Suddenly I get the strange sensation that I’m falling, my living room blurring around me. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Whenever World Wrestling Federation with Hulk Hogan came on, or The A-Team with Mr. T, people would cram into his living room and gather around his house, trying to watch through his window. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Jaja laid her on a mattress on the living room floor. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Conrad, barefoot but wearing his green-striped bathrobe and jumping up and down like a frisky puppy, chased close behind Papa into the living room. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We sit in the living room saying nothing to each other and listening to the women whispering and laughing in the kitchen. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I turn from the cabinet and go to the credenza that takes up a large portion of the living room wall. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I opened the door and found myself back inside Bat Lady’s living room. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

They smell of stale bread, of stuffy living rooms crammed with dark titanic Breton furnishings. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At about three o’clock he heard Adam come in and there was the low sound of voices conversing in the living room. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The living room, dining room, and kitchen blend into one another in one big space, separated by furniture and appliances. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She walked, less steadily, back into the living room. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Lily's and my room and bath and our parents' room and bath were on the main level—as well as the living room, dining room, and kitchen. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Mother Lois came rushing into the living room, disheveled and frantic. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the sheriff assessed the situation, he sighed heavily, wishing to hell that he’d never had a phone installed in his living room. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This place is as familiar to her now as a living room in the house of a life she never bargained for. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same scene played out all over the world, in parks, bars, civic centers, living rooms, classrooms, and offices. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until the twins came tumbling into the living room, demanding to know what was so funny. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Afterward, they regroup in the living room for board games and goofy improvisation contests, all free of profanity and even double entendre. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Lorena laughs and throws a couch pillow at my face as I walk back to the living room. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The show cut to the living room of the gray house. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They sat in the living room, faces pale and hands nervous and mouths tight. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I cross the living room, heading deeper into the house. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I had never seen Dad sitting in the living room in striped pajamas. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Water ran in forgotten bathtubs, poured out into living rooms, onto porches, and down through little garden plots to feed neglected flowers. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, after my parents left for work, I poked my head into the living room, where Grandma was reading a book on the couch. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Every so often, she’d change the layout of our living room, putting a new slipcover on the sofa, swapping out the photos and framed prints that hung on our walls. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The four of us are in the living room of our one-bedroom apartment. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Through the double-wide study doors, I saw a line of flame zip down the hallway on one side and into the living room on the other. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I dump a puzzle on the living room floor, glad for the simple right and wrong of a single, perfect fit. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If the tree was six feet and four inches exactly, it would fit perfectly in our living room.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Ma responds by shoving me in the direction of the living room. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Gathering momentum, I run into the living room, swipe the photos off the table, rip the framed cross-stitched roses off the wall. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom guides Kareem’s parents into the living room, her voice brighter and more singsong than usual. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Mundo!” she calls to my father, who has gone ahead into the living room and is greeting all the men. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Hanako ran back into the bedroom and grabbed Mama’s pajamas—the purple coat was in the living room. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the living room the plastic on the couch screeches. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

As soon as we were in the living room, Mrs. Hull handed my mother a clipping. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jule was still awake, watching TV on the living room couch. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I answer the door and greet them, one by one, and lead them to the living room. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dining room, living room, fancy living room with no TV, Mom’s room, kitchen.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear them talking in the living room. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He can take his second-favorite book, the one that wasn’t completely swallowed by the tree in his living room after the storm. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I looked behind him and saw a small living room, with classroom desks farther back in another room. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Dad was in the living room, shuffling through blueprints for the granaries and mumbling to himself. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When she sat in the living room or outside on the patio she never read or listened to music. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flora, superhero on her shoulder, walked quietly, stealthily through the living room and into the dining room and stood before the closed kitchen door. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

He walked into the living room and slumped into the big arm-chair. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

But now as I carry my suitcase onto this ship of the prairie, I am suddenly in the Bresnicks’ living room. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Molly, sitting across from Vivian in the living room, puts her book down and starts to rise. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I braced for the worst as my mom paced around Abuela’s living room. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In the morning she woke early to nurse Pearl on the couch in the living room and Pauline came in. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I can hear you, you know,” Peggy called from the living room, but that only made them laugh harder. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As I headed to bed, I peeked into the living room. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The hallway light was on, and I saw him walk back past my room on his way to the living room. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Angrily Pauline threw her book on the floor, starting to cry as she stomped across the living room. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I retraced my steps to the living room and unzipped a corner of the suitcase. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

A pile of newspapers sits in the corner of the living room; there are dirty mugs on the coffee table and the mantelpiece. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got careless. I left it in the living room. Anybody could look through the window and . . . and ...” She clenched her eyes so tightly it was a wonder the tears got out. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pattie and I ride the bus at the end of the day back to the apartment and Dell is waiting for us in the living room. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He hoped Master would still be at the club so he could take the Renaissance from the living room and curl up on his bed in the Boys’ Quarters and read. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Gilly had a vision of herself sailing around the living room of the foster home on her right foot like an ice skater. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

If the dead person is right there in your living room, it would certainly make things sink in better. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m so tired when I get home that I lie down on the couch in the living room and I doze off. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Jinjoo crawled out into the corridor and quietly made her way down to the living room. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

There’s similar art all over the walls of the living room. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting on a set that looks like someone's living room. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Back in the living room, Coach has helped himself to one of Pop’s beers and is sitting on the couch. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

At once he let go of the handles and again he stood in his own living room, beside his wife and the empathy box. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Upstairs, Mom puts on a record, and she and Richard dance for a while in the living room while I sit on the couch and grin, just watching them. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Our living room was even smaller, with the kitchen set in the corner. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Genie quickly shifted his gaze as Dad stalked into the living room with Grandma and Ernie, who was holding the suitcase, following behind. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Bill rose from the couch and went into the living room, snapping on the television before sitting down. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ate my meat loaf and green beans and then went into the living room and watched a little television. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

As the Lacks men talked about Hopkins and insurance, Bobbette snorted in disgust and walked to her recliner in the living room. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Stepping into the living room, he took a set shot. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He had expected Susan’s reaction and prepared to apologize before she got to the living room, so that he could save a glass. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“DAD!” he shouts then, tripping over his not-even-solid feet as he makes his way back to the living room. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Mr. Malloy has taken the white wooden chairs from the basement into the living room to make sure everyone has a seat. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We’re all sitting in his uncle’s living room, splitting his Levain cookie; I give him my piece, even though I’m hungry. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

To the left is a narrow hallway opening onto a room that serves as the Frank family’s living room and bedroom. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Obiora had borrowed a video game from the flat upstairs, and the boys were clustered in front of the TV in the living room. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When Mrs. Sen did not reply, he untied his sneakers and returned to the living room, where he found her on the sofa, weeping. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I turned off the goosenecked floor lamp and sat in the hallway, where light beamed from the living room. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hold the pendant up against the living room light, and the diamonds glisten like a lake on a sunny day. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Nikki and I would play this game: I would sit on the living room chair while Nikki deeply inhaled and then blew directly in my face, eliciting hysterical laughs on both sides. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

One evening when the phone rings, I follow him into our living room. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

On his first payday, he came home and called us all into the living room. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I crouch on the living room floor with the Maritimes fiddle music going on in the background, the Toronto Star spread out underneath my elbows, studying the picture of her on the front page. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Mama asked Sisi to wipe the floor of the living room, to make sure no dangerous pieces of figurines were left lying somewhere, she did not lower her voice to a whisper. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

All the clothes were folded and put away, dinner was cooking in the oven, and the living room floor was so clean, I’d be willing to eat off it. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart radiates badoom, so I stand and shuffle into the living room and pick a book off my parents’ shelf. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He did not want to ride in her car, did not like how her voice rose above Master’s in the living room, challenging and arguing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We moved most of the furniture out onto the enclosed porch and took up the rug in the living room, so there was a great dance floor. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

A dining room, a kitchen, a living room, a family room—which, by the way, is where the puzzles are put together. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then there's a long hallway leading to one big room that's both the living room and the dining room. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

I left to scope out the living room, where I found Sean lying on the couch, snoring. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The living room was packed with about two dozen guests seated on chairs placed along the walls. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He stood up straight and tall and walked through to the living room. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

From my hiding place, in the shadows of the living room, I watched as my mother struggled to protect herself over and over again. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I was curled up next to her on the couch, because Dad was working late, so he couldn’t get mad about ice cream in the living room. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

To complete the game, every treasure you collected had to be returned to the living room and placed inside the trophy case. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The expression freezes on my face, though, as I cross through the doorway and, sitting in the living room alongside Vernesha, is Al. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

For example, in the living room was a cast-iron potbellied coal stove for heating and cooking. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

On that “cool September evening,” Compton, Conant, and Lawrence arranged themselves around the fireplace in Compton’s living room. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Until the wait is over,” Grandma said sitting back in the green velvet chair in the living room. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Her parents are out of town at one of their French country homes, and she said she thought her living room would be the perfect setting for the scene we were doing. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Hello?” he whispered, nervous, slinking through the living room. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Tevin whispered to me as he came into the living room. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Instead they sat together on the floor of their small apartment’s sparsely furnished living room and held hands, staring at the television and both secretly wondering what would happen next. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I cried when I saw my parents in the living room. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what it is. Just something smells funny in the living room.” A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The living room had glass doors that slid noiselessly open and noiselessly shut. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then I looked round the door of the living room. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I led Sohrab to the living room, which looked like it had been host to a Level Twelve Party by twenty or thirty Soulless Minions of Orthodoxy. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He slipped into the living room early in the morning to get what he needed from the tin of Booker money. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Huffing and puffing, I make it to the living room. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She said nothing and went back to the living room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Stop it, Anu! Take these deviled eggs out to the living room right now. Darnell is waiting there all by himself." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When she went to see the rental, Lita was offering the living room of an apartment as a bedroom. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The phone's in the living room, so he drops a kiss on my head, and then on Sunny's, and dashes off to buy our first house. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We sat down in the living room while his mom went off to the kitchen to make dinner, and then he asked if I wanted to play a game. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Morning, Daddy,” the twins called from the living room. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I strut through the living room, modeling it for her anyway. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A short, pugnacious, mustached kid named Ronny came with a backpack full of pot and set up shop in the living room. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The fact that the yellow chintz armchair in the living room clashed with the blue-and-maroon Turkish carpet no longer bothered her. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

A spiral staircase in the living room leads up to an open space that composes much of the second floor. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Once he had us inside the dimly lit, bare living room, Karim locked the front door, pulled the tattered sheets that passed for curtains. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was running through the living room when he saw someone he had never seen before. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Mamou had this stained glass partition separating the living room from the dining room, and the light filtering through it cast constellations of color across my family’s faces. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

There was a light on in the living room. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

How I came in from me and Diego’s room and saw my moms sitting on the couch in the living room, perfectly still. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The one that kept flying into the glass doors off the living room? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My hands are shaking and I worry I might spill some, or worse, trip on the walk across the living room. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hurry off to grab the gift bag from the living room. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Bleary-eyed and ready for war, I stumbled into the living room, but I wasn’t the first to arrive. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I picked Charlie up under her armpits and carried her down the hallway, setting her on the carpet in the living room. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ram is set up in his favorite seat in the corner of the living room. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Max and Danuta have a long talk in the empty living room of the Diamant apartment, and when they come back, Max says that he asked me for one night. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He loaded up a tray with glasses of iced tea and rushed back to the living room, glancing my way as he passed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He boxes with them in the living room, and every single time he lets them win. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I got up and followed her into the living room. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I didn't want her to go to sleep while I was in the living room. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

We went into the living room and over to the table where Quendy had all the drinks and beer. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat in a triangle in the living room. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the house has two fireplaces, one in the living room, one in the dining room, and there was about a cord of wood in the woodshed, already cut. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She goes in my room, the bathroom, the living room. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The conversations no longer ended in reassuring laughter, and the living room often seemed clouded with uncertainties, with unfinished knowledge, as if they all knew something would happen and yet did not know what. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I leave the bed half-stripped and go downstairs to the living room. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There,” she said, coming smiling into the living room. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are we going or not?” roared Uncle Vernon, reappearing yet again at the living room door. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He gestured to the living room in back. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing Dad does is hang the Seurat in our new living room. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Margaret shut down her computer, and we moved into the living room to listen to the tape. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the porch window where I was working, I could see Grandma, poking anxiously about the living room. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We did, but we also cracked the door so we could listen a bit to the meeting going on in the living room. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

When Margaret came back to the add-on living room, she poured us each a glass of cold cider, and we sat at the kitchen table and talked. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad and I went back to the living room. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gomersindo Leyba said, “Knowing Bud, he probably rented his living room out at six dollars an hour to that state cop.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They examined the living room, the dining room, the kitchen. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

We huddled around a potbellied cast-iron coal stove in the middle of the living room and held out our hands to warm them. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I came back into the living room, Grampa was asleep in his chair, The Greenwood Commonwealth folded in his lap. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Petra bought two hot chocolates with whipped cream, and they headed through French doors into what looked like a giant living room. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The living room has a sofa and two chairs and matching drapes, all of a flowered rose and beige material Carol says is chintz. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I run to the window of our living room and steal a glance down at the street. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Good day to you, Harry Potter’s relatives!” said Dedalus happily, striding into the living room. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I tried not to think about Mr. Pirzada, in his lime-scented overcoat, connected to the unruly, sweltering world we had viewed a few hours ago in our bright, carpeted living room. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She took her sister to the living room where she had a glass case, a large upside- down fish tank, and inside were her children’s athletic trophies and scholarship trophies. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still didn’t have a finished A-10 Thunderbolt in a display case in the living room, or a dad who would help me build one. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Momma and Joey were in the living room and when they heard the knock everything there got real quiet. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second reason that I think Phoebe nearly fainted dead away was that there was Mike Bickle, Phoebe’s potential lunatic, in her own living room. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

To the right of the hall was a living room that had a huge fireplace on the end wall; there was no furniture in the room, and the wallpaper was peeling from the walls. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy not only had a fire in the kitchen but in the living room too. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, yeah, my dad would sometimes go on a drinking binge and be gone for a week, but those white dads can completely disappear without ever leaving the living room. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The living room downstairs had a curved wall with custom- built cabinets. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There were four bedrooms off of the living room, each of them with two twin beds and a dresser. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I could hear her because my room was directly above the living room and because I had never heard crying that loud before. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I look past her into the living room. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Hazel stood for a moment, looking at their living room. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

When Luke tried to help, Annie pushed him into the living room and told him to find a movie. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Her coat was in the living room, so she put on a sweater. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“I still can’t believe I’m here. I’m in my boyfriend’s living room. I have a boyfriend. You are that boyfriend. This is your living room.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Darius says, and walks over to a small box against a wall in the living room and presses a button. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Mr. and Mrs. Antolini had this very swanky apartment over on Sutton Place, with two steps that you go down to get in the living room, and a bar and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I crept by Mr. Lucas, who was asleep on the sofa, and picked my way through my uncle and cousin camped out on the living room floor. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I thoroughly checked the family rooms: living room, hallways, library, and kitchen. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Nancy pushes across the living room and over the braided rug and sandwiches herself between Frank and George on the couch. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I sat with Jaja in our living room, staring at the space where the etagere had been, where the ballet-dancing figurines had been. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Luke yelled at them to scrape the noodles off, but they were already wrestling on the floor of the living room. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Looking out his living room window after Petra went home, Calder could see the blue flash of police cars and knew they must be stationed outside Mrs. Sharpe’s house. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Seema and I watched over our new sister in the living room while the morning sun filtered through the windows. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

This assertion generated immediate merriment among the restaurant owners and far finishers assembled in our living room. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Looking up, he could see his mother through the large curtainless windows inspecting a fine old mantelpiece in the living room. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went into the living room and Pops was watching a talk show. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of lying on the floor of my living room, I was lying on the ground in the sun, almost directly over a hill of large black ants. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of his condition he had no timidity about inching forward a bit on the spodess floor of the living room. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held up his hand and walked past her into the living room. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blanca went into the living room and picked up the phone. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He stalked into the living room, where he flopped on the couch and clicked on the TV. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“What do you guys think about a slumber party in the living room?” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I did the dining room and was soaking the living room couches when I realized I should have started at the end of the house farthest from the mudroom door. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“You always complain about drafts in the living room,” said Granddad. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He led Detective Newberg into the living room and offered her something to drink, but she declined. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

