The Best Books With Home in the Title

Updated November 17, 2017 270 votes 16 voters 3.0k views

It turns out that books with home in the title are way more common than you think. Here are 90+ good books with home in the title, including both fiction and non-fiction. It's safe to say that many of these titles are books about homes or houses, but the core commonality between these books is that they have the word home in the title.

Books with home in the title include Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances and Home Remedies by Laura Esquivel, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, and A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham. If you have a favorite home book, vote it up below, or add it to the list if it's not already here. It doesn't matter if it's science fiction, fantasy, romance, or non-fiction - if the book has home in the name, it belongs on this list.

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Cracking the Coconut: Classic Thai Home Cooking
Su-mei Yu
First Published: 2000
Subjects: Thai food, Cooking
Genres (Book): Cookbook
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North Toward Home
Willie Morris
Subjects: Literary, Mississippi, Biography, United States of America, 20th century
Genres (Book): Biography, Autobiography
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Natural Home Heating
Greg Pahl
Subjects: Home, Technology, Construction, Air conditioning, Alternative
Genres (Book): Nature, Reference
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The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets
Ted Kooser
First Published: 2005-02
Subjects: Creative writing, Composition, Linguistics
Genres (Book): Non-fiction
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Fields of home
Marita Conlon-McKenna
Subjects: Ireland, Literature, History
Genres (Book): Children's literature, Historical fiction
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Bringing it all back home
Lawrence Grossberg
Subjects: Social science, Popular culture, Sociology, Culture
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The Way Back Home
Oliver Jeffers
Subjects: Friendship, Transportation, Aviation
Genres (Book): Children's literature, Fiction

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The Home Life Of Henry W. Longfellow
Blanche Roosevelt
Subjects: 19th century, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Genres (Book): Biography, Autobiography
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt - The Home Front in World War II
Doris Kearns Goodwin
First Published: 1995-10-01
Subjects: Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, United States of America, World War II, History of the United States
Genres (Book): Biography, History
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An Island Called Home
Ruth Behar
Subjects: United States of America, Greater Antilles, History of the Americas, Cuba, Jewish Studies
Genres (Book): Biography, Sociology
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Home and exile
Chinua Achebe
Subjects: Nigeria, Civilization, United States of America, 20th century, Africa
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No place like home
Gary Younge
Subjects: Southern United States, History of the Americas, 20th century, British Cuisine, History
Genres (Book): Travel
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On the Way Home
Laura Ingalls Wilder
First Published: 1962
Subjects: 19th century, United States of America, History of the Americas, 20th century, History
Genres (Book): Western, Children's literature, Biography
Original Language: English Language
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Home life in colonial days
Alice Morse Earle
Subjects: Home, United States of America, History of the United States, 18th century, 17th century
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Steal Away Home
Lois Ruby
Subjects: Kansas, African American, 19th century, Slavery, United States of America
Genres (Book): Children's literature, Fiction
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The dinosaur that followed me home
Bruce Coville
Subjects: Time travel, Dinosaurs
Genres (Book): Speculative fiction
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Home town
Tracy Kidder
Subjects: Current affairs, Police, Local, United States of America, History of the Americas
Genres (Book): Sociology
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Wandering home
Bill McKibben
Subjects: New York, Hiking, History of the Americas, Vermont
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The war at home
Frances Fox Piven
Subjects: Current events, Government, Security, Politics, International relations
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Home
Julie Myerson
Subjects: Literature, World, House, Custom, London
Genres (Book): Biography, Autobiography
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The Girl Who Walked Home Alone: Bette Davis, a Personal Biography
Charlotte Chandler
First Published: 2006-03
Subjects: Entertainment, Women, United States of America, Theatre, Performing arts
Genres (Book): Biography
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Coming home to myself
Marion Woodman
Subjects: Philosophy, Women, Self-help, Virtue, Meditation
Genres (Book): Inspirational
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The river home
Jerry Dennis
Subjects: Ecology, Michigan, Aquaculture, Agriculture
Genres (Book): Nature
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Letters home
Harry S. Truman
Subjects: United States of America, History of the United States, 20th century, Harry S. Truman
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At Home in Mitford
Jan Karon
First Published: 1994
Subjects: Clergy, Drama, North Carolina
Genres (Book): Fiction, Novel
Original Language: English Language