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Dame Hilary Mantel (born Hilary Mary Thompson, 6 July 1952 to 22 September 2022) was a British writer of historical fiction, memoir and short stories. Every Day Is Mother's Day (1985) was the first published novel. Mantel won the Booker Prize twice, for Wolf Hall (2009), a fictional account of Thomas Cromwell's rise at the court of Henry VIII, and for its 2012 sequel Bring Up the Bodies. The site lists 20 books through A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing (2023), including Fludd (1989) and A Place of Greater Safety (1992).

Hildie McQueen writes historical romance, with paranormal romance also among the recorded subjects. The catalogue holds 91 books from Desperate Betrayal (2011) to The Blacksmith's Wish (2026). Clan Ross of the Hebrides, Clan Ross, Clan Ross of Skye, Guards of Clan Ross, Rogues of the Lowlands, Highland Romp, Moriag, Brides for All Seasons and Laurel Creek are among the series under the McQueen name. McQueen is recorded as ongoing.

Hillary Clinton has 8 books in this catalogue, published between 2003 and 2024. The list runs from Living History (2003) through It Takes a Village (2006), Hard Choices (2014), Stronger Together (2016), What Happened (2017), The Book of Gutsy Women (2019) and Grandma's Gardens (2020) to Something Lost, Something Gained (2024). Catalogue subjects cover politics and government, legislators, presidents, elections, stateswomen, women in politics and biography.

Holly Black

60 books• 18 series

Holly Black is an American writer and editor, born in 1971, working in children's and young adult fiction, with fantasy and faeries prominent in the subjects. The Spiderwick Chronicles, created with writer and illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi, and the Folk of the Air series are the best-known work, and the Modern Faerie Tales form the debut trilogy. The catalogue opens with Tithe (2002) and lists 60 books to 2026, including Curse Workers, Book of Night and the Stolen Heir Duology, with 2 titles shared with Cassandra Clare. Black has received a Nebula Award, a Newbery Honor and a Mythopoeic Award.

Both of Holly Chamberlin's series carry a Maine place name: Yorktide, Maine and Eliot's Corner, Maine. The catalogue lists 23 books from Living Single (2002) to Summer Roommates (2023), including The Summer of Us, The Friends We Keep, The Family Beach House and Summer Friends. Subjects include Maine, mothers and daughters, female friendship, single women, family life and Boston. No title after 2023 is on file.

Holly Hepburn writes contemporary fiction about small communities, with taverns and sisters among the recorded subjects. Twelve books are catalogued between 2013 and 2026 across three series: Star and Sixpence, Darling Cove and the Baker Street Mysteries. Cupidity (2013) opens the catalogue, and A Year at the Star and Sixpence (2016), The Picture House by the Sea (2017), A Year at Castle Court (2018), Last Orders at the Star and Sixpence (2019), Coming Home to Brightwater Bay (2021), The Little Shop of Hidden Treasures (2022) and Return to Half Moon Farm (2024) follow. The Locked Room (2026) is the newest title.

Holly Jackson writes young adult crime fiction. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (2019) opens her catalogue and names her main series, whose subject tags run to Pip Fitz-Amobi, cold cases and stalking. Eight books are catalogued through 2025, ending at Not Quite Dead Yet, with Five Survive and The Reappearance of Rachel Price among the standalone titles. Jackson keeps publishing.

Holly Martin writes contemporary romance set in small coastal towns, and the series take their names from their places: White Cliff Bay, Sandcastle Bay, Hope Island, Jewel Island, Apple Hill Bay, Midnight Village, Wishing Wood and A Town Called Christmas. Marriage proposals, courtship and Christmas recur as subjects, across One Hundred Proposals (2014), Christmas at Lilac Cottage (2015) and Snowflakes on Silver Cove (2015). Forty-one Martin titles are catalogued, from The Sentinel (2013) to The Little Museum on Snowflake Street (2026).

Holly Quinn writes mysteries across four series: A Handcrafted Mystery, A Lakeside Library Mystery, A Mainely Murder Mystery and Little White Lies. Ten books run from A Crafter Hooks a Killer (2019) to Lie In The Bay (2026), at a median 330 pages. Craft shops, businesswomen and murder investigation supply the subject matter, and the titles group by series: the Crafter books, the Lakeside Library books, and the Lie In The books.

Holly Rayner is credited on 221 catalogued books published between 2014 and 2026. The Billionaire's First Christmas (2014) is the earliest title in the listing and The Doctor's Baby Twist (2026) the newest. Rayner's series include Billionaire Cowboys, the San Bravado Billionaires' Club, Billionaires of Europe, Billionaires Of La Vega, Sheikh's New Bride, Baby Surprises, Babies and Billions, Billion-Dollar Babies, More Than He Bargained For, Oops! and Love & Marriage. Most of the catalogue dates from the 2020s, and new titles keep arriving.

