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House of X and Powers of X
House of X and Powers of X (HoX/PoX) are two intertwined 2019 Marvel six-issue miniseries by Jonathan Hickman, with Pepe Larraz and R.B. Silva, that relaunched the X-Men around the mutant nation Krakoa and Moira MacTaggert's reincarnation retcon, launching Dawn of X.
Houseboy
Houseboy is the English title of Une vie de boy (1956), a French-language satirical anti-colonial novel by the Cameroonian writer Ferdinand Oyono, translated by John Reed in 1966.
How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom (現実主義勇者の王国再建記)
How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom (現実主義勇者の王国再建記) is Dojyomaru's isekai light novel, 20 Overlap Bunko volumes, in which summoned hero Kazuya Souma rebuilds the Elfrieden Kingdom through economics and administration rather than combat; adapted into a 26-episode J.C.Staff anime.
How Are Verses Made?
How Are Verses Made? (Как делать стихи?) is a 1926 essay on the craft of poetry by Vladimir Mayakovsky, published in full in 1927, setting out poetry as production.
How Can I Not Miss Her
How Can I Not Miss Her (Jiao wo ruhe bu xiang ta, 教我如何不想她) is a 1920 Chinese poem by Liu Bannong, first to use the female pronoun 她.
How Do You Live? (君たちはどう生きるか)
How Do You Live? (君たちはどう生きるか) is Yoshino Genzaburō's 1937 Japanese coming-of-age novel about Copper and his uncle's notebook; revived by a 2017 manga and titled for Miyazaki's 2023 film The Boy and the Heron.
How Much Land Does a Man Need? (Много ли человеку земли нужно?)
Tolstoy's 1886 folk story Много ли человеку земли нужно (How Much Land Does a Man Need?): peasant Pahom's fatal bargain with the Bashkirs for land he can walk around in a day; written Feb–Mar 1886, published in Russkoye Bogatststvo and Tri skazki.
How Not to Summon a Demon Lord
How Not to Summon a Demon Lord (Isekai Maou to Shoukan Shoujo no Dorei Majutsu) is Yukiya Murasaki's isekai light novel series from Kodansha Ranobe Bunko (2014), about gamer Takuma Sakamoto summoned as Diablo; adapted into Naoto Fukuda's manga and an anime.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! is a 1957 Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) picture book about the Grinch, a heart-two-sizes-too-small creature who steals Christmas from Whoville and reforms. Adapted as the 1966 Chuck Jones TV special, 2000 Jim Carrey film, and 2018 animated feature; source of the word "grinch".
How the Steel Was Tempered (Как закалялась сталь)
How the Steel Was Tempered (Как закалялась сталь, The Making of a Hero) is Nikolai Ostrovsky's 1932–1934 socialist realist novel about Pavel Korchagin, the USSR's most published fiction with over 36 million copies, adapted to film in 1942, 1957, and 1973.
How to Handle My Sassy Big Sis
How to Handle My Sassy Big Sis (Namaiki na Gal Ane wo Wakaraseru Hanashi) is a Japanese manga by Numa Egaki, serialized by Shueisha since 2024.
How to Rule the World
How to Rule the World (An Education in Power at Stanford University) is Theo Baker's 2026 Penguin Press memoir about his Polk Award-winning Stanford Daily reporting that led to president Marc Tessier-Lavigne's 2023 resignation, and about Silicon Valley's recruitment of Stanford students.
How to Train Your Dragon (novel series)
How to Train Your Dragon is Cressida Cowell's 12-book children's fantasy series (2003-2015) about Viking heir Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III and his dragon Toothless, published by Hodder and Little, Brown and the basis of the DreamWorks films.
Howards End
Howards End is E. M. Forster's 1910 novel of three Edwardian families, the Wilcoxes, Schlegels, and Basts, and the inheritance of a Hertfordshire country house, built around the epigraph "Only connect".
Howl
Howl: 1955 three-part poem by Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, published 1956 by City Lights, first read at San Francisco's Six Gallery, and acquitted of obscenity in a landmark 1957 trial.
Howl and Other Poems
Howl and Other Poems is Allen Ginsberg's 1956 City Lights collection whose title poem became the best-known Beat Generation work, despite an obscenity trial in 1957.
Howling at the Moon
Howling at the Moon (Tsuki ni Hoeru) is a 1917 poetry collection by Japanese poet Hagiwara Sakutarō, marking a new epoch in modern Japanese poetry.
Hrdý Budžes
Hrdý Budžes is a 1998 Czech novel by Irena Dousková, her best-known work, told by an eight-year-old schoolgirl whose innocent misunderstandings of 1970s normalization supply its humor and social criticism.
Hua Mulan (花木兰)
Hua Mulan (花木兰), also Mulan or 木兰, is a legendary Chinese woman warrior from the Northern Dynasties ballad The Ballad of Mulan, who served in her father's place for twelve years; her surname Hua was a Ming-dynasty invention by playwright Xu Wei, and Disney adapted her in 1998 and 2020 films.
Huaben
Huaben (话本) are Chinese vernacular short stories of the Song (960–1279) and Yuan (1271–1368) periods, prose narratives punctuated by verse, traditionally linked to the prompt-books of oral storytellers.
Huarochirí Manuscript
The Huarochirí Manuscript is an anonymous colonial-era Quechua text, written around 1608, recording the myths and rituals of the Huarochirí people of the Peruvian Andes.
Huasipungo
Huasipungo is a 1934 novel by the Ecuadorian writer Jorge Icaza, a leading work of the Latin American indigenist movement that depicts the exploitation of Indigenous peasants by mestizo landowners.
Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain's 1884/1885 novel narrated by Huck, a boy rafting the Mississippi with the escaped slave Jim; foundational American vernacular fiction, repeatedly banned, adapted to film, and retold in Everett's James (2024).
Hudhud hi Aliguyon
Hudhud hi Aliguyon (The Harvest Song of Aliguyon) is an Ifugao chant of northern Luzon, Philippines, recounting the hero Aliguyon, best known through Daguio's 1952 English translation.
Hudibras
Hudibras is a satirical mock-heroic poem in three parts by Samuel Butler, published in 1663, 1664, and 1678, ridiculing Puritans and other factions of the English Civil War.
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley is a two-part sequence of poems by Ezra Pound, published in 1920 as a farewell to London and a portrait of its literary culture.
Hughie Campbell
Hughie Campbell, or Wee Hughie, is the main protagonist of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's comic The Boys (2006), a Scottish everyman drawn to resemble Simon Pegg; Jack Quaid plays the Americanized version in the Amazon series.
Hujan Bulan Juni
Hujan Bulan Juni ("Rain in June") is an Indonesian poem written by Sapardi Djoko Damono in 1989, famous for its opening line "Nothing is more steadfast than June rain."
Hum Dekhenge
Hum Dekhenge is an Urdu nazm by Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz, written in 1979 during General Zia-ul-Haq's martial law, known for its refrain "We shall see."
Human Poems
Human Poems (Poemas humanos) is the posthumous collection of poetry by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo, published in Paris in 1939 under the supervision of his widow Georgette.