Thank GOD there's a book out there called Bookshelf 😪

Also thanks so much for all your suggestions! The house is looking great!

This is some big brain idea

omg how fun! i love it!!!

Oh I loveee this! Made me giggle :)) A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf could also fit if you're taking suggestions!

I didn't know Bob the builder had diversified his hobbies

This idea is so fun! The Cellar by Natasha Preston could work

this is such a clever list idea!!

Ooh! Fun!

The Silver Chair by CS Lewis (if the house needs furniture) The Secret Garden (if the house needs a yard)

Ok I love this!

This is sooo funny! I found a few (literally just searched some key terms, absolutely cannot vouch for anything besides title)

For closets:

• The Closet by James Tynion IV
• The Fourth Closet by Scott Cawthon (not sure if you'd want to find #2 and 3 first)

If you'd like to furnish:

• Couch by Benjamin Parzybok
• The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
• The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Human Chair by Edogawa Rampo

This has absolutely tickled me

Stop this is amazing and hilarious

Just spied @sofloaf tbr-ing The Open Curtain by an author I enjoy - Brian Evenson, so here’s that too but:

But also Fun idea. I have clarifying questions so I can make appropriate recommendations.

I recognize the titles must be in line with the idea of building a house, yes? But what about the content.

Second, are titles like Giovanni’s Room too specific, is Model Home or House of Leaves too over-encompassing, is If Beale Street Could Talk too outside of the house, or maybe too personifying? What about a garden, what about items inside the house (like a trumpet or a ghost or a shirt or a plant) and if so is the story a must be about the item? Must the story be about an item in a house?) or is it about the architecture and the simple dressings of a house…..I might have more. Think of these as fun curiosity rather than rule making, alright I will aim to follow what you determine. What about getting weird (like ghosts, as I mentioned, or The Thing on the Doorstep - HP Lovecraft)…. Also what are we defining as a house…🤔

This is hilarious, I will return with gifts

Despite my other comment (lots of questions), here are titles I believe will qualify without question, if considering content inside the book doesn't matter. Otherwise, this list will need narrowed down:

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Foundation - Issac Asimov The Strange Library - Haruki Murakami The Midnight Library - Matt Haig The Silver Cage - Anonymous The Room of Wonders - Sergio Ruzzier Fence - CS Pacat A Light In The Attic - Shel Silverstein Blankets - Craig Thompson 100 Cubbords - N.D. Wilson A Series of Rooms - AJ Barlowe

Holes - Louis Sachar (if...you want holes in your house)

IF Accepting Vague descriptors:

A Thousand Beginnings & Endings (if we're going for liminal spaces, albeit the book title has to do with stories beginning and ending, I think) Long Way Down - Jason Reynolds Always Raining Here - Hazel and Bell Here - Richard McGuire

IF we are creating a weird house:

The Maze of Bones (39 clues #1)

IF including Fruit, Colors, Plants, Objects, etc (not sure if you are because the list might seem way less house-y by the end if you do 🤔

Snow, Glass, Apples - Neil Gaiman Red, White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston Echo - Thomas Olde Heuvelt Chopsticks - Jessica Anthony The Last Cigarette on Earth - Benjamin Alire Saenz A Strange Bird - Jeff VanderMeer Sensor - Junji Ito Bloom - Kevin Panetta Snapdragon

........i prob have more

Ok, I'm back with BOOKS! Don't feel obligated to use any of these, I was just having fun combing through my wishlist! I included some ideas for maybe some spinoff lists???

INDOORS & OUT The Loft (Marlen Haushofer) The Chandelier (Clarice Lispector) The Foundation Pit (Andrey Platonov)
The Door in the Hedge (Robin McKinley) Circles of Stone (ed Katy Soar) The Trees (Ali Shaw) The Body Farm (Abby Geni) Errant Roots (Sonora Taylor) Not a Speck of Light (Laird Barron) Mystery Lights (Lena Valencia) No Road Home (John Fram) Hothouse (Brian W Aldiss) Orchard of the Dead (Stefan Grabiński) The Woods All Black (Lee Mandelo) The Weeds (Katy Simpson Smith) Greener Pastures (Michael Wehunt) Weather (Jenny Offill)

THINGS INSIDE? The Open Curtain (Brian Evenson) Cursed Bread (Sophie Mackintosh) Perfume and Pain (Anna Doom) One Knife, One Fork, One Spoon (Patty Friedmann) (or, Apple and Knife, by Intan Paramaditha) Secondhand Smoke (Patty Friedmann) Juice (Tim Winton) Strange Pictures (Uketsu) Cabbage (CS Fritz) A Fig for All the Devils (CS Fritz) The Face in the Glass (Mary Elizabeth Braddon) Fruiting Bodies and Other Fungi (Brian Lumley) The Baron's Coffin (Ada Buisson) The Invisible Things (Mat Johnson) A Bug Collection (Melody Mansfield) Things We Lost in the Fire (Mariana Enriquez) Woodworm (Layla Martinez)

POTENTIAL INHABITANTS The Narrator (Michael Cisco) The Expendable Man (Dorothy B Hughes) The Fourth Wife (Linda Hamilton) The Great Lover (Michael Cisco) The Unmothers (Leslie J Anderson) Motherthing (Ainslie Hogarth) Daughter (Claudia Dey) Sisters (Daisy Johnson) The Changeling (Victor LaValle) The Governesses (Anne Serre) The Servant (Robert Maugham) The Aunts (Cyriel Buysse) Great Granny Webster (Caroline Blackwood) The Inheritors (William Golding) A Clutch of Vampires (ed Raymond McNally) The Opposite of a Person (Lieke Marsman) A Creature Wanting Form (Luke O'Neil) Hazardous Spirits (Anbara Salam) The Beast Within (Edward Levy) The Churchgoer (Patrick Coleman) Strange Animals (Jarod K Anderson) The Tyranny of Flies (Elaine Vilar Madruga) Voice of the Stranger (Eric Schaller)

FUN THINGS TO DO HERE Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Olga Tokarczuk) Picnic at Hanging Rock (Joan Lindsay) The Tea Party (Charles L Grant) Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories (Taeko Kōno) The German Lesson (Siegfried Lenz) Woodwind Harmony in the Nighttime (Reza Ghassemi) Family Reunion (Joyce Harrington) Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls (Alissa Nutting) Poking Holes (Juan Valencia) Meet Me in the Middle of the Air (Eric Schaller) Pour One for the Devil (Theodore C Van Alst) Murder Most Serene (Gabrielle Wittkopp) The Séance (John Harwood) Sedating Elaine (Dawn Winter) Help the Witch (Tom Cox) A Walk in a Darker Wood (ed Sarah Walker) Waiting for the Barbarians (JM Coetzee) Get In Trouble (Kelly Link)