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Hard Times (novel)
Hard Times: For These Times is an 1854 novel by Charles Dickens, first serialized in Household Words, that satirizes utilitarianism and industrial England through the Gradgrind family in Coketown.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド)
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド) is Haruki Murakami's 1985 novel of two alternating narratives, a near-future Tokyo data-processor thriller and a walled-town dream-reading fantasy, translated into English by Alfred Birnbaum in 1991.
Hawaii (novel)
Hawaii (1959) by James A. Michener is a 937-page epic historical novel tracing the islands from volcanic formation through Polynesian settlement, missionaries, and Asian immigration to 1959 statehood, researched with Clarice Taylor and adapted to film in 1966.
He Knew He Was Right
He Knew He Was Right is an 1869 novel by Anthony Trollope in which the groundless jealousy of Louis Trevelyan destroys his marriage and drives him into madness.
Heat and Dust
Heat and Dust is a 1975 novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala that won the Booker Prize and tells parallel stories about English women in India fifty years apart.
Heavy Wings
Heavy Wings, a 1981 novel by the Chinese writer Zhang Jie, is set in the heavy industry sector at the start of reform and won the Mao Dun Literature Prize.
Heidi
Heidi (Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre, 1880; Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat, 1881) is Johanna Spyri's two-volume Swiss children's novel about an orphan girl in the Alps, translated into about 70 languages with over 50 million copies sold.
Hello Beautiful (novel)
Hello Beautiful is Ann Napolitano's 2023 Dial Press novel, an Oprah's Book Club 100th pick and New York Times bestseller homage to Little Women about William Waters and the four Padavano sisters of Chicago, spanning 1960 to 2008.
Henderson the Rain King
Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow's 1959 fifth novel (Viking Press), follows Eugene Henderson, a 55-year-old American millionaire, to imaginary African tribes, the Arnewi and Wariri, driven by an inner cry of "I want, I want."
Here One Moment
Here One Moment (2024) is Liane Moriarty's tenth novel, published by Crown, in which Cherry, the "Death Lady", predicts fellow passengers' deaths on a delayed Hobart–Sydney flight; a #1 New York Times bestseller being adapted for TV by Nicole Kidman and Bruna Papandrea.
Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks
Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks (Heidreks saga, Saga of King Heidrek the Wise) is a thirteenth-century Icelandic fornaldarsaga unified by the cursed sword Tyrfingr, surviving in H, R, and U redactions with over a hundred embedded verses.
Herzog (novel)
Herzog, Saul Bellow's sixth novel (Viking, 1964), follows Moses Herzog, an academic writing unsent letters to the living and dead after his wife's affair; it won the 1965 National Book Award.
HHhH
HHhH is Laurent Binet's 2010 French debut novel (Grasset), titled after the SS acronym 'Himmlers Hirn heißt Heydrich'. It reconstructs Operation Anthropoid, the 1942 assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague by parachutists Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš, interwoven with the narrator's account of writing it; Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman winner, translated by Sam Taylor in 2012.
Hidden Bodies
Hidden Bodies is Caroline Kepnes's 2016 thriller, second in the You series, following serial killer Joe Goldberg from New York to Los Angeles in pursuit of Amy Adam; it inspired season two of Netflix's You.
Hijo de hombre
Hijo de hombre is a 1960 novel by the Paraguayan writer Augusto Roa Bastos, his first published work, which won an international prize from Editorial Losada in Buenos Aires.
Hikayat Abi al-Qasim al-Baghdadi
Hikayat Abi al-Qasim al-Baghdadi (حكاية أبي القاسم البغدادي) is an Arabic prose work, probably from the 11th century, attributed to al-Azdi, about a Baghdadi who crashes a banquet in Isfahan.
Hikayat Amir Hamzah
Hikayat Amir Hamzah is a classical Malay prose romance recounting the adventures of Amir Hamza, the Prophet Muhammad's uncle, as a warrior who spreads and defends Islam, adapted from an eleventh-century Persian text.
Hikayat Cekel Waneng Pati
Hikayat Cekel Waneng Pati is a Malay-language Panji romance, one of the best-known Panji tales, following Prince Panji (Raden Inu) and his bride Candra Kirana.
Hikayat Faridah Hanom
Hikayat Faridah Hanom is a Malay novel by Syed Sheikh al-Hadi, published in Penang in 1925 and 1926 and often called the first Malay novel.
Hikayat Gul Bakawali
Hikayat Gul Bakawali is a Classical Malay prose romance about Prince Taj al-Muluk's love for the fairy princess Puteri Bakawali, translated into Malay in 1875 from an Urdu retelling.
Hikayat Indera Bangsawan
Hikayat Indera Bangsawan is a classical Malay romance in which twin princes compete for the magic bamboo buluh perindu and the throne, mixing Hindu and Islamic elements.
Hikayat Inderaputera
Hikayat Inderaputera is a classical Malay romance, popular in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, in which the prince Indraputra journeys to win a childbirth potion from the hermit Resi Berma Sakti.
Hikayat Iskandar Zulkarnain
Hikayat Iskandar Zulkarnain is a Malay Alexander romance retelling Alexander the Great as the Islamic world-conqueror Iskandar Zulkarnain, one of the earliest Malay works, whose hero entered Malay royal genealogies.
Hikayat Langlang Buana
Hikayat Langlang Buana is a classical Malay adventure romance, written in Jawi script, whose best-known manuscript is held at the National Library of Indonesia in Jakarta; despite the title, Langlang Buana is not the hero.
Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiah
Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiah is a Malay tale recounting the exploits of Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah, son of the caliph Ali, translated from a 14th-century Persian original.
Hikayat Raja Donan
Hikayat Raja Donan is a Malay folk romance whose prince, set adrift at sea as an infant, grows into a wandering champion with a magic flute.
Hikayat Sang Boma
Hikayat Sang Boma, also known as Hikayat Maharaja Boma, is a classical Malay hikayat retelling the story of Krishna and Boma, probably composed in the 15th or 16th century.
Hikayat Si Miskin
Hikayat Si Miskin, also known as Hikayat Maharaja Marakarma, is a classical Malay romance whose poor hero rises to kingship through found gold and magic.
Hoist with his own petard
Hoist with his own petard, from Shakespeare's Hamlet Act III Scene IV ("petar"), is an idiom for being harmed by one's own scheme; a petard was a small breaching bomb from French péter, to break wind.
Holes (novel)
Holes is Louis Sachar's 1998 children's novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) about Stanley Yelnats, wrongly sent to Camp Green Lake to dig daily holes; it won the 1999 Newbery Medal and 1998 National Book Award and was filmed in 2003 or 2004.