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H Is for Hawk (2016) - Helen MacDonald (1970 -) (Grade:C+)

H.M.S. Surprise (1973) - Patrick O'Brian (12/12/1914 -01/02/2000)  (Grade:A+)

Hadji Murad (1911) - Leo Tolstoy (9/09/1828 -11/20/1910)  (Grade:A-)

Hadrian the Seventh (1904) - Frederick Rolfe (07/22/1860-10/25/1913)  (Grade:C)

Hadrian's Wall (2004) - William Dietrich (09/29/1951-)  (Grade:C)

Halfway Heaven: Diary of a Harvard Murder (1997) - Melanie Thernstrom (-)  (Grade:C)

A Handful of Dust (1934) - Evelyn Waugh (10/28/1903 -04/10/1966)  (Grade:B)

The Handmaid's Tale (1986) - Margaret Atwood (11/18/1939 -)  (Grade:C+)

Hardy Boys Mystery Series: The Crisscross Shadow (1953) - Franklin W. Dixon ( -)  (Grade:B)

Hare Sitting Up (Inspector Appleby Mystery) (1959) - Michael Innes (09/30/1906-11/12/1994)  (Grade:B+)

Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) - Salman Rushdie (6/19/1947 -)  (Grade:B)

Harriet the Spy (1964) - Louise Fitzhugh (1928-1974)  (Grade:D)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1999) - J. K. Rowling (7/31/1965 -)  (Grade:A+)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1998) - J. K. Rowling (7/31/1965 -)  (Grade:A)

The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair (2012) - Joel Dicker (06/16/1985-)  (Grade:C)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003) - J. K. Rowling (7/31/1965 -)  (Grade:A)

Hart's War (199) - John Katzenbach (-)  (Grade:B)

Have a Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks (1999) - Mick Foley (1965-)  (Grade:C)

"He and She" and Other Stories 1880-82 : The Complete Short Stories of Anton Chekhov (Vol 1) (2000) - Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)  (Grade:C)

He Died With His Eyes Open (1984) - Derek Raymond (06/12/1931-07/30/1994)  (Grade:A)

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) - Carson McCullers (2/19/1917 -9/29/1967)  (Grade:D)

Heart of Darkness (1902) - Joseph Conrad (12/03/1857 -8/03/1924)  (Grade:A)

Heart of the Assassin (2009) - Robert Ferrigno (-)  (Grade:A+)

The Heart of the Matter (1948) - Graham Greene (10/02/1904 -4/03/1991)  (Grade:A)

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius : Based on a True Story (2000) - Dave Eggers (03/12/1970 -)  (Grade:C-)

Hearts of Men : American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment (1983) - Barbara Ehrenreich (8/26/1941 -9/01/2022)  (Grade:D)

Heat and Dust (1975) - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1923-)  (Grade:C)

The Heat's On (aka : Come Back Charleston Blue) (1961) - Chester Himes (7/29/1909 -11/12/1984)  (Grade:A)

The Heavenly World Series (2002) - Frank O'Rourke (1916-1989) (Grade:A+)

The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History (1951) - Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997)  (Grade:A+)

Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History (2003) - James A. Morone (-)  (Grade:C-)

Henderson the Rain King (1959) - Saul Bellow (06/10/1915 -04/05/2005)  (Grade:D)

Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia (2010) - Michael Korda (10/08/1933 -)  (Grade:A-)

The Hidden Assassins (2006) - Robert Wilson (1957-)  (Grade:C)

High Crimes and Misdemeanors : The Case Against Bill Clinton (1998) - Ann H. Coulter (12/08/1961-)  (Grade:A-)

High Fidelity (1995) - Nick Hornby (04/17/1957 -)  (Grade:A-)

A High Wind in Jamaica: The Innocent Voyage (1929) - Richard Hughes (1900-1976)  (Grade:C)

Hillbilly Elegy (2016) - J. D. Vance (08/02/1984 -)  (Grade:B)

Hippo Eats Dwarf : A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S. (2006) - Alex Boese (-)  (Grade:B+)

Hiroshima (1946) - John Hersey (6/17/1914 -3/24/1993)  (Grade:B)

His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, Book 1) (2006) - Naomi Novik (1973-)  (Grade:A+)

His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine (2023) - S. C. Gwynne (1953-)  (Grade:A)

A History of Britain, Volume II : The Wars of the British 1603-1776 (2001) - Simon Schama (1945-)  (Grade:B+)

The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews (and His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams) (1742) - Henry Fielding (1707-1754)  (Grade:B+)

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples () - Winston S. Churchill (11/30/1874 -1/24/1965)  (Grade:A+)

Hitler Stopped by Franco (2001) - Burt Boyar (11/30/1927 -04/04/2018)  (Grade:A)

Hitler's Willing Executioners : Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (1996) - Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (-)  (Grade:A)

Holes (1997) - Louis Sachar (1954 -)  (Grade:C-)

The Hollow Men (1927) - T. S. Eliot (9/26/1888 -1/04/1965)  (Grade:B+)

Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s (1998) - Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley (-)  (Grade:C)

The Holy Land (2003) - Robert Zubrin (4/09/1952 -)  (Grade:B+)

Homage to Catalonia (1938) - George Orwell (06/25/1903 -1/21/1949)  (Grade:A)

Hombre (1961) - Elmore Leonard (10/11/1925 -08/20/2013)  (Grade:A+)