Holly Renee's catalogue runs to 25 books, published between 2015 and 2026. The work divides into seven series: Boys of Clermont Bay, Stars and Shadows, Rock Bottom, Veiled Kingdom, Garage, Calloway Ranch and Drowned King. Letting Go (2015) opens the catalogue, a new title arrives roughly every six months, and the books run to a median 272 pages. Renee remains actively publishing.

Holly Seddon is a British journalist and author, born in 1980, who writes suspense around cold cases, family secrets and investigative reporting. Try Not to Breathe (2016) opens the catalogue, and Don't Close Your Eyes (2017), Love Will Tear Us Apart (2018), The Hit List (2020), The Woman on the Bridge (2022), The Short Straw (2023) and 59 Minutes (2025) follow, reaching The Sleeper (2026). Eight books in all, at a median of 352 pages.

Holly Smale

14 books• 2 series

British writer Holly Miranda Smale, born 7 December 1981, wrote the Geek Girl series. Geek Girl, the first book, won the 2014 Waterstones Children's Book Prize and made the shortlist for the 2013 Roald Dahl Funny Prize; HarperCollins published the final book, Forever Geek, in March 2017. Smale's first adult novel, titled The Cassandra Complex in the UK and Cassandra in Reverse in the US, was Reese's Book Club's June 2023 pick and a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick. The catalogue lists 14 books from 2013 to I Know How This Ends (2025), including a Valentines series listing, and subjects include teenage models, fashion and self-confidence.

Holly Varni's Moonberry Lake series accounts for both of the author's catalogued books. On Moonberry Lake (2023) came first, and The Blooming of Delphinium followed in 2024. The series is open, with no third title listed yet.

Homer Hickam

20 books• 2 series

Homer Hickam is an American author, a Vietnam War veteran and a former NASA engineer who trained the first Japanese astronauts. His memoir Rocket Boys (1998), also published as October Sky, reached the New York Times bestseller list and became the 1999 film October Sky; The Coalwood Way (2000) and Sky of Stone (2001) continue that autobiographical line. The Second World War, coal miners and aerospace engineers run through the subject headings, and Josh Thurlow is the one catalogued series. Twenty titles are catalogued, published between 1989 and 2021, from Torpedo Junction (1989) to Don't Blow Yourself Up (2021). Hickam was born in 1943.

Anna and the Alien (2018) opens the Honey Phillips catalogue, followed by Beth and the Barbarian, Cam and the Conqueror and Deb and the Demon, all from 2018. The catalogue holds 152 books and runs to Bride of the Alien Warrior (2026), with Never Photograph a Yeti due in 2027. Series include Alien Abduction, ABCs of Alien Abduction, Treasured By The Alien, Cyborgs On Mars, Seven Brides For Seven Alien Brothers, Alien Wolf Tales, Fairhaven Falls and Horned Holidays.

Honor Raconteur has 105 books in the catalogue, starting with Jaunten and Magus in 2011 and reaching Jon's Desert Prince Dream in 2026. The series list includes the Advent Mage Cycle, Case Files of Henri Davenforth, Artifactor, Deepwoods Saga, Familiar and the Mage, Jon's Mysteries and Mack's Marvelous Manifestations. Advent (2012), Kingslayer (2013) and The Dragon's Mage (2013) are among the early titles, and new books continue to appear.

Hope Callaghan has 144 books in the catalogue, published from 2014 onward, with cozy mystery and Christian fiction, suspense and romance among the subjects. Series include Millie's Cruise Ship Mysteries, Cruise Director Millie Mysteries, Garden Girls, Made in Savannah, Sweet Southern Sleuths, Divine Christian Cozy Mysteries and Wynn Harbor Inn, along with the Easton Island Family Saga. Waves of Deception, Tides of Deception and Winds of Deception all date from 2014. Fatal Fettuccine (2026) is the newest title, and An Irresistible Proposal is due in 2027.

Short, steamy and sweet romances are the stated focus of Hope Ford, a USA Today bestselling author whose stories favour tattooed alpha heroes, instant love and a guaranteed happy ending. The catalogue credits Hope Ford with 195 books from 2018 to 2026, with one title shared with Mayra Statham. Made for Me, Bricklayer and Claimed are among the 2018 releases. Series include Alpha Men, Exiled Guardians MC, Whiskey Run, Brodys of Whiskey Run and New Law MC, and the newest listed book is The Cowboy and The Bridesmaid (2026).

Hope Holloway's catalogue holds 39 books published from 2021 to 2026, opening with A Secret in the Keys. Other 2021 titles also carry the Keys in their names, including A Haven in the Keys, A Promise in the Keys and A Wedding in the Keys, and 2022 brought Sanibel Dreams and Sanibel Moonlight. Series listed under Holloway are Coconut Key, Destin Diaries, Shellseeker Beach, Seven Sisters, Carolina Christmas and Christmas in the Canyons. The newest title is The Summer We Sailed Away (2026).

