Especially in the United States, thoughts turn toward home in November as many families get together to celebrate Veteran’s Day or Thanksgiving, and prepare for Hannukah, Christmas, Kwanza, and New Year’s Eve in December. Coming home can be joyous, but it can also be difficult.
As you’re completing this quiz, think about what home means to you. Is it a hug, a smell like coffee brewing in the morning or cookies coming out of the oven? Is it seeing your friends and your old hangouts or perhaps it’s a reminder of a tragedy or a lost love? In honor of home, we designed a quiz featuring songs, books, and movies with the word, “home.” In their titles. Not every song, book, or movie will be specifically about the holidays. Match the title with the description given. One title appears twice. Good luck!
If you are unfamiliar with any of these titles, they are all worth a listen, watch, or read.
Answers can be found in the last article of this issue, “Next Month in This Awful Awesome Life – September 2025. Keep reading your way through this issue or you can use this link to jump to the answers,
Answer Bank:
Snoopy Come Home When I Get Home
Sweet Home Alabama Leaving Home
Home Alone Letters Home
The Long Walk Home Steal Away Home
The War at Home Wandering Home
A Home of Our Own Take the Long Way Home
Home on the Range Take Me Home Tonight
Take Me Home Country Roads Home
Daddy’s Home Sweet Home Alabama
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey Momma, I’m Coming Home
A Home at The End of the World Can’t Find My Way Home
You Can’t Go Home Again She’s Leaving Home
North Toward Home Nobody Home
At Home in Mitford Pictures of Home
The Way Back Home Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
1. It was a song title before it was an animated film about three cows trying to save their home. _____________________________________
2. When Supertramp tries to give you directions ____________________________
3. When Thomas Wolfe gives you advice _________________________________
4. Just a dog and his bird trying to visit his original owner who is sick in the hospital _________________________________________
5. Blind Faith is lost _______________________________________
6. Dusty (Mark Wahlberg) and Brad (Will Farrell) end up in an odd competition _________________________________
7. Author Bill McKibben walks from his home in Vermont to his former home in the Adirondacks reveling in the beauty of nature ____________________________
8. In this PJ Ranes novel, Penny wakes up in her childhood bedroom with a chance to have a do-over of her life ____________________________________________
9. When the Seaver family drops their three pets, Chance, Sassy, and Shadow at a friend’s ranch before going on vacation, the pets worry they’ve been abandoned and set off to find their way home ____________________________________
10. This book of poetry by Courtney Peppernell is a tribute to rebuilding lives after loss _________________________________
11. Melanie (Reese Witherspoon) finds success as a fashion designer in New York and a new love, Andrew (Patrick Dempsey). The only problem is she has to go home and divorce the husband Jake (Josh Lucas) that she left behind. ______________________________________
12. This song describing the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah River was actually written while driving through Virginia not West Virginia ___________________________________________
13. This novel by Mark William Falzini chronicles life immediately after WWII and at the beginning of the Cold War for American Military families stationed in Germany ________________________________________
14. After her husband’s death, Frances (Kathy Bates) is sexually harassed by her boss, and one of her six children is getting into trouble. She leaves Los Angeles for a dilapidated property in Idaho in hopes of making a fresh start ___________________________________
15. According to Pink Floyd there’s ______________________________________
16. The first book in a series by Jan Karon about Father Tim, a bachelor rector whose life is upended by a giant dog and a beautiful new neighbor.____________________________
17. This collection of short stories by Garrison Keillor is about characters in a fictional town and their experiences away from their home ________________________
18. Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg star in this short film about the Montgomery bus boycott. ______________________________________
19. “Sleep my friend and you will see the dream is my reality.” (Metallica) ________________________________________
20. Oh that Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) __________________________________
21. Neil Young remembers, but he just doesn’t share your opinion. ________________________________
22. Eddie Money wants you to ____________________________________
23. Kathy Bates, Martin Sheen, and Emilio Estevez star in this drama about a Vietnam vet’s difficulty reentering civilian life after his combat experiences __________________________________
24. This is where Michael Bublé wants to go ______________________________
25. This historical non-fiction work by Karolyn Smardz Frost is a biography of Cecelia Jane Reynolds, an enslaved African America who escapes and makes her way to Canada to start a new life __________________________________
26. This song is just one of the gifts given to us by the talented Ozzy Osbourne __________________________________
27. This 1967 memoir by Willie Morris chronicles his journey from the segregated south to eventually become the editor of Harper’s magazine in New York City ____________________________________
28. This Beatles song is a bittersweet story of a young woman’s decision to live her own life and her parent’s stunned reaction. ___________________________________________________
29. Bobby (Colin Ferrell) leaves his dysfunctional family in Cleveland and reunites with his childhood friend Jonathan (Dallas Roberts in New York to try to form a family with Clare (Robin Wright), but romance gets in the way. _____________________________________________
30. Deep Purple sings about feelings of isolation, longing for connection and belonging, and fears of being trapped ____________________________
Sources:
https://www.ranker.com/list/the-best-songs-with-home-in-the-title/ranker-music
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/187509.Books_With_Home_In_The_Title
https://www.movieflavor.com/word/Home?page=9