Housekeeping


The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House
How to Keep House While Drowning
The Help
The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning
Sink Reflections: Overwhelmed? Disorganized? Living in Chaos? Discover the Secrets That Have Changed the Lives of More Than Half a Million Families...
Decluttering at the Speed of Life: Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff
Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook: The Essential Guide to Caring for Everything in Your Home
How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind: Dealing with Your House's Dirty Little Secrets
Organic Housekeeping: In Which the Nontoxic Avenger Shows You How to Improve Your Health and That of Your Family While You Save Time, Money, and, Perhaps, Your Sanity
Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up
The Undomestic Goddess
Organizing for the Rest of Us: 100 Realistic Strategies to Keep Any House Under Control
Unf*ck Your Habitat: You're Better Than Your Mess
Hotel Housekeeping Training Manual
Sex and The Single Girl by Helen Gurley BrownHow to Run Your Home Without Help by Kay SmallshawMake Do and Mend by Imperial War MuseumsMiss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior by Judith MartinKeeping Up Appearances by Roy Clarke
How to be a Lady (Vintage Advice)
37 books — 3 voters
Sink Reflections by Marla CilleyHome Comforts by Cheryl MendelsonThe Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie KondōOrganizing from the Inside Out by Julie MorgensternThe House that Cleans Itself by Mindy Starns Clark
Cleaning House
78 books — 55 voters

True Hearth by James Allen ChisholmCottage Witchery by Ellen DuganPagan Family Values by S. Zohreh KermaniMagical Housekeeping by Tess WhitehurstThe Magical Household by Scott Cunningham
Pagan Hearthkeeping
6 books — 2 voters
The Help by Kathryn StockettThe Undomestic Goddess by Sophie KinsellaUpstairs Downstairs by John  HawkesworthShakespeare's Trollop by Charlaine HarrisA Spring Affair by Milly Johnson
Fictional Housekeepers
65 books — 23 voters

Little Women by Louisa May AlcottAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryThe Help by Kathryn StockettSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenLittle House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Domestic novels
41 books — 16 voters
Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonCradle to Cradle by William McDonoughThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThe Urban Homestead by Kelly CoyneThe Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Being "Green"
390 books — 243 voters

Colombe Schneck
Mine was the kind of apartment filled with scented candles, where every piece of furniture has been carefully selected to be camera-ready at all times, in case a representative of the taste police from an interiors magazine were to show up unannounced; I always wanted to get top marks.
Colombe Schneck, The Paris Trilogy: a Life in Three Stories

..as in all housework, there is something inherently redemptive in the process, and therefore something truly good. To rend usefulness and order from the soiled and dejected is always a holy work, howsoever trivial it might seem on the surface. But we do not live in the surface of things, not really, no matter how we might skim along the glassy crust above the deeper meaning of our days. The place where we really live, where the humblest things serve the highest ends and the most menial tasks ar ...more
Lanier Ivester, Glad and Golden Hours: A Companion for Advent and Christmastide

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