They pour into my little living room and kitchen. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Need to turn some lights on,” Helen murmured when she came into the living room; but Ralph said she was wasting electricity. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma moved over to the living room couch and sat down in front of the television screen. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Olanna struggled to hide her surprise, then, when Mrs. Ezeka came out and hugged her twice in the spacious living room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I scrambled out, 1 saw the police in the living room; they were trying to calm her down. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

One woman in posh Palos Verdes demands that she scrub her living room and kitchen floors on her knees instead of with a mop. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Darius motions for me to follow him out of the living room. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Loud and aggressive, like some mighty intruder charging in and out of our living room. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I don't even sit down on the giant leather couch that wraps around the whole living room where a wide chandelier hangs from the middle of the high ceiling. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Ernie takes the baby into the living room where Bugs Bunny is on T. V. Good lucky you didn’t come yesterday, she says. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Dursley came into the living room carrying two cups of tea. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Getting up, he walked glumly into the living room. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

When you were sitting in the living room, where Erma always kept the shades drawn, you could hear groups of black people walking into town, talking and laughing. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

My feet were knocked out from under me and I was swept into the living room, just out of Mother’s sight. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Dad moved to the living room and started cursing at the VCR. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Dadi waited till I was back in the living room to respond. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They sat together in the living room, on the chairs and the floor. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milkman followed her into a pleasant living room full up with sunshine. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The living room has a square dining table in one corner, and a desk and file cabinets set up in another. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe how fast you’re growing up. I remember when you two would watch a movie together curled up on blankets in our living room. Now you’re going off on your own, meeting friends.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

So when he came flying into the living room on skates, I laughed it up so he’d feel a little better about my slipping him the insects. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The living room had a pistachio green leather couch. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Our home had one large room that served as kitchen, dining room, and living room—all in one—and one bedroom. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

She really dug this one song, this Christian revival number, and whenever it came on she’d drag me into the living room and make me dance with her. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma asked Jaja and me to go and sit in the living room, too, so we could see the TV clearly. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I ran back to the living room of the white house one last time and placed the final treasure inside the trophy case. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We used to lie like this as kids, when Mom and Dad would let us have pretend sleepovers in the living room. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

His living room floor is like a beach after the weekend. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stood in the living room of Felix’s suite, waiting for his partner. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Flinging open the front door, I raced through our living room and straight into my parents’ bedroom. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu woke up one night to go to the bathroom, and heard Blaine in the living room, talking on the phone, his tone gentle and solacing. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She asked him to wait in the living room while she got a check. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She would never belong in Park's living room. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The bread was in the oven and Luke was picking up lint by hand from the living room rug when he heard tires on the gravel driveway. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

He twisted his head towards the door of the living room to observe the women as they came back They had not allowed themselves very much rest and were coming back right away. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slouch down deeper into his living room couch. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“The complete price is $10,500, for two bedrooms, a large living room, kitchen, bath, and dining space, and five closets.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

In the living room, on a table next to the sofa, there is a small framed picture of the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe, flowers tumbling from her open mantle. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He then stumbled sleepily into the living room. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Right,” she continued, marching this way and that across the living room and waving her hands about like a traffic cop directing her thoughts and words. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His duplex had changed since the last time she was here, and it was more than just the box of Fisher-Price toys in the living room and the makeup in the bathroom. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Mr. Huffer had Mrs. Droogie laid out on the couch in the living room, where she had died while watching TV after dinner. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The palm divides the kitchen from the living room, which has a sleek black couch and a small Japanese maple in the corner. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Natalie is sitting in the living room, paging through a magazine. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I held Sammy while she stood in the living room excitedly watching all the commotion. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

There were more books in Spoon's living room than Alfred had ever seen in a home. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

That evening after dinner, we all sat down in the living room to watch TV. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house was one story, with high ceilings, a living room lined with cushy gray sofas, and a big dining room with a long wooden table. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

As we walked into the living room, I tripped on another piece of garlic lying in the doorway. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

“They wanted Jose,” Jimmy Ortega groaned from the living room couch. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad brings all these extra lamps down from the attic, until our living room is glowing like a TV studio. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Here, standing on the living room’s rift cut pine boards and studying the carved spandrel ornaments on the staircase, she seemed to have come to a place long destined for her. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting in the middle of the living room, Hyacinth rummaged through her ribbon collection as she tried to think of something to make for the Beiderman. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

In the living room I finger the small hole that I unraveled in the sheet. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

In the living room, there was a large rectangular box covered in purple wrapping paper on the coffee table. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I try to act like I’m not listening, which is hard to do because the living room is small. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting on the sofa in his living room, a glass of wine in my hand. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I closed the box and brought it into the living room, where my dad and Aunt Susie were emptying a drawer full of coupons, clipped but never used, into a ten-gallon trash bag. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In the living room a couch, a fireplace, and a coffee table with the latest issues of Good Housekeeping on it. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She walked into the living room, shaking her head. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He skids around the corner and into the living room. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

I heard Mom finally go into the living room and order them both out. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He double-checked that he had the tickets and pencil and paper, then he went back into the living room to face his parents. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had just set out a tray of fruits and rice cakes to go along with the liquor on the low table in the living room and went down to help him. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bill went on to say that he didn’t want a fence in the living room. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

My heart thumped faster as I bounded into the house, into a living room crowded with people. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night, instead of sitting and reading and smoking his pipe in the living room, as he had done before, Mr. Popper would put on his overcoat and take his things downstairs. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

This was the original, the basis for the artist’s print that used to be on my living room wall. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Hammie and Asher are on the living room couches, engrossed in a quiet debate about how best to mess up the Cloud Knights’ defense. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I peek out the doorway into the empty living room. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the living room of the old house it was cool, and a grandfather clock ticked high and long and bronzed in one corner. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I come into the living room and explain my plan, which is for us to drive around town and take small cuttings from interesting plants. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

George’s mother, vacuuming on the other side of the living room, hopefully watched her son work on his school scrapbook. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though Uncle Jet was sleeping in the living room, his snores traveled down the hallways and shook his bedroom walls, keeping Nathan up. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Our living room windows face that way, and I heard him dribbling his ball back there from about three-thirty to five every day. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

In the living room, there are fourteen presents under the tree. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Each barracks was divided into six units, sixteen by twenty feet, about the size of a living room, with one bare bulb hanging from the ceiling and an oil stove for heat. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My room, Safer’s room, bathroom, Pigeon’s room, bathroom, Mom and Dad’s room, Mom’s photography studio—quiet, she’s in there working-kitchen, dining room, and here’s the living room.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When Mrs. Little came in, later, to tuck Stuart in for the night and hear his prayers, Stuart asked her if she thought the bird would be quite safe sleeping down in the living room. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

We brought all of the letters and boxes into the living room and spread out the tablecloth. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The apartment was on the top floor--a small living room, a small dining room, a small bedroom and a bath. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Puzzled, I let her lead me into the living room, where she let go of my fingers and lifted the top of a crystal candy dish on the fireplace mantel. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

And then Alex’s dad came to a complete stop, staring at the banner Alex made, strung across the living room wall. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

So I very carefully picked up his keys from the coffee table and tiptoed through the living room and out the door. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

So the Colonel and I sat on the pull-out couch in the living room, playing video games and talking about school. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The living room was the first room you walk into. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

She walks past the living room while I sit here writing in my Socrates Project journal. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I know she’s not in the kitchen or the living room or out at the pool and I just dusted fancy parlor number one and number two and vacuumed the bear. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Diego left me in the living room, and I sat on the couch. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Two halls, one on each side, lead away from the living room. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

When we asked him to lie down, he’d humor us, dropping first to his knees, then to his butt, then spreading himself out obligingly, faceup on the living room carpet. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Dad came out of the living room and greeted him by saying, ‘Do you want a can of beer?’ and they went into the kitchen. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Noor had grumbled at the idea of sharing a bedroom with him, so he’d happily given it up, deciding it was better to sleep on the floor in the living room. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

They did the same and followed me into the living room. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

In their living room, at the empathy box, Iran swiftly snapped the switch, her face animated with growing gladness; it lit her up like a rising new crescent of moon. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mother set it on the desk in the living room, propped against the wall, and every time Mama Tataba walks by it she yelps like a snake bit her. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the water stopped, and a few moments later Lovey walked through the living room into what I guessed was her bedroom. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She made a little joke about it—how she kept her mother in the middle of the living room because she didn’t want her to think she was missing anything when people came to visit. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sam and I were supposed to sleep in the living room until Lynn got better. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t knock. Daddy said I should get you and the coffee can from the living room and meet him outside.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He smiled, and at that moment, just being in the kitchen with him was the best birthday present I ever got Then my mom called from the living room, “Percy? The candles are melting!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“We should go to the living room,” she whispered, so close to his face that when he nodded, he almost hit her. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He pushes Ray from his lap, jogs out of the living room and through the dining room. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I read it to him in the living room by the marble fireplace. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After getting past the crowd of people in the living room, we finally make our way to the drinks in the kitchen. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Jason washes his hands and runs back to his video game in the living room. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Worried he’d lose his sight, he took to wearing a blindfold around the house, learning to navigate our living room and kitchen by feel. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I put the pot of tea on a tray, along with a few cups, so I could serve Mamou in the living room. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

We skidded into the living room and tumbled onto the rug in front of the radio. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he set the table, he kept from glancing at the living room, although he could hear her laughter and Master’s voice, with its irritating new timbre. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Bridge loved Tab’s living room: the plants on the windowsills, the black-and-white photographs on the walls, the jars of nail polish scattered across the coffee table like pretty rocks. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He goes from kitchen to bathroom to dining room to living room and all sorts of combinations of those four rooms over and over. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I kicked away the papers and walked out, slamming the door behind me, and then waited in the living room for him to come out and apologize. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I try to picture the kitchen, the living room. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children who were in the living room groaned and left. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water had left our living room, but it was still in the yard, level with the porch. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they came into the living room, she looked up from the pile of pale blue fabric in her lap and smiled. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our mattresses had to be wrapped in plastic and stacked in the living room for the movers in the morning. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He walked toward the living room without waiting for her to answer. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

So we have a plastic tree in our living room. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They would go up on the snowdrift at one end of the living room, and run down, one behind the other, onto the ice, until they were running too fast to keep their balance. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear voices from the main living room. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The argument starting up in the living room was loud enough to hear. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Miss Leefolt say, rushing into the living room, picking up toys fast as she can. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Someone threw a brick through our front window. It landed on the couch. From the damage to the living room, there must have been a couple of sticks of dynamite too.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit at the kitchen table, trying to peer at the TV as it plays my favorite early anime shows in the living room, trying not to worry too much about Sandy. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

When she still didn’t answer, he picked it up and started toward the living room. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Moreau and the chair vanish and a different scene emerges inside the cage—a fancy living room with plush chairs and a large fireplace. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Grampa was reading in the living room when I came in and flopped onto the sofa, but I didn’t even look at him. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I came to on the living room floor to find Kevin bending over me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

As I emerge from my bedroom, I find that the front door is open and Mom is ushering Mrs. Baransky into the living room, apologizing for the nonexistent mess. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The batter was just the way I wanted it, when I heard him pacing around the living room. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your father would be so proud of you,” she said before she disappeared into the living room. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Rain splashed across the floor of the verandah, even though the sun blazed and I had to narrow my eyes to look out the door of Aunty Ifeoma s living room. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t cope with this now,” she said, her voice fading as she stepped into the living room. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They run into the living room, they run through the front door, slamming it shut, they rush out onto the wide open porch. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I followed him into the living room, where he spread the papers on the drafting table. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She opens up a silver closet the size of my living room. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Agha Rezaei shook his head and went back into the living room. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He walked back into the living room, his hands shaking with excitement. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He remembers sitting in their living room, listening with all the other guests to Moushumi play something on the piano. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But he loved that house. Remember the tour? The Chicago designer? The purple living room?” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

When I got back downstairs, Darryl was sitting in his chair in the living room with a needle and thread, finishing up fixing the hem of his jacked-up pants. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

There is a living room with a skylight, a kitchen with expensive stainless-steel appliances, a bathroom with a marble floor and walls. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A reprint, not nearly as large as the one he saw in Frederick’s living room, but dazzling nonetheless: four hundred and thirty-five engravings. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her voice died, muffled in the closeness of Dill’s sagging, dusty living room. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

One day, Mariam was in the living room folding some shirts of Rasheed’s that she had plucked from the clothesline in the yard. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Olanna sat across from her mother in the living room upstairs. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They also had access to a living room, and they ate together at four tables in one of the dining rooms. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Because we have company,” he said, taking her by the shoulders and steering her toward the living room. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Since Dennis and I lived in a room in somebody’s apartment, to use the phone you had to sit in the woman’s living room. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom sees me from the living room. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Papa and Mama were in one of the small living rooms that led off the main living room downstairs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’m speechless, standing in the middle of the living room. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went and peered into the living room. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spacecraft weighs 0.9 tons and would fill a large living room. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she didn’t say a word, I went out to the living room to check on her. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was about twice the size of a living room rug and—to Kate, at least—about half as interesting. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Again he was sitting in the living room in my father’s chair, with two lamps lit. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was in the living room, my feet tucked under the lip of the couch, firing through a set of fifty crunches when I heard Ma’s actual sleepy voice drift up and over the room. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She came out from the kitchen and stood in the arched entryway of the living room. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She led me into her large living room. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He had sat between Lauren and Maya on their living room couch while Maya explained everything in a monotone that didn’t even sound like her own voice. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He nodded, then looked around the kitchen and the living room to make sure there was nothing weird sitting out. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

As they waited throughout the afternoon, the living room filled with smoke and the murmurs of plans. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mom was already at her desk in the living room doing work. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

As he stood gaping at them, the lights in the living room of his apartment plunged out. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Papa clapped and hugged you, while Dadi—well, Dadi began prancing around the living room until you were afraid she would break a hip. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I hear Apa cursing loudly as he steps into the living room. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She peered over the balcony and saw Tess and me sitting in the living room with my brothers and their friends. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

There were garish balloons in her parents’ living room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then they looked toward the living room, where we could hear mostly Mr. Brook’s voice. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Ignatius, feeling just as invisible standing there in Dorian’s living room, began feinting at some imaginary opponent with his cutlass to relieve his self-consciousness. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lou Volpe’s classroom, far from the main entrance, is furnished with old couches and living room chairs, donated stuff that otherwise might have gone to Goodwill or landfills. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I shouted, standing up and walking into the living room, where my dad sat flipping through the channels. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I was surprised to see how my hands trembled opening it, so much that I was obliged to turn my back on my mother and grandmother in the living room and go to the kitchen. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the living room is a brick fireplace and a bay window overlooking the yard. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Downstairs, my father is playing the piano—soft, sad notes floating up from the living room. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Her bedroom door was open, and she could hear the rise and fall of voices from the living room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Finn drew the curtains in the living room so that the people choking up the lawn wouldn’t gape. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He was back in the living room, smiling at me. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I looked in the living room but Momma and Dad weren’t there. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got back to the living room and sat between Mabel and Ben, they were in the midst of a conversation with Courtney and a few other people. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He poked his head into the doorway and began to gabble good-naturedly about something or other, and after a few minutes we picked up our drinks and followed him back to the living room. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They lowered their voices in the living room—I knew the technique. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

We were all in the living room, playing cards, when the phone rang that evening. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was even a white Ping-Pong table in the living room! Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Out in the living room, I heard music. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Even though he had a picture with some of his war buddies hanging on the living room wall, he never talked about that picture or the names of his friends. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He pushed past the white dude and stood huge in the living room, looking all around until he turned and found me sitting on the couch. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

