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Haiku in English
Haiku in English adapts the Japanese 17-on, 5-7-5 form with kigo and kireji into English; because English syllables are longer, most contemporary English haiku run 10-14 syllables or use accentual forms rather than strict 5-7-5.
Haimiya Is Scary Cute
Haimiya Is Scary Cute (Haimiya-senpai wa Kowakute Kawaii, 灰宮先輩は怖くてかわいい) is an ongoing Japanese rom-com manga by Sumu Kamiyama on Square Enix's Manga UP! since November 2025, about a feared Kansai-dialect senpai kind only to Kurose; three volumes by August 2026.
Haitian Indigenist novel
The Haitian Indigenist novel (roman indigéniste) was Haitian fiction of the 1920s to 1940s that turned toward peasant life and African heritage in reaction to the US occupation.
HaJaBaRaLa
HaJaBaRaLa, sometimes written Ho-Jo-Bo-Ro-Lo, is a Bengali children's nonsense story by Sukumar Ray, first published as a book in 1924 and often compared to Alice in Wonderland.
Hajar Bachhar Dhore
Hajar Bachhar Dhore (হাজার বছর ধরে, "For a Thousand Years") is a Bengali novel by Zahir Raihan, written in 1964 and considered his magnum opus.
Hajime no Ippo (はじめの一歩)
Hajime no Ippo (はじめの一歩) is George Morikawa's boxing manga serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine since 1989, following bullied teen Makunouchi Ippo to the Japanese featherweight title; 145 volumes, over 100 million copies, currently on hiatus since March 2026.
Hajji Agha
Hajji Agha (Ḥāji Āqā; حاجی آقا) is a satirical novella by the Iranian writer Sadeq Hedayat, first published in 1945, portraying a corrupt, falsely pious Tehran merchant.
Hakon Jarl
Hakon Jarl is a tragedy in Danish by Adam Oehlenschläger, first published in 1807, dramatizing the conflict between the pagan earl Hakon and King Olav Tryggvason.
Hákonarmál
Hákonarmál is a 10th-century Norwegian skaldic poem by Eyvindr Finnsson skáldaspillir, mourning King Hákon the Good after the battle of Stord around 961 and welcoming him into Valhalla.
Half a Tree
Half a Tree (半棵树) is a 1972 Chinese poem by Niu Han about a tree split in half by lightning that still stands as tall as a whole tree.
Half Girlfriend
Half Girlfriend is a 2017 Hindi romantic drama directed by Mohit Suri, adapted from Chetan Bhagat's 2014 novel, starring Arjun Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor. It scored 15% on Rotten Tomatoes and 4.7/10 on IMDb.
Half His Age
Half His Age is Jennette McCurdy's debut novel (Ballantine Books, January 20, 2026), a New York Times bestseller about 17-year-old Waldo's affair with her 40-year-old creative writing teacher Mr. Korgy in Anchorage, Alaska.
Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 2006 Orange Prize-winning novel about the Biafran war, following Ugwu, Olanna, Odenigbo, Kainene, and Richard; adapted into Biyi Bandele's 2013 film starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Thandiwe Newton.
Half of Life
"Half of Life" (German: Hälfte des Lebens) is a fourteen-line poem by Friedrich Hölderlin, completed in 1803, setting an abundant summer lake scene against a wintry world.
Half of Man Is Woman
Half of Man Is Woman (男人的一半是女人) is a 1985 novella by Chinese writer Zhang Xianliang, part of his series Revelation of a Materialist, set in the labor camps of the Cultural Revolution.
Halk hikâyesi
Halk hikâyesi, Turkish for "folk story," is an anonymous narrative genre of Turkish folk literature told aloud in mixed verse and prose by minstrels called âşıks from the 16th century onward.
Hallowe'en Party
Hallowe'en Party is Agatha Christie's 1969 Hercule Poirot and Ariadne Oliver detective novel, first published by the Collins Crime Club, in which thirteen-year-old Joyce Reynolds is drowned after boasting of witnessing a murder; adapted as A Haunting in Venice in 2023.
Halo: First Strike
Halo: First Strike is Eric Nylund's 2003 Halo novel, third of the Original Series, bridging Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2 as Master Chief, Cortana, and Johnson return to Earth.
Halo: The Fall of Reach
Halo: The Fall of Reach, Eric Nylund's 2001 Del Rey novel, is the first Halo book and prequel to Combat Evolved, covering John-117's SPARTAN-II origins, the fall of Reach, its comic, animated, and audio drama adaptations, and canon conflicts with Halo: Reach.
Halo: The Flood
Halo: The Flood (2003) by William C. Dietz is the official novelization of Halo: Combat Evolved and the only direct game novelization among around forty Halo novels, adding Covenant and UNSC subplots; reissued by Tor and Gallery Books.
Halotti beszéd és könyörgés
Halotti beszéd és könyörgés, the Funeral Sermon and Prayer, is the earliest surviving coherent Hungarian text, a 32-line sermon and prayer in the Pray Codex.
Hamara Shahar Us Baras
Hamara Shahar Us Baras (हमारा शहर उस बरस) is a 1998 Hindi novel by Geetanjali Shree, following educated urban Indians as communal violence engulfs an unnamed north Indian city.
Hamasah
Hamasah (الحماسة, "valor") is a classical Arabic anthology genre of verses arranged by theme, beginning with war and courage, modeled on Abu Tammam's Diwan al-Hamasah of 846.
Hamasah of Abu Tammam
The Hamasah of Abu Tammam (حماسة أبي تمام) is a ninth-century Arabic anthology of heroic and martial verse, compiled by the Abbasid poet Abu Tammam around 835.
Hamlet
Hamlet (The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark) is Shakespeare's revenge tragedy of a Danish prince avenging his father's murder by Claudius. Survives in three early texts: Q1 1603, Q2 1604, First Folio 1623.
Hamsaduta
Haṃsadūta (हंसदूत, "The Swan Messenger") is a 16th-century Sanskrit messenger poem by Rūpa Gosvāmin, in which Rādhā sends a swan with her message to Kṛṣṇa.
Hamzanama
The Hamzanama (حمزہ نامہ, "Book of Hamza") is a monumental illustrated manuscript of Amir Hamza's adventures, made for Emperor Akbar between about 1562 and 1577.
Hamziya
Hamziya, also spelled Hamziyya, is the Swahili translation of al-Būṣīrī's Arabic panegyric praising the Prophet Muhammad, generally cited as the oldest surviving Islamic Swahili poem.
Han Duvarları
Han Duvarları (Caravanserai Walls) is a narrative poem by the Turkish poet Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel, published in 1925, recounting a 1922 horse-cart journey from Ulukışla to Kayseri.
Han Gong Qiu
Han Gong Qiu (漢宮秋, Autumn in the Han Palace) is a four-act Yuan dynasty zaju play by Ma Zhiyuan, built on the story of the Han consort Wang Zhaojun.