House of Holes

By Nicholson Baker

In the New York Times bestseller House of Holes, Nicholson Baker, “one of the most beautiful, original, and ingenious prose stylists to have come along in decades” (The New York Times Magazine), returns to the terrain that made him famous with a gleefully provocative, off-the-charts erotic novel that is unlike anything you’ve read—“a filthy tour de force” (Time).

Shandee finds a friendly arm at a granite quarry. Ned drops down a hole in a golf course. So begins Nicholson Baker’s fuse-blowing sexual escapade—a modern-day Hieronymus Boschian bacchanal set in a pleasure resort where normal rules don’t apply. House of Holes, one of the most talked-about books in recent memory, is a gleefully provocative novel sure to surprise, amuse, and arouse.

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Published Feb 7, 2012

272 pages

Average rating: 8

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mom2burgess
May 22, 2026
6/10 stars
that was.....weird.
Life By Trail and Error
Apr 04, 2025
10/10 stars
This surreal depictions of a sex resort has me wanting to check in yesterday (last year)!

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