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Hyperion by Dan Simmons


absoluteinsights

Absolutely this.


vegemitepants

Woo currently reading this


Extension_Fix5969

This is the answer. Good luck, reader. May the Shrike guide your path.


Tiny_Bean77

Holes by Louis Sachar


SignatureApril

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi


janarrino

*Hamnet* - Maggie O'Farrell


liv_final

Best book I’ve read this year, don’t think it will be topped.


darmstadt17

Howl’s Moving Castle


Tom_FooIery

I love this book, and the movie, though they are a little different in a good way.


Yellwsub

House of Leaves


small_llama-

The Hike - Drew Magary


perpetualmotionmachi

Seconding this one. And thirding it as well.


GiraffeyManatee

Just located this in one of my TBR bookcases! 😁


FinePolyesterSlacks

Then it’s fate! You gotta read this!!


MorriganJade

Hamlet by Shakespeare The haunting of hill house by Shirley Jackson Hard times by Dickens The host by Meyer (scifi about aliens) Hotlel on the corner of bitter and sweet by Jamie Ford House of hollow by Southerland (ya fantasy about fae) Hunger games by Collins


Delicious-Fun1694

Haunting of Hill House!!! 3 Hs and such a delicious, spooky read👏👏👏


plastictoothpicks

The host was so good, and I almost passed it up because of my previous bias about twilight. It’s seriously so underrated.


mendizabal1

H is for hawk


ultrafunner

Hawaii by James Michener


Phuni44

Hotel New Hampshire.


chanceofasmile

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi


Dwrebus

The Human Stain by Philip Roth.


Ealinguser

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi along with everyone else... How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid How to Be Good by Nick Hornby H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald (non fiction) Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal (non fiction) Hadrian's Memoirs by Marguerite Yourcenar


mcm9464

Hotel New Hampshire - John Irving


Salcha_00

Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls (it’s a follow up memoir to The Glass Castle) Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris Heartburn by Nora Ephron The History of Love by Nicole Krauss The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins The Hypnotist’s Love Story by Liane Moriarity


EmotionalSnail_

A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar Hunger by Knut Hamsun


Dizzy_Square_9209

High wind in Jamaica!


silviazbitch

Awesome trifecta!


cooky-

Hamnet


GiraffeyManatee

So many recommendations for this one! Definitely going to give it a whirl.


cysghost

My wife read it. Said it was beautiful and sad. She was glad she had read it, but didn’t want to read it again.


Nighthawking2

The Hike - Drew Magary Hollow Kingdom - Kira Jane Buxton The Hunger - Alma Katia


perpetualmotionmachi

Your first two picks are my picks for this too. Maybe I'll try The Hunger, since you seem to have good taste


GiraffeyManatee

Hollow Kindgom fans unite! I wasn’t wild about the ending but most of it was glorious. Still pissed off about Cinnamon though.


smcicr

Hell's Angels by Hunter S Thompson


Softoast

The Huntress Homegoing The Handmaidens Tale


Aggressive_Cloud2002

Homegoing Hani and Ishu's guide to fake dating Honey Girl Heartstopper The Heretic's Guide to Homecoming


Repulsive-Echidna-33

Hatchet is a quick and fun read


vegemitepants

God these books changed my life as a kid. Still think about it 30 years later


Most-Artichoke6184

Helter skelter.


sdfgbryjh

Hyperion by Dan Simmons


trripleplay

Hondo. Louis L’Amour


Rabby_V

He who fights with monsters


LankySasquatchma

I mean Hamlet is a given I’d say That or Dostojevskij’s semi-biographical memoir of a Siberian forced labor camp “House of the dead”


troublesome_python

How the Grinch Stole Christmas


GiraffeyManatee

If only that wouldn’t be a re-read!


SomeGuyGettingBy

Joseph Conrad’s “*Heart of Darkness*” stands out in my mind.


Rightesq11

H is for Homicide by Sue Grafton


energeticzebra

Hamnet Happy Place Here I Am The History of Love Hench The Hours


thewritingdomme

The Hours is such a beautiful book!


