Human Hours is a 2018 collection of poetry and essays written by Catherine Barnett, published by Graywolf Press.

Originally, Barnett intended to call the book The Accursed Questions.

[1] Barnett first heard the term from poet Ilya Kaminsky, in reference to the "huge questions of humanity" addressed by "nineteenth-century Russian novelists".

Barnett drew inspiration from Ellen Bryant Voigt's collection Headwaters and Samuel Beckett's 1961 play Happy Days during the book's composition.

[3] A review in Publishers Weekly referred to the book as "elegantly understated".