They walked past the empty living room and into the hallway. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“He got me to do the whole living room before he left for the grocery store.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I squinted into the darkened living room, but Izio had put out his cigarette and I couldn’t see his face. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

What happens if it can’t be fixed isn’t clear.They can’t play a scene in what is meant to be a school locker room against a backdrop that looks like a living room. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was 5:54 p.m. when Father came back into the living room. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

On my way to the garage, I had to walk through the living room, where Mom and Dad were watching TV. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

They sat on the sofa in the living room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Right after I step inside Mrs. Malloy’s house, she takes off my coat and we sit on the sofa in her living room. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She came back into the living room, buttoning her dress front, and happened upon the game. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The bad news was that the rest of the living room was occupied by Mrs. O’Leary. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

We pop open the cans and put them on the living room floor in front of the TV. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Light peeked through the curtains of my living room window, and I thought I saw my mom’s shadow. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

In the living room, about half of the baseball team were taking drunken turns at playing an NFL video game on Blake’s parents’ wide-screen television. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Pignati offered, straightening up a few things in the living room. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

We sat down on a sofa in the crowded living room. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Cal closed the door quietly and went back through the living room. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Biddy in the middle of that tiny piece of a living room waving her arms around like she some windup toy. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

After a while, I went out into the living room to sit with my parents and watch TV. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She took two dishrags and carried the pot impassively through the living room, down the front steps and across the yard, then poured the steaming casserole into the gutter. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The relatives would start saying good-bye in the living room, then spend another hour saying good-bye at the door. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You look great,” Nana says when I model for her in our living room. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we went shopping together, and sometimes she would sit at the beautiful white baby grand piano in her living room and play her heart out. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was in the living room, eavesdropping, even though I was supposed to be doing my geometry homework. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I start screaming when I open them in the living room. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Thereafter, my brothers slept in a bed in the living room facing the street. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They tried to study in the living room, but Josh wanted to watch TV, so they took their stuff into the kitchen. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Hermes and Luke stood apart in the living room. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I imagine flashing lights and people bumping into each other and drug trolleys zooming around like fast cars and that’s how it was in our living room now. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents keep the television on in the living room even though they’re in the basement, watching Pretty in Pink on an ancient portable DVD player. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Despite these obstacles or maybe because of them, during the forty-day mourning period Lefty had set up a study for himself in the living room and returned to his scholarly pursuits. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Sweet Man, the youngest, crawled along the living room floor, sucking on a fat dill pickle. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

My mom goes to join my dad in the living room. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

After digging through what looked like hundreds of papers, he came back to the living room. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I was still thinking about it when the dinner concluded and the grownups went into the living room and Mrs. Baylor cleared the table and started the cleanup. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She festooned our living room in green and yellow streamers, the colors of my new school. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how long I’m in the living room, but a little while later, Lolo comes to find me. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Alone in her apartment, she cried and cried, crumpled on her living room rug that was so rarely used it still smelled of the store. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It’s noon, and were all still in our pajamas, and everyone is sitting in the living room on separate laptops. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Dad’s having his coffee and Ma’s in the living room listening to the Sunday morning service by Brother Jonas. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. disappeared into the kitchen and then returned with the telephone receiver, its long, coily cord stretching into the living room. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to the living room,” he said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The courtroom was smaller than I’d imagined, about the size of an average living room, with wooden benches lining either side of a narrow aisle. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened the door—I was helping Lucas with his weights in the living room—and he came in. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The others had tea in the living room, waiting for Dad’s return, and Mum had to bring the mug up to Aunt Gloria’s lips to get her to drink as if she was a baby. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she followed him through the living room, down the short hall to Park's room. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

My bed is the couch in the living room, so when Dad comes in to fix his breakfast, I pull on my jeans and go out to sit across from him in the kitchen. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

One rainy day, with his mother shut in her room, he occupies himself bouncing a ball against the living room wall. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

One night, they were sitting in the living room listening to the radio. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

In the well-appointed living room, Hassan's mom sat in an easy chair, sleeping. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

My father was shuffling around the carpeted living room in his socks, collecting his keys, his wallet, and his glasses like he did every time he left the house. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

One, with a toilet and a sink, served as kitchen and bathroom; the other, with a woodstove in a corner, served as living room and bedroom for all six of them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Lark is busy clapping her hands and twirling around the living room. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I turn on the lights in the living room. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Father worked at his desk in the living room, keeping his head down. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Time to grasp the handles, he said to himself, and crossed the living room to the black empathy box. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

There is a living room at the front with a threesided window overlooking the street, a pass-through bedroom in the middle, a kitchen at the back. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The living room was hot because the fire was underneath the living room, and heat rises. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

A frail woman with a quavering voice, she invited me in and we sat in her living room. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And they prayed on the living room floor. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Before she even closed the front door, she kicked her shoes across the living room floor. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

In the living room, there was a map on the wall with pins in it, and Anne’s dad, Percy, would move the little flag pins to show what was happening at the front. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I waved from across the room as he thanked my parents again, and, once I saw him walking toward the living room, I went upstairs. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

They were both sitting in the living room and had apparently been reading or studying what looked to me to be a Yiddish book when we had interrupted them. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

They sit in our living room, the twins dozing like puppies on my favorite blanket near the TV This time, there is no whispering in the kitchen. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Later, in the living room, Gil settled into the couch with his oxygen tubes in his nose. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We were on our way back up to Mabel's room when I heard Ana and Javier talking in their living room. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

From the living room we heard the low tone of the deputy’s voice, politely saying, “No, thanks. Really, I’m ' fine.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She went off to scan and send it, and Ana and I were alone in the living room. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Annabeth glanced into the living room and held up a burned cookie for Luke to see. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

In the living room was this giant, but I mean really, really enormous, fat woman. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I took the lamp to the living room, where a box of matches sat on the table. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When Mom came home, she found our bikes parked neatly beside each other in the backyard and Jim and I sitting innocently together in the living room. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The air in the evening lamplight is coagulated, like a custard thickening; heavier sediments of light collect in the corners of the living room. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her little brother, Adam, is smashing his Legos and watching cartoons at top volume in the living room. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I wander around the living room, looking at photos of generations of women who all look like Carla. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They walk through the gate and down the stone path, through the front door, and into the living room. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then I tore out of my bedroom, dashed down two flights of steps, and found both of my parents on the couch in the living room. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I do the washing up, tidy up the living room, think about dinner. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were lined up in the living room from oldest to youngest. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

My father started chipping away at a plaster wall in the living room of our house in Bybanks shortly after my mother left us one April morning. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Inside, the living room’s a lobby, with a desk of brochures stacked high and a woman who asks, “May I help you?” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I wondered why he kept them at all, let alone in an otherwise empty formal living room. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later, they were finishing their first highball in the living room and were talking in the manner peculiar, probably limited, to former college roommates. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He released her slim, long fingers, passed through the spacious apartment to the living room, which smelled faintly of last night’s cigarettes. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Both parents disappeared into the kitchen, leaving me and Dorothy in the living room with our biology books. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He crossed the room before him, which seemed to be about the same size and shape as his family’s living room. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was Sunday, a month after the accident, and everyone had gathered in the living room. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Marigold called to her other brother, marching toward the living room with the dish towel clutched at her side. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

We went into the living room and sat down at the chess board. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I could not ac-custom myself to sitting in their living room as an “equal.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Keller slides open the glass and we step into the living room. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Seeing how we had the place to ourselves, we hung out upstairs for a change, eating cereal and watching a bit of mindless TV in the living room. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Benny Quinto led prayer circles in his living room and offered to smoke with anyone who needed to calm their nerves. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The two of them are sitting on the living room couch. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

She skated out into the hall and around the bottom of the stairs right into the living room where W.E. sat on the floor staring at Sesame Street. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I went to get her and walked her into the living room. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

In the light cast from the living room, he glimpses black mesh underwear and a matching bra. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she resumes the tour: “Sunken living room. Greenhouse adjoining the dining area. And, as you can see, the house is well supplied with windows.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The curtains on the street side of the house are closed, and the living room is cast in a reddish hue that seems to suit the heat and the smell. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last night, Ivy went downstairs to the Bishops’ kitchen for a drink of water and overheard Taryn’s parents in the living room talking about the Aberdeens’ house. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I said, and returned to the living room and lay down on the sofa. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I also took three bunches of sticky notes, my whole bundle of sharpened pencils, a few pens, and ran back to the living room. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

E.J. comes back into the living room, a can of soda in his hand. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Dad stalked to the other side of the living room and slammed the wall, the bang making everybody jump, especially Grandpop, whose hands started shaking. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“We’ll just have to do the living room as well, tomorrow. Somehow.” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glance out my doorway to the living room. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was wrapped in white linen and placed in a wooden coffin that was set on a table in the living room of the man whose verandah we had slept on. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

"What a lovely living room, so practically furnished," Grace commented. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Franz broadcast as he nudged his way out of the bathroom and bounded through the living room and kitchen. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

In the end half his gardens and half his fields shriveled in a drought, even though Indian Creek practically formed a swimming pool in his living room. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, yes, the living room. And if I were you, incidentally, I’d go look in there for a second. She’s crying. Or was when I left.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The clanking of glass in the living room lets me know that Pop Pop is having his nightcap. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Amaka was standing at the living room window when I came out. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When I walked into the living room, Mom was sitting on the couch, talking to Dad, her knitting bag next to her. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Chester explained that when he looked out the window, he saw Professor Mickelwhite, our next door neighbor, playing the violin in his living room. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

I doubled back into the living room and turned off the game and the TV. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

After everyone was done, Mom sent the rest of them into the living room to watch the Rose Parade on TV. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The couch in the living room was off-limits and only for Mr. and Mrs. Lassiter’s rare client meetings at home, and the couch in the den was way uncomfortable. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Mom is in the living room in her robe. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The fields were bare and planted with winter wheat, and Ada sat in her chair in the living room and stared outdoors. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and Sarah must have realized how weird we looked standing around in the living room, because they sat down on the love seat together. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one corner of the living room, I see Safer, sunk into a beanbag chair, reading. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Or maybe she just hated the idea of Eleanor, of a girl seducing her firstborn son right in her own living room. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I followed him into the living room and took my seat. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Everyone sits and stands around Malik’s living room, eating sandwiches and chips and drinking just about every soda Aunt ’Chelle has. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

In late August, I was washing clothes in the tin pan in the living room when I heard someone coming up the stairs singing. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been staring at a scratch on the coffee table in the living room for a long while, and it felt like he’d left his body and was staring down at it from above. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When Master came back home, Ugwu was sitting on the floor of the living room, his back against the wall. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Wes was in the living room watching television with the volume turned almost all the way up. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He’s on the sofa in the living room. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next two weeks, the three of us arrange ourselves in the same seats in Aibileen’s small, warm living room. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There were more today than usual, and Ugwu brought dining chairs to the living room to seat them all. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I walked to the edge of the living room and just waited for the lecture I knew was coming. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

There’s a bedroom and a living room with a curved glass window stretching from floor to ceiling that overlooks a glittering Tokyo. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Got that right,” Grandpop said, coming from a door just off from the living room—which was just off from the kitchen—glass in hand. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

"Will you wait in the living room, please. Doctor Gordon will be with you presently." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma still held on to me as we entered the living room. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

This ballot jar Joe then set on the kitchen table, and, snapping open a beer, he ordered Nancy, who was in the living room reading a book, to fix him some lunch. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat in her aunt’s crowded living room and listened to Lucky and Salvador boast about their fine jobs and their trips to other desert towns in Lucky’s car. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

From the living room of my apartment, I could sometimes hear the murmur of my parents talking on the floor below. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

At the end of the second week, after the children left, Mrs. Muokelu asked Olanna to sit down with her in the living room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We took bowls of it into the living room to eat, and I gave my parents their souvenirs. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

My parents slept in the lone bedroom, while Craig and I shared a bigger area that I assume was intended to be the living room. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“How do you like the size of this living room?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I keep walking toward the living room, even as he comes chasing after me. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Arthur’s dad was expecting Jessie to take Arthur’s bed, for Arthur to stay in his uncle’s bed, and Ethan to camp out in the living room. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

With his hands still in his coat pockets he stalked by me into the hall, turned sharply as if he were on a wire and disappeared into the living room. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I finally shut the stove off and went into the living room. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. He had a fever all day. Thought it was the flu, but then he started coughing uncontrollably, and he just—he just collapsed in the living room.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Right now it showed the living room in the Big House: a cozy fire on the hearth and Seymour, the stuffed leopard head, snoring contentedly above the mantel. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A minute later I’m standing in the living room. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Chester jumped down from Toby’s shoulders and motioned for me to follow him into the living room. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

It showed up one day in our living room. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The living room was centered on two huge leather couches. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When I got back to the living room, I sat next to Grandma on the couch. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

There was a light rap on the living room door. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

They sit in the formal living room, where they normally never sit. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Poppy's voice called them back to the living room. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But as we sat in the dark living room, I heard them, one by one whispering their regrets. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom hung paintings on the walls and stacked street finds in the living room and put colored bottles in the windows for that stained-glass effect. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I hang up as E.J. comes out of the kitchen and into the living room to convert the sofa into his bed. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We don’t own much, but what we do have is tossed into cardboard boxes in the center of the living room. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

We all stayed up late, sitting in the living room, waiting. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Instead, under almost perfect control, I got a broom and began savagely to attack the sand that was stuck like cement in the corner of the living room. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like a rich man’s living room, and we had it all to ourselves. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

When I walked into the living room, Trevor was standing next to the couch. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I rise from the living room couch and inch past the doorway to the kitchen. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

There are others of me out in the living room with Dad. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I ran out to the living room at the speed of light. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

And the walls of our living room were plastered with white papers. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

On February 21, Henry Kissinger sat in the small living room of a house on the outskirts of Paris. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Sitting on the couch, Tamika faced a stack of papers alongside a tower of envelopes on the living room table. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m going home,” Jenna announced when we got to the living room. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was Mrs. walking into the living room. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

We all sat down in the little living room. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

As we were crossing the living room I heard voices out on the porch. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Flora walked slowly through the dining room and into the living room. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Ma and Yvonne had been out there in the living room screaming at each other for a bit. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Instead, he camped on the sofa in the living room. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The door that led to the verandah was half open, and the purplish tinge of early dawn trickled into the living room. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He hardly ever even came in the living room. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Inside the living room my father laid me on my cot. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The space is open, so even though she is in the dining room, I see her and the living room and even the staircase that must lead to the bedrooms all at once. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then she heard the front door open—Papa!—and rushed into the living room. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He carried the glass to the living room and put it on the table. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His heart pounding with fear and excitement, he bounded across the living room and got to the phone on the second ring. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

From the living room, they heard Travis’s father cackle at something. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I usually get dressed in the living room, but I just wanted it to be a surprise for Ma when I came out. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The girls all filed out of the living room and made their way to their bedrooms. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Valley walked into the living room with Edgar, a smug smile on her face. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

No one at school talked about the war followed so faithfully in my living room. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

By the time we enter the living room twenty minutes later, Mama and Mrs. Shainmark are sitting on a beige corduroy couch. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Standing in my very own living room, I feel like I’ve just won the pageant. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Before I made it to the living room, Dad called out, “Lucy, are you okay?” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She strolled around the tiny living room, studying photos of old people on the table beside the couch, peeking into Bertha’s yarn basket, peering into the kitchen. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Finally, he came out to the living room where I was sorting books into one of the big bookcases. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

And when I got downstairs I could see Father’s foot through the door of the living room. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They sit in the living room, on the furniture and on the floor. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He could hear Baby’s high voice in the living room, playing with Master. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

This was incredibly annoying, because I was trying to read in the living room, and she was in one of her moods where she just kept asking Whyyyyyy. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

After the meal Dad read the paper and I helped Mom with the dishes and then we went into the living room to watch television. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

The fact that sleeping in the living room also allowed her to avoid the haunted bedroom she’d once shared with my father was never mentioned. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t pace back and forth in her living room like always, so she just tapped her feet as if stamping out a campfire. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When we got home, Grampa settled into his living room chair to read the Commonwealth while I fiddled with the radio looking for a baseball game. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

