Reading Changed My Life
Anna Quindlen

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1998

How Should a Person Be?
Sheila Heti

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

How Soccer Explains the World
Franklin Foer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else
Michael Gates Gill

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Julia Alvarez

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

How the Irish Became White
Noel Ignatiev

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

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 | Novella | YA | Published in 2020

How the Leopard Got His Spots and Other Just So Stories (Dover Children's Thrift Classics)
Rudyard Kipling

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1992

How the Light Gets In
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In (Good to Great, 4)
Jim Collins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

How The Mind Works
Steven Pinker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
Cherie Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1890

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
Jacob A. Riis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

How the Penguins Saved Veronica
Hazel Prior

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created our World & Everything in It
Arthur Herman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

How the Steel Was Tempered
Nikolai Ostrovsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

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 Tia Lola Learned to Teach (The Tia Lola Stories)
Julia Alvarez

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

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 American Housewife
Margaret Dilloway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

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 Filled with the Holy Spirit
A.W. Tozer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

How to Be Good
Nick Hornby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
Crystal Marie Fleming

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

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 (How to Build a Girl, #1)
Caitlin Moran

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas
David Bornstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

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 Develop Self-Confidence & Influence People by Public Speaking
Dale Carnegie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

How to Disappear
Sharon Huss Roat

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

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