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I Could Live There

Description: Books with titles that include words that are a dwelling place: house, home, castle, palace, cabin, hotel, etc. No YA or children's books, please.

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by Charles Dickens

13,681 members

247 reviews

4.2

6 Members: aulsmith, elkiedee, Dilara86, Her_Royal_Orangeness, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

I Capture the Castle

9,188 members

294 reviews

4.1

5 Members: elkiedee, Dilara86, Her_Royal_Orangeness, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

17,560 members

268 reviews

3.9

4 Members: elkiedee, Dilara86, Her_Royal_Orangeness, ManWithAnAgenda

4

The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

9,705 members

431 reviews

3.9

4 Members: aulsmith, Her_Royal_Orangeness, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

8,623 members

114 reviews

½ 3.5

4 Members: aulsmith, Her_Royal_Orangeness, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

6

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

8,119 members

423 reviews

4.1

4 Members: elkiedee, Her_Royal_Orangeness, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

by Henrik Ibsen

5,370 members

90 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: aulsmith, Dilara86, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

by Daphne Du Maurier

3,811 members

116 reviews

3.8

4 Members: inge87, elkiedee, Her_Royal_Orangeness, ahef1963

9

In This House of Brede

by Rumer Godden

1,417 members

33 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: inge87, aulsmith, elkiedee, Her_Royal_Orangeness

10

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

15,633 members

374 reviews

4.1

3 Members: Her_Royal_Orangeness, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Man in the High Castle

by Philip K. Dick

13,813 members

357 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aulsmith, Her_Royal_Orangeness, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

9,693 members

201 reviews

4

3 Members: elkiedee, Dilara86, Her_Royal_Orangeness

13

by Marilynne Robinson

6,356 members

213 reviews

3.9

3 Members: Dilara86, Her_Royal_Orangeness, ahef1963

14

Northanger Abbey

21,604 members

418 reviews

3.8

2 Members: inge87, ManWithAnAgenda

15

The House of the Spirits

by Isabel Allende

13,963 members

245 reviews

4.1

2 Members: elkiedee, Her_Royal_Orangeness

16

by Stephen King

7,561 members

78 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Her_Royal_Orangeness, ManWithAnAgenda

17

The Kitchen House

by Kathleen Grissom

3,838 members

244 reviews

4

2 Members: dara85, Her_Royal_Orangeness

18

by Marilynne Robinson

3,792 members

149 reviews

4

2 Members: Dilara86, Her_Royal_Orangeness

19

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

3,643 members

86 reviews

3.8

2 Members: elkiedee, Her_Royal_Orangeness

20

Tell the Wolves I'm Home

by Carol Rifka Brunt

3,597 members

247 reviews

4.1

2 Members: elkiedee, Her_Royal_Orangeness

21

3,374 members

60 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Her_Royal_Orangeness, ahef1963

22

by David Mitchell

3,259 members

253 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Her_Royal_Orangeness, ManWithAnAgenda

23

The Housekeeper and the Professor

3,214 members

218 reviews

4

2 Members: KimarieBee, Her_Royal_Orangeness

24

by Jodi Picoult

3,043 members

127 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Her_Royal_Orangeness, ahef1963

25

The Blue Castle

by L. M. Montgomery

2,947 members

112 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: inge87, Her_Royal_Orangeness

26

A Home at the End of the World

by Michael Cunningham

2,641 members

48 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, Her_Royal_Orangeness

27

The Birth House

1,997 members

110 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Her_Royal_Orangeness, ahef1963

28

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales

by Edgar Allan Poe

1,926 members

18 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

29

St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories

by Karen Russell

1,622 members

66 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: elkiedee, Her_Royal_Orangeness

30

1,245 members

34 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: elkiedee, Her_Royal_Orangeness

31

by Thomas Tryon

1,134 members

37 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Her_Royal_Orangeness, ManWithAnAgenda

32

by Martha Grimes

1,011 members

15 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Her_Royal_Orangeness, ahef1963

33

by Martha Grimes

654 members

19 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: KimarieBee, Her_Royal_Orangeness

34

The Hundred-Year House

by Rebecca Makkai

629 members

44 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: elkiedee, Her_Royal_Orangeness

35

by Rosina Lippi

457 members

15 reviews

3.9

2 Members: elkiedee, Her_Royal_Orangeness

36

The Autumn Castle

319 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: KimarieBee, Her_Royal_Orangeness

37

Apartment in Athens

by Glenway Wescott

277 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: Her_Royal_Orangeness, ManWithAnAgenda

38

Lighthouse Island

by Paulette Jiles

165 members

13 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: mkbird, Her_Royal_Orangeness