Small-town romance defines Hope Ramsay's catalogue. The Last Chance books account for most of the 22 titles, beginning with Welcome to Last Chance and Home At Last Chance in 2011 and taking in Last Chance Beauty Queen, Last Chance Christmas and Last Chance Book Club. Chapel of Love is the other recorded series. Friendship, family life and town life are the recurring subjects. The run ends with The Beachside Bed and Breakfast (2022).

Howard Fast

90 books• 6 series

Howard Fast (November 11, 1914 - March 12, 2003) was an American author and television writer who also published as E.V. Cunningham, Behn Boruch and Walter Ericson. Across almost seven decades Fast wrote historical novels and noir, along with short stories, poems, plays and non-fiction. Spartacus (1951), April Morning (1961) and The Immigrants (1977) are among the best-known works, and Stanley Kubrick filmed Spartacus in 1960. The catalogue holds 90 books from Two Valleys (1933) to Collected Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction (2018), with Masao Masuto and Lavette Family as named series.

Every book Howard Frank Mosher wrote is set in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, usually in the invented Kingdom County. Mosher (1942-2017) published thirteen books, eleven of them fiction, and his subject is a rural Yankee community meeting a modernising world, its residents drawn as taciturn and singular. Disappearances (1977) opens the catalogue and God's Kingdom (2015) was the last novel to appear in his lifetime; 14 titles are catalogued in all, the latest dated 2022.

Howard Linskey writes crime fiction set in the northeast of England. The David Blake series is the best known work, and The Drop (2011), The Damage (2012) and The Dead (2013) open the catalogue. DC Ian Bradshaw leads a second sequence, and a William Shakespeare Mysteries line follows. Two of the 15 catalogued books are historical thrillers set during the Second World War. Linskey, born in 1967, worked as a journalist before this. The list reaches Muse of Fire (2026), and the median book runs 368 pages.

Howard of Warwick writes comic medieval mysteries. Brother Hermitage is the recurring character, and the Chronicles of Brother Hermitage carry most of the 42 catalogued books, published between 2010 and 2026. The Heretics of De'Ath (2010) opens the run, followed by The Garderobe of Death (2012), The Tapestry of Death (2013) and The Domesday Book (no, Not That One) (2013), with Hermitage, Wat and Some Murder or Other (2014) and further Hermitage and Wat titles after it. A second series, Tale of 1066-ish, sits alongside. One In, One Out (2026) is the newest title.

Two books by Howard Roughan are catalogued: The Up and Comer (2001) and The Promise of a Lie (2004). Both are thrillers with a legal and psychological cast, taking in lawyers, extortion, deception, false testimony and the relationship between psychotherapist and patient. No further title has been catalogued since 2004.

Howard Stern

3 books

Howard Stern, born in 1954, is an American broadcaster and comedian whose books draw on his radio career. Three titles are catalogued: Private Parts (1993), Miss America (1995) and Howard Stern Comes Again (2019), the last arriving 24 years after the second. Celebrity interviews, talk radio and American humour are the subjects. The Howard Stern Show ran in national syndication on terrestrial radio from 1986 to 2005 and has been broadcast on SiriusXM since 2006.

Howie Carr

13 books• 1 series

Howie Carr is an American radio host, reporter and author with 13 catalogued books. The Brothers Bulger (2006) opens the run, followed by Hitman (2011), Hard Knocks (2012), Ratman (2013), Rifleman (2013), Plug Uglies (2014), Killers (2015) and What Really Happened (2018), reaching Mass Corruption in 2025. Two volumes of Kennedy Babylon appeared in 2018 and 2020. Organised crime in Boston, gangsters, murderers, political corruption and Massachusetts politicians run through the subjects. Carr hosts The Howie Carr Show from Wellesley, Massachusetts, broadcast weekdays on WRKO in Boston, and writes three columns a week for the Boston Herald.

Hugh Howey

54 books• 9 series

Hugh Howey, born 1975, is an American science fiction writer. Wool, Shift and Dust are the basis of the Apple TV series Silo. Howey released those books independently through Kindle Direct Publishing and has kept control of e-book rights despite later deals with large publishers. The catalogue lists 54 books from Molly Fyde and the Parsona Rescue (2009) to Inheritors (2026), across Wool / Silo, Sand, the Bern Saga and Beacon 23. Dystopia, underground civilizations and space colonies feature in the subjects.

Hunter S. Thompson

21 books• 4 series

Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 to February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author, counted with Gay Talese, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion and Tom Wolfe as a pioneer of New Journalism. To write Hell's Angels, Thompson spent a year with the Hells Angels motorcycle club. A 1970 Scanlan's Monthly article, "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved", raised Thompson's countercultural profile. Catalogued titles include Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971), The Great Shark Hunt (1979) and The Rum Diary (1998).