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In this week’s episode, our focus is on houses that are so important to a story that they essentially become a character. When we started thinking about this idea, we realized that Chicago writer Christina Henry would be a perfect guest because her last two novels are focused on houses. Her most recent is titled The Place Where They Buried Your Heart and is about a neighborhood house that lures people in, causing heartache for neighbors as well as a sense of family among a handful of them. Prior to this novel, Christina wrote The House That Horror Built. We talk to Christina about the importance of houses in her stories and how a house can straddle setting and character. 

 

In our book rec section, we continue the house idea with a range of titles in which houses are critically important—-we’ve got a memoir, a National Book Award winner, children’s fantasy, classic literature, and propulsive literary fiction.

 

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

 

1- The Place Where They Buried Your Heart by Christina Henry

2- The House That Horror Built by Christina Henry 

3- Howards End by E.M. Forster 

3- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

3- Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen by Jon M. Chu 

4- Double Indemnity by James Cain 

5- From the Moment They Met It Was Murder: Double Indemnity and the Rise of Film Noir by Alain Silver and James Ursini 

6- Out by Natsuo Kirino 

7- Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata 

8- Earthlings by Sayaka Murata 

9- The Mantis by Kotaro Osaka 

10- Three Assasins by Kotaro Osaka 

11- Bullet Train by Kotaro Osaka 

12- The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir

13- Night Shift by Alex Finlay

14- A Five Star Read by Fellow Book Lover Kris Wyatt @froggyreadteach - The Labors of Hercules Beal by Gary D. Schmidt 

15- Cabin: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman by Patrick Hutchison 

16- House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

17- The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom 

18- Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones 

19- The House with the Clock in it's Walls by John Bellairs 

20- Behind the Waterline by Kionna Walker LeMalle 

21- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

22- Rebecca by Daphne duMaurier 

 

Media Mentioned:

1- If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025)

2- Platonic (Apple +, 2023 - present)

3- Train Dreams (2025)

4- The Studio (Apple +, 2025)

5- Howards End (1992)

6- Howl's Moving Castle (2004)

7- The House with the Clock in it's Walls (2018)

8- House of Sand and Fog (2003)

9- LibroVox app for free audiobooks of books in the public domain

10- Whitehall House and Gardens Book Club - https://www.historicwhitehall.org/whitehall-book-club