39

by Anna Stothard

143 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: mkbird, Her_Royal_Orangeness

40

Thornwood House

134 members

8 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: KimarieBee, Her_Royal_Orangeness

41

The Cider House Rules

11,725 members

157 reviews

4.1

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

42

The Hotel New Hampshire

7,327 members

74 reviews

3.9

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

43

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

6,797 members

466 reviews

3.9

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

44

House of Sand and Fog

by Andre Dubus III

6,629 members

119 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

45

The House in the Cerulean Sea

6,153 members

321 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

46

The House at Riverton

5,426 members

249 reviews

3.8

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

47

by Jodi Picoult

5,091 members

234 reviews

3.8

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

48

Barchester Towers

by Anthony Trollope

4,911 members

106 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

49

The Round House

by Louise Erdrich

3,921 members

220 reviews

4

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

50

Look Homeward, Angel

by Thomas Wolfe

3,548 members

50 reviews

4

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

51

A House for Mr Biswas

by V. S. Naipaul

3,447 members

68 reviews

3.8

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

52

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

by Dorothy L. Sayers

3,047 members

88 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith

53

by James Clavell

2,987 members

37 reviews

4

Member: KimarieBee

54

The Mephisto Club

by Tess Gerritsen

2,980 members

82 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: KimarieBee

55

by Elizabeth Berg

2,829 members

61 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

56

by Anita Brookner

2,773 members

98 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

57

The Glass Palace

by Amitav Ghosh

2,716 members

65 reviews

3.9

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

58

House of Chains

by Steven Erikson

2,653 members

47 reviews

4.2

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

59

2,489 members

160 reviews

4

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

60

by Richard Matheson

2,351 members

102 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

61

The House on the Strand

by Daphne Du Maurier

2,349 members

59 reviews

3.8

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

62

The House of Thunder

2,089 members

26 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

63

by Alastair Reynolds

2,085 members

65 reviews

4

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

64

2,023 members

147 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: KimarieBee

65

by Nicole Krauss

1,965 members

125 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

66

The Girl in the Tower

by Katherine Arden

1,959 members

137 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

67

The Professor's House

by Willa Cather

1,931 members

47 reviews

3.8

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

68

1,871 members

129 reviews

3.9

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

69

Framley Parsonage

by Anthony Trollope

1,851 members

45 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

70

Lighthousekeeping

by Jeanette Winterson

1,850 members

56 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

71

The Small House at Allington

by Anthony Trollope

1,780 members

49 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

72

by Nelson DeMille

1,779 members

62 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

73

by W. H. Hudson

1,721 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

74

The White Hotel

by D. M. Thomas

1,662 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

75

by Minette Walters

1,602 members

24 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

76

The House of Sleep

by Jonathan Coe

1,584 members

37 reviews

3.8

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

77

Blackbird House

by Alice Hoffman

1,572 members

66 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

78

by Toni Morrison

1,553 members

76 reviews

3.8

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

79

A Spy in the House of Love

1,508 members

18 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

80

by Tara Conklin

1,502 members

87 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

81

The House on the Borderland

by William Hope Hodgson

1,480 members

47 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

82

The Last House on Needless Street

by Catriona Ward

1,475 members

80 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

83

by Rose Tremain

1,454 members

85 reviews

3.9

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

84

A Land More Kind than Home

1,304 members

112 reviews

3.9

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

85

The Midnight Palace

by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

1,249 members

54 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

86

1,241 members

91 reviews

3.1

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

87

by Elizabeth Berg

1,208 members

70 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

88

The House Next Door

by Anne Rivers Siddons

1,158 members

45 reviews

3.8

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

89

by Marion Zimmer Bradley

1,152 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

90

The House of Gaian (Tir Alainn Trilogy)

1,129 members

12 reviews

3.8

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

91

The Palace of Illusions

by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

1,074 members

38 reviews

4

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

92

The Dervish House

by Ian McDonald

1,041 members

51 reviews

3.9

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

93

The Bingo Palace

by Louise Erdrich

1,036 members

17 reviews

3.8

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

94

1,019 members

77 reviews

4

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

95

The House in Paris

by Elizabeth Bowen

881 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

96

The Winter Palace

by Eva Stachniak

871 members

81 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

97

This House is Haunted

833 members

71 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

98

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: A Novel (Random House Movie Tie-In Books)

by Deborah Moggach

826 members

59 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

99

The House of Special Purpose

802 members

56 reviews

3.8

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

100

The Magic Cottage

by James Herbert

766 members

15 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: KimarieBee

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Started: Her_Royal_Orangeness
September 2014
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