We head through the front door and into a big, empty living room. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

In Park's living room, it was just awkward. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The Glasses’ living room was about as unready to have its walls repainted as a room can be. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Cameron holds his grandma’s hand as he leads her into the living room like she’s the queen of the world in a housecoat. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Grandma was in the living room watching a show. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The very small living room incredibly contained—aside from things to sit on—an organ, a piano, a garden of flowering flowerpots, and usually a darting little dog and a large, drowsy cat. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

A workman was building a new fireplace in the living room, and as Dad was escorted through that room he stopped to watch the man laying bricks. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the living room, Mama and Papi are laid out on the couch watching TV. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He inched back toward the living room and came to a halt in front of the group. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

That was fast, though, Moss thought, and he maneuvered his way to the living room as quickly as he could. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

His shoes were still floating around in his living room at home; his socks had been ripped off in his ride through the flood. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Uhmma sits on the floor, crying softly in the dark living room. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Milton looks up to see Morrison in his living room, lighting a cigarette. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Here’s what they told me when we got home, when Dad took my earbuds away from me and they forced me to sit in the living room. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I followed him down the carpeted steps to the living room. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Papa scanned the living room and took in the funereal atmosphere. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Nene was in the living room watching VH1 at low volume, almost mute, as if it was the images that he cared for. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I tried to keep my face neutral as I walked down the hallway through the living room and to the kitchen, all backward. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She pauses and gazes at the big framed photo of Grandpa that now hangs on the living room wall. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I had left Nasreen Baji watching television in the living room and slipped into the kitchen, where Fatima was putting the leftovers from the evening meal in the fridge. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

And now, as they step into the sunken living room, Miss Marsh’s head begins to swivel, too. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I take the candle and head back to the living room. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

There were two bedrooms, the larger of which Dad claimed, and a room that tripled as a kitchen, dining room, and living room, meaning that it contained one table, one moth-eaten sofa, and one hotplate. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

We just stayed in the front and sat at an old card table they had set up in the middle of the living room. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I cross my fingers, wishing with all my might that Apa will soon get up from the table and go away so that I can turn on the TV in the living room. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He sat in the living room, looking at cartoons in old numbers of the Review of Reviews. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was maybe ten, wiry and overenergetic, and he kind of skipped across the living room before shouting in a really good imitation of Isaac’s voice, “KILL MYSELF.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

When Richard comes, the living room is full of them or the kitchen table is stacked up with books. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In our living room, hands shoved into his pockets and peering around, is Jack Allen. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

She took me by the hand and led me into the living room. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We crept into the living room trying our best to avoid every creak in the floor. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“The living room TV is yours for the watching,” his dad said happily. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

When Molly comes into the living room with her raisin bran, she looks up and frowns. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Ray racing out to the living room, through the door, to the porch, down the steps, and all the way out into the field. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Of course he’s not going,” declared Margot as we waited for Mother in the living room. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

So we walked around the hole in the living room floor. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll tell you one thing that Father has sure wore out bad: his old green swivel rocker in the living room of our house where we live in Bethlehem, Georgia. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father was sitting in his chair in the living room. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Behind the living room is a small bedroom with nothing in it but a bed, and across from it a windowless bathroom. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Suppose Long John Silver had suddenly appeared in your living room, striking out with his wooden crutch?” she whispered. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

This is because someone put a canvas tarp over the skylight in the living room. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I ask Safer when we’re back in the living room, sunk into the beanbag chairs. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it was just that I had never before seen so many people congregated in our small living room. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He went past the living room and into the corridor. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She paused to look at a pine tree framed by the living room window. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

After all, I was dripping, and I could see the living room was carpeted. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ziggy!” she shouts again, and a few seconds later, the dog marches back into the living room. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Noah, please go wash up. There’s a gentleman waiting in the living room to speak with you.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Shirley and Jimmie are spread across the rug on the living room floor, lying on their bellies, coloring, their crayons scattered around them. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I ran up the walkway and entered through the front door, which opened into the living room. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Mom was with Ron in the living room, listening to music too loud and playing board games. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I am in the living room with her grandfather. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"Over there. The third one is his living room." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

We would eat on the coffee table in the living room instead of at the dining room table. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Kat stared at it without seeing it, chanting, ‘Our living room. On TV,’ to herself. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got up and motioned for us to follow him into the living room. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept out of his way, retreating to a chair in the living room to read Dad’s latest Newsweek. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Instead she’s standing in the doorway between the kitchen and the living room. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

My father was in the living room, ten feet from where the incident began. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I paused in the doorway of the living room. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Scene: Maniac retrieves the wet newspaper from the living room. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he passed the door to the living room, Harry caught a glimpse of Uncle Vernon and Dudley in bow ties and dinner jackets. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I stand in the living room with my hand in my pants as the phone rings. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then he followed my father to the living room, where the television was timed to the local news. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She and Philip Lombard sat on the windowsill of the living room. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Hand outstretched, Helen tried to direct him to the kitchen, so that he would drip on the linoleum rather than the living room carpet, but he ignored her. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three very short men were carrying a large flat piece of wood, painted to look like a living room. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Layla shot Ivy one more concerned look before she walked back to the living room area. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The pajamas were big, but she hurried back into the living room anyway. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He could hang out in the living room, or his office, or the basement. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The living room with its stacks of magazines, Sports Illustrated and the New Yorker and the Atlantic and something called Adbusters. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He’d been lying on the cool bamboo mat of his living room with the sliding doors open to allow the warm breeze to circulate through the house. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

To the left, beyond a tiny living room with dark wooden beams, sits a girl with shoulder-length black hair and curly bangs. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She put small wooden chairs in the living room and established a nursery with other children from neighboring families. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The room above seemed to be a combination of living room and workplace, and as such, was even more cluttered than the kitchen. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

After breakfast, we join hands in the living room like we always do, under the framed poster of the Ten-Point Program, and Daddy leads us in prayer. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Wilfred then said that I was welcome to listen to his vast collection of classical composers, mostly German, in his living room whenever I wanted to. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drop my trombone case in the middle of the living room. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Kitchen at one end, living room at the other, a hall with two bedrooms and a bathroom in between. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He comes running back into the living room and turns on the TV and stands there looking at it. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dinner is served,” I hear a maid announce and I weave my way back into the living room. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I could start my very own statue garden, right there in the living room. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I could overhear my dad lecturing him once, as I watched cartoons in the living room. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He ran through the living room and the dining room and into the kitchen. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Today, she gathers everyone in the living room and encourages each of us to ask it a question. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through her sobbing noises, I tried to hear what the voices from the living room were saying. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father Benedict asked, raising his voice so Mama would hear from the living room. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They sat in the living room with photos of Arize and Nnakwanze’s wedding on the oily wall, while Baby played with the children in the compound. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She watched her pass through the living room and the dining room—the rugs unraveling and the table splintering and the paintings on the walls turning to dust. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I was still thinking about the dream that evening as we all sat in the living room, watching TV. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I join my mom in the living room to watch the news. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I venture out into the hall and into the living room, where Hideo is reading by a crackling fireplace. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was kneeling in the living room of my own house again several feet from where I had fallen minutes before. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

"You said the living room was clean too, right?" When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Master’s cousins came for a few weeks and slept in the living room until they left to join the army. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Attracted by the playing, Gregor had ventured to advance a little further forward and his head was already in the living room. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the better light of the living room he noticed with interest that there actually was dust in the creases of her face. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I went to the living room, opened the window, and took the ring that Vera had given me out of my pocket. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

One month later, Nico sat on the couch in the living room as Beverly poured herself an iced tea in the kitchen and Alma whispered to her mother on the phone in her bedroom. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

So we walked into the living room, where one side of the couch was occupied. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The lodge had turrets with round rooms and medieval doors, hand-carved from African olive wood, and the living room boasted an immense fireplace with a carved mantelpiece. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least, I think it’s a living room. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Pauline, the oldest of us, owns her own home, but she sleeps on the living room sofa, while her four grown children and three grandchildren fill up the bedrooms. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was nearly trampled by her children, whose flight out of the living room was a headlong sprint that left no time for explanations to anyone. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her living room looks like she bought a whole showroom at a furniture store—everything matching and perfectly in its place. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We both sit on the ugly sofa in her living room. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I followed Grandma into our house, and she motioned for me to take a seat on the living room couch. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe we wouldn't be here now, and I would be in California in her parents' orange-walled living room, sipping hot chocolate by the Christmas tree. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When I get into the living room, Malia’s already there on the couch, next to Mom. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I tap my toe 3 times before letting Pi jump free from the blanket and onto our living room floor. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mom whistled when I walked into the living room. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

So instead of sloping off upstairs I went into the living room to watch Tomorrow's World on TV. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Really it’s the living room and my bedroom. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ending credits music was playing in the living room. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

After they finished cleaning up in the kitchen, Trotter went into the living room and stretched out on the couch. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I sink onto the living room couch and shut my eyes—but I swear I’m being watched. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Mrs. F leads him around to the living room where Mr. Friedman is kicked back in his recliner watching reruns of the Final Four. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o’clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o’clock! as if it were afraid that nobody would. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, she came downstairs and saw Dallas sitting on the living room floor, with the jar of quarters in front of him. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was on the other side of the living room talking to Christopher’s dad. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

It had a kitchen, living room and three small bedrooms. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Helena is in the corner of the living room, making herself small on the far side of the sofa. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Of course, there was Mrs. Sharpe’s house, but neither remembered seeing anything that might fit that description in the living room or kitchen. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

When we return, we watch television in the living room with Pop Pop. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The next day Hall and Kurnakov sat in the Soviet journalist’s living room. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tom lighted the lamp in the old living room. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You never know,” she said, before walking into the living room. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It does one circle of the living room, then goes right back to the same closed window. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I was about to go when the blank spot on the living room wall caught my eye. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Once the men are seated in the living room off the inside patio, they try to lure the children into conversation. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes, imagining that I was there in my living room. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

From the doorway, the living room looks almost normal, even though the couch is kind of patchy and faded, and the wallpaper is from the nineties. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Sometimes later in the afternoon, we would listen to classical music, and Papa Will would sit on the big green velvet chair in the living room. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then she realized light was still glowing in the living room. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Piper hoped he was in his favourite spot: the porch off the living room, watching the moon over the Pacific, enjoying some quiet time. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The most important room in our house is the living room, where we often watch television together. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t wander into the space that was once his living room, or to the puddle where Byrd sits that was once dry wood floor. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When she woke, she came bleary-eyed into the kitchen, then into the living room, where Mrs. Delaney sat in a pool of lamplight rocking a sleeping Pearl. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I came into the living room, the two of them were sitting on the couch having coffee. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“How was it?” she asked when they came into the living room. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

We lived in a very small apartment complex, so Uncle Joe, my younger brothers, and I all slept in the living room. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Dust clouded the air in the living room when I got into the house, and setded on every surface. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I stopped what I was doing and walked into the living room. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Dad shakes his head and leaves the living room. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the press conference, dozens of journalists and photographers assembled in Rader’s soaring living room. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

So when you are in Dell's living room, no matter what the weather is outside, overhead it appears that a CAT-5 hurricane has just descended. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

They were watching a brand-new television, a welcome-home-for-the-summer present for Dudley, who had been complaining loudly about the long walk between the fridge and the television in the living room. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Many who were involved in it now and would be involved in it tomorrow were gathered in Bud Gleason’s living room. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The living room felt like a Key West bed-and-breakfast, complete with a stuffed sailfish mounted on the wall above a wicker sofa set upholstered in palm-tree-patterned fabric. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The second slowest cup of coffee ever consumed by man was finally empty as every eye in the Meecham living room remained fastened on the figure of Colonel Meecham. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee moved aside and let him in and seated him in the living room. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I explained about taking the money from their living room. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She locked the door and returned to the living room. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

As I enter I see that their large living room is packed with people. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

When I entered the living room she was sitting on the couch wrapped up in a large knitted afghan. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He took my shoulder and led me into the living room. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I hold out my hands like I did the other day in her living room. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Four wealthier teenagers from Nuevo Laredo are sitting on couches in the living room, smoking crack they have just bought. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And he stood in the doorway of the living room and he said, “Don’t scream, OK, Christopher. I’m not going to hurt you.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The dining room and the regular living room kind a join up. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She took a dustcloth and the vacuum and went into the living room. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t contain myself,” I tell Max as we work together in my living room on a school project. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I knew this because there was a large television resting in my living room. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Or sit him down with a history book, as long as it wasn’t the one Dad still kept in the living room, under the framed copy of the Constitution. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The decrepit window air conditioner wheezed, losing the battle against the mugginess of his living room. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

My living room was like a campaign office in late October. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The living room of this house, my new home, is a sea of beige leather. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He has heard Laura in the living room speaking with two men, one of them with a ripply, tricky voice, the other with a coarser voice, a thicker laugh, a big man, no doubt. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Scott's reason seemed selfish enough to be genuine, so George joined Scott in the living room and took a seat on the right side of the couch. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I see him in my living room suffering though Pride and Prejudice with me. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Microphone cables crisscrossed the living room, posing an obstacle course for a pregnant Molly as she waited impatiently for Ernest to traipse home from campus. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When my head comes into sight, a gasp ricochets through the living room. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For a while after he left, I sat in the living room reading the newspaper and listening to the radio. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The porch light shimmered, and the living room lights shone through the curtains. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You know, the night the thief broke into my bedroom during the exact same time you were with us in the living room.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

When Wes got to the house, his mother’s boyfriend, who was living with them when he wasn’t back home with his wife, was sitting in the living room, directly next to the front door. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Several very dignified and important-looking men sat in her living room. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went to the living room and glanced out the window. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She’s not looking at it, but through it, at the hazy living room on the other side. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t even halfway down the stairs when I saw the wreckage in the living room. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The living room is trashed, books and papers everywhere. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Even the pan of water that we kept in the living room to wash up in usually had a layer of ice on it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was sitting in the living room when the door opened again. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

A camera goes down with you, though, videotaping your simulated death, so you can take it home and relive those 8.5 seconds in the comfort of your living room. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“How I used to sit you down in a chair in the living room and ask you questions? Remember?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. LaFarge opened the door into the living room and glanced all about, quickly. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lots of things happen around pageant season, but Mom altering dresses in the middle of our living room is not one of them. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Stick crossed the living room without a sound and without a glance in my direction. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

One Sunday when his sons, Rob and Jon, were home, they all gathered in the living room. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the living room, Dad holds up the boards of my CharlieCard costume, and I slide in between. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I fall asleep on the sofa in the formal living room. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She says: Take that crazy baby out of here and drink your Kool- Aid in the living room. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t at all sure he could make it back to the living room, but he knew he had to. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Back in the living room, everyone was drinking tea. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She laughed at Ma, then emptied up one of the trash bags, pouring it out all over our living room floor. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

When he came back into the living room, Annie put a hand to her heart. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“He’s not a rabbit, Mommy,” Robin said as she wheeled her baby buggy in circles around the living room. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Then he looked around the living room with his mouth wide open. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Holding my pillow over my head for protection, I ran into the living room, where Dad was reading. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jem sauntered from the living room, leaving Jean Louise wide-eyed and wondering if she were fully awake. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

After a second’s hesitation, I follow her through another kind of living room and into a study. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

When I walked into the living room, I discovered the four boys sitting on the couch and eating, what looked like, everything in our pantry. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I pace the living room when I should be watching TV. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Papa was crumpled on a sofa in the living room, sobbing. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“There is tea in the kettle. It’s in the living room.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

