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Honorverse

Honorverse: the shared military science-fiction universe of David Weber's Honor Harrington novels (Baen Books, from On Basilisk Station, 1992), set in the Star Kingdom of Manticore versus the Republic of Haven, with 14 main novels, spin-off series, anthologies, games, and a bestseller record.

Hope Abandoned

Hope Abandoned (Vtoraya kniga) is the second volume of memoirs by Nadezhda Mandelstam, widow of the poet Osip Mandelstam, first published in Paris in 1972.

Hope is the Thing with Feathers

"Hope" is the thing with feathers is an 1861 poem by Emily Dickinson that defines hope as a bird that sings without words and asks nothing in return.

Hope You're Happy, Lemon

Hope You're Happy, Lemon (クソ女に幸あれ, Kusoonna ni Sachiare) is a Shueisha body-swap rom-com manga by Mizuki Kishikawa, serialized from October 2023, licensed in English by Seven Seas, fourth place in the 2024 Next Manga Awards web category.

Hophopname

Hophopname (Hophopnamə) is the collected works of Azerbaijani satirical poet Mirzə Ələkbər Sabir, first published in 1912 and named after his pen name Hophop.

Hopscotch (Cortázar novel)

Hopscotch (Rayuela) is Julio Cortázar's 1963 experimental novel, published by Editorial Sudamericana, with 155 chapters readable in linear or author-prescribed hopscotch order; a Latin American Boom landmark translated by Gregory Rabassa in 1966.

Hora 0 y otros poemas

Hora 0 y otros poemas (La hora cero y otros poemas) is a 1971 poetry collection by Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal, centered on his poem "Hora 0" about Augusto Sandino.

Horatio Hornblower

Horatio Hornblower is C. S. Forester's fictional Royal Navy officer of the Napoleonic Wars, introduced in 1937 in The Happy Return and followed across eleven novels from midshipman to admiral.

Horimiya (ホリミヤ)

Horimiya (ホリミヤ) is HERO and Daisuke Hagiwara's manga adaptation of the webcomic Hori-san to Miyamura-kun, serialized in Monthly GFantasy 2011-2021 across 16 volumes plus 2023's bonus volume 17, with 2021 and 2023 anime adaptations.

Horrid Henry

Horrid Henry: British children's book series by Francesca Simon, illustrated by Tony Ross, first published 1994; over 21 million copies sold, CITV animated series from 2006, and a 2011 film.

Horror fiction

Horror fiction, also called horror literature, is fiction written to frighten readers with unexplainable phenomena or unearthly threats. It grew from Horace Walpole's 1764 Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto, diverged into terror-versus-horror aesthetics, weird fiction, and psychological horror, and shows a 2025 sales resurgence.

Horrorstör

Horrorstör, Grady Hendrix's 2014 Quirk Books horror-comedy novel, is a haunted-furniture-store story set at Orsk in Cleveland, designed to look like an IKEA catalogue; adaptations include a 2026 Searchlight film with Jonathan Levine.

Horse (novel)

Horse (2022) is Geraldine Brooks's Viking-published historical novel based on the record-breaking racehorse Lexington, braiding 1850s Kentucky, 1954 New York, and 2019 Washington DC; it won the 2023 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and Anisfield-Wolf fiction awards.

Horsemen of Apocalypse

Horsemen of Apocalypse: Marvel Comics supervillain team serving En Sabah Nur as Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence; debuted in X-Factor #15 (1987); members include Archangel, Wolverine, Gambit, and Polaris.

Horton Hears a Who!

Horton Hears a Who! is a 1954 Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) picture book, also known by the refrain 'a person's a person, no matter how small', in which Horton the elephant protects the Whos of Whoville on a dust speck; adapted as a 1970 Chuck Jones TV special and a 2008 Blue Sky film.

Hoshin Engi (封神演義)

Hoshin Engi (封神演義) is Ryu Fujisaki's Weekly Shonen Jump manga (1996-2000, 23 volumes, 204 chapters), a loose adaptation of Anno Tsutomu's translation of the Chinese classic Fengshen Yanyi, following Taikobo's Hoshin Project; over 22 million copies and two anime adaptations.

Hoši od Bobří řeky

Hoši od Bobří řeky (The Boys from Beaver River) is a Czech adventure novel by Jaroslav Foglar, first published in 1937, about boys who earn beaver-tooth achievement badges.

Host and Guest

Host and Guest (Georgian: სტუმარ-მასპინძელი, Stumar-Maspindzeli) is an 1893 epic poem by Georgian writer Vazha-Pshavela, telling of a host who shelters a blood enemy despite his community's demands.

Hosties noires

Hosties noires, or Black Hosts, is a 1948 collection of French poems by Senegalese poet and statesman Léopold Sédar Senghor, a founding work of Negritude honoring the African colonial soldiers who fought for France.

Hot Snow

Hot Snow (Горячий снег) is a 1970 war novel by Soviet writer Yuri Bondarev about an artillery battery stopping German tanks near Stalingrad in December 1942.

Hot Wind

Hot Wind (热风) is the first collection of zawen, short critical essays, by the Chinese writer Lu Xun, published by Beixin Book Company in Beijing in 1925.

Hotel Inhumans

Hotel Inhumans (ホテル・インヒューマンズ) is Ao Tajima's assassin-hotel manga, serialized on Shogakukan's Sunday Webry 2021-2025 in 12 volumes, adapted into a Studio Bridge TV anime in 2025 with a second season in October 2026.

Hototogisu

Hototogisu (不如帰, "The Cuckoo") is a novel by the Japanese writer Tokutomi Roka, serialized in 1898 and 1899, and a leading example of the Meiji-era domestic novel.

Hou Chibi Fu

Hou Chibi Fu (後赤壁賦) is a prose rhapsody written by Su Shi in 1082 during his exile at Huangzhou, the companion to his First Red Cliff Rhapsody.

House Made of Dawn

House Made of Dawn is a 1968 novel by N. Scott Momaday about Abel, a Jemez Pueblo veteran, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

House of Leaves

House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski's 2000 Pantheon debut novel, an ergodic horror and metafiction about a house larger inside than out, told through Zampanò's manuscript, Johnny Truant's notes, and layered footnotes.

House of M

House of M is a 2005 eight-issue Marvel limited series by Brian Michael Bendis and Olivier Coipel, following Avengers Disassembled, in which the Scarlet Witch rewrites reality so Magneto's mutants rule Earth.

House of Mist

House of Mist is a 1947 novel in English by the Chilean writer María Luisa Bombal, published in New York by Farrar, Straus and Company.

House of Night

House of Night: YA vampire fantasy series by P.C. and Kristin Cast, 12 novels 2007-2014 plus Other World spinoff, following Zoey Redbird at a Tulsa vampyre boarding school under Goddess Nyx; over 7 million copies sold by 2010.

House of Secrets (DC Comics)

House of Secrets was a DC Comics horror and science fiction anthology (1956-1978, 154 issues), sister title to House of Mystery, hosted by Abel, and famous for Swamp Thing's first appearance in issue #92 (1971).