Anonymous wrote:The House of Sand and Fog

Oh. Soooo good. Movie is great too.

Anonymous wrote:House by Tracy Kidder

Was
Just gonna post this.

The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington.

How to sell a haunted house by Grady Hendrix

Emily & Einstein -- the Dakota apartment building in NYC.

Maybe check out some Danielle Steel novels.

Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld

Burnt Offerings

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").

"The Two Family House" by Lynda Cohen Loigman is great if you like historical fiction

Anonymous wrote:How has no one said “Rebecca” by Daphne du Maurier?

It’s in the OP but it’s very good!

How has no one said “Rebecca” by Daphne du Maurier?

Under the Tuscan Sun

The first and last in Freya Marske’s Last Binding trilogy have really powerful house/land “characters”

"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.