Starling House
Novel by Alix E. HarrowWikipedia
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Search complete. 10 mentions across 5 episodes found for "Starling House".
Oct 8, 2026
CeCe LyraHOST
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CeCe LyraHOST
Told in three central points of view with interspersed folktale stories, it invokes the fabled storytelling and queer representation of Simon Jimenez's The Spear Cuts Through Water, the intertwined fates of Mark Lawrence's The Book That Wouldn't Burn, and the lyrically dark writing of Alex E. Harrow's Starling House.
CeCe LyraHOST
Augusta Rashid never truly belonged anywhere except in the woods behind her house with her best friend, Theo.
CeCe LyraHOST
25 and stuck in a meaningless job, Augusta understands her life is no fairy tale, despite what she believed as a child running through her kingdom of trees.
CeCe LyraHOST
I don't know why there doesn't seem to be a trade paperback version of Mark Lawrence's book on BookScan.
CeCe LyraHOST
Maybe I missed it.
CeCe LyraHOST
I wonder if Starling House would be too big of a comp, like it was a really big book.
CeCe LyraHOST
I don't know how, how people would think about it.
ElizabethHOST
But yeah, I mean, they go to the underworld.
ElizabethHOST
Some other books that I don't really think of as horror in my mind, but could be considered horror, Alex E. Haro wrote Starling House.
ElizabethHOST
The thing that I really like about Alex E. Haro is her writing style.
ElizabethHOST
It feels very immersive, and in particular for Starling House, that character has a gritty character feel and feels very authentic as a person.
ElizabethHOST
It's listed as fantasy horror gothic fiction, and it's basically about a mansion in the South that appears to be haunted, potentially monsters, and you're trying to find out what the story or source of that is the entire time.
ElizabethHOST
And then Leigh Bardugo, she wrote Ninth House, and that is part of a trilogy, and Deadbeat was the third book in the trilogy.
ElizabethHOST
It just came out in September.
ElizabethHOST
I listened to the first two on audiobook, and they were really good, but that's listed as fantasy dark academia mystery fiction horror.
speaker_0HOST
Exactly.
speaker_0HOST
And Bunger's list brings up Starling House by Alix E. Harrow.
speaker_0HOST
She's the author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January.
speaker_1HOST
An incredible writer.
Joanna RobinsonHOST
[upbeat music] Hello and welcome back to House of R. I'm Joanna Robinson, and it's kind of just me here today with a bunch of books.
Joanna RobinsonHOST
Uh, this is the long promised House of Reads episode where I'm gonna be talking about a lot of books that I love, that I wanna recommend, and we got a lot of listener recommendations as well.
Joanna RobinsonHOST
So we're gonna go through these piles of books, uh, that I have in front of me if you're watching this.
Joanna RobinsonHOST
Um, quick programming reminders just in general.
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Joanna RobinsonHOST
Well, thank you so much.
Anthony JeselnikGUEST
Thank you for having me.
Joanna RobinsonHOST
All right, that has been it for House of Reads episode of House of R. I'm Jonah Robinson.
Joanna RobinsonHOST
Uh, thank you so much for joining me.
Joseph DanceHOST
What a great name.
Joseph DanceHOST
I don't know if you read her Southern Gothic novel, Starling House.
Joseph DanceHOST
That was out a couple of years ago.
Joseph DanceHOST
It was everywhere for a long time.