How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
Cardan recalls a harsh boyhood and an uneasy crown in this short illustrated companion to the Folk of the Air trilogy, told wholly from his side.
2,902-word summary · 13 min read
Books: H
118 books starting with H.
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How the Light Gets In
Gamache investigates the murder of the last Ouellet quintuplet while the Sûreté he served is dismantled from inside by the man who took his protégé.
2,279-word summary · 10 min read
How to Be a Woman
Moran mixes girlhood and work stories into plain feminist advice.
2,600-word summary · 12 min read
How to Be an Antiracist
Kendi blends memoir and history to argue that fair policy, not self fixing, creates an equal society.
2,513-word summary · 11 min read
How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food
Bittman's 1998 doorstop taught a generation that dinner is a technique, not a recipe, with master recipes and variations instead of rigid instructions.
2,027-word summary · 9 min read
How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates
A horror buff trapped at a speed-dating night with a killer uses slasher rules to survive to the last date.
2,226-word summary · 10 min read
How to Kill Your Family
Grace Bernard avenges her dying mother by hunting her rich estranged family, narrating from prison with dark humor.
2,913-word summary · 13 min read
How to Sell a Haunted House
Siblings Louise and Mark must empty puppet filled parents house that fights back.
2,085-word summary · 9 min read
How to Stop Time
Tom Hazard, aging one year in fifteen, hides behind new identities until a London classroom and a lost daughter force him to live.
2,597-word summary · 12 min read
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Carnegie offers day-tight routines for worry built from interviews and worker stories.
2,505-word summary · 11 min read
How to Walk Away
Margaret Jacobsen has the job, the fiance, and the future mapped out, until a small-plane crash on Valentine's Day takes almost all of it in one afternoon.
2,012-word summary · 9 min read
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Carnegie's 1936 guide to getting along offers plain habits for listening, praise, and persuasion. This summary walks through its parts, stories, limits, and…
2,360-word summary · 10 min read
How to Write a Love Story
A blocked author and her editor get two weeks to finish her late father's epic.
2,095-word summary · 9 min read
Howards End
Forster's 1910 novel follows two families, a house in Hertfordshire, and a burned note, asking whether money and feeling can ever be connected.
2,187-word summary · 10 min read
Howl and Other Poems
Ginsberg's 1956 City Lights debut: Howl for outcasts plus tender shorter poems, in 48 pages that survived an obscenity trial.
2,570-word summary · 11 min read
Howl's Moving Castle
Cursed old by the Witch of the Waste, hatmaker Sophie Hatter talks her way into wizard Howl's moving castle and bargains with fire demon Calcifer to break the…
2,363-word summary · 11 min read
Hunger
Roxane Gay traces how assault at twelve shaped her body, appetite, and daily life as a fat Black woman refusing shame.
2,583-word summary · 11 min read
Hunted
Zoey hides in Tulsa's tunnels as Kalona charms the House of Night, and an old prophecy names five unlikely saviors.
2,600-word summary · 12 min read
Hunting Adeline
Trafficked and caged, Adeline fights back while Zade tears the underworld apart to find her.
2,730-word summary · 12 min read
Hush, Hush
Nora Grey's new biology partner Patch is gorgeous, infuriating, and hiding wings he was never meant to keep.
2,137-word summary · 9 min read
Hyperbole and a Half
Stick-figure stories about dogs, cake, and depression that turn small mess into big laughs.
2,103-word summary · 9 min read
Hyperion
Seven pilgrims cross Hyperion telling tales of faith, war, and time while the Shrike waits at the Tombs.
1,996-word summary · 9 min read