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The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as houses)
avg rating 3.81 — 410,138 ratings — published 1959
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as houses)
avg rating 4.09 — 207,457 ratings — published 2000
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as houses)
avg rating 4.20 — 526,503 ratings — published 2020
Hell House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as houses)
avg rating 3.68 — 65,142 ratings — published 1971
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as houses)
avg rating 3.99 — 99,523 ratings — published 2010
The Dutch House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as houses)
avg rating 4.10 — 581,290 ratings — published 2019
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as houses)
avg rating 3.66 — 455,158 ratings — published 2020
Building Our House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as houses)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,330 ratings — published 2013
If I Built a House (If I Built Series)
by (shelved 9 times as houses)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,954 ratings — published 2012
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as houses)
avg rating 4.25 — 745,256 ratings — published 1938
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as houses)
avg rating 3.91 — 308,166 ratings — published 1962
Hardly Haunted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as houses)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,592 ratings — published 2021
House Held Up by Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as houses)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,701 ratings — published 2012
Maybe This Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as houses)
avg rating 3.76 — 14,302 ratings — published 2010
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as houses)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,741,571 ratings — published 1977
A House That Once Was (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as houses)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,510 ratings — published 2018
The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as houses)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,103 ratings — published 1998
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 7 times as houses)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,506 ratings — published 1977
North Woods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as houses)
avg rating 4.09 — 123,174 ratings — published 2023
This House, Once (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as houses)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,117 ratings — published 2017
If You Lived Here: Houses of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as houses)
avg rating 4.18 — 958 ratings — published 2011
Warlord (Alexander Hawke, #6)
by (shelved 6 times as houses)
avg rating 4.03 — 5,500 ratings — published 2010
Ice Cold (Rizzoli & Isles, #8)
by (shelved 6 times as houses)
avg rating 4.19 — 53,693 ratings — published 2010
The Little Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as houses)
avg rating 3.57 — 60,547 ratings — published 2009
The Little House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as houses)
avg rating 4.30 — 42,596 ratings — published 1942
Tell Me I’m Worthless (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as houses)
avg rating 3.46 — 14,149 ratings — published 2021
The Fall of the House of Usher (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as houses)
avg rating 3.84 — 91,668 ratings — published 1839
The Haunted Air (Repairman Jack, #6)
by (shelved 5 times as houses)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,010 ratings — published 2002
A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as houses)
avg rating 3.86 — 5,644 ratings — published 1997
The Well-Built House (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as houses)
avg rating 4.06 — 65 ratings — published 1988
Strange Houses (Strange Houses, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as houses)
avg rating 3.58 — 93,710 ratings — published 2021
How to Sell a Haunted House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as houses)
avg rating 3.63 — 175,679 ratings — published 2023
Farmhouse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as houses)
avg rating 4.52 — 2,720 ratings — published 2022
The Mouse Who Carried a House on His Back (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as houses)
avg rating 4.37 — 513 ratings — published
Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
by (shelved 4 times as houses)
avg rating 4.28 — 10,835 ratings — published 2021
The Ramble Shamble Children (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 4 times as houses)
avg rating 3.62 — 500 ratings — published
The Clockmaker's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as houses)
avg rating 3.75 — 108,571 ratings — published 2018
The Miniaturist (The Miniaturist, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as houses)
avg rating 3.62 — 154,462 ratings — published 2014
The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as houses)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,253 ratings — published 2014
Designing a House: An Illustrated Guide to Planning Your Own Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as houses)
avg rating 4.12 — 32 ratings — published 1976
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as houses)
avg rating 4.13 — 794,489 ratings — published 2002
The Most Beautiful House in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as houses)
avg rating 3.86 — 544 ratings — published 1989
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as houses)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,894 ratings — published 1994
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as houses)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,374,399 ratings — published 1847
The House by the Lake: The True Story of a House, Its History, and the Four Families Who Made It Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as houses)
avg rating 4.25 — 225 ratings — published
We Used to Live Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as houses)
avg rating 3.59 — 298,995 ratings — published 2024
“The two-story dwellings of this city are, beyond all question, the best, as a system, not only owing to the
single family ideas they represent, but because their cost is within the reach of all who desire to own
their own homes. They have done more to elevate and to make a better home life than any other known
influence. They typify a higher civilization, as well as a truer idea of American home life, and are better,
purer, sweeter than any tenement house systems that ever existed. They are what make Philadelphia
a city of homes, and command the attention of visitors from every quarter of the globe”
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single family ideas they represent, but because their cost is within the reach of all who desire to own
their own homes. They have done more to elevate and to make a better home life than any other known
influence. They typify a higher civilization, as well as a truer idea of American home life, and are better,
purer, sweeter than any tenement house systems that ever existed. They are what make Philadelphia
a city of homes, and command the attention of visitors from every quarter of the globe”
―
“In the study she nodded to my husband, turned completely around once, and then remarked that we seemed to be making no practical use of the space in our house. “This room would be much larger,” she said, “if you took out all those books.”
Mrs. Ferrier thought the master bedroom should have faced west, and she barely put her head inside the smaller bedrooms. “They would be much larger,” I told her, “if we took out the beds.”
Mrs. Ferrier fixed me with her cold eye. “If you took out the beds where would you sleep?” she wanted to know, and I followed her meekly downstairs.”
― Raising Demons
Mrs. Ferrier thought the master bedroom should have faced west, and she barely put her head inside the smaller bedrooms. “They would be much larger,” I told her, “if we took out the beds.”
Mrs. Ferrier fixed me with her cold eye. “If you took out the beds where would you sleep?” she wanted to know, and I followed her meekly downstairs.”
― Raising Demons