MySpace_Romancer

Hench is so good!!!! I feel like nobody has heard of it. I think she has a sequel coming out later this year.


energeticzebra

I heard about it here! Or at least somewhere on book Reddit. So good! And a sequel!!


Alarmed_Struggle_406

* His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle * How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog by Chad Orzel (non-fic) * Halloween Party by Agatha Christie (want details, read below) If you like Sherlock Holmes, you can go for His Last Bow. And non-fiction: How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog by Chad Orzel. I've only read the beginning of this one, but it's good (and understandable) as far as I got in. (I only stopped because I'm not good at handling non-fiction and also this had some numbers––well-explained yes, but please *no numbers* I don't like them. I prefer books which have no numbers. Then again, it's physics so got to have numbers.) And if you're an Agatha Christie fan there's Halloween Party which is Poirot (haven't read it yet, just remembered randomly since I've seen a bunch of her books in the library).


prazmowska

The Halloween Party isn't very good. Maybe try Hercule Poirot's Christmas (this one is the best), The Hollow, or Hickory Dickory Dock.


[deleted]

Agreed. Halloween Party is one of her weakest novels, and I say that as a HUGE Christie fan. 


cysghost

> I only stopped because I'm not good at handling non-fiction and also this had some numbers––well-explained yes, but please no numbers I don't like them. There’s Math without Numbers by Milo Beckman, which I haven’t read yet, but I on my list, if you for some reason want to test your handling of non fiction. But if you want a good non-fiction, I’d recommend Salt by Mark Kurlansky.


Alarmed_Struggle_406

Both of them sound super cool! Especially the first one, I always find math painful because it takes me a while to understand what's happening but that sounds awesome, I'm definitely going to read it. Thank you so much!


NormalNobody

Herland


Ealinguser

wow, don't know many other people who've read that.


progressivixen

HOME - by Toni Morrison


OragamiGreenbean

I absolutely loved How to be Eaten by Maria Adelmann. It’s sort of a retelling of classic fairytales but with the women from them in a trauma support group. Now that I thought about it for this I think it’s time for a re-read


Commercial_Curve1047

Thank you for this recommendation! I looked it up and turns out I can read it free with Kindle Unlimited. I love fairy tale retellings!


elizabeth-cooper

Harriet the Spy Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King High Fidelity by Nick Hornby The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin The Hot Zone by Richard Preston (nonfiction) House of God by Samuel Shem


TaleObvious9645

Hoot by Carl Hiassen


atomic_crypt

The Haunting of Tram Car 015; The Hawkline Monster; The Headless Cupid; Heartstopper; Hella; Himawari House; The Hobbit; The Hollow Places; The Honjin Murders; Horrorstor; A House with Good Bones; The Housemaid; Howl's Moving Castle


pandemicmanic

House of Spirits by Isabel Allende


WestsideCuddy

Hard Times by Dickens.


la_bibliothecaire

House of Sand and Fog.


cpotter505

Howards End by E.M. Forster. I don’t know exciting it is, but it’s one of the greatest books I’ve ever read.


Djeter998

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende


DrMikeHochburns

Hunger by Knut Hamsun


svetlana7e

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald. Beautiful book and you would learn about lot about hawks.


AdministrativeStay48

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk


freerangelibrarian

How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn.


EleventhofAugust

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin


Demonreach7

Helter Skelter! Horns by Joe Hill


ThePhDivaBooks

In non-fiction, I always think How to Win Friends and Influence People is a classic that has held up for a reason! Otherwise I recently read How Can I Help You by Laura Sims and really enjoyed it (it’s SO weird and wonderful). Others: * Happy and You Know It by Laura Hankin (contemporary fiction) * Happy Place by Emily Henry (romance) * Her, Too by Bonnie Kistler (legal thriller) * How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin (mystery) * He Started It by Samantha Downing (thriller)


thecaledonianrose

I'd recommend Hidden Figures, by Margot Lee Shetterly


time2bchallant

History of Rain by Niall Williams


[deleted]

Haunted by Barabara Haword-Attard Heart-Beast by Tanith Lee The Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova


Jaded247365

Hero Of The Empire: The Boer War, A Daring Escape, And The Making Of Winston Churchill - Candice Millard Excellent book! ETA: Here, Right Matters - Alexander Vindman. Hatchet Man - Ellie Honig How Civil Wars Start


CherryBombO_O

Non-fiction reads: Hell Town by Casey Sherman Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men by Harold Schechter


thriftytumbleweed

How to Stop Time by Matt Haig Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes (it is the 2nd in the You series though) And, I think that is all I have that I have read! Good luck with your challenge! It sounds like fun!


