Hay, Ashley. The Railwayman's Wife (London: Allen & Unwin, 2014, c2013) 307 p.

When Anikka Lachlan's husband is killed in a train accident she is given the job of librarian of the Railway Institute. The library is located in the Sydney Central Station. Helping people find books to read is a comfort to her.

Hawkes, Judith. Julian’s House (New York: Signet, 1991) 381 p.

Haunted house investigators are assisted by Colin Robinson, librarian at the Skipton Public Library in Massachusetts. Colin is 65 and painfully shy. He is very proud of his library. “He was proud of the cross-referenced card catalog, the quiet shelves of books, the scarred reading tables polished to a shine—for he did all the work himself, except for mopping the floors.... Above all he was proud of his own private project, the town history on which he spent hours of research and honest love.” (p. 105).

Havighurst, Marion Boyd. Murder in the Stacks (Oxford, Ohio: Miami University, 1989) 249 p. Originally published, Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepherd, 1934.

A professor reading in the Library of Kingsley University (Based on Miami University in Oxford, Ohio), together with young desk clerk Agnes Hubbard, finds the body of another professor in the stacks. The library staff has a mystery involving murder and a rare book. University Librarian, Mark Denman, looks like "quite a Lothario ... with his dark foreign-looking face, his clipped mustache and his immaculate clothing." (p. 17). Also involved in the mystery is young Bertha Chase, one of the assistant librarians. This is a classic library mystery with romantic entanglements among the library staff, theft of a rare book, and of course, terror in the dark stacks where death could be waiting around the next corner or at the top of a spiral staircase.

Haverstock, Nathan A. Friends of the Library: an Interactive Novel (Oberlin, Ohio: Creative People Press, c2004) 142 p.

The Plymouth Public Library in northeastern Ohio gains national attention when a friend of the library starts hiding dollar bills in random books. Head Librarian Louella Winters is hard-working and diplomatic with the public. The Acquisitions Librarian Dwight Moodey is grumpy because he has to buy more music and movies and fewer books. Also, he had to move his desk to the basement to make room for the fax machine. Reference Librarian Eric Motley is a “kindly-looking old gentleman.” (p. 3). Many of the older patrons and staff complain of modernization ruining the traditional library.

Havens, Candace. Like a Charm (New York: Berkley Books, c2008) 289 p.

Kira Smythe has fond memories of her hometown library in Sweet, Texas. "There are huge spirals at the top and it sits in the center of the small town. The arched windows and gargoyles over the double doors make it look like something out of a Grimm's fairy tale." (p. 21).

Kira also has special feelings for the old librarian, Mabel Canard. When Mrs. Canard dies Kira learns that the old librarian owned the Sweet Library and that it would now pass to to Kira on the condition that Kira move back to Sweet and become the librarian. Kira learns there is more to the library than she ever suspected.

Hatsley, Nivessa Rovedo. The Lively Life of Camilla Delibris, the Librarian (New York: iUniverse, c2005) 81 p.

Camilla has a new MLS and gets hired at the New Pastures Public Library in upstate New York. The library is a handsome marble affair founded in 1905 by the Van Velt family and presided over by the aged Katherine Van Velt. Two poor cousins of the Van Velt family work as librarians, Mary Patterson and Susan Westerly. Camilla is enthusiastic and well liked but she must decide if she wants to stay or go back to Brooklyn to marry her boyfriend. The novel is vigorously and entertainingly written but suffers from a lack of editing and proofreading.

Hassler, Jon. The Staggerford Flood (New York: Viking, 2002) 199 p.

Imogene Kite puts in another unpleasant appearance. She is one of a group of people who move in with Agatha McGee for a few days to avoid the high water. At last, she moves out of her mother's house and buys a condominium of her own.