Home Field: Nine Writers at Bat (1997) - John Douglas Marshall (-)  (Grade:B)

Home Truths: A Novella (1999) - David Lodge (01/28/1935-)  (Grade:B)

Homeless and At Home in America : Evidence for the Dignity of the Human Soul in Our Time and Place (2007) - Peter Augustine Lawler (07/30/1951 -05/23/2017)  (Grade:A)

The Homeschooling Revolution (2000) - Isabel Lyman (-)  (Grade:B+)

Hondo (1953) - Louis L'Amour (3/22/1908 -6/10/1988)  (Grade:A-)

Honor Thy Father (1971) - Gay Talese (1932 -)  (Grade:A)

Hooking Up (2000) - Tom Wolfe (3/02/1931 -5/14/2018)  (Grade:A+)

Hoopla (1983) - Harry Stein (11/25/1948 -)  (Grade:B+)

Hopeful Monsters (1990) - Nicholas Mosley (1923-)  (Grade:A)

The Horses Mouth (1944) - Joyce Cary (1888-1957)  (Grade:D)

The Hostile Hospital (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 8) () - Lemony Snicket (-)  (Grade:A)

The Hot House : Life Inside Leavenworth Prison (1992) - Pete Earley (09/05/1951-)  (Grade:A)

Hotel Du Lac (1984) - Anita Brookner (7/16/1928 -3/10/2016)  (Grade:C+)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (5/22/1859 -7/07/1930)  (Grade:A+)

The Hours (1998) - Michael Cunningham (1952-)  (Grade:F)

House (1985) - Tracy Kidder (1945-)  (Grade:B)

A House for Mr. Biswas (1961) - V.S. Naipaul (8/17/1932 -8/11/2018)  (Grade:B-)

The House of Daniel: A novel of miracles, magic, and minor league ball (2016) - Harry Turtledove (06/14/1949-)  (Grade:A-)

The House of Gentle Men (2000) - Kathy Hepinstall (-)  (Grade:A)

House of Leaves (2000) - Mark Z. Danielewski (03/05/1966-)  (Grade:B)

The House of Mirth (1905) - Edith Wharton (1/24/1862 -8/11/1937)  (Grade:C+)

House of Sand and Fog (1999) - Andre Dubus III (9/11/1959 -)  (Grade:A-)

House of Splendid Isolation (1994) - Edna O'Brien (12/15/1930 -7/27/2024)  (Grade:C)

The House Without a Key (1925) - Earl Derr Biggers (1884-1933)  (Grade:B)

How Democratic Is the American Constitution? (2001) - Robert Alan Dahl (1915-)  (Grade:C-)

How Green Was My Valley (1939) - Richard Llewellyn (1906-1983)  (Grade:A+)

How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (and Found Inner Peace) (2000) - Harry Stein (11/25/1948 -)  (Grade:A-)

How Late It Was, How Late (1994) - James Kelman (1946-)  (Grade:B)

How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel (1997) - Alain de Botton (1969-)  (Grade:B+)

How Race Is Lived in America : Pulling Together, Pulling Apart (2001) - Correspondents of The New York Times (-)  (Grade:D+)

How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower (2009) - Adrian Goldsworthy (1969 -)  (Grade:A)

How Should We Then Live?: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture (1976) - Francis August Schaeffer (01/30/1912-1984)  (Grade:A-)

How Soccer Explains the World : An Unlikely Theory of Globalization (2004) - Franklin Foer (-)  (Grade:B)

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957) - Dr. Seuss (1904-1991)  (Grade:A-)

How the Russians Invented Baseball : And Other Essays of Enlightenment (1989) - John Leo (-)  (Grade:B)

How the West Won : The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity (2014) - Rodney Stark (07/08/1934 -07/21/22)  (Grade:A+)

How to Grow Old: Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life (44 BC) - Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC -12/07/43 BC) - Philip Freeman (1961 -)  (Grade:A)

How to Hack a Party Line: the Democrats and Silicon Valley (2001) - Sara Miles (-)  (Grade:C+)

How to Live on Mars: A Trusty Guidebook to Surviving and Thriving on the Red Planet (2008) - Robert Zubrin (4/09/1952 -)  (Grade:B+)

How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place (2006) - Bjorn Lomborg (01/06/1965-)  (Grade:C+)

How to Win an Election: An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians [Commentariolum Petitionis] (2012) - Quintus Tullius Cicero (102 BC -43 BC)  (Grade:A-)

Howards End (1910) - E.M. Forster (1/01/1879 -6/07/1970)  (Grade:D)

How Democracies Die (2018) - Steven Levitsky (01/17/1968-)  (Grade:C)

Hunger (1890) - Knut Hamsun (1859 -1952)  (Grade:C)

The Hunger Games (2008) - Suzanne Collins (1963? -)  (Grade:A+)

The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey (1999) - Linda Greenlaw (-)  (Grade:C)

The Hunters (1956) - James Salter (6/10/1925 -06/19/2015)  (Grade:A)

Hurricane Season: A Coach, His Team, and Their Triumph in the Time of Katrina (2007) - Neal Thompson (1965-)  (Grade:A)

The Husband (2006) - Dean R. Koontz (07/09/1945 -)  (Grade:A)

Hyde & Shriek (Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers, #6) (2006) - Franklin W. Dixon ( -)  (Grade:B+)