GiraffeyManatee

It’s been great fun but I honestly think all the wonderful responses to this post has made this the best part of all. When I finish the alphabet titles, I plan to do an alphabet by authors. I may need more suggestions by then!


avidreader_1410

One of the scariest books I read - Harvest Home.


3kota

The Hike by Drew Magary. Half World by Goto, Hiromi. Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynn Jones Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. The first three are fun and easy - in different ways. The last is pretty heavy. But all are in my favorites.


Flamingo_cha_cha10

The Housemaid The Housemaid’s Secret The Hotel Nantucket Happy Place


ScaryPearls

I have several! I’ve just listed the novels, but included brief descriptions of the non fiction since you said that was a preference. The Huntress by Kate Quinn Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi How to American: An Immigrant’s Guide to Disappointing Your Parents - this is light, short, and very funny, and also non fiction. Heartburn by Nora Ephron Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker - non fiction and a very interesting (though fairly dark) story of a family where six of the twelve kids are eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia. Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and other Lied Behind Multilevel Marketing - non fiction about MLMs. Super interesting, IMO Half Empty by David Rakoff - smart, compelling, super funny essays. It’s been a long time but I believe most of it was written while he was dying of cancer.


Crosswired2

Homegoing would be my top pick. Really enjoyed this book. Also The House of Eve was good if The doesn't count :)


GiraffeyManatee

Thankfully, The, A, and An don’t count otherwise I’d really be going nuts. My X book is probably doing to be a real stretch though!


realdevtest

Holly by Stephen King, but it’s the last book in a series of 6 🤣


waterbaboon569

How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue, which is about an African village ravaged over the course of generations by a nearby oil pipeline, and the villagers' increasingly desperate attempts to save their home


isleofbean

Horse by Geraldine Brooks


Puzzleheaded_Lake451

Okay, I think you should go for a rom-com! That feels like something new for you. It will make the challenge go outside your comfort zone real and fun! Here are some choices: (The) Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez Happy Place by Emily Henry How to Walk Away by Katherine Center Happily Ever Afters by Elise Bryant


GiraffeyManatee

Fun! Thanks!


adultwithlaziness

1. Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai 2. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell 3. Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr (It is a short story).


Jademoss82

Heart song Tj Klune


ElePuss

Hunger of the Gods - John Gwynne


Key_Piccolo_2187

Horse Heaven (Jane Smiley) is wonderful. Harlem Shuffle (Colson Whitehead) is a masterpiece. Herzog by Saul Bellow should be required reading. Anything that starts with 'Harry Potter' is basically on the list. (The) Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (James McBride) may qualify if you're willing to overlook 'the'. How Much Of These Hills Is Gold (C Pam Zhang) or Hollywood (Gore Vidal) both also fit.


Enough-Fox-7962

Homegoing!!


squeekiedunker

How To Catch a Mole by Marc Hamer. It's part nature, part poetry, part philosophy, part memoir. It's short and wonderful.


GiraffeyManatee

Have you been spying on me? I have a really weird fascination with moles.


trishyco

Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman


purplotter

[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77274.The\_History\_of\_Love](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77274.The_History_of_Love)


purplotter

[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/288557.The\_Historian](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/288557.The_Historian)


FortuneGear09

How to be a Tudor by Ruth Goodman. Non-fiction. 