And then I noticed how clean the living room looked. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I was sprawled on the rug in the living room, reading The Voyage of the Space Beagle by A. E. van Vogt. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I push past him, push through the living room and find myself in the den. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He made a formal visit, sitting uncomprehendingly in the living room without saying a word. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Three afternoons later, Pearl and Moody were in the living room watching Ricki Lake when they saw Izzy stride calmly down the hallway, a six-pack of toilet paper under each arm. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The women congregated in the kitchen, preparing food, while the men sat in the living room, conversing in low tones. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They hear footsteps coming down the stairs, and then his father enters the living room, along with a uniformed man holding a clipboard. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Back in Vietnam later that year, Ellsberg sat with an elderly couple in the living room of their home. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Lee came back to the living room and closed the door to the hall. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu’s mother asked, as they sat in their living room, still digesting the news of the birth. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The larger man came through the living room from the pantry with Hisao’s shotgun seized in one hand and four boxes of shells against his chest. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ray said, “We keep the living room for family conversations,” which is true, I guess, since we never had any family conversations. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I was sitting in the living room, flipping through the channels, unable to find anything worth watching, when Charlie and Zooey came home. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I drop the fleece blanket in the living room. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I give up and go back to the living room with blood still trickling from my nose. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who would want to marry a woman that keeps her sick mother in a bed right in the middle of the living room? The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He follows me into the living room, and I pour us a couple of drinks. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Evenings Grampa would sit in the wide living room in the front of the house and read The Greenwood Commonwealth. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

And after we’ve eaten our fill and the dishes are stacked up and the children are sleepy, I have everyone gather in the living room and bring out my last surprise. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Nat has the kitchen chair pulled into the living room, wedged between three crates. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no way to get to the living room except through the study, and I walked around behind my desk, opened the door, stepped inside, and closed it quietly behind me. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

We sat around the coffee table in our living room,just as we had the year before, after I got arrested. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“Mind pouring me one? I’ll get Star Trek set up in the living room.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

A man had come in her living room and destroyed her niece. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were in a drawer of the desk in the living room. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In the living room I find Decca staring at the television, and I say, “Is your mom home?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Tess would roll her eyes, which would be Ernie and Genie’s cue that it was time for her to wipe down the living room, and for them all to go back outside. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They were casually accepting of him, did not pay him any particular attention, and perhaps because of that he felt comfortable sitting on a sofa in the living room and listening. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Celeste stuck her head into the living room, where Bridge and Tab had done what felt like hours of French. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Mom loves my watercolors and she hung one in the living room, but it isn’t signed. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stepped aside for her to come in and shuffled along right behind her into the living room. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“What are you going to call the company?” she asked me when I finished pitching the idea and was seated next to her on the couch in her living room. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Sohrab turned and left, slamming the living room door behind him. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

That night, they watch soap operas together on the living room sofa. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I went back to the living room and fell asleep. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I walked back to the living room and found my father asleep on the sofa, his round mouth pursed and tightly shut, his breath filtering softly through his nose. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lavadie, pacing around the sheriffs living room, shook his head nervously. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A half-inch layer of the black goo has spread from the living room about three-quarters of the way down the hall. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Okay. Cool. We can watch in here on my laptop. Or in the living room.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

We open the door to the hostel and Tío Ermenio pops his head up from the sofa in the living room. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

A cool breeze moved soundlessly through the open windows of the living room. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then he had the furnace taken out and moved upstairs into the living room. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rachel glanced around the ridiculously formal living room as though she had never seen it before. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Just then, as if on cue, Mom and Dad enter the living room. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Inside the living room of that white house there was a trophy case. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She was in the living room humming away as she worked on a poster. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Pirzada and my father, who had not gone into the living room yet, hovered in the foyer. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Max sits us all in a circle in the living room—except for Siunek, who is on duty at the window—and I’m reminded of a pack of snarling dogs. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Let me introduce —” Now Janis, in the living room, was speaking English. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, sunbeams shined brightly into the living room, almost forcing me to open my eyes. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Hanako hurried back home, burst into the living room, and exclaimed, “Their son came home tonight! A man I think he lives next door—said their son is back, and it’s a secret!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

You could still hear the raised voices in the living room. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now she watched in awe as Arthur and Brutus, using two small, sharp, long-handled shovels, dug the narrow tunnel down to her living room. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Well”—Trotter shifted her weight to her left foot, keeping her eyes on the carrots she was scraping—“William Ernest is in the living room watching Sesame Street.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Downstairs, the living room was dark, save for a bar of moonlight spilling through the window. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

When Tessie and I arrived back home, the living room was filled with shouting men. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The woman who avoided the streets let into her living room the woman who sat down in the middle of one. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew the place seemed small from the outside, but I didn’t realize how small: it has two bedrooms and one bathroom, in addition to a small living room and kitchen. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

She imagined her sitting in the living room, alone, doing her crossword puzzle. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She leans against the bare living room wall and puts her j face in her hands, as though I’ve hurt her. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

That corner of their building with the crack had actually fallen off, exposing a cutaway section not only of their old back bedroom, but their living room too. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brightly colored couches—all red, gold, and white—and thick white rugs dot the living room space. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The night of the masquerade I try to read in the living room, but I can’t concentrate because I’m so jittery. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Virginia, why don’t you go back upstairs and sweep the living room.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie had been hovering in the living room, and he was already on his feet. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Got that automatic transmission,” my grandfather said when he came into the living room. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was the only sofa in the living room; next to it were cane chairs, softened with brown cushions. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was their office, study, living room, dining room, kitchen, bedroom, bath, and laboratory—all in one. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I coughed again, and backpedaled, the Eagle and I tangoing our way toward his living room. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting in Kamal’s warm living room, his warm body at mv side, and I’m shivering. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I just went back in the living room and turned off this little lamp next to the couch, and then I got in bed with just my shorts on. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Then I went back to the books in the living room, but Kevin had almost finished shelving them. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

When I get home, Jay’s lying across the living room sofa. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

My aunt uses a cane to get from the living room to a narrow archway leading to the kitchen. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The living room has two big windows with heavy curtains that shut out the spring sunshine. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Scott scrubbed the toilets and took out the trash and straightened up messes people left in the living room. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We watched a man hang a bicycle on hooks high on his living room wall. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The apartment had only one bedroom, and he slept on the pullout in the living room. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

To my surprise, everyone was awake and gathered in the living room. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Now a penguin may look very strange in a living room, but a living room looks very strange to a penguin. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

I hear them yelling at each other in the living room. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

After dinner Mom takes a well-deserved break in the living room while the rest of us clean up. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The last thing I expect to hear when Dylan transports me back to my apartment is voices in the living room. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Ugwu went into the living room and his hands worked mechanically, serving kola nuts and alligator pepper, uncorking bottles, shoveling ice, laying out steaming bowls of pepper soup. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mom marches to the living room and shoves her hand into her oversized purse. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

We went into the living room, where on the couch, the imprint of Dad’s body was like a fossil, permanent and remarkably accurate. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

In the living room, she took in the aftermath of the previous night’s Eid visits: the overturned cups, the half-chewed pumpkin seeds stashed between mattresses, the plates crusted with the outline of last night’s meal. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Come on in the other room, Julius,” he said and led the way into the living room. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I moved what I had been building into the living room and it got even bigger. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

There is a living room separate from the dining room, something Uhmma did not know could exist. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

When I entered the living room, Grampa was in his favorite chair. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

In the living room, Mom and Sam are on the couch, cuddled up. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Instead they roamed all over the first floor, from kitchen to dining room to living room, owning the place. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marilyn answered, spoke briefly with an undercover cohort of her husband’s, and called the agent into the den from the living room. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shamim hurried to get tea for their guests while the group exchanged pleasantries and settled down on the cushioned floor of the living room. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The Littles had a grand piano in their living room, which was all right except that one of the keys was a sticky key and didn’t work properly. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Harry was reminded of Uncle Vernon pacing the living room a million years ago. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Dad and Laleh were in the living room, sipping cups of Persian tea. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She walked to the living room window, murmuring about how this might be the last good snowfall for the winter and we’d better enjoy it while it lasted. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Some evenings, when the visitors left early, he would sit on the floor of the living room and listen to Master talk. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

So we moved all the furniture around the living room and Dad sang along to “Three Little Birds” while Mom and I danced. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He asked her to draw things in the living room: the sofa, the director's chairs, the television, the telephone. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I find Mom pacing around the living room, on the phone with the movers—the ones Ben couldn’t believe we hired when we aren’t even moving furniture. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

After dessert, Milton took a handkerchief out of his back pocket, unscrewed the hot lightbulb, and, tossing it like an unambitious juggler, conveyed it into the living room. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He handed it to Eomma, telling her to hide it in their secret hiding place under the floor panels in the living room. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Moss waited until she wandered into the living room, a glass of iced tea in her hand, to pull out his phone. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Uncle Jet gently snored on the couch in the living room. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In the living room, Selena turned and said, “Do you mind waiting here? I may have to wake Mother up and everything.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

We settled in the living room while Debbie prepared a casserole. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The living room has a chandelier, tall bookcases, and strange artwork on the walls. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We all sat down in the living room around the pile of Daisy’s toys. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Part of the process,” Pearl informed him as they cut through the living room, with the nonchalant air of a native unfazed by the curious customs of the land. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And what made him think it would be allowed in the living room? March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I went out to the porch and retrieved the box of chocolates and the note and brought them to the living room. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As always, the enormous windows brought the outdoors in, so that it was winter in the living room; snow lay all around us. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Jon sits in the living room, having a beer with one of the painters. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The living room smelled like mint and licorice, and I wasn’t sure where it was coming from. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Just as I was about to ask the guys by the keg if they’d seen Ben, he ran into the living room. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I think a partition had been knocked out to make the living room larger. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She headed back toward the living room, wobbling slightly on her wedge heels, and through the sliding-glass door Pearl watched Trip poke a redheaded girl between the shoulder blades with his plastic pitchfork. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I walk out of the living room and into the kitchen. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then, a few minutes afterward, I heard a tapping on my living room window. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen is about half the size of the living room, and warmer. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She grabbed her clothes and stepped purposefully out into the living room, determined not to make eye contact with Richie if he was there. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

It had come from the living room, where Zane had been reading. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

On the way out, Werner looks back only once: Jutta’s forehead and palms are pressed against the glass of the living room window. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He would have slept on a mat in the living room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the living room, I flip on the iron, yank Mister Johnny’s white shirt out of the basket. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When it got close to the time that Marcus would call, I went into Grandma’s living room, grabbed the phone, and practiced pressing the 1 button. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Hello, princess,” he said, as she entered the living room after washing her hands in the hall bathroom. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Nora grabs the drinks, and I take the bowl back into the living room. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Pearl kicked her shoes onto the floor and stomped into the living room. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes, everything, we found them all in the house, in the most unusual places,” he heard Twinkle saying in the living room. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He grabbed my mother and twirled her around, and they danced beneath the newly plastered ceiling of the living room. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Reggie was in the living room when the call came in. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She headed straight for the living room and started talking to Fang, who was sitting on the couch looking all staggered by the home invasion. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

They were playing cards and ignoring the business in the living room. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Two doors led off the main room, which served as kitchen and living room combined. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

And this was the living room of the son of the man who made the earring. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was banished from the living room when they came, but listened all the same, sitting on the steps in the darkened foyer. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now he’s arranging things around my living room: clothing, fabrics, and sketchbooks with designs he’s drawn. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about that look on his face, the one in the living room when we were both just happy kids still, playing around. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

A big wooden table sat in the middle of their living room. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

There was a large window against the south wall, and an opening through the west wall led to the living room. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Laika curled up, dejected, and shivered away from me to a corner of the living room, watching, watching. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

She is standing at the entrance to the living room, buttoning down a multicolored, flowered houserobe. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m home,” I call from the living room. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad took over the room with the stove, and it became a combined living room, master bedroom, art studio, and writer’s study. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

All Abnegation houses are the same, so this living room is exactly the same as my own, and it does bring back memories, if I look at it carefully. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I stood up and moved slowly about the living room, running my fingers along the shiny black radio with its brass knobs. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As I entered the living room, faces turned my way in anticipation. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped short on the floor board between the living room and the dining room and executed a grind and a bump. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He was disappointed to discover that Dumbledore was not waiting in the hall, which meant that he had to return to the living room. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

When we walk through the front door, he’s there, sitting with his elbows on his knees on the living room couch. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

We wait while the Senator lingers in the living room. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Vivian was speaking slightly above a whisper, but Margaret’s kitchen is right next to the add-on living room, so I could hear practically everything. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then she swept you up and danced with you up and down the living room. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Then they moved back into the living room,” Klein went on. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

On Wednesday morning, May 7, I was awakened by the slam of the front door and Mother Lois calling out to us from the living room. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rush past her and down the hall to the living room. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But Frank standing alone in the living room of a house that he hasn’t entered in four years is not. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The living room was warm and as big as the one-room cabin we lived in. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of a quiet block on 141st Street, inside a brownstone made of deep red shale, the Vanderbeeker family gathered in the living room for a family meeting. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

When she walked back into the house, the living room was dark, but the TV was on. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

But I’m in the living room not my bedroom and it ain’t morning it’s night, or getting there. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Genie had done a quick scan of the living room floor for the piece of wheel. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I run to the bathroom and grab the can of air freshener and just about empty it, spraying the hallway and living room. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Ma once brought home a chick for Easter, and it grew and grew until she came home from work one night, opened the door, and saw eight kids chasing a rooster around the living room. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We take the records back to Cordelia’s house and put them on the record player in the living room, and turn up the sound. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wander through the living room, to the kitchen, and out to the backyard, showing everyone that picture of Layla and Warren on IG, and asking around if they’ve seen this girl. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Lucas Cader walked quickly out the front door and my dad turned the television off, stood up, and left me in the middle of the living room. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She was sitting between her beaming father and mother in the living room of their house, waving the Golden Ticket above her head, and grinning from ear to ear. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was relaxing in the living room of his 10,000-square-foot house, which has a basement movie theater and a two-thousand-bottle wine cellar. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I trudged back to the living room, feeling as though I were headed for the guillotine. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He leaned in the doorway between the kitchen and living room. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She walked into the living room without drying her hands. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He hooked his arm around my shoulder and led me back into the living room. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She scurries from the bedroom to the living room, taking pictures of our family and the Buddha off the walls and piles them into her arms. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, look. I will tolerate, for now, your little biblical menagerie in the living room. But I refuse to have this,” he said, flicking at one of the painted peanut-tears, “displayed in our home.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The room was dark except for the faint glow of the lamp in the living room floating through the half-open door of my room. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He had decided that he was no longer sick, so he was sitting in a chair in the living room. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Emmett stands in the middle of the living room, right at the center of the braided rug’s swirl. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In the living room, the men have stopped talking about politics and instead lay bets on whether Milt’s new kid will be a boy or a girl. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She said good night and went out into the living room, where Lina could hear her humming quietly as she tidied up. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I went into the living room and stood beside her, trying to think of what to say. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around the living room at Gus’s old easy chair, the dusty table covered with magazines and coffee cups, the TV with a bowl of plastic fruit on top. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

That evening, when the house was empty and quiet, I listened from the living room as my parents argued in the kitchen. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the booklet from the coffee table in the living room and walked into the kitchen. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

As soon as Mom went into the living room, I turned to Dad. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I sat on the floor in the living room while Jazz sat behind me on the couch. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Best of all, they were right there in our living room. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mother and Daddy were talking in the living room. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went on into the living room, where Styx was laid out on the couch with a bunch of pillows under him, looking perky as all get-out. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She took my hand carefully and led me through the door into the living room of the hotel suite. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The night before, Mami had called us into the living room. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The living room was airy, the walls free of photographs except for a turquoise painting of a long-necked woman in a turban. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He spoke from the living room, but the flat was so small he did not have to raise his voice. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby and Joan each had a room to themselves, and Regina slept in the living room on what was called a daybed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the living room, he sets his beer down, picks up the vase and puts it back where it belongs. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason, I felt heavy inside, listening to them talk out in the living room. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Moss tilted his head, confused, and his mother stood up and walked across the living room toward the kitchen. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Moss stepped into the living room, glanced at the others. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It’s comfortable enough, but it isn’t a place you want to be, so instead I linger in the living room or at the kitchen table, ill at ease and powerless. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mom is busy watching a movie in the living room, and Antwan is out with his friends, so we have the room to ourselves. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Baby laughed and, from the living room, Ugwu heard Olanna say, “Oh, God, what did he say? What did he say?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I run the vac over the carpet in the living room. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I crept into the living room and picked up the phone. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I passed Aaron’s father at his computer and grabbed a book off their shelf in the living room—Latin Roots. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Dr. King is in our living room, and you want to sit here contemplating armed revolution? I don’t think so.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He looked around the living room and took a deep breath. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Fine. Just walk into a person’s living room with a bruised- up face and give no one any explanation for it,” I said. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The firemen retreated back through the archway into the living room, and there, suddenly, the lieutenant thought to himself, There’s something wrong. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Still she was relieved to ease back into her life, their life, of teaching and tennis and friends that filled the living room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

