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Harold and the Purple Crayon
Harold and the Purple Crayon is Crockett Johnson's 1955 Harper & Brothers picture book in which a small boy draws his moonlit adventure with a purple crayon; a seven-book series later adapted into a 2001 HBO series and a 2024 Sony film.
Harpoon of the Hunter
Harpoon of the Hunter, originally Uumajursiutik unaatuinnamut, is a novella by the Inuk author Markoosie Patsauq, regarded as the first Inuit novel in Canada, published in English in 1970.
Harriet the Spy (film)
Harriet the Spy is a 1996 American children's comedy drama directed by Bronwen Hughes, starring Michelle Trachtenberg and Rosie O'Donnell, adapted from Louise Fitzhugh's 1964 novel.
Harrison Bergeron
Harrison Bergeron, Kurt Vonnegut's 1961 dystopian short story from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Welcome to the Monkey House, set in 2081 where the Handicapper General enforces absolute equality by handicapping the gifted.
Harry Bosch
Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch is the LAPD homicide detective created by Michael Connelly in The Black Echo (1992), now spanning 25 novels, crossovers with Mickey Haller and Renée Ballard, and Prime Video series starring Titus Welliver.
Harry Hole
Harry Hole is the fictional Oslo police detective created by Norwegian author Jo Nesbø, debuting in Flaggermusmannen (1997). Thirteen novels through Blodmåne (2022), over 50 million copies sold, Netflix adaptation of Marekors launched 2025.
Harry Potter
Harry Potter is J.K. Rowling's seven-book fantasy series (1997-2007) about a boy wizard at Hogwarts fighting Lord Voldemort; over 600 million copies sold in 85 languages, adapted into films and an HBO series arriving December 2026.
Harry Potter (character)
Harry James Potter is the protagonist wizard of J.K. Rowling's seven-book series, the 'Boy Who Lived' who survived Voldemort's Killing Curse, attended Hogwarts in Gryffindor, and defeated Voldemort in 1998; over 500 million books sold.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, also known as Harry Potter Book 2, is J.K. Rowling's 1998 Bloomsbury fantasy novel about Harry's second Hogwarts year, the Chamber, the Basilisk, and Tom Riddle's diary.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: two-part stage play by Jack Thorne from a story with J.K. Rowling and John Tiffany, the eighth Harry Potter story, premiered in London 2016, set 19 years later around Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is J.K. Rowling's seventh and final Harry Potter novel, published 21 July 2007, in which Harry, Ron, and Hermione hunt Voldemort's Horcruxes and learn of the three Deathly Hallows; it sold 8.3 million US copies in 24 hours and was filmed in two parts.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the fourth Harry Potter novel by J.K. Rowling, published July 8, 2000, centers on the Triwizard Tournament, Harry's unprecedented fourth-champion selection, Barty Crouch Jr.'s deception, and Voldemort's return; adapted in 2005 by Mike Newell.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling's sixth Harry Potter novel (2005, Bloomsbury), follows Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts with Dumbledore's lessons on Tom Riddle; adapted as a 2009 David Yates film scoring 78 on Metacritic.
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (HPMOR) is a 660,000-word, 122-chapter Harry Potter fanfiction by Eliezer Yudkowsky (pen name Less Wrong), posted 2010 to 2015, in which science-raised Harry applies rationality to magic; it is considered the first rational fiction.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling's fifth Harry Potter novel (2003), 870 pages, 255,000 words, 8.5-million first printing; Ministry denies Voldemort's return, Umbridge takes over Hogwarts, 2007 film adaptation.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (US: Sorcerer's Stone) is J.K. Rowling's 1997 debut fantasy novel, first of seven Harry Potter books, published by Bloomsbury, winner of the 1997 Smarties Gold Medal, and opener of the best-selling book series in history.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is J.K. Rowling's 1999 third Harry Potter novel, published by Bloomsbury and Scholastic, in which escaped prisoner Sirius Black, Dementors, Remus Lupin, and the Time-Turner drive Harry's third Hogwarts year.
Harry Potter prequel
Harry Potter prequel: an 800-word 2008 J.K. Rowling story on an A5 postcard, auctioned for £25,000, about James Potter and Sirius Black versus three Death Eaters; distinct from Fantastic Beasts.
Harry Ransom Center
Harry Ransom Center: humanities research library and museum at the University of Texas at Austin, founded 1957 by Harry Huntt Ransom, renamed 1983. Holds ~1 million books, 42 million manuscripts, a Gutenberg Bible, and the Niépce heliograph.
Haruhi Suzumiya (涼宮ハルヒ)
Haruhi Suzumiya (涼宮ハルヒ) is Nagaru Tanigawa's Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko light novel series, begun in 2003, about a god-like high school girl and her SOS Brigade; adapted by Kyoto Animation into a 2006 anime, a 2010 film, and spinoffs.
Haruki Murakami bibliography
Haruki Murakami bibliography (村上春樹): record of works by the Japanese novelist, from debut Hear the Wind Sing (1979) through The Tale of KAHO (2026), plus translations, essays, and complete editions.
Harusame Monogatari
Harusame Monogatari (春雨物語, "Tales of Spring Rain") is a collection of ten yomihon stories by the Japanese writer Ueda Akinari, assembled in 1808 as a companion to his Ugetsu Monogatari.
Hasanaginica
Hasanaginica, "the wife of Hasan Aga," is a South Slavic folk ballad about a Muslim noblewoman divorced against her will, published by Alberto Fortis in 1774.
Hashimiyyat
Hashimiyyat are long Arabic poems composed by the Umayyad-era poet al-Kumayt ibn Zayd al-Asadi in praise of Banu Hashim, the clan of the Prophet Muhammad, especially the descendants of Ali.
Hasidic tales
Hasidic tales are the narrative literature of Hasidism, an eighteenth-century Jewish pietistic movement in Eastern Europe, first printed in 1815 after decades of oral transmission.
Haskalah novel
The Haskalah novel is prose fiction of the Jewish Enlightenment, a movement from the 1770s to the 1880s; its founding work is Abraham Mapu's 1853 Ahavat Tsiyon.
Haskalah satire
Haskalah satire is the satirical Hebrew and Yiddish literature written by maskilim of the Jewish Enlightenment from the late eighteenth through the nineteenth century, aimed chiefly at Hasidism.
Hasretinden Prangalar Eskittim
Hasretinden Prangalar Eskittim ("I Wore Out Shackles with Your Yearning") is a 1968 poetry collection by Ahmed Arif, his only lifetime book, blending love, prison, and Eastern Anatolia.
Hatchet (novel)
Hatchet (1987) by Gary Paulsen, first of the Brian Robeson books, is a survival novel in which a 13-year-old crash survivor lives 54 days in the Canadian wilderness; 1988 Newbery Honor book.
Hatoful Boyfriend (はーとふる彼氏)
Hatoful Boyfriend (はーとふる彼氏) is Hato Moa's Japanese pigeon-dating visual novel, an April Fools' 2011 Flash parody turned cult game, remade by Mediatonic and Devolver Digital in 2014, with the hidden Bad Boys Love dark true ending.