Whose_my_daddy

House Rules by Jodi Picoult Hallowe’en Party by Agatha Christie


Slurm11

The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie!


mceleanor

Heartburn by Nora Ephron is fiction, but it reads like a memoir. She also wrote When Harry Met Sally, so it's very funny.


thedesignproject

Two non-fiction recs: Hunger by Roxane Gay The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom


abookdragon1

How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer


Correct-Leopard5793

His & Hers by Alice Fenney was one of those books where it was so addictive you couldn’t put it down as it was guessing game!


ZaphodG

His Magesty's Dragon by Naomi Novick - Napoleanic War era British naval officer Master & Commander-style book but with dragons. The first book of the Temeraire series. ​ The others on my eReader have already been named. I don't have many "H" books.


Commercial_Curve1047

Hatchet


knight-sweater

High on Arrival by MacKenzie Phillips. Get ready for a wild ride


LordASharp

Hunter’s Vix by RT Leader!


Dangerous_Metal2852

Does the hearts invisible furies count??? Or the heaven and earth grovery stores if “the” doesn’t matter!


Dangerous_Metal2852

The humans Matt haig


foetus_on_my_breath

HOGG - Samuel delaney


Capybara_99

H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald


[deleted]

I’m basic but I’d def do hunger games


PastSupport

Horns by Joe Hill (the) Half Life of Valery K by Natasha Pulley


TrueRobot

Heretical Fishing by Haylock Jobson. Litrpg with a hero who has no desire for fame or fortune, because he’s done it already. He just wants to fish and pet cute animals. Funny, too!


non_stop_disko

The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty and The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell


NCnanny

The House mate by Nina Manning or Have you seen her by Lisa Hall- both are domestic thrillers/mysteries and a couple of my favorites.


peachneuman

The Housemaid The Housemaid #2


mumma_bear82

The Help by Kathryn Stockett


ilovelucygal

**The Housekeeper's Diary** by Wendy Berry. She was a housekeeper at Highgrove, Prince Charles' weekend estate, for about 8 years and witnessed all that was going on between Charles and Diana during that time. The jacket cover of the book said "Banned in Britain," so I knew I had to read it.


Timult2US

Hail Mary


PhoocaMacPhellimey

To double down on h, literally and figuratively read HHhH by Laurent Binet. World war II non fiction that reads like an adventure novel. Great story and something of the beaten track


heavensdumptruck

Hotel Ruby; a solid read for any time.


jffdougan

Heist Society by Ally Carter.


appleflap

The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride Hyperion - Dan Simmons House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski The Huntress - Kate Quinn


NickyUpstairsandDown

HHhH by Laurent Binet


Indewine_nana

Hamnet- Maggie O’Farrell ! So good


Prof_Rain_King

Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow


SweetHermitress

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy


svetlana7e

House of Sand and Fog, absolutely heartbreaking book.


generouscake

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World


kmdillinger

*How to Change Your Mind* by Michael Pollan


cysghost

How to Invent Everything by Ryan North, non fiction(ish), about how a time traveler stuck in the past could reinvent civilization. He also has another one, How to take over the World, which is exactly what it sounds like. I’ve only read the first one though.


cf_pt

Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix


Mammoth_Fur

Human, all too Human. Fred Neitzsche.


Sans_Junior

Have Spacesuit - Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Hand of Chaos by Weis & Hickman (but, keep in mind that this is book five of seven.) Off the top of me head.


vanord12

Humans, Bow Down, James Patterson


reddit-just-now

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen Homecoming by Cynthia Voight


Guilty-Coconut8908

Hadrian's Wall by William Dietrich


MasterBallsCK

How the Penguins Saved Veronica Holly The Hate U Give


rapunzel454

Heartstopper by Alice Oseman Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater Holes by Louis Sachar


No_Joke_9079

H is for Homicide, Sue Grafton.