All the walls were white, the floor tiles were white, and in the living room were four green bean-bag chairs, three standing fans, and nothing else. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The littles are watching a movie in the living room. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Mama gestured at the mess of boxes stacked in unstable piles throughout the living room. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The fresh-paint smell was now quite strong just outside the living room. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Sure,” I said, and Grandma left me in her living room. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

As terrified as Citra was, she did not want to leave the scythe alone with his own thoughts, so she went into the living room with him. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

In that small space, a little living room had been set up. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We sat down on the living room couch. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey, honey, can you come into the living room for a minute?” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Her auntie stuck her head into the living room. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I drag a pillow and blanket out to the living room. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I heard him in the living room on Sundays: “They don’t take care of their properties. They let everything go to hell.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, she turned to the bar in the living room, reached up for a bottle of Scotch, and poured a glass half full. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

From the living room came the low, familiar sound of the TV news. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

O’Hare and I gave up on remembering, went into the living room, talked about other things. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dimly remember propping myself up, horselike on all fours, staring down at the swirling patterns in the cool wood of the living room floor. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

"Will," he says, "do you have a sec to talk in the living room?" Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Finn O’Sullivan limped straight through the living room to the kitchen and back again, tracking water and mud everywhere. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then, everyone came back to the living room, and Mami rolled her eyes at Tío Vic the way she did when she was on the phone with someone she didn't want to talk to. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

After breakfast, Laleh and I settled in the living room—me to read The Lord of the Rings, and her to watch another Iranian soap opera. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Dinner’s done,” he called out to the living room. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

When we got to Dari’s living room, Twig stopped. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He came back out with a wrapper slung around his body and tied behind his neck and sat with Richard in the living room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It looks like a one-winged bird crouching in the corner of our living room. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hallway off to my left led to the living room. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The raspy voice of the guy in the lot filled the living room. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Even better, he told us he was in Kinshasa; he’d flown in as soon as aid flights had opened up and was calling from Mom’s living room. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was ruins—a few stones in a square, a slight depression for the basement, and trees growing right up through what had once been the living room. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Darren’s in the living room playing a game on his phone when I come downstairs. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

My uncle pointed to a corner in the living room where I could sleep, and then gave me detailed instructions on how to get to the bank, to meet Alois, my cousin’s husband. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Daddy and her carefully stepped over one of my small towers and slid down onto our living room couch. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She loves those things, and every night when we're eating dinner, she sits on our couch in the living room and watches one while opening mail and clipping coupons. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

When I come home that night, Max has several planks of the wood in the living room, because he’s talked Helena into dragging them through the door for him. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I could barely contain my excitement as I walked up the steps to the house, sprinting across the living room to the kitchen. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Harriet Monroe’s Aunt Nettie sat on a step high on the dark upper curve of the stairway that rose from Root’s living room to the second floor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And, in fact, there was a TV, one Genie and Ernie hadn’t even bothered to watch, the one in the living room, which to Genie was just the land of the missing wheel piece. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She paces the living room as we come in. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Next she walked briskly into the living room and moved a large round mirror from the wall facing the front door to a wall by the sofa. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had Billy gotten something in before I’d joined them in the living room? Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They were told to stand in the doorway between the living room and kitchen, and the minister began to read. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aloe’s voice was faint from the living room. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Jimmy helped them bring the food into the living room, then went back to the bodega. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I’m guessing my grandmother sits a lot, though I didn’t see a television in the living room. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Even rooms like the living room and kitchen, which nobody but she went into, began to look as though they had been bombed. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The children took the blankets and sheets down from the doorjambs and came back into the living room. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kat called out to us from the kitchen that we were wanted back in the living room. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

My own apartment was, I believe, originally designed as a one-bedroom flat with a dining room, kitchen, living room, and nursery. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Her apartment was located in one of the better sections of the city, and I must have revealed my surprise upon entering the spacious living room. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He silently motions them to go into the living room, and as soon as he tries to shut the door, he sees someone else approaching. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

In this version, the living room was trashed. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

By the end of the second week, I more often haunted my living room, but the Gravedigger rained medication on me like the London Blitz. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The inside of our apartment consisted of two very small bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen, and a bathroom. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Before I close the door, I peek into the living room to be sure David’s heading toward Mom’s office. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked down the hallway toward the living room but I couldn’t see nothing. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

And there was her sick mother—very thin and with this smile frozen on her face—right in the middle of the living room! The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He just stood quietly over on one side of the living room, sipping, but you could see him casing the joint like crazy. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

A man chewing on a rug in the corner of his living room.Two kids throwing rocks at each other as hard as they could, bloodied and bruised from head to toe. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I slept on the living room floor that night so I could be there, in the room, when we lost him. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Between the living room and the den, we have the center console, or kitchen. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then she asks about Mom and where we moved from and all that, and I know they’re going to be a while, so I wander into the living room. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then Mr. Popper moved all the furniture in the living room to one side, so that the penguins and the children would have plenty of room for real sliding. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the living room guys were spinning records and freestyling over the beat. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

We all had Cokes in the living room while Margot talked a little about Berlin, about the various business things she was doing while back in the U.S. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The small, crowded living room was still blue with early morning light. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat with Mama in the living room, wondering why Jaja had asked for the key. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He saw an opportunity as the rest of the living room was consumed with chatter. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

All three of my cousins back up into the living room as the three men step into the house. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Instead he goes into the living room, kneeling by the bookshelf. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

One day as she sat slicing cabbage on the living room floor, Mr. Sen called. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

But as far as Will could make out, nothing had been damaged besides the Ashers’ living room wall. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I go back in the living room, and Ma has my bed made up there on the sofa. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was showered and ready by five, so I waited out in the living room. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She was in the living room to serve the Cake when the time came for it. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

At the stroke of half past eight, he has to be in the living room. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He immersed himself in Ovid, grieving his loss in silence, and she continued to watch him for the next half hour until her parents came into the living room to take her home. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t even a couch, just a folding chair and an air mattress in the living room. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The sound of the nine o'clock news filled the hallway as the living room door opened. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Paul! You know what? I left my writing journal in the living room. Would you mind getting it for me?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I led Cade down a hallway behind the living room, assuming we’d find someplace where a boy could pass out and not be noticed. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Was she retreating into the living room, to the fireplace and her secret staircase? The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

We finished all the prep work, and Macy went to let Yuki out while Dad took a phone call in the living room. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

A couple of the younger neighborhood kids sat on the stairs that overlooked the front hall and the living room. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

His fingers twist into my hair as he grabs a fistful and pulls, dragging me back into the living room, where he lets go. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I turn around she’s standing in the living room, totally naked. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he put a finger over his lips and gestured for me to follow him into the living room. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a rented hospital bed in the living room, where I watched soap operas on t.v., and my family cranked me up and down. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Jackson Five was in our living room on Herkimer Street. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She went to the kitchen to find Rohin, but he was now in the living room, at the dining table, kneeling on one of the director’s chairs. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then she went out into the living room. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Luke turned and started back to the living room. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He especially enjoyed watching Mrs. Sen as she chopped things, seated on newspapers on the living room floor. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Kendra went through the living room, the dining room, and into the kitchen. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Fresh bouquets of lavender and white roses are in the living room and the dining room. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mom had a copy of that photo framed in our living room at home, on the wall closest to the kitchen and the Turbolift Door. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Afterwards, in the living room, the strain was almost too great to be borne. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The living room was even weirder than the front lawn. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

In the next moment, this new conversation has ended because Frank and Byrd step into the living room. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“We putting it in the living room again this year?” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Still, I hear him pad through the living room hear the squeak of the front screen door and know, he's made it to the porch swing, to smoke a cigarette. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Bobby was guided into a strange round office, about the size of a small living room and positioned in the tower of the building, with windows on all sides. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Christmas came and went that year with me and Mama sitting in the living room with the Christmas tree and Dad sitting in the kitchen by himself. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

When he reached the living room he found all three Dursleys. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He would carry the boxes so carefully out to the living room. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In the living rooms of listeners, clocks won’t reach this time until thirty-six minutes in the future. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe eight or nine steps into the living room before reaching that door. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

There was a crystal chandelier in the dining room, and a big stone fireplace in the living room. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You should take the rest of the day off and drag Kenny out of the living room and away from Savannah.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The phone rings around seven o’clock, and my dad tells me to pick it up in the living room. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

In the living room is Kelton, snoring away on the sofa. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She held the coat to her cheek for a moment, wetting it with her tears, before she came out to the living room with Mamá’s small sewing basket. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

We went back to the living room, where Johannes sat examining Héctor’s new red and yellow top. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She sat in the living room and cooed to the baby until Olanna came out. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had already reached the living room door when Dudley mumbled, “I don’t understand.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But when my grandmother shouted in Greek, “A boy!” the cry went around the room, and out into the hall, and across the hall into the living room where the men were arguing politics. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He would walk downstairs and pretend that he was going to the kitchen to drink water and stand close to the living room door for a while, listening. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I welcome him into my home and lead him to the living room. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

After softly closing it behind me, we went into the living room, where I sat down on the same nasty chair, with the stuffing on the seat part. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The sitting room would once have been called a drawing room, perhaps; then a living room. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time we were there we saw the hallway when we came in and the stairs that went to the upper floor—and the living room that was really lived in. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The two return from the kitchen and stand in the living room. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Clay and Bobbie cross through the dining room into the living room and take me down the hall to the bedroom. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Ivy let herself imagine they were at home, sitting on the worn brown leather couch in their living room, and there was no such thing as tornados and lost notebooks. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They began to unpack the boxes that contained the accoutrements of the living room. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the mist dispersed, however, later that afternoon in our living room, he was once again a short, shy man, in black, polyester-blend clothes and a plastic collar. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

American radio — she kept her Philco in the corner of the living room nearest the bedroom, so she could listen nonstop. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit, stand, sit, stand, sit in the front seat, which is harder to do in the car than in the living room. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then she pushed the door open and took one big giant step right into the living room before anyone told her she could. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother was sleeping in the living room while Nattie and I sat there, looking at his abandoned things. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I stayed in the living room and watched television, and when my mentality couldn’t stand that any longer, I went upstairs. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

True champions learn to dance through the storm.There are so many friends neighbors, Dad’s teammates, and family members packed into our living room that I have to go outside just to breathe. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

His new companions cluttered the living room and halls wearing zoot suits and wide-brimmed hats and dangling long snaky chains hooked at their belts. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood by the door that led to the corridor and peered into the living room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I left Drew in the living room and went to the bathroom, which was the only room in the house that still looked the way I remembered it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The red-and-yellow straw carpet covered the center of the room, and the honey-colored Formica cupboard divided the space into a living room and kitchen. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Dad nodded at Babou and went back into the living room. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

We sit there, almost peacefully, sipping our broth and watching the sun set through his living room window. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I remember him as a kid—you should’ve seen him. He used to run around your parents’ living room, holding out his hand like a little gun. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Lexie scanned the living room: only a few throw pillows stacked on the carpet, bare walls now except for some stray thumbtack holes in the plaster. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The general and I sat in the living room and sipped wine while Soraya and her mother set the table. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Cal drank the coffee scalding as it was and went into the living room. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Grote talks to me all the time—when I’m pulling feathers off the chicken, frying potatoes on the woodstove, sitting by the fire in the living room with a child in my lap. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She found them waiting in the living room, unaware of the small crisis that had been taking place outside. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

And that first visit, Alicia sits on a chair in the living room, and I sit on the couch with her mom, and she stays there with us the whole time. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked with Flora into the living room. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

I bring Malia into the living room and turn the TV on to drown out my parents. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

They are sitting in the red wingback chairs in the living room in the waning light of late afternoon. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

David stands framed in the light from the living room. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walk through the dining room and into the living room. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We sat in the living room and did what teenage boys and girls do when they’re being observed by one of their parents—fidgeted in awkward silence. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

As he lowered himself into a chair in the living room, he just shook his head. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We're downstairs on the couch in the living room, and she keeps reaching over to push my hair up off my forehead. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She in the living room and she done pull a chair next to the wall vent, so what’s left a the air-condition blowing up her slip. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Outside the tall living room windows, the Inner Harbor spread out below, water gleaming and lights twinkling. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He glanced toward the kitchen, which the flames were consuming with glee, and headed across the living room toward Angel’s bedroom. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I went back inside, there was Abbey sniffling on the couch in the living room. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She keeps going back and forth between the living room and the kitchen. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“He’s in the living room. She wouldn’t be there; no ones there except his friends.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I felt that I had crossed some threshold, out of the foyer of my life and into the living room. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Then she realized Mama was calling her, so she quickly returned the animals to their boxes and hurried into the living room. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

As they went down the stairs to the living room, Oliver remembered something. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I see them standing awkwardly in the living room as my mom hovers nearby. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

When Dad comes back to the living room and turns off the TV I ask him, What is closure? Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

His grandpa was watching TV in the living room. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She opened a door at the far end of the living room, and Lina peeked in. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was trying to come up with something that would make her laugh again, but then Drew rushed into the living room, chasing after Erin. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

They all met in her living room, the one that Grace and her parents hardly ever used because the TV wasn’t in there; it was in the den. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He was surprised to see light coming from the side window of the living room. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Felinia Tower had the skeleton of a person hanging against her living room wall, its bones all held in place with black strings. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Tootie stepped through the door and into the living room, and then she stopped. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

She opens the door wide onto a large, sunny living room with views of the water, filled with floor-to-ceiling bookcases and antique furniture. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She was kneeling on the hardwood in the living room, plucking pine needles one after another from the tree skirt, an antique lace one that my mother had loved. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The entire Vanderbeeker family was sprawled around the living room when Papa’s cell phone rang. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

By the time I get to the living room, David’s already crouched in front of the fish tank, his smiling face reflected in the glass. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while, Mr. Bykovski came down the stairs into the living room, yawning and stretching his suspenders over his shoulders. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“They don’t seem to like the living room either.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The neat living room at 432 Proudfoot Avenue was much like all the other living rooms in Stillwater, except that the walls were hung with pictures from the National Geographic Magazine. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jaja and Mama were dressed and waiting in the living room upstairs when I came out. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Toby walked past Luke, into the living room. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Flashlights built into our guns illuminate a large living room with mirrored .walls that throw our faces back at us at every turn. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The windows to the living room, the foyer, and the upstairs guest bathroom were broken, patched haphazardly with sheets of clear plastic or wooden boards nailed across the frames. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Grampa looked back into the living room and saw I was awake. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

My dad barrels out of the living room like a battering ram, Mom and Rosemarie fluttering behind him. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He ran across the hall into the living room. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

One local news crew was allowed to set up their camera equipment in our living room. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The Captain made both me and Call sit down in his clean, refurbished living room. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little after seven I went to Daddy and Mama and then to the living room to open my presents, and you were the first thing I saw, maybe one of my nicest presents. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He walked to the house, through the kitchen, through the little living room, and into his bedroom. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Groggily I get up, wrapping a quilt around myself, and follow him to the living room. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The first night in our new apartment, I slept on a chair in the living room. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Or, you could watch the game from the living room if you wanted to be in the air-conditioning. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since my father’s death, my mother had made the tattered brown leather couch in the living room her bed. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The little bells kept chiming as I followed her through a dark foyer into the living room. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I hear voices in the living room—a chorus of them, in fact, joined by occasional bursts of laughter and a faint melody plucked on an instrument, a banjo or a guitar. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It rolled right across the living room floor and his dog ate it. Isn’t that right, Bryson?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Me and Leroy’s room is in the back, next to that is a little room for Leroy Junior and Benny, and the front living room’s been turned into a bedroom for Felicia, Sugar, and Kindra. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Momma doesn’t say anything until he gets on her good sofa in the living room. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Which is why I spent all weekend clearing piles of clothes and papers out of the living room, piling everything into my closet in one giant, precarious stack. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

