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Haunted (Palahniuk novel)

Haunted (2005) is Chuck Palahniuk's novel in stories: 23 tales with poems, framed by 17 writers starving in an old theater, famous for 'Guts' fainting readings.

Hausa children's literature

Hausa children's literature is the body of written material for children in the Hausa language of Northern Nigeria, from school primers and folktales to plays and novellas.

Have Come, Am Here

Have Come, Am Here is a 1942 poetry collection by the Filipino poet José García Villa, his first published in the United States and a finalist for the 1943 Pulitzer Prize.

Havelok the Dane

Havelok the Dane, also known as The Lay of Havelok the Dane, is a Middle English romance of about 3,001 lines, usually dated to the late thirteenth century.

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.

Hawk and Dove

Hawk and Dove are DC Comics superheroes created by Steve Ditko and Steve Skeates in Showcase #75 (1968): brothers Hank and Don Hall as avatars of War and Peace, later Hank Hall and Dawn Granger after Don's Crisis on Infinite Earths death.

Hay and Hell and Booligal

"Hay and Hell and Booligal" is an 1896 comic bush poem by Banjo Paterson, first published in The Bulletin, joking that Booligal is worse than Hay or Hell.

Hayat-e-Javed

Hayat-e-Javed (حیاتِ جاوید) is an Urdu biography of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan by Altaf Hussain Hali, published in 1901 and regarded as a milestone of Urdu biography.

Hayrâbâd

Hayrâbâd (خيرآباد) is a mesnevi, a narrative poem in rhymed couplets, by the Ottoman poet Nâbî, completed in Aleppo in 1705 as the last of his works.

Hayriyye

Hayriyye, formally titled Hayrî-nâme, is a didactic masnavi by the Ottoman poet Nâbî, written in Aleppo in 1701 as moral and practical advice for his seven-year-old son.

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.

He Pukapuka Tātaku i ngā Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui

He Pukapuka Tātaku i ngā Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui, a Māori biography of Ngāti Toa leader Te Rauparaha written by his son Tamihana, was first published in full in 2020.

He Who Fights With Monsters

He Who Fights With Monsters is an Australian LitRPG and progression fantasy series by Travis Deverell. It follows Jason Asano, an office worker transported to a magical world.

Heart Lamp: Selected Stories

Heart Lamp: Selected Stories (Kannada: Edeya Hanate) is Banu Mushtaq's collection of 12 Kannada stories (1990-2023) translated by Deepa Bhasthi; it won the International Booker Prize 2025, the first short story collection and first Kannada book to win.

Heart of a Dog

Heart of a Dog (Собачье сердце) is a satirical 1925 novella by Mikhail Bulgakov, in which a professor transplants human organs into a stray Moscow dog.

Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness is a novella by Joseph Conrad, first serialized in 1899. It details Marlow's journey up the Congo River to find the ivory trader Kurtz.

Heart the Lover

Heart the Lover is Lily King's 2025 Grove Press novel about a 1980s college love triangle, narrator "Jordan," Sam, and Yash, told in three parts across 30 years and linked to Writers & Lovers.

Heart's Needle

Heart's Needle is a 1959 poetry collection by the American poet W. D. Snodgrass, whose ten-section title poem recounts his divorce and won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Hearts in Atlantis

Hearts in Atlantis is Stephen King's 2000 collection of five interconnected novellas spanning 1960 to 1999, haunted by the Vietnam War; includes Low Men in Yellow Coats and the title story, adapted as a 2001 film with Anthony Hopkins.

Hearts in Atlantis (film)

Hearts in Atlantis is a 2001 American-Australian drama directed by Scott Hicks, starring Anthony Hopkins and Anton Yelchin, adapted by William Goldman from two Stephen King stories.

Heartstopper (graphic novel)

Heartstopper is Alice Oseman's LGBTQ+ graphic novel series, begun as a 2016 webcomic on Tumblr and Tapas, published by Hachette from 2019 and Graphix/Scholastic from 2020, following Nick Nelson and Charlie Spring.

Heartwood (novel)

Heartwood (novel) most commonly refers to Amity Gaige's 2025 Simon & Schuster literary thriller about nurse Valerie Gillis, lost on the Appalachian Trail in Maine; also novels by Belva Plain, Nikky Finney, and James Lee Burke.

Heat 2

Heat 2, a 2022 crime novel by Michael Mann co-written with Meg Gardiner, continues his 1995 film Heat as both prequel and sequel; a No. 1 New York Times bestseller now being adapted by Amazon MGM's United Artists.

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.

Heat Waves (fan fiction)

Heat Waves is a 2020-2021 DreamNotFound real person fanfic by tbhyourelame on AO3 about Minecraft YouTubers Dream and GeorgeNotFound; it became AO3's most bookmarked work, boosted the Glass Animals song, and was later hidden by its author.

Heated Rivalry (novel)

Heated Rivalry is Rachel Reid's 2019 M/M hockey romance, second in the Game Changers series (Carina Press), following secret lovers Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov; its 2025 Jacob Tierney TV adaptation made it a bestseller.

Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights)

Heathcliff, the orphan antihero of Emily Brontë's 1847 novel Wuthering Heights, brought to the Earnshaw farm, in love with Catherine, and consumed by revenge that wins him both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange before his death.

Heaven Is for Real

Heaven Is for Real, also styled Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story, is a 2010 Thomas Nelson nonfiction book by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent about Colton Burpo's claimed 2003 heavenly visit during emergency appendectomy; it sold over 8 million copies and was adapted into a 2014 Sony film directed by Randall Wallace.

Heaven Official's Blessing (天官赐福)

Heaven Official's Blessing (Tian Guan Ci Fu) is Mo Xiang Tong Xiu's danmei xianxia web novel, serialized 2017-2018 on Jinjiang, about the god Xie Lian and the ghost king Hua Cheng; adapted into a hit Bilibili donghua and an 8-volume Seven Seas English bestseller.

Heavensgate

Heavensgate is a 1962 sequence of poems by the Nigerian poet Christopher Okigbo, his first major collection, opening with an invocation to the river goddess Idoto.