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The Healers
The Healers is a 1978 historical novel by Ghanaian writer Ayi Kwei Armah, set during the 1873–1874 Second Asante War between Britain and the Asante empire.
The Heart in the Palm
The Heart in the Palm (Belarusian: Сэрца на далоні) is a 1964 novel by Belarusian writer Ivan Shamyakin about a surgeon confronting a doctor's posthumous treason verdict.
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers' 1940 debut novel, is a Southern Gothic story set in a Georgia mill town where a deaf man, John Singer, becomes confidant to four lonely misfits.
The Heart of Midlothian
The Heart of Midlothian, also titled The Heart of Mid-Lothian, is an 1818 historical novel by Walter Scott about Jeanie Deans, built around the Porteous Riots of 1736.
The Heart of Redness
The Heart of Redness is a 2000 novel by the South African writer Zakes Mda, contrasting present-day village life in the Eastern Cape with the Xhosa Cattle-Killing of 1856–1857.
The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber
The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber (倚天屠龍記) is Jin Yong's 1961-1963 wuxia novel serialized in Ming Pao, third of the Condor Trilogy. It follows Zhang Wuji, who becomes Ming Cult leader in late Yuan China; the Dragon Saber hides the Book of Wumu and the Heaven Sword the Nine Yin Manual.
The Heights of Macchu Picchu
The Heights of Macchu Picchu (Alturas de Macchu Picchu) is a 1945 twelve-part poem by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, published in 1950 in his epic Canto general.
The Hell of Oil
The Hell of Oil (Abura no Jigoku, "oil hell") is the title shared by two Japanese works: Saitō Ryokuu's 1891 short story and Chikamatsu Monzaemon's 1721 play Onna Goroshi Abura no Jigoku, The Oil-Hell Murder.
The Hellbound Heart
The Hellbound Heart is Clive Barker's 1986 horror novella, first published in Night Visions 3 (Dark Harvest), about Frank Cotton, a puzzle box, and the Cenobites; it inspired the 1987 film Hellraiser and the Hellraiser franchise, with a standalone HarperPaperbacks edition in 1991.
The Help
The Help is Kathryn Stockett's 2009 debut novel about black maids and white employers in 1960s Jackson, Mississippi, narrated by Aibileen, Minny, and Skeeter; a #1 bestseller adapted into a 2011 film and widely criticized as a white savior narrative.
The Heritage
The Heritage (Heimatmuseum) is a 1978 novel by Siegfried Lenz, published by Hoffmann und Campe in Hamburg. His longest novel, at about 654 pages, it was an immediate success.
The Heroes of Olympus
The Heroes of Olympus is Rick Riordan's five-book Camp Half-Blood Chronicles series (2010-2014), from The Lost Hero to The Blood of Olympus, in which seven demigods unite Greek Camp Half-Blood and Roman Camp Jupiter against Gaea.
The Heroic Legend of Arslan (アルスラーン戦記)
The Heroic Legend of Arslan (Arslan Senki, アルスラーン戦記) is Yoshiki Tanaka's 1986 heroic fantasy novel series about Prince Arslan of Pars, concluded in 16 volumes in 2017, with a Hiromu Arakawa manga and 2015 anime adaptations.
The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter
The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter (俺だけ入れる隠しダンジョン) is Meguru Seto's isekai-style fantasy light novel with illustrator Takehana Note: Noir Stardia gains Create, Grant, and Edit skills powered by LP, published by Kodansha, adapted into manga and a 2021 anime.
The Highwayman (poem)
"The Highwayman" is a narrative ballad by the English poet Alfred Noyes, first published in 1906, telling of a highwayman's love for Bess, the landlord's daughter.
The Hill We Climb
The Hill We Climb is Amanda Gorman's inaugural poem, read January 20, 2021 at Joe Biden's inauguration, where she became the youngest inaugural poet; a 2021 Viking book edition followed.
The Hind and the Panther
The Hind and the Panther is a 1687 allegorical poem in three parts by John Dryden, in which a white hind representing Catholicism debates a panther for the Church of England.
The History of a Town
The History of a Town (История одного города) is a satirical 1870 novel by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin about grotesque mayors ruling the fictional town of Glupov.
The History of Henry Esmond
The History of Henry Esmond is an 1852 historical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, framed as the autobiography of Colonel Henry Esmond, set in Queen Anne's reign.
The History of Mary Prince
The History of Mary Prince is an 1831 slave narrative dictated by Mary Prince, an enslaved Bermudian woman, and the first account of a Black woman's life published in England.
The History of Middle-earth
The History of Middle-earth is a 12-volume series published between 1983 and 1996, in which Christopher Tolkien collected and analyzed his father J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium, tracing how Middle-earth evolved.
The History of Pendennis
The History of Pendennis is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, published in monthly parts from 1848 to 1850, following young Arthur Pendennis through love, university, and literary London.
The History of Pugachev
The History of Pugachev (История Пугачёва) is a historical monograph by Alexander Pushkin on the 1773–1775 peasant war led by Yemelyan Pugachev, published in December 1834.
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia is a philosophical tale by Samuel Johnson, published in 1759, about an Abyssinian prince searching for lasting happiness.
The History of Russian Literature
The History of Russian Literature (История русской литературы) is a four-volume history of Russian writing by Aleksandr Pypin, published in Saint Petersburg from 1898 to 1899.
The History of Sir Charles Grandison
The History of Sir Charles Grandison, commonly called Sir Charles Grandison, is Samuel Richardson's final novel, an epistolary work first published in 1753 and completed in 1754.
The History of the Conquest of Syria
The History of the Conquest of Syria (Futuh al-Sham, فتوح الشام) is an Arabic epic-history of the Muslim conquest of Syria, traditionally attributed to al-Waqidi.
The History of the Standard Oil Company
The History of the Standard Oil Company is a two-volume 1904 book by journalist Ida M. Tarbell, first serialized in McClure's Magazine from 1902 to 1904.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is Henry Fielding's comic novel, first published 28 February 1749, following the foundling Tom Jones through Squire Allworthy's household to marriage with Sophia Western.
The Hobbit
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again: 1937 children's fantasy novel by J. R. R. Tolkien, first published Middle-earth work; 1937/1951 editions, Gollum revision, sixty translations, Jackson film trilogy 2012–2014.