H. D. Carlton
American bestselling author of dark romance, romantic suspense, horror, and science fiction.
10 works3 series
Author index
Authors beginning with H
H. G. Wells
English novelist, short-story writer, essayist, historian, biologist, and social thinker, best known for pioneering science-fiction novels and expansive works of social commentary.
134 works2 series
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer of weird fiction whose work helped establish modern cosmic horror.
62 works4 series
Hafsah Faizal
Hafsah Faizal is an award-winning, internationally bestselling author of young adult and romantic fantasy.
7 works4 series
Han Kang
South Korean novelist, poet, essayist, and children's author whose lyrical prose confronts historical trauma, violence, embodiment, and human fragility. She received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature.
22 works0 series
Hank Green
Hank Green is an American author, science communicator, educator, and entrepreneur best known for his speculative-fiction novels.
5 works1 series
Hannah Arendt
German-American political theorist, historian, and essayist whose work examined totalitarianism, revolution, political action, judgment, and the human condition.
31 works0 series
Hannah Bonam-Young
Canadian New York Times bestselling contemporary romance author from Ontario.
7 works3 series
Hannah F. Whitten
Hannah F. Whitten is an American author of dark fantasy, romantic fantasy, and horror novels.
6 works2 series
Hannah Nicole Maehrer
Fantasy-romance author and BookToker best known for the Assistant to the Villain series.
4 works1 series
Hannu Rajaniemi
Finnish science-fiction author and mathematical physicist known for high-concept, posthuman fiction.
8 works1 series
Hans Christian Andersen
Danish author best known for literary fairy tales, and also a prolific novelist, dramatist, poet, travel writer, autobiographer, and biographer.
145 works8 series
Hans Fronius
Austrian painter, graphic artist, illustrator, and teacher (1903–1988), known for expressionist printmaking and literary-themed graphic works.
17 works0 series
Hans Rosling
Swedish physician, professor of international health, statistician, and public educator known for explaining global development through accessible data.
2 works0 series
Hanya Yanagihara
American novelist, editor, and travel writer raised in Hawaii and based in New York City.
4 works0 series
Harlan Coben
American author of crime, mystery, thriller, young adult, children's, and memoir literature.
40 works4 series
Harlan Ellison
American author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, crime fiction, screenplays, teleplays, essays, and comics.
67 works3 series
Harley Laroux
Harley Laroux is a queer author of adult romance and erotica, known for dark romance, erotic horror, paranormal romance, and kink-positive stories.
16 works3 series
Harold Bloom
American literary critic, literary theorist, professor, and author known for his work on poetic influence, Romanticism, Shakespeare, religion, and the Western canon.
47 works1 series
Harold Hobson
British theatre critic, author, and theatre historian best known for his influential drama criticism in The Sunday Times.
13 works1 series
Harper Lee
American novelist and essayist best known for To Kill a Mockingbird, winner of the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
3 works0 series
Harriet Beecher Stowe
American novelist, abolitionist, essayist, and religious writer best known for Uncle Tom's Cabin.
45 works1 series
Harry Harrison
American science-fiction author, editor, comic-book artist, and illustrator best known for the Stainless Steel Rat and Bill, the Galactic Hero series.
73 works8 series
Harry Turtledove
American author of alternate history, historical fiction, science fiction, and fantasy.
128 works23 series
Haruki Murakami
Japanese novelist, short-story writer, essayist, memoirist, translator, and literary nonfiction author known for surreal, magical-realist fiction shaped by jazz, Western literature, solitude, memory, and social trauma.
67 works1 series
Heather Fawcett
Heather Fawcett is a Canadian author of fantasy novels for adults, young adults, and middle-grade readers.
15 works3 series
Heather Gudenkauf
Heather Gudenkauf is an Edgar Award-nominated, New York Times and USA Today bestselling Iowa novelist known for psychological suspense and thrillers about family secrets, crime, and small-town communities.
13 works1 series
Heather Morris
New Zealand-born Australian author of historical and contemporary fiction, memoir, and nonfiction.
6 works1 series
Héctor García
Spanish author, software engineer, photographer, and Japan-based writer known for books on Japanese culture, philosophy, and well-being.
11 works1 series
Helen Fielding
British novelist and journalist best known for the Bridget Jones novels.
8 works1 series
Helen Hoang
American contemporary romance novelist best known for The Kiss Quotient series.
3 works1 series
Helen Oyeyemi
British novelist, short-story writer, and playwright born in Nigeria in 1984.
11 works0 series
Helene Wecker
American novelist known for historical fantasy exploring Jewish and Middle Eastern folklore, immigration, identity, and belonging.
3 works1 series
Henning Koch
Swedish-born fiction writer and literary translator, best known for the short-story collection Love Doesn't Work and the speculative novel The Maggot People.
2 works0 series
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) was a Norwegian playwright and poet whose realistic and symbolist dramas helped establish modern drama.
27 works0 series
Henry David Thoreau
American essayist, poet, naturalist, philosopher, and transcendentalist best known for Walden and Civil Disobedience.
14 works0 series
Henry James
American-born novelist, short-story writer, critic, travel writer, memoirist, and playwright whose psychologically intricate fiction shaped literary modernism.
86 works0 series
Henry Miller
American novelist, essayist, memoirist, travel writer, and painter known for autobiographical modernist fiction and candid explorations of sexuality, creativity, and artistic freedom.
83 works3 series
Herman Melville
American novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist, and sailor best known for Moby-Dick.
17 works0 series
Hermann Hesse
German-Swiss novelist, poet, essayist, and painter whose fiction explores spiritual searching, self-discovery, and the tension between individuality and society. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946.
67 works0 series
Hermione Granger
Fictional Muggle-born witch, Hogwarts student, and translator of wizarding literature.
1 works1 series
Hernán Díaz
Argentine-American novelist and literary scholar known for literary and historical fiction and for his criticism of Jorge Luis Borges.
4 works0 series
Hilary Mantel
British novelist, memoirist, short-story writer, and essayist, best known for the Wolf Hall trilogy.
19 works2 series
Hiro Arikawa
Japanese novelist known for romantic, contemporary, military, science-fiction, and popular fiction.
39 works6 series
Hiromi Kawakami
Japanese novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and poet known for quietly surreal fiction about intimacy, memory, and everyday life.
50 works2 series
Hiromu Arakawa
Japanese manga artist and writer best known for Fullmetal Alchemist, Silver Spoon, and Daemons of the Shadow Realm.
96 works7 series
Holly Black
American author of contemporary and dark fantasy for adults, young adults, and children.
45 works11 series
Holly Jackson
British mystery and thriller novelist known for young adult crime fiction.
7 works1 series
Honoré de Balzac
French novelist, playwright, essayist, journalist, and pioneer of European realism, best known for La Comédie humaine.
100 works3 series
Howard Zinn
American historian, playwright, memoirist, and activist known for writing history from the perspective of ordinary people and social movements.
33 works0 series
Hubert Selby, Jr.
American novelist and screenwriter known for uncompromising literary fiction about addiction, violence, alienation, and marginalized urban life.
8 works0 series
Hugh Howey
American science-fiction author best known for the Silo series, including Wool, Shift, and Dust.
47 works5 series
Hunter S. Thompson
American journalist and author best known as the pioneer of gonzo journalism.
16 works2 series
Hwang Bo-reum
South Korean novelist and essayist, formerly a programmer, best known internationally for Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop.
6 works1 series