- Noël Coward composed the 1928 hit song called ‘A Room with a View’, the title of which he acknowledged as coming from Forster's novel.
- A scene from the film adaptation is viewed by the main characters of the US television show Gilmore Girls in the 2004 episode ‘A Messenger, Nothing More’. Rory tells Lorelai that she wants to show her home movies from her trip to Europe with her grandmother. A clip of Maggie Smith lamenting their lack of views is shown.
- The first verse of Rage Against the Machine's 1992 song ‘Know Your Enemy’ features the line "As we move into '92/Still in a room without a view".
- The title of The Divine Comedy's 2005 album Victory for the Comic Muse is taken from a line in the book. The track ‘Death of a Supernaturalist’ from their album Liberation opens with George Emerson's line "My father says there is only one perfect view, and that's the view of the sky over our heads", followed by Cecil's "I expect your father has been reading Dante".
- In the 2007 episode ‘Branch Wars’ of the US television show The Office, the Finer Things Club is seen reading and discussing the book at an English tea party.
- The film adaptation is discussed by the main characters of the 2011 British romantic drama Weekend.
- Sarah Winman's character Evelyn Skinner in ‘Still Life’ mentions that she was with E.M. Forster in Florence at the time he was writing ‘A Room with a View’.
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