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ALPHABETICAL

The Hitchhiker
Lucille Fletcher

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1941

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Hit (Will Robie, #2)
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Hive
Gregg Olsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Hobbit
Sean Deming, Chuck Dixon, J.R.R. Tolkien, David Wenzel

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1990

The Holdout
Graham Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Hole
Hiroko Oyamada

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Hole We're In
Gabrielle Zevin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Holiday
T.M. Logan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Holiday Swap
Maggie Knox

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Holiness of God
R.C. Sproul

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

The Hollow
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Hollow Boy
Jonathan Stroud

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse
Robert Rankin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Hollow Hills
Mary Stewart

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1973

The Hollow Man (Nick Belsey #1)
Oliver Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Hollow Men
T.S. Eliot

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

The Hollow Places
T. Kingfisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Holocaust in American Life
Peter Novick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Holy Sinner
Thomas Mann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Holy Terrors
Jean Cocteau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

The Holy War
John Bunyan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Home and the World
Rabindranath Tagore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1916

The Homecoming
Earl Hamner Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

The Home for Unwanted Girls
Joanna Goodman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Home Place
Wright Morris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
J. Drew Lanham

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

The Homework Machine
Dan Gutman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

The Honest Truth
Dan Gemeinhart

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

The Honey Bus
Meredith May

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

The Honey-Don't List
Christina Lauren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Honeys
Ryan La Sala

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

The Honey Witch
Sydney J. Shields

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

The Honk and Holler Opening Soon
Billie Letts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Honor of the Queen
David Weber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Hooker and the Hermit
L.H. Cosway, Penny Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Hookup
Kristen Ashley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Hook Up
Christian Bernhard, Wanda Martin, Kristen Callihan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Hoopster
Alan Lawrence Sitomer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

The Hope Chest
Viola Shipman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Hopefuls
Jennifer Close

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Hope of Elantris (Elantris, #1.5)
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2006

The Hopkins Manuscript
R.C. Sherriff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Horse And His Boy
C. S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1954

The Horsecatcher (Bison Book)
Mari Sandoz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1986

The Horse Dancer
Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Horse Dealer's Daughter
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

The Horseman's Graves
Jacqueline Baker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Horseman (The West Country Trilogy, #1)
Tim Pears

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Horse's Mouth
Joyce Cary

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Horse Soldier
Merline Lovelace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Horse Whisperer
Nicholas Evans

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Host
Stephenie Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Hostage
Carolyn Wren

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Hot and Cold Summer
Johanna Hurwitz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1985

The Hotel
Elizabeth Bowen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Hotel Nantucket
Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Hotel New Hampshire
John Irving

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1981

The Hot Rock (Dortmunder, #1)
Donald E. Westlake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Hound of Rowan
Henry H. Neff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1902

The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2004

The Hour I First Believed
Wally Lamb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Hour of Peril
Daniel Stashower

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

The Hour of the Star
Clarice Lispector

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1977

The Hours
Michael Cunningham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The House Across the Lake
Riley Sager

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The House Across the Street
Lesley Pearse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The House at Pooh Corner
A. A. Milne

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Published in 1928

The House at Riverton
Kate Morton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The House at Sea's End
Elly Griffiths

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The House at Sugar Beach
Helene Cooper

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

The House at the End of the World
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The House at Tyneford
Natasha Solomons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The House Behind the Cedars
Charles W. Chesnutt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1900

The House by the Cemetery
John Everson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The House by the River
Lena Manta, Gail Holst-Warhaft

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The House by the Sea
Louise Douglas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The House Girl
Tara Conklin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Houseguest
Thomas Berger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

The House I Loved
Tatiana de Rosnay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The House in Paris
Elizabeth Bowen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The House in the Cerulean Sea
T. J. Klune

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The House in the Pines
Ana Reyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The House Is on Fire
Rachel Beanland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Housekeeper
Natalie Barelli

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Housekeeper and the Professor
Yoko Ogawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Housemaid
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Housemaid's Daughter
Barbara Mutch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013