She was washing up when Brooke clomped downstairs and dragged her duffel bag into the living room. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I stare up into the darkness of the living room and the darkness stares back. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Making a sort of squinched, twisted face, Nancy flopped back onto the couch in the living room area. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, once the cleaning woman had left the door to the living room slightly ajar, and it remained open even when the lodgers came in in the evening and the lights were put on. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Consuelo, holding a flashlight, whispered, “Come on. Your brother is up. Do not step on Esmeralda and Pascual when we come into the living room. We will eat when we get to the fields.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I sat on the living room floor, pressing my back against the radiator grate. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Like every year, the Christmas tree stands in a corner of the living room. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

This afternoon, the question still churning in her mind, she got home and found her mother in the living room, applying paint to a photograph of a stripped-down bicycle. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Instead, about three steps into the living room, he stops dead in his tracks. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

He burst into the living room, his bald patch gleaming with sweat, his spectacles askew, Fred right behind him, both pale but uninjured. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In the living room, the front door slams, people shout. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Between us were the living room and dining room and kitchen, so we could pretty much do whatever we wanted without fear that the other would be listening. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I shuffled through the living room and heard voices in the kitchen. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

My batter needed to be stirred so I ignored the comings and goings in the living room again. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at the food in her pantry, a hollowed-out space lined with small stones in the earth behind the living room. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

We sit in her living room and wait for her mother to join us. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, they went onto the back porch or into the living room. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Less than half an hour passed in radio listeners’ living rooms. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

When we were done, there were one hundred shoe boxes stacked in our living room, full of three hundred cards each. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie runs to the living room to show off her flip to the adults. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The intercom on the living room wall crackled. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And the next morning, with their things in the car, she wrote a hasty note and left it in the living room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His tread into the living room is long and slow. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Hugo had, for obvious reasons, not been able to sleep, and had followed Matty back to the living room. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

After the bathroom, I walk by the living room, where the Senator is pouring himself another drink. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When Tillie decided that I was good enough to help with the invitations, I sat on the floor of her living room and used her coffee table as my desk. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was as current on world affairs as some people are to what’s going on in their living room. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, while the other guests retired to the living room, Mr. Richard would come into the kitchen to ask Ugwu questions. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s as if we left the living room there, dark and empty, like a parent leaves a child’s room after they die. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She came into the living room a short while later. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When he hears her key in the lock, he jumps away and walks quickly into the living room. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I flew past Dad crashed on the living room sofa watching TV and burst through my bedroom door with an impatient, “Sir Fig Newton.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I stand and walk into the living room. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ringing phone pulled me away from my thoughts, and Mrs. Baxter rushed to the living room to answer it. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I had never seen the dead before, not for real, not in somebody’s living room for people to kiss and bless themselves and light a candle for. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peggy introduced me to her parents, who were sitting in a spacious living room. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Glass had made this last offer on her feet—in fact, halfway out of the living room, in the direction of the kitchen, looking rather grim with optimism. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“They threw something too. Landed in the living room.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

All together means “collectively”—all at once or all in one place: Bertie’s aunts were all together in the living room. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would have been better if the living room conjured on Truman’s ancient stage were composed of pieces from Stickley or Herman Miller, but where was Volpe going to find those? Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He followed her—mashed potatoes in one hand, pre-packed dinner rolls in the other—into the living room. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry. Like you said, with a bit of courage, creativity and fifteen”—I eyed the pink and mauve striped drapes in the living room—“thirty-five yards of upholstery fabric, anything is possible.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

In the living room, the two men rise to greet her; Fifi runs to her in tears; Yoyo is right behind, all eyes, looking frightened. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I get to the living room just as Mama finishes the introductions. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

She went to the doorway of the living room. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

As I crossed the living room I noticed an old hunting rifle over the mantel. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Then I heard you crying in the living room and remembered that there had been a third man. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I hear more shouting from Dray, but I can’t hear his words from the living room. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Redemption’s parents were in the living room, with music playing and most of the lights dimmed. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“I remember her dancing in the living room with Grandpa a lot. I remember she was always playing records on Dad’s old stereo.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

In the living room, I can barely keep from skipping past Mom reading the newspaper on the couch. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chills danced up my spine as I sat in the big green living room chair with Mama and Grandma nearby. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom steps back into the living room and hands me her phone. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I crept into the house, shut the door behind me, and took one step—before the lights in the living room flared on. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She had spoken wearily, as they sat in the living room, eating boiled corn and ube. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“My husband wanted to start a church but we had no money, so he said, ‘Let’s start it right here in our living room.’ The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He peeked into the living room and saw that it was their neighbor Fannie. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

We discovered this a few months after we moved in, when Lori’s foot crashed through the spongy wood floor in the living room. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Later that night, as the rest of the family retreated to their rooms, Fadi sat in the darkened living room staring at the square of light glowing from the tiny television. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The man in our living room was taller than the sky and whiter than my image of God. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

After giving the widow their condolences, they crossed the living room to stand before the open coffin. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The lights were on downstairs— in the living room and in Mr. Clutter’s office. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hurry up, Joon! We are about to win twenty-three million dollars,” I shout on my way to the living room. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I walk into the living room, wondering how we could be late when it is still only seven o’clock and church does not start for another two hours. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Mr. Brook looked back at Mrs. Stroud, then walked over to Joseph and put his hand on Joseph’s back and shoved him a little toward the living room. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Calder felt restless as he stood in front of the living room window on Wednesday afternoon. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped and walked slowly over to the hut that perched like a circular living room on the waste of sands. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

While the rolls were rising, Naomi cleaned the living room and did every chore she could without causing a racket. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was black and shiny and seemed to fill up the whole living room floor. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

And so he made her eggs, and played with Buchi in the living room downstairs, and after Buchi fell asleep, he read the newspapers, all the time his head furred with that sadness. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The radio in the living room crackled with bad news. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

A deep silence fell on the living room after that. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water tank was huge, the size of a spacious living room. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And if the door wasn't open and I couldn't see straight down the hall to the living room, I might've freaked out. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He went across the living room, took it out of one of the bookshelves. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Lovey asked while I took a seat on the brown couch in the living room. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I heard voices in the living room and look in. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I recognized some of them from the meeting in my living room. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

May would be the first out, standing in the living room and talking to the distressed bat: “Poor little feller. Must be scared to death. You never meant to come into this old trailer....” Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

At lunch, Luke made another pot of spaghetti while Toby sat in the living room with the twins. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Instead, she ran to the living room and started pressing the floorboards near the door. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The fourth was a living room with the exit, a pair of French windows, on the other side. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

From the other side of the living room door came the sounds of the three Dursleys scrambling, panic-stricken, across the room. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Kainene was on a sofa in the living room, her arms wrapped around herself, rocking back and forth. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ma Charles shouted, happy that church was going on in her living room on Wednesday morning. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Finally, at a quarter to five, Harry went back downstairs and into the living room. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When I came into the living room, Ty'ree was pulling his keys off the nail by the door and pulling on his raincoat at the same time. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Mrs. O’Leary still took up the entire living room, but she’d settled her head in the kitchen doorway so she could see us, which made her happy. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The smoke came first as a faraway scent, and then as a thundercloud rolling from the kitchen into the living room: the hot dogs. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It has a big kitchen and a living room with three sofas draped in lilac floral slipcovers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Jon comes in, scoops Sarah up, gives her a kiss, tickles her face with his beard, carries her squealing off into the living room. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I finally wander out into the living room around ten in gym shorts and glasses. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

When I used old words like parlor instead of living room, they thought I was trying to act superior. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The living room has teal walls and hardwood floors, but I don’t take the time to look around. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I’ve been downstairs in the living room all night, with the television on for company, fear ebbing and flowing. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked around the living room, reading the spines of Hollis's books and looking at framed photographs. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

We end up cooking grilled cheese in the toaster oven and bringing it into the living room to eat in front of the TV. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

When Eleanor walked into the living room, Park had just gotten out of the shower, which was embarrassing for some reason. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Laney looked like she was either going to protest or burst into tears, but she was saved from both when Mama entered the living room with an announcement. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Willy yelled, because he knew it was me walking into the living room, not Ma. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Brian and I were so excited we did a jig right there on the living room floor. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I got into the living room I was surprised to see the front door open. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A constant regurgitation of the top-twenty pop songs bursts from the open door, and a giant, inflatable unicorn is resting its plastic horn against the living room window. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Arm heard Ear telling a joke in the living room and Mrs. Matsika’s polite laughter. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Robin’s bedchamber was off the main hall or living room of the house, in an embrasure of the thick wall. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Petey went yelling into the living room as Luke sighed and started down the walkway. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Tonight, she’s sitting on her living room floor in a glowing circle of screens like some kind of Capitol Hill séance. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Like the pig is roasting on a spit right in the living room, dripping delicious grease all over the carpet. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Sonia is morose, running a slight fever from her typhoid shot, still expecting, when she enters the living room in the morning, to see a tree trimmed with lights. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I took a saucer from the cabinet and returned to the living room as Margaret was saying, “Actually, Vivian, this is a very good time. Think of it as a dress rehearsal for the lawyers.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear the door slamming in the living room and him and Aaron running down the stairs, taking them two at a time the way they always did. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

We followed him and Lidewij inside, past a huge oak dining room table with only two chairs, into a creepily sterile living room. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was time to leave, and we stood in the large living room, saying good night, with everything curiously and heavily unresolved. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I remember him clutching the curtains in his living room, about nine years old, wearing gray, his dark eyes shut. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing,” I said, before walking out of the living room and into my bedroom. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The walk through the living room and down the hallway to the phone feels extra long. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t mind sleeping in the living room,” said Harry, who knew that Griphook would think poorly of having to sleep on the sofa; keeping Griphook happy was essential to their plans. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She came into the living room, blinking snow off her eyelashes. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

When I left, closing the door behind me, the last thing I saw was the two of them standing in the middle of the living room. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The guests came in and sat down in the living room. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

We had already worked our way through the great room, the living room, and the dining room. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am writing this in the living room; it is night, and I have a lamp lit. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

My cousin TJ comes running into the living room, feather boa in one hand, pen and sketch pad in the other. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Grampa pushed away from the table and went into the living room, and I headed out the kitchen door for Naomi’s house. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps with some man in her living room, telling him about Graham Greene. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I shut the door and walked to the living room looking for Frankie. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

We started dating when she was still here at Pluto, and we’d rest underneath the blanket together and use it for the occasional living room picnic. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We whisper-fought in the living room while Mom made hot chocolate for us. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Love what?” asked Lindsey Lee Wells as she came into the living room wearing her paisley pajamas, her brown hair pulled back in a ponytail. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

When Angel got home from school the next day, Jordan was sitting in the big chair in the living room, drinking a beer. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Sonny, you’re so smart,” Dorothy sighed on the couch in her living room when I told her how I was learning trigonometry. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

After washing the dishes, I fidget with the remote in the living room. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In the living room, at the base of the stairs, the little shepherdess lamp was waiting, a pink-cheeked smirk plastered on her face. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

The following morning, we packed up the car while Dad sat in the living room sulking. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

At least not since the days when Mom and Papa used to gather us in the living room and tell us things that Marcus Garvey and people like him had said. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was sitting in a lawn chair in the living room, hunched over like a hunchback, sorting puzzle pieces. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the living room floor was a large white cloth with a pile of her mother’s jewelry, her father’s special watches, jade figurines, money, and other precious items. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

That evening, Dudley paraded around the living room for the family in his brand-new uniform. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He carried the banner into the living room and stood on a kitchen chair to pin it to the drapes. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Cecile went through the kitchen to avoid everyone sleeping in the living room. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

When she came home from her lecture, he was in the living room waiting for her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I find the phone in the living room, wipe my hands on my shirt but still get paint all over the phone. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Once we’re in the living room and Mama Ya-Ya is settled in her favorite chair—all soft with a blue lap shawl—I say, “I memorized some Shakespeare. Want to hear?” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I stretched out on the living room floor and it felt like I was swimming. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He laughs, goes into the living room, and puts his headphones on and starts bobbing his head. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Prosper and Bo watched from the living room window as they walked across the square. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Playing cards in Park's kitchen, even if his mom was in there, was better than just sitting in the living room, thinking about all the things they'd be doing if they were alone. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Izzy pulled her sister by the arm into the living room and Serena, familiar with Richardson family dynamics, retreated to the kitchen to give them some privacy. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mum had me haul a dining room chair into the living room 'cause there weren't enough. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Aly and I each showered and then we did our hair and makeup together in the living room. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

At that moment, Timmy, who had slipped out to the slave quarters again to look for his missing charm bracelet and, he hoped, more games with the chains, appeared in the living room. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moist towel that Wes held to his lip was almost solid red and beginning to drip blood on the living room carpet. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, we head over to my father’s house, where we sit inside, scattered around the living room, hockey playing on yet another giant flat screen that has been implanted into the wall. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In the stillness of this unfamiliar living room, another memory surfaces. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

However, I did spot a familiar family photo on the living room wall. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She returned to the living room and dumped the pieces on the coffee table. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He walks into the living room but turns around as soon as the doorbell rings once again. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

This will be the kitchen and bedroom of Mr. and Mrs. van Daan, as well as the general living room, dining room and study for us all. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Before it turns into one, I leave the living room. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Alex was sitting on the living room sofa, taking advantage of unexpected electricity on a Sunday afternoon to illuminate his Latin textbook. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

When they sit down at the table, the sound of his parents’ conversation is missing, as is the sound of the television in the living room, playing the news. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Behind her in the living room, there were two cameramen and a lady with a clipboard shouting. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

But they’d sat her down in the living room and put it bluntly: this art thing was a waste of time. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I started back to the living room, but changed my mind. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was more furniture than she had in the living room. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She arranged mattresses and cushions along the walls of the living room, placed bowls of candy and roasted almonds on the table. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Grandma rushed into the living room with her mug of tea. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Grace could see her mentally ripping out the carpet in their living room, adding a second wing, or quite possibly abandoning Grace’s father and her to live in this house instead. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I kissed her on the cheek and crossed the tiny living room to the kitchen to wash my hands and grab a banana. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She returned to the living room with a duffel bag. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

It’s the less desirable bedroom, because it is close to the kitchen and the living room, where people are awake and talking, and sometimes there is music on the radio. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Fifteen minutes later, in they flew through the open window of the Littles’ living room and landed on the Boston fern. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Hands on her hips, she made sure that what belonged in the living room ended up in the living room, what belonged in the kitchen, in the kitchen. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, Papa called Frankie and me into the living room. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

His mom walked into the living room with her hair still wet from a shower. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He went back to the living room and sat down at a small table that stood to the left of the telescreen. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But as he approached the living room, he heard his father talking about what had happened earlier that day with Halmoni and Doha’s mother. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Don Berto was in the middle of the living room, dressed in a clean white shirt buttoned all the way up. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Leaning against the sofa in the living room, looking up at me bashfully, is a little brown girl, pretty in pink, very much at home. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

