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Boarding House and Hotel Fiction

Rank Title Author Added

1

A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster

11,154 members

222 reviews

3.9

6 Members: thorold, norabelle414, souloftherose, Dilara86, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

14,950 members

198 reviews

4.1

5 Members: norabelle414, souloftherose, Dilara86, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

by Elizabeth Taylor

1,243 members

58 reviews

4.1

4 Members: thorold, raidergirl3, Soupdragon, souloftherose

4

The Greengage Summer

by Rumer Godden

737 members

17 reviews

4.1

4 Members: kageeh, Chatterbox, CurrerBell, souloftherose

5

by Stephen King

23,132 members

453 reviews

4.1

4 Members: SqueakyChu, raidergirl3, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

by Anita Brookner

2,774 members

98 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: thorold, raidergirl3, troutstreamman, Soupdragon

7

by Kay Thompson

1,763 members

42 reviews

4.1

3 Members: kageeh, norabelle414, aulsmith

8

At Bertram's Hotel

by Agatha Christie

3,800 members

81 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: Noisy, suniru, ahef1963

9

The Mouse and the Motorcycle

by Beverly Cleary

10,592 members

119 reviews

3.9

2 Members: norabelle414, ManWithAnAgenda

10

1,245 members

34 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: elkiedee, Dilara86

11

The Slaves of Solitude

by Patrick Hamilton

708 members

18 reviews

4.1

2 Members: troutstreamman, Soupdragon

12

Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast

by Bill Richardson

592 members

37 reviews

3.9

2 Members: SqueakyChu, raidergirl3

13

The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice

by Wilkie Collins

814 members

35 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: lilithcat, ahef1963

14

by Patrick Hamilton

93 members

1 review

½ 4.3

2 Members: troutstreamman, bluepiano

15

The Grand Babylon Hotel

by Arnold Bennett

295 members

9 reviews

3.2

2 Members: thorold, Dilara86

16

Coromandel Sea Change

by Rumer Godden

170 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: Chatterbox, suniru

17

A Gentleman in Moscow

9,056 members

513 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: troutstreamman, suniru

18

180 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Soupdragon, souloftherose

19

The Hotel New Hampshire

7,325 members

74 reviews

3.9

Member: DorsVenabili

20

by Kazuo Ishiguro

3,561 members

82 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: suniru

21

Clara and Mr Tiffany

by Susan Vreeland

952 members

74 reviews

3.8

Member: lahochstetler

22

The Ladies of the Corridor

by Dorothy Parker

54 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: bluepiano

23

The Poor Relation

by Marion Chesney

30 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: MDGentleReader

24

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

6,796 members

466 reviews

3.9

Member: norabelle414

25

by Colm Tóibín

5,230 members

294 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith

26

Anatomy of a Disappearance

by Hisham Matar

348 members

20 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: elkiedee

27

by Sinclair Lewis

93 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: bluepiano

28

The House in Paris

by Elizabeth Bowen

881 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Soupdragon

29

The Adventures of Sally

by P. G. Wodehouse

709 members

26 reviews

3.8

Member: thorold

30

The Sleeping Prince

by Knut Faldbakken

32 members

4

Member: bluepiano

31

Of Love and Hunger

by Julian Maclaren-Ross

188 members

7 reviews

4

Member: Soupdragon

32

by Paola Capriolo

24 members

2.2

Member: bluepiano

33

A Northern Light

by Jennifer Donnelly

3,952 members

173 reviews

4

Member: souloftherose

34

I Served the King of England

by Bohumil Hrabal

1,399 members

29 reviews

4

Member: thorold
Explanations: thorold: waiter tells all

35

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

817 members

27 reviews

4

Member: bluepiano

36

564 members

29 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: suniru

37

The Night Manager

by John le Carré

3,401 members

43 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: thorold

38

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

by Steven Millhauser

1,669 members

57 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

39

Murder Underground

by Mavis Doriel Hay

321 members

17 reviews

3.2

Member: souloftherose

40

Patricia Brent, Spinster

by Herbert George Jenkins

90 members

6 reviews

3.8

Member: souloftherose

41

A Breath of French Air

238 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: thorold
Explanations: thorold: the Larkins stay in a French hotel

42

by W. G. Sebald

2,466 members

47 reviews

4.1

Member: thorold

43

by Alessandro Baricco

1,670 members

32 reviews

4

44

by J. G. Farrell

1,448 members

52 reviews

4

45

by Arthur Hailey

1,124 members

21 reviews

½ 3.5

46

610 members

11 reviews

3.8

47

by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

267 members

17 reviews

½ 3.6

48

by Elizabeth Bowen

220 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

49

Motherland Hotel

by Yusuf Atilgan

118 members

4 reviews

4

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Started: Soupdragon
January 2012
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