Books by Letter H

A dystopia set in Panem, a North American country consisting of the wealthy Capitol and 12 districts in varying states of poverty.

Follows disfigured Quasimodo, the bell-ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, who bides his time locked away in a tower.

The novels chronicle the lives of a young wizard and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

A fictional guide book for hitchhikers written in the form of an encyclopedia.

Thomas Gradgrind, a wealthy, retired merchant in the industrial city of Coketown, England, devotes his life to a philosophy of rationalism, self-interest, and fact.

Set within Tolkien's fictional universe and follows the quest of home-loving Bilbo Baggins, the titular hobbit, to win a share of the treasure guarded by Smaug the dragon.

Explores themes of subjugated women in a patriarchal society and the various means by which these women resist and attempt to gain individuality and independence.

Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father in order to seize his throne and marry Hamlet's mother.

Charles Marlow, the narrator, tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames.

Rob Fleming is a London record shop owner in his mid-thirties whose girlfriend, Laura, has just left him.

One of the earliest accounts of the rise of the Persian Empire, as well as the events and causes of the Greco-Persian Wars.

An attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin.

Twin sisters from a wealthy Nigerian family take wildly different paths in life, but both become swept up in the struggle to establish Biafra as an independent republic.

It was written by Thucydides, an Athenian historian who also served as an Athenian general during the war.

The book centers on an unlucky teenage boy named Stanley Yelnats, who is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile corrections facility in a desert in Texas, after being falsely accused of theft.