Houses that close around the woman inside

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Domestic horror where the house does the work a prison would. Three centuries of these, and the walls have barely moved.

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Stacked by Drayfus · Updated 2 months ago

The 8 books on this stack

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  • Helen Phillips 2019

    Why it's on the stack

    It gets under your skin · it changes how you see things

    It shares this with 6 more books on this stack

    The baby in her right arm, the child in her left. There were footsteps in the other room...

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  • Sophie Mackintosh 2018

    Why it's on the stack

    You read it holding your breath · a place nobody can leave

    It shares this with 5 more books on this stack

    Their parents raised them there to keep them safe, to make them good.

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  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman 2009

    Why it's on the stack

    It gets under your skin · full of big ideas

    It shares this with 6 more books on this stack

    The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine.

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  • Joanne Ramos 2019

    Why it's on the stack

    A threat that keeps growing · a place nobody can leave

    It shares this with 5 more books on this stack

    A gripping story about race, money and motherhood that asks: what would you sacrifice for a new life?

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  • Rachel Yoder 2021

    Why it's on the stack

    It gets under your skin · properly strange

    It shares this with 6 more books on this stack

    An ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to stay at home with her newborn son, but the experience does not match her imagination.

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  • Margaret Atwood 1986 3 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    A threat that keeps growing · a society that controls everything

    It shares this with 5 more books on this stack

    Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford – her assigned name, Offred, means ‘of Fred’.

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  • Ira Levin 1972

    Why it's on the stack

    Nobody is entirely good · it'll scare you

    It shares this with 1 more book on this stack

    For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret -- a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same.

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  • Caro Claire Burke 2026

    Why it's on the stack

    It ties your stomach in a knot · a society that controls everything

    It shares this with 6 more books on this stack

    Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle - and her followers are sick with envy.

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