Book Where House is the Main Character
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"The Little House". It's a short illustrated kid's book, but whatever. One of the few to make me teary-eyed.
Children-oriented, but engaging for adults; less emotional but more historical: "Cathedral", "City", "Pyramid", "Castle", and "Mill" by David Macaulay. Poe's short classic: "The Fall of the House of Usher". William Hope Hodgson's "The House on the Borderlands". I didn't particularly like it, but plenty of other people do and it was influential in the Weird Horror genre. |
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| The first and last in Freya Marske’s Last Binding trilogy have really powerful house/land “characters” |
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| Under the Tuscan Sun |
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| How has no one said “Rebecca” by Daphne du Maurier? |
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It’s in the OP  but it’s very good!
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| "The Two Family House" by Lynda Cohen Loigman is great if you like historical fiction |
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Bless This House, by Norah Lofts. She did in 1983 and wrote a lot of historical fiction, also murder-mystery under a different name. I was addicted to her historical novels when I was younger, and she is a very good writer.
The house is the main character. Starts with it being built in the early 1600s if I recall right, lots of detail about the building process from the point of view of a carpenter and (if memory serves) his restless son. Goes through many, many generations, social changes, changes in fortune (I remember it at some point, having been left to deteriorate, some poor but industrious woman manages to acquire it and start a business selling eggs and cheese ) there are murders, witches, pirates, the civil wars in England, complicated marriage arrangements among society/nobility, changes in owners, goes all the way to a 20th century woman who ends up owning it and is faced with the impossible cost of restoring and maintaining it (it was built as a "great house"). |
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| Burnt Offerings |
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| Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld |
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| Maybe check out some Danielle Steel novels. |
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| Emily & Einstein -- the Dakota apartment building in NYC. |
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| How to sell a haunted house by Grady Hendrix |
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| The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington. |
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Was Just gonna post this. |
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Oh. Soooo good. Movie is great too. |