The Best Books With House in the Title

Updated October 13, 2018 0 votes 36 voters 4.2k views

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

Books with house in the title include Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder, House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, and The Cider House Rules by John Irving. If you have a favorite house 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 house in the name, it belongs on this list.

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The napping house
Audrey Wood
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The Decoration of Houses
Edith Wharton
First Published: 1897
Subjects: Home, Interior design, House, Visual arts, Architecture
Original Language: English Language
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The Cider House Rules
John Irving
First Published: 1985
Subjects: Orphan, Orphanage, Maine
Genres (Book): Fiction
Original Language: English Language
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The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson
First Published: 1959
Subjects: Literary, Ghost, Horror Film, Haunted house, Gothic fiction
Genres (Book): Horror Film, Fiction, Gothic fiction
Original Language: English Language
More The Haunting of Hill House
#8 of 186 The Scariest Horror Books of All Time#11 of 110 The Scariest Novels of All Time
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Full Dark House
Christopher Fowler
First Published: 2004
Subjects: Detective, Suspense, Police, London, Murder
Genres (Book): Speculative fiction, Suspense, Mystery, Fiction
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Little House in the Big Woods
Laura Ingalls Wilder
First Published: 1932
Subjects: Literature, Classics, 19th century, Wisconsin, Family
Genres (Book): Western, Children's literature, Fiction
Original Language: English Language
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The house of all sorts
Emily Carr
Subjects: Canada, British Columbia, Visual arts, Painting, Old English Sheepdog
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The salt house
Cynthia Huntington
Subjects: Ecology, Natural history, Massachusetts, 20th century
Genres (Book): Nature, Biography
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How a House Is Built
Gail Gibbons
Subjects: Home, Civil Engineering, Technology, Construction, House
Genres (Book): Children's literature
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A House Is Not a Home
Polly Adler
Subjects: Social science, Popular culture, Human sexuality, Women, Family
Genres (Book): Biography, Sociology
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A Painted House
John Grisham
First Published: 2001-02-06
Subjects: Literary, Adventure
Genres (Book): Thriller, Fiction
Original Language: English Language
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The Houses Of Lancaster And York With The Conquest And Loss Of France
James Gairdner
Subjects: History of the British Isles, World, Britain in the Middle Ages, History, England
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The House of Djinn
Suzanne Fisher Staples
Subjects: Spirits, Marriage, Pakistan, Adolescence, Family
Genres (Book): Children's literature, Fiction

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What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception
Scott McClellan
First Published: 2008-06-02
Subjects: George Bush, United States of America, History of the United States, Terrorism
Genres (Book): Non-fiction
Original Language: English Language
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The house at Pooh Corner
A. A. Milne
Subjects: Literature, Young adult, Classics, Animal
Genres (Book): Children's literature, Fiction
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Ghost in the house
Daniel Cohen
Subjects: Philosophy, Ghost, Occult
Genres (Book): Children's literature
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The mystery of Drear House
Virginia Hamilton
Subjects: African American, United States of America, Places
Genres (Book): Speculative fiction, Children's literature, Mystery, Fiction
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Little house by Boston Bay
Melissa Wiley
Subjects: War of 1812, Women, 19th century, Family, United States of America
Genres (Book): Children's literature, Fiction
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In a Dark House
Deborah Crombie
First Published: 2005
Subjects: Suspense, Police, London, England, Great Britain
Genres (Book): Suspense, Mystery, Fiction
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Nunneries and the Anglo-Saxon royal houses
Barbara Yorke
Subjects: Philosophy, Roman Catholic Church, Christian denomination, History, England
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Scandals in the house of birds
Nathaniel Tarn
Subjects: Guatemala, Mythology, Comparative religion, Folklore, History of the Americas
Genres (Book): Anthropology, Sociology
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Tracing the history of your house
Nick Barratt
Subjects: Genealogy, Europe, Research, Architecture, Historiography
Genres (Book): Reference
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Little house in the Highlands
Melissa Wiley
Subjects: Europe, Women, 19th century, Family, United States of America
Genres (Book): Children's literature, Fiction

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The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
First Published: 1851
Subjects: Music, Popular literature, Literature, Classics, Family
Genres (Book): Chivalric romance, Suspense, American Gothic Fiction, Horror Film, Mystery
Original Language: American English
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#43 of 155 The Greatest American Novels#404 of 1,235 The Best Novels Ever Written
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House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski
First Published: 2000-03-07
Subjects: Literary, Supernatural, Fear
Genres (Book): Romance novel, Ergodic literature, Speculative fiction, Chivalric romance, Satire
Original Language: English Language