Housekeeping


The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House
How to Keep House While Drowning
The Help
The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning
Sink Reflections: Overwhelmed? Disorganized? Living in Chaos? Discover the Secrets That Have Changed the Lives of More Than Half a Million Families...
Decluttering at the Speed of Life: Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff
Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook: The Essential Guide to Caring for Everything in Your Home
How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind: Dealing with Your House's Dirty Little Secrets
Organic Housekeeping: In Which the Nontoxic Avenger Shows You How to Improve Your Health and That of Your Family While You Save Time, Money, and, Perhaps, Your Sanity
Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up
The Undomestic Goddess
Organizing for the Rest of Us: 100 Realistic Strategies to Keep Any House Under Control
Unf*ck Your Habitat: You're Better Than Your Mess
Hotel Housekeeping Training Manual
Little Women by Louisa May AlcottAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryThe Help by Kathryn StockettSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenLittle House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Domestic novels
41 books — 16 voters
The Help by Kathryn StockettThe Undomestic Goddess by Sophie KinsellaUpstairs Downstairs by John  HawkesworthShakespeare's Trollop by Charlaine HarrisA Spring Affair by Milly Johnson
Fictional Housekeepers
65 books — 23 voters

Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonCradle to Cradle by William McDonoughThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThe Urban Homestead by Kelly CoyneThe Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Being "Green"
388 books — 237 voters
True Hearth by James Allen ChisholmCottage Witchery by Ellen DuganPagan Family Values by S. Zohreh KermaniMagical Housekeeping by Tess WhitehurstThe Magical Household by Scott Cunningham
Pagan Hearthkeeping
6 books — 2 voters

Sex and The Single Girl by Helen Gurley BrownHow to Run Your Home Without Help by Kay SmallshawMake Do and Mend by Imperial War MuseumsMiss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior by Judith MartinKeeping Up Appearances by Roy Clarke
How to be a Lady (Vintage Advice)
37 books — 3 voters
Sink Reflections by Marla CilleyHome Comforts by Cheryl MendelsonThe Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie KondōOrganizing from the Inside Out by Julie MorgensternThe House that Cleans Itself by Mindy Starns Clark
Cleaning House
77 books — 54 voters

Erma Bombeck
Housework can kill you if done right.
Erma Bombeck

Wendy Wasserstein
Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, “Respect me; I’m a respectable grown-up!" and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death. ...more
Wendy Wasserstein

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