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How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery
Kevin Ashton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Mohsin Hamid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

How To Hang A Witch
Adriana Mather

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Daniel Immerwahr

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

How to Influence People: Make a Difference in Your World
John C. Maxwell, Jim Dornan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
Peter Moskowitz, P.E. Moskowitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
David Brooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

How to Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation (Classics in Anthroposophy)
Rudolf Steiner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority
Clay Scroggins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

How to Leave Hialeah
Jennine Capó Crucet

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

How to Lie with Statistics
Darrell Huff

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1954

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
Arnold Bennett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

How To Live Safely In a Science Fictional Universe
Charles Yu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

How to Make an American Quilt
Whitney Otto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

How to Make Friends with the Dark
Kathleen Glasgow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire
Kerrelyn Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

How to Misbehave
Ruthie Knox

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

How to Murder Your Life
Cat Marnell

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

How to Pray: What the Bible Tells Us About Genuine, Effective Prayer
Reuben A. Torrey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1940

How to Read and Why
Harold Bloom

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
Thomas C. Foster

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2003

How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: Critical Thinking in the Age of Bias, Contested Truth, and Disinformation
Thomas C. Foster

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2020

How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse
Thomas C. Foster

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

How to Read the Air
Dinaw Mengestu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

How to Relax (Mindfulness Essentials, #5)
Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

How To Save A Life
Sara Zarr

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
Safiya Sinclair

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

How to Sell a Haunted House
Grady Hendrix

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

How to Speak / How to Listen
Mortimer J. Adler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

How to Stay Invisible
Maggie C. Rudd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

How to Steal a Dog
Barbara O'Connor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

How to Stop Time
Matt Haig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Dale Carnegie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1948

How to Survive a Plague
David France

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

How to Survive Middle School (How to Survive)
Donna Gephart

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
Sönke Ahrens

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2017

How To Talk To Anyone
Leil Lowndes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

How to Tell a Story and Other Essays
Mark Twain

Nonfiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1996

How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You
The Oatmeal, Matthew Inman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
Alan Jacobs

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
Donald J. Robertson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day
Michael J. Gelb

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

How to Think Straight About Psychology
Keith E. Stanovich

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

How to Train Your Dragon
Cressida Cowell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

How to Walk Away
Katherine Center

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

How to Work a Room: The Ultimate Guide to Making Lasting Connections--In Person and Online
Susan RoAne

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2013

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
Alexander Chee

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

How We Decide
Jonah Lehrer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

How We Die
Sherwin B. Nuland

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

How We Disappeared
Jing-Jing Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

How We Fight for Our Lives
Saeed Jones

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

How We Got to Now
Steven Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

How Will You Measure Your Life?
Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, Karen Dillon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived
Leslie Jordan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Hrolf Gautreksson: A Viking Romance
Unknown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Hrolf Kraki's Saga
Poul Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Huasipungo
Jorge Icaza

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War
Michael Isikoff, David Corn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Huckleberry Fin
Mark Twain

Fiction | Book | Published in 1885

Huck's Raft
Steven Mintz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Huda F Are You?: A Graphic Novel
Huda Fahmy

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Huddle: How Women Unlock Their Collective Power
Brooke Baldwin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Hudibras
Samuel Butler, Zachary Grey, Treadway Russell Nash, Alfred Milnes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2006

Hudson Taylor
James Hudson Taylor

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1987

Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret
F. Howard Taylor, Geraldine Guinness Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1955

Hugger Mugger (Spenser, #27)
Robert B. Parker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Huis clos: suivi de Les Mouches
Jean-Paul Sartre

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2000

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
Kiran Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Hull Zero Three
Greg Bear

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Human Acts
Han Kang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Human Capital
Stephen Amidon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Human Chain
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2010

Humankind: A Hopeful History
Rutger Bregman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction
Andrew Clapham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling
Edgar H. Schein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Humboldt's Gift
Saul Bellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Humbug Mountain
Sid Fleischman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1988

Hum If You Don't Know the Words
Bianca Marais

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
Andrew Murray

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Hummingbird
Natalie Lloyd

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Hunger
Roxanne Gay

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Hunger (Gone, #2)
Michael Grant

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
Carrie Brownstein

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Hunger of Memory
Richard Rodriguez

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

Hungry Ghosts
Kevin Jared Hosein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Hungry Hearts
Anzia Yezierska

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1997

Hunted
Meagan Spooner

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Hunted (House of Night, #5)
P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Hunters in the Snow
Daisy Hildyard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Hunters of the Dusk
Darren Shan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

Hunt for the Bamboo Rat
Graham Salisbury

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans
Michaeleen Doucleff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2)
J.L. Weil, H.D. Carlton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Hunting and Gathering
Anna Gavalda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Hunting by Stars
Cherie Dimaline

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Hunting for Hidden Gold (The Hardy Boys, #5)
Franklin W. Dixon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Hunting Ground
Patricia Briggs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009