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The House with a Clock in Its Walls
The House with a Clock in Its Walls: 1973 John Bellairs children's gothic novel, first Lewis Barnavelt book, illustrated by Edward Gorey, about orphan Lewis and a doomsday clock; adapted into Eli Roth's 2018 film with Jack Black and Cate Blanchett.
The House with the Mezzanine
The House with the Mezzanine («Дом с мезонином», Dom s mezoninom) is an 1896 short story by Anton Chekhov, told by a painter recalling a lost love at a country estate.
The House, in Which...
The House, in Which... (Дом, в котором…) is a 2009 debut novel by the Armenian writer Mariam Petrosyan, set in a boarding school called the House for children with disabilities.
The Housekeeper and the Professor
The Housekeeper and the Professor, originally Hakase no ai shita suushiki (博士の愛した数式), is a 2003 novel by the Japanese writer Yoko Ogawa about a mathematician whose memory lasts only 80 minutes.
The Housemaid (novel)
Written by Freida McFadden, The Housemaid (novel) is a 2022 domestic suspense thriller about Millie Calloway, an ex-convict who works as a live-in maid for the Winchesters.
The Human Comedy
The Human Comedy is a 1943 novel by Armenian American writer William Saroyan, following the Macauley family in fictional Ithaca, California, during the early years of World War II.
The Human Stain
The Human Stain is Philip Roth's 2000 novel, third of his trilogy with American Pastoral and I Married a Communist, about Coleman Silk, a classics professor undone by the word "spooks" who has passed as a white Jew while being African American; Robert Benton's 2003 film adaptation starred Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (musical)
Stage musical by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz with book by Peter Parnell, based on Victor Hugo's novel and Disney's 1996 film; premiered 1999 in Berlin as Der Glöckner von Notre Dame, English version 2014 at La Jolla Playhouse, never reached Broadway.
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, original French title Notre-Dame de Paris, is Victor Hugo's 1831 Gothic novel about Quasimodo, Esmeralda, and Frollo at Notre-Dame Cathedral, which spurred the cathedral's 19th-century restoration.
The Hundred and One Dalmatians
The Hundred and One Dalmatians, or The Great Dog Robbery, is a 1956 children's novel by Dodie Smith. It follows a family of puppies rescued from Cruella de Vil.
The Hundred-Foot Journey (film)
The Hundred-Foot Journey is a 2014 American-Indian comedy drama directed by Lasse Hallström, starring Helen Mirren, about an Indian family's restaurant opening across from a French one.
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann) is a 2009 comic debut novel by Swedish writer Jonas Jonasson.
The Hunger Angel
The Hunger Angel (Atemschaukel) is a 2009 novel by Nobel laureate Herta Müller about Leo Auberg, a Romanian German deported to a Soviet labor camp.
The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games is Suzanne Collins's dystopian YA series (2008-2010, prequels 2020 and 2025) set in Panem, where children fight in televised death matches; over 100 million copies sold and a $3 billion film franchise.
The Hunger Games (novel)
The Hunger Games is a dystopian young adult novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins, published by Scholastic in September 2008 as the first of a trilogy.
The Hungry Tide
The Hungry Tide is a 2004 novel by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh, published by HarperCollins and set in the Sundarbans, where the Ganges meets the Bay of Bengal.
The Hunt for Red October
The Hunt for Red October: Tom Clancy's 1984 Naval Institute Press debut novel about Soviet sub captain Marko Ramius's defection, and John McTiernan's 1990 Paramount film with Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin, an Oscar-winning Cold War thriller.
The Hunter (Tana French novel)
The Hunter (2024) is Tana French's ninth novel, the sequel to The Searcher. Set in fictional Ardnakelty, western Ireland, it follows retired Chicago detective Cal Hooper and teenager Trey Reddy as Trey's con-man father Johnny returns with a fake gold-mining scheme.
The Hunting of the Snark
The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits is a nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll, published in 1876, following a crew on a ship hunting the Snark.
The Husband's Secret
The Husband's Secret is Liane Moriarty's 2013 fifth novel, a Sydney-set domestic mystery in which Cecilia Fitzpatrick opens her husband's after-death letter, entangling Tess and Rachel; a No. 1 New York Times bestseller sold in over 40 languages.
The Ice Palace
The Ice Palace (Is-slottet) is a 1963 novel by the Norwegian writer Tarjei Vesaas about two eleven-year-old girls, Siss and Unn, and Siss's grief when Unn disappears into a frozen waterfall.
The Idea of Order at Key West
"The Idea of Order at Key West" is a 1934 blank verse poem by Wallace Stevens, the title poem of his 1936 collection Ideas of Order.
The Idea of Perfection
The Idea of Perfection is a 1999 novel by the Australian writer Kate Grenville, about two awkward strangers who fall in love in a small New South Wales town; it won the 2001 Orange Prize.
The Idiot (Идиот)
The Idiot (Идиот) is Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1868–1869 novel, serialized in Russky Vestnik, about Prince Lev Myshkin, a Christ-like "positively beautiful man" amid Rogozhin and Nastasya Filippovna.
The Idler
The Idler (Turkish: Aylak Adam) is a 1959 novel by Turkish writer Yusuf Atılgan, his first, following an idle intellectual, C., and read as a treatment of existentialism and alienation.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a 1975 satirical conspiracy novel in three volumes by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, blending Discordianism, the Illuminati, and fragmented postmodern narration.
The Immoralist
The Immoralist (French: L'Immoraliste) is a 1902 first-person narrative by André Gide, published in Paris, following Michel, a scholar who abandons moral and social conventions in pursuit of his authentic self.
The Immortal (short story)
The Immortal (El inmortal), Borges short story, first published as "Los inmortales" in Los Anales de Buenos Aires, February 1947, lead story of El Aleph (1949); Roman tribune Marcus Flaminius Rufus, Cartaphilus, Argos, and Homer among the immortals.
The Immortal Hulk
The Immortal Hulk (Immortal Hulk, 2018–2021) is a Marvel Comics horror-driven Hulk series by Al Ewing and Joe Bennett, 50 issues ending with an 80-page #50, collected in 11 trade paperbacks.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is Rebecca Skloot's 2010 Crown nonfiction bestseller about Henrietta Lacks, whose HeLa cells were taken without consent at Johns Hopkins in 1951, and about her family's decades-long struggle for recognition, compensation, and research ethics reform.