My face hot with rage, I ran into the living room crying, yelling how much I hated him. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“The downstairs living room has the best work area, of course,” Hammie adds. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The living room, paneled in stained pine, served also as a dining room, with a fireplace at one end and a glass-fronted gun case against the side. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen was living room, dining room and cooking room. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother had on rubber boots, unbuckled, and had used small finishing nails to tack a wool blanket across the entry to the living room. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Hmm...” he says, and walks slowly back to the living room, no doubt hatching some plan to get Mom and Dad to take all of them. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She grabbed the yearbooks and her calculations, then ran to the living room. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We had just moved Koocah’s cage from the living room to the kitchen, where the family spent most of our time. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I heard the front door open and steps in the living room. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In here is fine. Or the living room.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The simulated wood grain on the Atari’s plastic casing perfectly matched the simulated wood grain on the television cabinet and on the living room walls. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I run in the living room and look at the couch and the TV and the bread on the rug. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

At her mother’s look, Jude dashed into the living room. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The world close enough to touch now and children from all over right in our living room! Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Before we can get good into our conversation, E.J. comes home, smelling up the whole living room with his cologne. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“You could have died of pneumonia!” she insists, and plugs in a Conair dryer that blows out the lights in the living room. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our father was in the living room—our bedroom. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

In the back corner of the living room, Minny stands with her arms crossed over her huge bosom. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Then from the living room I heard a sort of choking murmur and part of a laugh followed by Daisy's voice on a clear artificial note. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She lay on the living room floor and prayed that they would not find her Biafran pounds. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Chapter Eleven was against our living room, everything we had, everything Milton had worked for. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Will shouted as we walked past the living room. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He climbed to the landing, where he could see the top of Mrs. Bidzikian’s head from behind as she sat in the living room. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Charlie had avoided the living room since we’d returned, and my mother—thank God—had been at the grocery when Miles had called my house. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I turn off the computer, saying good-bye to my e-friends, and go back to the actual human in my living room. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Or it’s a commerce of imagined dreads, the Bethlehem housewives somehow convinced that a distant, black Communist devil will cost them some quarter in their color-matched living rooms. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little living room had a broken-down couch and some easy chairs with the stuffing hanging out. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You can have the good sleeping bag if you want,” I told him while we were setting up in the living room. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

A few dozen people had collected in the living room, sitting on couches and folding chairs that had been brought in for the occasion, while others sat cross-legged on the floor. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There were always suitcases and bags in the flat; sometimes a relative or two would sleep on the floor of the living room for weeks. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The “Alleluia” response would push against the walls of my room, against the glass furnishings of the living room. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

After a while, Auggie and I got tired of working on our projects and went to hang out in the living room. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

After lunch, she’d pass out these carpet squares and we’d pick our spots on the living room floor for nap time. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I ask her while we walk down the long hallway to the living room. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They were sitting on the couch in the living room, and they had been laughing about something, but they stopped abruptly when I walked in. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

They would be gentle, formal, everyone gathered in the musty living room: her elderly uncles and granduncles, their wives, some cousins, and perhaps a baby tied on someone’s back. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the living room, we sit in a little triangle: Tom on the sofa, the adoring father and dutiful husband, daughter on his lap, wife at his side. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a soft scamper across the linoleum, and we turned just in time to see a little white tail bounce out the door into the living room. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hana, Zeke’s mother, has small feet that don’t touch the ground when she sits in the easy chair in their living room. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I went into the living room and sat down on the couch. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then he saw Julie sleeping in the easy chair in the living room and it came back to him. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The lights are still off, but the morning sun is bright through the living room windows, and the tree is fully lit. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The living room looks just like it did when Khalil and I played hide-and-seek in it. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

One time, someone had thrown a brick through our bedroom window in the middle of the night, and the living room windows, too. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Samar watched them from her living room window, but she didn’t venture out. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The living room sat empty, with a big ghost of furniture crowded in the middle, and whenever I passed by, I imagined the severed television huddled somewhere in the scrum. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

There was unfolded laundry in the living room, and the breakfast dishes were still in the sink. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she didn’t answer, I looked back into the living room. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Anyways, I peeked in the living room, found the night-watch guy lounging in front of the TV, sipping coffee from a thermos. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She perched on the couch of the Big House’s living room. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There was no living room, no dining room upstairs, just rooms. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The living room looks like a dance studio, with a big open space, exposed brick walls, and metal overhead lighting. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It took him quite a while to wake up each night and then when he did awaken, he didn’t do much except hop around the living room. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was the day after my brother had been gone for six weeks that my father brought Vilonia Kline into our house and sat her down in the living room. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

George drops from the bottom step back into the living room. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I can see the porch light go on at my house and the living room curtain move at the Kahns’ house. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

When it rains heavy, I might have to put some buckets in the living room to catch the water coming through. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nancy’s son, Jason, who was seven, was watching television in the living room. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was halfway across the living room when Alex bolted into the hall. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I tilt my head toward the boxes in the corner of our living room. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then he looked past her into the living room, and all of a sudden his face changed. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We go through a set of doors and enter a living room. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I was in the living room practicing my right jab-left hook combo in front of a full-length mirror I took from her room. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“What do you have there? Show me,” Lourdes says from the living room sofa. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It was a small house, a lot like our apartment except for two extra rooms: a small dining room and a small alcove off the living room. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Melody propped with blankets on the living room sofa—a look of contentment on my face. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The floor upstairs is all warped, and the planks must’ve shrunk; they’re all spaced out—I can see straight through to the living room.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she took a plate of leftover white rice and a scrap of bread to the living room, by the window. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She half ran back to the living room. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the living room, Grandpop and Dad were sitting side by side. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I got up, went to the living room, and took the phone from Blanca. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

What did the people whose images were once beamed into my living room have that I did not? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The living room was empty except for a stack of boxes in one corner and a large red cushion in the center of the floor. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I drop my backpack and sit, stand, sit, stand, sit on the living room chair. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Cecile wasn’t in the living room, which meant she was in her kitchen. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hears the brass bands, too, and the living room gleams bright with the showy flutes and trumpets and trombones. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Scene: Football game, from the front of the living room to the back of the dining room. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Paganini zigzagged his way out of the living room, skidded on the wood floor, and found Panda-Laney with no problem. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu liked Sunday mornings, the slow shifting of time, when she, dressed for church, would sit in the living room with her father while her mother got ready. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

What was she going to say to the Hells Angels in her living room? Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The living room was filled with warm air and sunlight from the windows. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I walked into the living room it was lit up as if a small lamp was on. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting in the living room eating a piece of Moms’s homemade bread with butter and sugar when Diego comes strutting through the front door. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Carine followed him into the house, rinsed Max’s collars in the kitchen sink, and went into the living room. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment she sat on the side of the bed, and then she got up and went out into the living room. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Instead, Smelly Gabe was in the living room, playing poker with his buddies. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

We could hear the voices much clearer in the living room. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I did not realize it was my cousins’ laughter, the sound reflecting their mother’s, until I went out to the living room. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When they’re done with our room, they nudge us with the barrels of their guns into the living room. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Dad couldn’t do any work on his computer because of the power being out, so he stayed in the living room, not in his office. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then he slammed the door and went into the living room to the telephone. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I know that—” he said, and in the living room, the Colonel’s sneakers squeaked against the hardwood floor. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

For now, he wags his way across the living room. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She hopped out of bed and hurried to the living room in her underpants and undershirt—she still did not have new pajamas. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Master was in the living room when Ugwu came in and greeted him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Castle!" my mother called from the living room. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I thought about how Papa had hidden all the good jewelry under the loose tile in the living room. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

From the useless pole lamp in the living room it oozed out, meshing with the empty and wordless descent of itself from the fly-specked ceiling. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I woke up the next morning on my own living room floor to the sound of my mom banging pots and pans in the kitchen. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Inside the house, Jude sat on the living room rug and ate fish sticks, soggy from the microwave and dragged through a sludge of ketchup. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Park asked, walking back into the living room. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Then, almost at once, she made for the living room, at a clip that scarcely gave her leave to call back over her shoulder, “Change that shirt, young man!” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Mama’s speech was slurred as she told me to say hello to Jean, Louise’s granddaughter, who was in the living room. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Alone in the house, Mariam paced restlessly, from the kitchen to the living room, up the steps to her room and down again. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I’d been inside and knew how small it was—two bedrooms, a tiny bathroom, a small kitchen, an eating area, and a living room. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Twinkle gave his elbow a little squeeze and headed for the living room. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

They tiptoed down the stairs past the living room, down the stairs to Dr. Levy’s office. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Out in the living room, Richard was sitting on the floor and glaring at the movie machine. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each one had a hyper-colored plastic gun, and they pretended to shoot the group of guys in the living room watching the Pats play the Broncos on TV. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The refrigerator began its useless whir, and the light that Alex always left on in the living room began to shine. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Halfway to the living room he suddenly stopped. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mami came home from work, she took her dinner to the living room and ate in front of the television while we did our homework. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The Eagle wheeled around, looked at the clearly not-on burner, then dashed into the living room. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The door opens onto a spacious living room, with a sliding glass door to the right, a kitchen to the left. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I slept on the sofa in the living room, and all night he did not make a sound. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Later I heard the TV go on in the living room. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She ran into the living room, tears already welling up in her eyes. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

This turned the living room’s cheery yellow walls dim and shadowy; it made the whole house feel like a cave or a hideout. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

And for the first time ever, my parents decided to skip the eggnog and the Christmas tunes in the living room. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Bridge and Emily were in the living room with Em’s mom, eating peanut butter crackers and watching TV, when the doorbell rang. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

When my hair is done, I find Cinna downstairs in the living room, and just the sight of him makes me feel more hopeful. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tens of millions of years of faces in a living room in a place called Arizona. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we’ll Find something valuable. I’ve always admired the plastic dishes people had in their living rooms. I never knew where they came from.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sneaky sighs and heads to the living room. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“Don’t let them stick to the bottom of the pot. I’m going into the living room and put my feet up and watch television like the Rockefellers.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I took one last look at the messy living room, Annabeth’s half brothers spilling LEGOs and arguing, the smell of cookies filling the air. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

In our living room, the music was dying down as the radio station announced two a.m. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

And I leave any last shred of my childhood on the rough planks of that living room floor. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then he took out a large white handkerchief and wiped them carefully before he came back into the living room to sit down at the table. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ate in silence and afterward sat in the living room pretending to read. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Even when we ate on the floor in the living room, I'd catch her eyes shift to the door when she heard a noise. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Cheetah kicked her one night in the living room, Deborah yelled, “Why you always have to be arguing and fussing with me?” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I sat down in Dad’s chair in the living room and put my feet up on the hassock while the reporter and I talked. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The fireplace in the living room, with its plain marble mantel, was blocked off, and we put Tata’s television in front of it. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Noodles sat in my living room drinking a soda, stating the obvious. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Neither of them speak as I walk into the living room, or when I stop right in front of them, dropping my backpack to the floor. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I carry my plate into the living room. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Suppose the son noticed that something was funny in Mr. Randolph’s living room? The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

In the morning, I was in the living room filling my backpack with the new notebooks Mom bought for me over the weekend when Trevor’s storm door creaked open and shut. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The thought hit her after supper when they were all sitting in the living room watching the evening news. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The wall between our kitchen and the living room was not thick, and we could hear murmuring voices. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of it—the calls, the flowers that are every-where, the visitors, the hours they spend sitting together in the living room unable to say a word, mean nothing. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But that was a lot, packed into someone’s living room. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus: for some time now, in the living room where the men discussed politics, they had also been discussing the velocity of sperm. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t care that her boy friend and three of his relatives are in the living room, listening. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Darius, aren’t you going to help me set up?” she asks before she even makes it into the living room, or whatever this giant room is called. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Yet a part of him was prepared to forgive it if that would bring back those evenings of long ago, when she argued with Master in a living room that smelled of brandy and beer. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A tune similar to the one from her living room, preaching “lean on the Lord,” filled the car, this one with a creepy organ backdrop. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He kisses Bieber on the nose and follows me into the living room. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I'd make her calm down, and then I'd go over to the other side of the living room and take out this cigarette case and light a cigarette, cool as all hell. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Ork!” said Captain Cook, and strutting into the living room, he knocked over the best lamp. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

When we walk into the living room, Pop Pop is watching the news. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He turns and does exactly what I said in his living room. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Later, while Dad retreated to the living room and Mom fumed in the kitchen, the football boys from Coalwood gathered in Jim’s room, plotting futile anarchy. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She whirled around in the living room like a dance-recital fairy. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Katie flounced through the living room and out the front door, which slammed shut with a thunderous bang behind her. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cupboard of a kitchen straight ahead—empty—box of a living room to the left. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

When we return to the living room my father’s up. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He usually kept him in the living room. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You aren’t lost for something to do in dining rooms. It’s in the living room where people can’t figure out what to do with themselves. People get problems in living rooms.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was still being angry in the living room. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Harry Belafonte singing “Mary’s Boy Child” drifted in from the living room. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

There was less talk and laughter at dinner because the TV was on and my cousins took their plates to the living room. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Park's mom probably let him have girls in his room because you could practically see into his room from the living room, and you had to walk by it to get to the bathroom. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

One day, she and Princesse and I were singing it with her in her living room, and I started to cry. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But that hasn’t stopped her from getting out of bed today to light a candle in the living room. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“And then come upstairs and watch your movie in the living room.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She saw an oily handprint on the kitchen wall and a wadded handkerchief on the couch in the living room. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to say something grown-up, possibly something memorable, so when I returned to the living room, I said, “I would like to make a toast.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a huff she followed them down into the living room. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

A small oil lantern sat on the kitchen table, lighting up both the kitchen and the living room. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

"On the final day of the year we take down the pine tree in our living room and eat marine life." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Aunt Petunia’s high, false laugh sounded from the living room. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

We screamed as if Jackie, Tito, and their brothers were standing in our living room. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

From the living room, the sounds alternated between Father’s low rumbling tone and Stick’s occasional grunting response. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Joey made me quit sobbing so we could see what Dad was going to do, but for the longest time there were no sounds from the living room. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got back home, all the lights were on in the living room. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Jimmy stumbled into the living room, the boozy sweat filling the room like cheap cologne. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The living room was dark, unaired, and she imagined the whole building steeped in months, even years, of accumulated urine, and herself working every day in this urine cloud. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I go in the living room, start dusting the books for the second time. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And suddenly she got up from the table and ran into the living room. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“What were you doing here in the living room by yourself?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I let myself back in and crossed the living room, slipped through the open pocket doors to the dining room, and grabbed the bottle of whiskey that lived on the built-in hutch. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I wiped the sleep out of my eyes, put on my robe, and followed Frankie back to the living room. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The house is silent, except for a clock chiming in the living room. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, behind a curtain, a lamp in the living room glows. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Oslo steps to one side and walks into the living room, where he takes a seat beside Lucas and Mena on the couch. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

His mom was in the living room area, and they couldn’t risk her shutting down their final project. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Henry calls us into the living room then, and when we sit down, he and Gusty look more relaxed. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I mumbled something about having stuff to do and pulled June into the living room. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Lance Winters was all over our living room that night. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I’d be ready for a good romp around the living room, and Chester would go to sleep. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mom comes home shortly thereafter and sits with us in the living room, listening to Nuah. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She spots it through the Venetian blinds of their living room. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I forget Muhammad is home, and, while he’s not too sharp in the intuition department, he wanders into the living room for some reason to stand and watch with nary a sound. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Aunt Consuelo was lying on the bed in the living room, listening to the radio. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

She walked around the living room, picking up the small wooden sculptures that Eric had in many corners of the room, mostly brown Madonnas with caramel babies wrapped in their arms. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

As I entered the living room early one evening, Grandma was setting up the manger scene, gingerly placing each of the crudely carved wooden figures that had been handed down from her mother. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

August said her heart had desired to read books, so the whole month she got to prop on the sofa in the quiet of the living room reading after her sisters went to bed. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We wait for our appointment in the living room. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Tapestries still hung on the walls of the living room and my mother’s books still crowded the shelves in Baba’s study. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

One hour later, we’re in the living room, where Mama is pacing and wringing her hands. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She remembers that the TV in the living room seemed to be on all the time and that the trailer smelled of cigarette smoke and the cat’s litterbox and mildew. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

And he’d looked all over the living room floor for the other half of the broken one, but apparently the floor had eaten it or something. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

There was also a small plastic box on the wall near the living room door. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z