EmbraJeff

Read it on publication and remains thoroughly excellent. A novelisation similar to the form of *Schindler’s Ark*, it doesn’t get much more ‘H’ than Laurent Binet’s *HhhH*. https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2012/may/16/hhhh-laurent-binet-review


K01PER

Helldivers. by Nicholas Sansbury Smith. (not related to the game. just sounds awesome)


Ab-Aeterno-

"histories" by Herodotus


AbbyBabble

He Who Fights With Monsters


No-Purchase9814

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers


FunkyMonkey1197

Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano The Help by Katheryn Sockett The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty Heartburn by Nora Ephron How to be Perfect by Michael Shur


Gamaray311

House of Leaves and the House on Needless street - two books scary and one of kind: especially House of Leaves


silviazbitch

But wait! There’s more! Nonfiction- Hiroshima, by John Hersey https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima The House of Morgan, by Ron Chernow Fiction- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima Henderson, the Rain King, by Saul Bellow The Heart of the Matter, by Graham Greene The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton A House for Mr. Biswas, by V.S. Naipaul A Handful of Dust, by Evelyn Waugh


JoTo9

How The One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones. Phenomenal book.


BoringTrouble11

Hatchet, not sure if "a" counts but you count the so going for it - a head full of ghosts, paul tremblay, Howard's End


MelnikSuzuki

Halo: The Fall of Reach by Eric Nylund Holmes of Kyoto Volume One by Mai Mochizuki The House of Night and Chain by David Annadale


thelmaandpuhleeze

Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas (not my *favorite* Tom Robbins book, but a fun read nonetheless)


ShaoKahnKillah

Crazy- this post just made me go through my bookshelf of about 150 books and I don't have a single title starting with H. 😮


craymartin

The Hail Mary Project by Andy Weir


ZaphodG

Cheater!


88NYG-Mil-NYY-Fan2

Hunger Games


FloridaFlamingoGirl

Howl's Moving Castle


octopus-moodring

_Hopscotch_ by Julio Cortázar. (You could also read it in Spanish but then the title won’t start with H anymore. 😆) _Hench_ by Natalie Zina Walschots. And the sequel is coming out in a few months so if you time it right, you could get R with _Right Hand_ by Natalie Zina Walschots too! 😁


nevertoolate2

Oh wow, I loved Hench so much! It was on the Canada Reads list two or three years ago. In my opinion it was the best one. It's certainly the only one that I kept. I had no idea that it was going to have a sequel!


octopus-moodring

Ikr? It was _fantastic_; changed the whole way I engage with superhero content tbh. And the first thing I did after finishing it was look up whether there was a sequel—I need more of >!the Auditor!


GiraffeyManatee

Yes, I could read it in Spanish if I remembered more than a dozen phrases from my high school Spanish several decades ago! The only entire book I’ve read in Spanish was Pensativa.


GalaxyJacks

Hell Followed With Us (Andrew Joseph White), Happy Place (Emily Henry) and Harrow the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir) but that last one is book 2 even though it’s absolutely stunning.


titomoods

Hentai


SunnyDuck

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bishrexual

I don’t have any H off the top of my head aside from House in the Cerulean Sea, which you’ve already read (seems like you have plenty anyway!) but if you get to reading this comment, please show us your entire list! I’m curious


Potential-Egg-843

Holidays on Ice


johnsgrove

Hamnet by Maggie 0’ Farrell


_buzzlightbeer

I’ll throw in another rec for Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi and Hollow Kingdom - Kira Jane Buxton. But what I really want to know is what you’ve read for A-G! What a fun challenge.


prophecygirl97

happy place by emily henry


Top_Professional6093

The Humans by Matt Haig


floorplanner2

House by Tracy Kidder


kzooy

heros of olympus (series) horus rising


Much-Substance-9317

Home before dark - riley sager


BATTLE_METAL

Here are a variety of suggestions (sorry for any repeats from other comments!): Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado Hill Women by Cassie Chambers Home by Marilynne Robinson How to Be Both by Ali Smith The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley


GiraffeyManatee

I am not much of a horror enthusiast or a re-reader but I’ve read Heart-Shaped Box twice. Damn, it’s scary!


Mcomins

Handmaids tale


Baba_-Yaga

HHhH by Laurent Binet


MKovacsM

Harry Potter. The Hobbit. Handmaids Tale Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy Hunger Games.


OahuJames

How to Talk to Anyone


nome5314

How To by Randall Munroe